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    Crap, you posted this in between the time I began and finished posting the same thing.

    Hold please.


    Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was accused of breaking the hand of Marine veteran and anti-war activist Brian McGinnis.

    During a break in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday, McGinnis put his hand through a hole in the wall to prevent Capitol Police from removing him from the room.

    A video recorded by another anti-war activist showed Sheehy getting in on the melee by grabbing McGinnis and attempting to force him through the doorway.

    “His hand! His hand! Oh!” one onlooker shouted.

    “The senator broke his hand!” someone else exclaimed.

    “A US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine,” another member of the audience yelled. “A US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine; you’re a coward.”

    Sheehy turned and walked away without successfully dislodging McGinnis.

    “Yeah, go f— yourself,” someone muttered.


    The video linked from the article:

    https://x.com/alanhe/status/2029301477341061613/mediaViewer?currentTweet=2029301477341061613&currentTweetUser=alanhe

    Genuine [WARNING] if you are squeamish, as best I can tell, at least one bone in the Marine’s forearm snapped, and this can be heard, and seen.

    … Right before his arm snaps, (which did not seem to affect his ability to grip the door he was clinging to) he shouted “No one wants to die for Israel!”

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        … Wow.

        You’re right.

        … It literally worked minutes ago, I was able to watch it on X, before I posted it, I checked that it worked.

        Fuck.

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            As best I can tell they are different videos, from different cameras, or at least cut to different lengths, different annotation, etc.

            Or… well… they ‘were’ different videos?

            Man, getting memory-holed in real time is really fucking something.

            EDIT:

            Yeah, yep, in the vxinstagram video, you can see the camera (wo)man who took the video that I watched, the X url video.

            At around the one minute mark in the vxinstagram url vudeo, she can be seen on the right, with a phone, dressed in a gray jacket, tan… I’m unsure of the correct name for the headwrap.

            Different smartphone videos, from different people.

            EDIT 2:

            The… the X video has had a … signficantly clearer video and audio of the moment the Marine’s forearm snaps.

            The onlookers were generally all further away than that camera was, and … they were close to being accurate, saying it was his hand.

            They likely heard the snap, but probably didn’t clearly see the uh, forearm deform, along with that snap.

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          All sane americans need to do something soon.

          There is zero signs they will do anything effective. They will look on while their democracy is taken away, and USA devolves into a 1 party authoritarian dictatorship.

          There are good Americans, but apparently they are unable to act.