this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
64 points (86.4% liked)
Showerthoughts
37172 readers
448 users here now
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
While I've been playing with variously wild theories myself, as well, I don't see why a sniper would keep their crosshair right on the person they are trying to protect. However, I'm also not overly educated in snipology to be 100% sure about it.
A hit in the neck is definitely a miss from an intended target anyway. Can't say how much or to what direction. It could have been that there's been a target where the bullet would fly 30 cm behind the person to be guarded, but the bullet is taking a trajectory 10 cm off the intended and the person happens to their head 20 cm backwards just at the crucial moment.
But, I do believe that someone wanted that guy dead. I can imagine someone figuring that "he's actively advocating killing politicians you don't like, and I don't like him. Therefore I am following his own instructions and this is acceptable."
I personally think it's a bad idea to kill a person like that, because it probably causes other people to get shot as well. It's not a culture I want to see spread. But at least I do not see it morally as a very big problem that a person explicitly says that something is acceptable and then that thing is done to him. He wanted a certain kind of society and he got the kind of society he wanted. If there is life after death, he can spend that time being content of having changed the society.
What I'm saying is that there was a very much raised likelihood that someone kills him intentionally.
This is why one of my wild theories is that the timing of the shot isn't coincidental, and since there's so little time between his answer and the shot, there's a (negligible, too low, ridiculously small) chance that the shooter was waiting for this particular question (and the answer that follows), suggesting some connection between the person asking and the killer. I am aware of how tinfoil hat it sounds, and I don't think that's actually the case, but it makes some sense.
I'm not saying that it's correct, but it's not unrealistic.
There's no way there is a connection between the person asking the question and the shooter. It was a debate with Charlie Kirk. Of course gun violence is going to come up. Especially since it started by asking about gun violence involving trans people.
Maybe he was just really interested in the talk!
"I can watch the whole speech from up here! No crowds, this is great! Whoops."