I know they’re going to say it is only jokes. Fuck that. I get y’all want to be edgelords, but this is the most dangerous thing that has happened this century. I would be surprised now if we make it to the end of the year without some people getting assassinated for real, and it will target overwhelmingly the leftest end of the spectrum.
Example, example, example. There are others.
Y’all are on the precipice of finding out firsthand the difference between “OMG I’m so oppressed, the police are racist and I’m struggling to pay my bills, civil war y’all” and “OMG I’m so oppressed, a gang of big violent fuckers with bats and boots and the support of the government just attacked my whole community, seriously hurt me, and burned part of my house down. They told us if they find us here tomorrow, they’ll kill us.”
OP and the posters I’ve seen with similar thoughts just make me wonder if they would have said similar things about the failed plot to assassinate Hilter on the 20th of June, 1944.
Ah yes, those well know 1944 elections that everyone was trying to keep on an even keel to avoid a real spasm of violence, or literal death camps, from coming about. Who could forget how instrumental the assassination plot was, in preventing that outcome, before anything bad could happen.
(The Reichstag Fire is a lot better example)
You fuckers are turning Donald Trump into the next Regan. We will literally never hear the end of this for the rest of our lives.
A successful assassination would have turned Trump into a martyr and only embolded the far right.
A failed on: this case, will only embolden Donald Trump himself and the religious right will now see it as a sign that he’s been chosen by God himself.
Good job fuckers. You are making us lose the election. And leftists are edgelording as if this was a good thing.
then do something. it’s already happened. what now? post your woes on lemmy?
Yes. Unironically.
Now is the time for me to point out how short sighted and annoyingly stupid some left wingers are.
We have a few short weeks before the DNC. We need to come together and determine if Biden quits and who should replace him if he does.
Who will be at the DNC? Far left fuckers. Do you want to give them the microphone in this political setting? Or do we just stick with Biden or Harris?
Seriously. Think about what this entails for short term plans.
doesn’t matter. i’ll vote blue no matter who because i understand how the game works.
I’m glad you and me are together for voting.
But coming up with a strategy to win Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan is now harder than ever.
We probably just lost Pennsylvania over this. This assassination attempt was in that State.
vote blue, buy guns. it’s pretty simple.
A lot of us were hoping to push gun control actually.