r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/Numerous-Ad-4033 • 8h ago

What About Jerry Ford?

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Perhaps because President Ford was never hit.

But he was a target on two separate occasions by two women in September 1975, in California. The first was a Manson cult member, the second an FBI informant turned left-wing activist.

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u/Vivid-Use1749 8h ago

While social media debates often try to map historical presidential attackers onto modern Democratic or Republican frameworks, historians note that few of the attackers were mainstream partisans. Most were driven by anarchism, Confederate sympathies, severe mental illness, personal delusions, or delusions of grandeur rather than serving as agents of a recognized U.S. political party.

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u/GainerGaining 8h ago edited 7h ago

This is mostly correct. Now write it without plugging it into AI.

Edit: qualified it

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u/Vivid-Use1749 6h ago

This was the prompt: "Are some or all the political parties shooters of presidents belonged to known?" as it seemed weird to me that in the whirl of arresting someone who just tried to kill a POTUS, the FBI or SS would worry about their party registration.

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u/Vivid-Use1749 7h ago

Why? It sounds a lot like me already.

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u/Grape_Pedialyte 8h ago

No way bro, Sirhan Sirhan the Palestinian-Jordanian man was totally a Democrat. He was wearing a Humphrey '68 button when he assassinated RFK (the good one, not the heroin road kill guy).

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u/CautiousLandscape907 6h ago

He was a foreign national who couldn’t register with any party.

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u/evocativename 7h ago

Literally none of the shooters were anarchists.

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u/McGillicuddys 7h ago

Leon Czolgosz was

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u/evocativename 7h ago

Leon Czolgosz didn't shoot anyone in the image.

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u/McGillicuddys 6h ago

Yes but the AI blurb doesn't read like it was restricted to the people in the images so much as a generic "were all the people who have tried to kill presidents Democrats" prompt