ethics and philosophy
What does the West owe to Christianity and Islam?: Secular critics
Three hundred and fifty-nine years Galileo spent his last nine years under house arrest for describing what he saw through a telescope. The institution that confined him did not formally acknowledge he was right until 1992. That is not a footnote in the debt story.... Attempted Trump Assasination- Was he actually hit by a bullet? (meta commentary: I imagine the future of uptrust will host more conversations of this nature… so let’s see how we navigate it)
On Saturday, former president Donald Trump was the target of an attempted assassination.
Two things I want to talk about–
Was Trump actually hit by a bullet? I’m skeptical that a bullet grazed his ear, and think it’s more likely that a piece of shrapnel clipped him. I’m not intending to minimize the fact that someone definitely tried to kill him, but rather I am irritated by his spinning and inflation of the story if there is a truer thing to be said about what happened.
The secret service really fucked up. How on earth do they miss a lone sniper on a roof that many of the bystanders identified before them? I don’t think there is a conspiracy theory here, but do believe someone should probably be fired for their oversight.
I’d like to hear others’ opinions on this + where your credibility comes from. Name your news source or experience that leads you to believe what you’re sharing.
I feel somewhere in between y’all on this—on one hand I’m like: there must be thousands of assassination attempts the Secret Service thwarts that we never hear about....