Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I understand that it’s a believable, yet wild conspiracy theory. I also think it’s a stretch for the man who wrote and directed a movie with that exact situation as a plot point to be calling it deranged. It’s obliviously not that farfetched seeing as he wrote a movie with the concept.
Emperor@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The film is a comedy/satire so perhaps he felt he pushed elements of it into wild and wacky territory that would be considered farfetched, possibly deranged.
However, the deranged bit refers to the people who are suggesting it is as conspiracy - it’s one thing to use the idea in comedy movie and quite another that this would happen in real life. For one, that shot would be incredibly risky for someone to attempt especially without a sniper rifle or the relevant training.
I think he may be overreacting as it may not have even been mentioned if not for the Pennsylvania link.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It was the first thing I thought of.
Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Very true. Unfortunately being a satire doesn’t seem to protect anything from becoming a reality anymore. The Onion is news. Idiocracy is morphing into documentary territory.