Maybe it was someone from the future.

Yeah, well, mission failed then.

That’s ok. You can always try again yesterday.
- Maybe another time traveller disturbed the shooter by pushing him because what would have happened if Trump was shot dead would have been truly apocalyptic in the longer run. Maybe we just witnessed the n-th time loop without remembering the other ones and this is the first one where the bullet only grazes Trump's ear instead of blowing his brains out so now life on Earth as we know it can continue, and we can post about it on Lemmy.
- I smell a groundhog loop
PIME TARADOX

Yeah well nice job fucking that one up, John Titor.

I just finished this anime and get this reference. I love being in on da me mes
- The anime you saw (which I was unfamiliar with) was based on a "real" thing- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

After seen the photo.of his bloody face I have to say, as a non american, i'm sorry for you guys and for ukrane (and the rest of the world of course, since this time things will be MUCH worst). I hope you can recover but idk if you have mich time. I don't think this wako can loose anymore

Thanks for that. Getting messages like this from outside the U.S. means a lot. For real.

Dark times, here. They were dark yesterday, but today proves things can always be worse.
Yeah, as an American all I could think was this clinched the campaign for him.
- He can't handle security for something like a small concert? He can't handle security for the nation. Do people really think Obama wasn't under constant threat? Please.
As a Canadian I'm sorry for the Americans but I'm also fucking terrified for what this means for us. We're already seeing it bleed (pun intended) into our borders and I don't think I could handle if our politics went further that way. This is gonna affect a whole lot more than Americans.
Who's bloody face? As a non-American I'm OOTL ig
- Trump got shot at a rally, very minor injuries, would be assassin dead
- Trump was shot at at a rally. Grazed his ear, his security escorted him off stage after a minute or so. There's a photo of him with a bloody ear, surrounded by his bodyguards, fist raised, with the flag in the background. Crazy good photo, arguably historic already.
You saw a face with red liquid on it I will admit that much. What that liquid was or how it got there is not something I have evidence for.

This was my mostly comical thought. You know how people always say they'd go back and off Hitler? But somehow it never happened so either time travel doesn't exist, or they just always fail. We're just getting to see that in real time.

(That said, this fucker definitely changed the future so it's probably not that.)

I mean, there have been more than a dozen confirmed assassination attempts on Hitler (even suicide bomber attempts among them) and a few more unconfirmed possible attempts. The future did try their best (or just some brave people from the time itself).
Do you realise how many politicians get attacked every day? Do yourself a favour and check it out. It's a lot, it's bot not the safest job in the world, many get killed. There had to be an attack by a time traveler at least once
Time travel is possible. Changing the future however, isn't.

It has to do with wave function collapse. The cat is both alive and dead until its observed, at which point the wave function collapses to reveal which it is.

So let's say you go back in time and successfully kill Hitler. Well you're now observing that outcome from a tangent timeline. In our timeline, that wavefront has already collapsed. There's no takesies backsies. Its immutable.

If you can go back and try again, your just creating new wave funtion collapses, not changing the ones that already occurred.

Its like re-rolling a dice because you didn't like the outcome. You can re-roll as much as you want, it doesn't erase that first roll; its still there, imprinted on the quantum foam of the multi verse.
- I've always preferred the "creates a new timeline" explanation because it nicely negates the grandfather paradox. And you're still changing the future, just the future of a different timeline.
- But what about time crystals ?
My favourite theory of time travel is that in the vast majority of timelines, travelling back in time guarantees that events will unfold as they always will, as given an infinite number of timelines in entropy there will be at least one timeline that forms a loop, and from that point effectively every timeline follows that loop. It may even be a multi-step loop, but it's still a loop and the time travel causes the events that leads to the time travel.
- For those who want to read about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle
The future will always happen.
- Has always happened. Is always happening.

It was one of the guys from X-COM. He had a 98% percent hit chance but still missed somehow.

I don't know what's going on but I wouldn't be surprised for it to be a setup from the RNC to help drumph win the presidency.

People need to stop with ridiculous conspiracy theories. You've become what you hate
- At this point, is that really so far fetched?
Because he can't just be shot at for being a terrible person / president? That's less realistic than a conspiracy?
- It's the US, everyone can get randomly shot for anything.
I thought that too before seeing the video. I thought that maybe the wound to the ear was because of something else, but after seeing it it seems to me that only the bullet could hit him there. A setup involving the shooter shooting only his ear would be waaaaay too risky.
- My first thought was staged. Lying liars lie and train us to look for the lie.