Zkuq said:
Excuse me? I'm not going to intervene in your discussion otherwise, but this is clearly and verifiably false, judging by the few signs there are. In this thread and the assassination thread, in the posts between you and Ryuu, yours have no likes, whereas Ryuu's have a notable amount (on this site's scale), and the only other response I could very quickly find to your messages is pointing out a logical fallacy in your reasoning (see sundin's message in this thread). Can you provide support for your claim of agreement from other users that I might have missed? Also, I haven't read the discussion between you and Ryuu very carefully, so pardon me if I missed something, but the only logical fallacy I've seen is from you (again, see sundin's post). |
Fair. If you are going to nitpick one sentence out of my entire post, then fine. Upvotes don't indicate what is the truth.
Here are the facts:
The shooter donated $15 dollars to the Progressive Turnout Project on January 20, 2021. He made this donation fourteen days after January 6th, which was a danger to democracy. The timing of this donation indicates how this person felt about January 6th.
The shooter was a registered republican in the state of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is 1 out of 10 states that is a closed primary. That means only voters who are registered to a major party may participate in its primary election. (Registering as a Republican to vote against the MAGA movement).
He is part of an age group that is statistically more ideologically progressive. I am pointing out his age because we aren't talking about a 60 year old person where, statistically speaking, is more conservative.
Since it was brought up, I would like to address Sundin's post:
I acknowledge that it is plausible that this person could have been a republican anti-trumper. However, if that were the case, then he would have made that $15 small dollar donation to the Lincoln Project, which is "founded by former Republican strategists who understand the grave threat of Trumpism to our nation..." Source: https://lincolnproject.us/#:~:text=Founded%20by%20former%20Republican%20strategists,from%20across%20the%20political%20spectrum.
But the shooter DIDN'T put that donation towards the Lincoln Project or similar republican anti-trump movement. I would also like to highlight that the Lincoln Project was founded in December 2019, which gave the shooter the opportunity to give that donation during the same timeline that he gave it to the Progressive Turnout Project on Jan 20, 2021. This is an indicator that this shooter was not a republican anti-trumper because he didn't donate to any republican movement. The shooter clearly wanted to turnout the progressive candidates based on the Project's name: Progressive Turnout Project.
When you add up his age, his donation to the Progressive Turnout Project, didn't like Trump (tried to assassinate him), and the fact that this was a closed primary, indicates that the shooter was likely a radical progressive democrat. Radical because he shot at a former president. Progressive because he didn't donate to a republican anti-trump group, but rather a progressive project.
