politics

That incident was wild because I didn’t even know it happened until after the fact

I was just watching the news with my mom and a friend I had over

Meanwhile redditors

they just unquestionably put "republican" for his party

uh Dialga, look again

there are 4 notes

isnt it a thing for dems to temp register as republican so they can vote in primaries

the notes are links to mass media articles

Wikipedia notes are synonymous with "information is disputed"

since you only have to note things that aren't agreed upon facts

isnt it meant to be "this is the source" for the info

because that's all i see

I think etiquette is to source quotes 100% of the time, provide a note for a substantive paragraph, and note anything disputed

multiple notes is almost always disputed info, and there will 99% of the time be a talk page about anything getting double-noted

Context: Ron Johnson (getting interviewed and wrote this tweet) made the chart that Trump was using

eitherway though, the guy was only 20?

how radicalizing was his environment to make him do this kind of thing

he probably watched CNN

idk, I don't find this that surprising

I would expect someone at least a little older

So Dialga, I had an interesting realization semi-recently

if you think back to the American Revolution

Spooky, the guy wasnt even old enough to vote in the previous presidential election

Boston tea party, raids on the British, etc.

a lot of our founding fathers were in their early 20s

Washington and the generals were a bit older

but a lot of the idealists, were super young

it's often the 20-year-olds who cause radical change

but idk what the guys motive was in this case, it doesn't feel idological or else I'd have assumed there was a manifesto

could be suicide by cop, could be highly anti-Trump, could be some ideological sperg for a niche policy

ok, here's the Boston Tea Party stats

of the ~200 main participants, 9 were older than 40

26 were under 20, majority were 20-30

I do think it’s pretty crazy, this guy was 12 years old when Trump first became president

Like goddamn, did his parents have nasty fights over him or something? It’s wild

rebelling against an oppressive empire is a bit different spooky but i know the point you're trying to make

the british directly impacted the lives of the colonists actively, trump hadnt done anything to this matt kid at all

yeah, not saying it's 1:1, just that being 20 isn't crazy young for political V

and; last aside I swear, also remember that only 2% of the colonists supported the revolution

overwhelming majority supported the British, 2nd most common sentiment was indifference

thats only the initial number right

it never actually got that high, most people thought British rule was preferable into the 1800s

leadup to the War of 1812 was when people started valuaing their independence

But they didnt exactly try to stop the revolution either

which is about 1 generation later

oh they 100% did, British irregulars were all just colonists

which was the majority of their army

British sent over VERY few regular troops