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[–] Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 5 months ago

Ronald Reagan? The actor?!

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Help me out here, idk who this is.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It’s Jodie Foster c.1981.

John Hinckley Jr.’s motivation for the attempted assassination was to impress Jodie Foster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation

[–] brbposting 4 points 5 months ago
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Someone shot the elderly Republican former actor with dementia? If I had a nickel!

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's still kind of odd that it happened twice.

[–] erusuoyera 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the update Internet Explorer.

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That fresh fresh IE6 drop

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was a mass shooting. Nothing we Americans care about

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Multiple peasants die in mass shooting

Media: I sleep

One rich white politician gets shot at

Media: Real shit

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I've got a bad case...

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Thats some high quality meme right there.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I disagreed with that one. He was legitimate. Awful, but legitimate.

Ah. Meeeemoriieeeeees

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He got policy advice from an astrologer, commited numerous war crimes, and is literally the source of most of America's problems from the last thirty years.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

True. But he actually believed that shit, and was at least not a demented sociopathic rapist. An asshole, a bigot, a racist, stupid, and an authoritarian. But not corrupt (Edit: not ludicrously corrupt, as trump is), not a colluder, would never attempt a coup, actually could read, cared about people sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll hold forth all day on how Reagan sucked. You downvoters don’t even know. BUT. I disagree with him being shot.

And Hinckley wasn’t even political. Just very incel, in a time before interwebs, trying to impress Jodie Foster.