• Skates@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    How the shit does someone not just Lee Harvey Oswald this man already? There’ve been better men killed for worse reasons.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      If the assassination of Julius Caesar became a model for the effective removal of a tyrant, it was also a powerful reminder that getting rid of a tyrant did not necessarily dispose of tyranny.

      -Dame Mary Beard

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s mostly right wingers who murder for political reasons. When you know deep down your worldview is a snakepit, that’s when you decide to take the law into your own hands like that.

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      4 months ago

      21st century custom would seem to suggest a limited yield warhead delivered via FPV drone, whilst another recon drone films both.

      Yes, the required moral barrier warranting it has long been cleared… It was past deserved back in the central park five days.

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      4 months ago

      You talk as if being an evil politician is a predictor of being assassinated. That’s 100% the opposite of how that works.

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          Yes. It’s the good ones who are assassinated. And no not by Trump. Not by Presidents. By hidden people you haven’t heard of.