| Jimbo1337 said: 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. |
Means very little without more information.
| Jimbo1337 said: 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. |
Not really.
The age group is statistically more progressive because of young women. Young men on the other hand are as conservative as ever.
Young Women become more liberal, men are stable
Young men more conservative than boomers
| Jimbo1337 said: 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. |
You're wrong about the demographics.
The donation might very well be meaningless. People can change politics over a few years. Donald Trump was supposedly a Democrat for a long time. And he switched when he was an older person, which is a lot less common than it is for a 17 year old.
| Jimbo1337 said: People make donations to things they support. They don't just blindly make a donation because they feel like it. If that were the case, that would destroy Bernie Sanders entire campaign message, which I would point out was run very well. Bernie would constantly point out that the average campaign contribution was $27, which suggested the large base of support from your average every-day American citizen. This all started because of what Ryuu suggested: Mass shooting - WRONG. Media says this was an assassination attempt. My narrative is created based on indicators that I previously laid out. Ryuu's narrative is based on manufactured information and then attempts to tie this back to previous mass shootings. |
People also overwhelmingly register to vote in the party they support. Yet that doesn't seem to matter to you.
Shooting at a president can have non political motivations. Hinckley was reportedly seeking fame to impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he had a fixation after watching her in Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and remained under institutional psychiatric care for over three decades
This guy for instance had a bunch of different ideas, attacking two different political people on opposite sides of the aisle, also had the idea of hijacking a plane; because he wanted attention.
I feel like arguing the difference between a mass shooting and an assassination attempt that hit a few other people, is splitting hairs over the dumbest things.
Your narrative is based on picking and choosing how to interpret the 3 facts that we have about this person.
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