NotAnotherLemmyUser @ NotAnotherLemmyUser @lemmy.world

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One of the major problems with Lemmy is that many posts get deleted and that nukes the comment section (which is where most of the answers will be).

I wish Lemmy deleted posts closer to how Reddit deletes posts - the post content should be deleted, but leave the comments alone.

If you're using Voyager: Go to settings -> appearance then scroll all the way to the bottom and toggle on the option for "Show user instance".

Edit: specified 'appearance' setting

Viva La Dirt League had a fun video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUHFXnOn7mI

Maybe, but considering this information is highlighted in the poll's key points (immediately following and under the same point used for the title) doesn't look good. It means that Newsweek is either doing a poor job at covering this (they didn't even provide a direct link to the poll), or they are intentionally leaving out key details.

It's also possible that they are only looking at a subset of the data that only focuses on people that were questioned the day after the event, but without a pro+ subscription I can't tell if seperating out that group is even possible (if it even lists out which day a person was questioned) and that's ignoring the impact on the reliability of those numbers given a largely reduced dataset.

Morning Consult Pro+ subscribers are able to access the data sets that power Morning Consult Pro's reports and analysis

In the end, I'm waiting to see what the polls look like in battleground states to see how this event has really affected the situation.

As much as I want this to be true (well I'd rather him be losing in all polls), this is disinformation at this moment.

The poll they are referencing is this one: https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-presidential-election-polling (Archive link)

Under "In this tracker"

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Trump maintains lead: Trump continues to lead Biden by 2 percentage points, 44% to 42%, unchanged from the previous week and superior to his standing in the lead-up to the first 2024 presidential debate, when the candidates were tied. The latest data was collected Friday through Sunday, meaning most responses were gathered before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

Additionally, I don't see any polls listed out here either that have been able to do a complete poll since the assassination attempt:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

It is disinformation. The data from the poll they are referencing was mostly completed before the assassination attempt: https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-presidential-election-polling (Archive Link)

The latest data was collected Friday through Sunday, meaning most responses were gathered before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

As much as I want this to be true, this is straight up misinformation at this moment.

The poll they are referencing is this one: https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-presidential-election-polling (Archive link)

Under "In this tracker"

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Trump maintains lead: Trump continues to lead Biden by 2 percentage points, 44% to 42%, unchanged from the previous week and superior to his standing in the lead-up to the first 2024 presidential debate, when the candidates were tied. The latest data was collected Friday through Sunday, meaning most responses were gathered before Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

I don't see any polls listed out here either that have been able to do a complete poll since the assassination attempt:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

Ah, thanks, I probably just checked the "favorites" recently and assumed the "reduces" were still visible, that or my sense of time is way off.

I'm fairly certain that I checked it out on Kbin.Social about a month or two back and it still worked then, but Kbin.Social is currently down for maintenance, so I'm not sure.

How long ago is "quite a while"?

Former Redditors are used to upvotes/downvotes being private by default.

But this really depends on the user. Most reasons for this would be privacy related reasons.

• Some users vote differently knowing that their votes are public. If they want to vote freely they would consider an option like this.
• To combat profiling from others/corporations.
• To avoid certain users that take downvotes way too seriously.

That might be a setting specific to that instance. With other kbin instances it is possible to see reduces (or at least you have been able to do so in the past).

Maybe there's been a recent update to all kbin instances so that the reduces tab is no longer clickable?

It doesn't hide downvotes... It just calls them "Reduces"

If you want your upvotes/downvotes to actually be private, create a seperate account that only votes and never comments/posts.

Video of him on the roof just before everything went down (video blurs out the shooter during/after death):

https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1812339055603978440

You can hear people yelling, "He's got a gun!" seconds before the shooting happens.

Another angle of people yelling "He's got a gun" (shaky cameraman, good for audio only): https://x.com/BNONews/status/1812327502028669328

Another witness that was also trying to point out the shooter to the authorities: https://x.com/BNONews/status/1812311392675914015

I see a lot of outlets claiming that the FBI identified him, but I don't see any actual statements from the FBI themselves (beyond a statement asking for more information from the public). Skimming through the various articles with his name and I can't find any links to an actual source either. I might have missed a video somewhere.

It could be that the name is correct, and this guy was baiting journalists into showing his picture and lying about his real name.

Looks like Thomas Matthews Crooks is not the right guy

Edit 2: but there are a lot of images/videos of the wrong guy going around.

He posted a video saying "you've got the wrong guy" but looks like he's been talking to lawyers and decided to make his whole account private now".

http://youtube.com/shorts/DM9SVbojbl4

https//x.com/ValorMG/status/1812357749784936512

Edit: Maybe? It could be that the name is correct, but the guy you see in the video is definitely not him.

Plus an image of some blood on the bleacher from a live stream that kept running:

https://imgur.com/a/V0SyhKE

One of the attendees in the bleachers was hit:
https://imgur.com/a/V0SyhKE

News is also saying that 2 are dead: https://news.sky.com/story/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651

Butler County District attorney told the Associated Press (AP) that a shooter was dead and that a rally attendee had also been killed.

This doesn't sound like it was staged.

Out of curiousity, what would happen to the funds if we did have a wealthy replacement?

Would the donors be refunded a percentage of the money they donated to the Biden campaign? I doubt that money would be locked up and become unusable.

Agreed. Traditionally, "gaslighting" is specific to cases where a manipulator tries to convince the other person that they are crazy over time. The end goal is to make the other person doubt their reality so much that they will only rely on the manipulator. Basically, it's a conscious attempt to brainwash someone.

This comes from a story where a "husband secretly dims and brightens the indoor gas-powered lighting but insists his wife is imagining it, making her think she is going insane." All so that he can steal from her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting#cite_note-8

Unfortunately many today misuse this term to mean something closer to the definition of "lying" or when someone is trying hard to influence you...