I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

  • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
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    16 hours ago

    The idea is to shut down discussion

    I’m the one who made this post. As of right now it has 159 upvotes and 166 comments. Does that sound like shutting down discussion to you?

    by shifting the burden to the other side asking for “sources”

    Shouldn’t the burden be on the people who are proposing a conspiracy? Regardless, it doesn’t even make sense to talk about a “burden” here (as if asking for a link is that much of a burden). Not everyone is trying to prove a point when asking for a source. Sometimes people just want to look into things further.

    I’m on your side man

    Thanks. I know you’re not accusing me of anything but I still felt the need to respond

    • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Agree with you here. It’s wild that asking for sources is seen as shutting a discussion down. It’s literally opening the discussion wider - unless the other side wants to take it as some kind of attack.