• @KingPorkChop@lemmy.caOP
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    7018 days ago

    This should be illegal. I think Iran has gone a step too far at this point. I don’t think there is a single person alive who would condone this.

    No one, I repeat NO ONE, wants to imagine Trump sunbathing.

    • @msprout@lemmy.world
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      818 days ago

      If Iranian hackers were so elite, they would have done something cool like erased student loan debt. Instead, they’re busy toppling Minecraft servers and trying to find anything they can use other than cell phones or pagers. Terribly un1337 of you, Ayatollah.

    • @4am@lemmy.zip
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      1318 days ago

      That’s what makes it so easy. Just pull a Mossad but with bronzer shipments.

      Why you think Trump wants everything made in the USA at all costs?

      • I maintain that the real reason he eats McDonald’s is that he figures he can’t be poisoned if he’s hitting random McDonald’s every meal.

  • @SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    1018 days ago

    I would prefer it if they start with Thiel and the shadow cabinet first, then work their way towards the least competent member of the Project 2025 cabal. Fear would become Trump’s shadow, and US officials would be more likely to handle Iranian affairs in good faith.

    • @AAA@feddit.org
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      518 days ago

      They would nuke (whoever they think is behind the assassinations) first. That’s why nobody will do a thing. They are crazy enough to do it.

  • @Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    There is probably an unspoken rule of geopolitics to the effect of “Don’t start assassinating foreign dignitaries and heads of state unless you want everyone else to declare open season on you and yours.” And it seems like we’re getting closer to breaking that rule by the month.

      • @seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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        718 days ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy

        McElroy was shot and killed in broad daylight as he sat with his wife Trena in his pickup truck on Skidmore’s main street.[2] He was struck by bullets from at least two different firearms, in front of a crowd of people estimated as numbering between 30 and 46.[1] Despite the many witnesses, nobody came forward to say who shot him. To date, no one has been charged in connection with McElroy’s death.

        • @arcterus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          718 days ago

          He met his last wife, Trena McCloud (1957–2012), when she was 12 years old and in eighth grade and he was 35. He raped McCloud repeatedly. McCloud’s parents initially opposed the relationship, but McElroy threatened them into agreement by burning down their house and shooting the family dog.

          Bruh wtf

          • Match!!
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            518 days ago

            All of that footage is going to have been AI generated. I am going to have been there and I will say that it will have been impossible to tell where the bullets are going to have been coming from, just like how I was with Luigi Mangione at band practice all through December 2024.

      • At some point…? After that kid popped off at him in PA, all the offline people I know were just pretty universally either “shame he lived” or “meh”.

        You can only be a hateful and bigoted bully for so long before even the ‘apolitical normie’ can connect the dots between Cheeto’s stochastic terrorism, and someone turning that energy back his way.

    • @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      418 days ago

      The US has been regularly helping to assasinate Iranian foreigner dignitaries for years now, literally assasinsting many high ranking members of their government/military for years as well.

    • @morphballganon@lemmy.world
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      118 days ago

      Doubtful we’ll see a powerful head of state call for such an act. More likely, we’ll see some lone wolf who gets tied to a nation that immediately disavows them.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.zip
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        118 days ago

        The lone wolf will be some domestic ex-maga mad that his VA benefits got cut. It will be interesting to watch the remaining group of clowns link Toothless Joe from rural Idaho to the Iranian regime. Maybe they can say he did it for hire.

        • @Furbag@lemmy.world
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          218 days ago

          Why do that when the “Blame Democrats” button is right there just itching to be pressed by a sweaty greasy finger yet again?

    • @ceenote@lemmy.world
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      I mean, if that rule gets tossed out, I can only think of like 2 world leaders I’d be sad to see go. Russia is already actively trying to kill one of those.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      117 days ago

      If all our leaders, kings, politicians all vanished at once, I wonder how long it would be before us normal people even noticed.

  • @BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    717 days ago

    Better to say that they could drone strike him anytime he’s golfing. Then the Secret Service wouldn’t let him golf, and his life would be ruined.