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[conuly]

“Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.”

― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

You just watch, the party of "Always a false flag!" will once again conspicuously fail to raise that suggestion. Not that I think this was a false flag operation, most things aren't and so until and unless we have some pretty damning evidence I'll just side with Occam here, but I always like to call out their blatant fucking hypocrisy. Just for kicks. God knows this timeline isn't funny enough if we don't put in the effort.

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[siliconshaman]

Yet another time traveller thwarted.

[brokenallbroken]

The first thing I thought when I heard about it was, "well, it's Florida, probably someone just having a good time in their backyard. The 'the Second Amendment is the most important' crowd is just going to have to reap what they sow at some point."

[minoanmiss]

Hhahahhahahahah nice.

[silveradept]

They're consistent about things, but that consistency usually is of the sort that is "if it's something that threatens you, it must be a false flag, if it's something that threatens me, then it's always genuine." But yes, we do need to put in the effort to make the timeline funnier.

[pushkin666]

I always feel that Terry Pratchett has a quote for everything :)

[conuly]

I just wish he was wrong on this.

[conuly]

Um. About dictators being an inevitable symptom, not about murder being a poor cure!

[pushkin666]

Nods Me too :(