• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    A needless inaccurate distinction obscuring what it really is, it is a sniper. It is not normal. These crowds existed before the snipers arrived and will exist long after the protests end.

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      8 months ago

      I’m not trying to obfuscate anything. The job title of a “sniper” is “marksman”.

      A marksman is basically a highly accurate Rifleman which is a type of infantry.

      This is all military shit.

      “Sniper” is just a more commonly used term for a marksman, but they’re exactly the same thing.

      The only point to my comment is that you seemed to think that the commenter saying it was a marksman meant it wasn’t a sniper. They’re literally the same job.

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      8 months ago

      Are they also not the students from the school? So they would have been on campus but not all in one place anyway.

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          8 months ago

          Umm, I think you have my point backwards… unless you are implying the protesters are sinners?

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            8 months ago

            I’m saying it doesn’t matter if the people at the protest went to school there or not, that the sniper isn’t warranted, but I do apologize that in a heated moment I accused you of intentionally aiding the opposition.

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              8 months ago

              Oh, no worries. I was confused but I don’t think I made my point clear. It was just adding on the ridiculous notion that a large amount of people means snipers for some reason, these people from what I can see would be on campus anyway and the only difference I can see from say 3 months ago would be the political protests.