＂I Wish He Didn't Miss＂ ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the recent events surrounding the attempted assassination of an elderly woman in the United States, and the reaction to it. We discuss what we can learn from it, and what we should do to prevent it from happening again.
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everything that's that underpins that it's the people's response to it being
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well i wish the wind was a little bit different so the shot would have landed like
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the people saying this are likely just the average person likely kind individuals in
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normal respects but like in this one case that feels morally justified because of the rhetoric
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it's kind of one of those things where it's like if we if we you know took this exact situation we
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just subtracted like 50 years 40 years even you would have um you know there would be a situation
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where there was probably a very similar level of discourse happening around any sort of event like
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this that an employer or a uh you know an institution would would you would never have
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like they would never know they would never have any cause to know that you know what people talk
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about in their own homes but because we you know of the age we live in you put the stuff online
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and you know there becomes a viral kind of movement around it and before you know it it's you know
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it's a it's a very even though yes you're you're you're posting it publicly but most of these people
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especially elderly people you could probably assume believe that what their public posts are mostly just
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circulated around their friends or followers that they their small group of people that they have
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online and then before you know it it becomes an international scandal you know you just the
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just the technology didn't exist for such things you know until the amplifications there so it's like
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you you think you're just sending a message to a small group but if something goes viral it gets
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amplified outside of your circle and now it has unlimited reach in a way so it can get very loud very
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quickly for somebody who does not think that it'll be seen by that many people which maybe they would
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have worded it differently if they knew that it was it was going to be passed around um i so the
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rhetoric i'm not surprised though um because if you if you look at the everything that's been said
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up to this point trump has been painted as a the next hitler basically like that somehow he's going
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to end democracy if he's getting elected he's going to be it's going to be a dictatorship like
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he had his chance for four years to end democracy but he didn't take it um you don't have to like him
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but either he's incompetent at ending democracy because he couldn't do it in four years and he
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needs another four years so people are going to vote him in so he can end democracy from now on
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like for good now um but if if people truly believe what has been said about him i i think people's
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things like well if you have a chance to like time machine you go back in time like would you
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put a pillow over the little little baby hitler's crib like the adult yeah yeah it's that yeah i know
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kind of scenario they feel like it's somewhat morally justified like if it's a preventing a
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greater evil if it's framed to be a similar degree of uh if the risk if the threat level is just as
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high and i think the threat level is only measured through your perceived number of mentions and like
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how vitriolic the messaging is behind it so if you measure it based on that and not by actions
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people can believe that quite easily yeah well and i mean um dave smith who will will hear from
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a little bit here had a had a tweet right away uh after it happened where you know you you know the
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the attempt happens and then you hear uniform messaging from the media of like you know this is
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not uh you know this is not how we do things in america you know we we're a peaceful nation we can't
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be resorting to violence etc etc right he's like well how are you gonna like exactly like you said
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how are you gonna be the the media government apparatus that for the last eight years has been
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shouting from the rooftops about how you know trump is a threat to democracy he's in collusion with
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russia he's gonna uh you know turn the country into a dictatorship he's he's in some cases as in the
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case of that wasn't it there a time time magazine cover that had him like photoshopped next to hitler
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and like talking like you cannot do that and at the same time act shocked and and righteously indignant
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when someone goes you know you get into somebody's head and they go oh well you know i'm i'm gonna be
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that hero that's gonna you know stop this the evil orange man right