https://x.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1813749764460069062

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Most radical centrists: Democrats and Republicans need to work together.

    Crooks radical centrisim: Democrats and Republicans need to die.

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    lol, if biden had happened to be near this guy would clipping his ear be enough to kill him?

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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          5 months ago

          I'm imagining it like this moment in Not Another Teen Movie (timestamp 1:57) (CW: comedy gore)

          https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=tNJoDZI-rhWtQS5P&v=nuPd4L7_0uQ&feature=youtu.be&t=1m57s

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Men will literally try to assassinate a president rather than go to therapy.

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    I’ve unironically been saying to my friends for like the past week that the funniest outcome is that he’s just a centrist cheer

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Jokerfication transcends electoral politics

  • peeonyou [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    One thing everyone can agree on: You MUST use 3 names when addressing an assassin.

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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        5 months ago

        I feel like this might be something to prevent infamy from being spread to someone with a similar name, but also because having three names can also make "naming" them feel more serious. Like when you are a kid and you are in trouble with your mom and they use your full name to establish how you are in a lot of trouble instead of just a little trouble.

        • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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          5 months ago

          I feel like this might be something to prevent infamy from being spread to someone with a similar name

          It's almost always this, serial killers usually get the same treatment. I think it was especially more important in years past when a full name was more often used to identify a person

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Abe's assassin only has two names so I propose we address him as "Sir Tetsuya Yamagami".

    • spizzat2@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Jerry: But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman...

      Alice : John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names.

      Jerry : Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn't die. If Reagan had died, I'm pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley's middle name was.

    • booty [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Honestly it kinda seems like that might be the case. disillusioned and depressed centrist who correctly sees that both candidates suck and is like "let's see if I can take one of em out before I go"

      Or maybe he had delusions of being a famous high profile assassin in his death regardless of who he actually killed

      Idk, all speculation so far. Most possibilities seem pretty equally valid to me at this point

      • quarrk [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Someone said that he didn’t make the rifle team at his school, so my 90s-movie-addled brain just assumed he wanted to prove the haters wrong in the most extreme way possible

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    5 months ago

    Shades of Arthur Bremer giving up on assassinating Nixon and deciding to go for George Wallace instead.

    On May 4, 1972, after a ten-day break from writing, Bremer realized it would be almost impossible to assassinate Nixon and decided that it was Wallace's "fate" to be his victim, even though his diary entries never showed the same level of interest or enthusiasm as they did with regard to assassinating Nixon. Bremer made this clear in his diary writing, "He [Wallace] certainly won't be buried with the snobs in Washington. ... I won't even rate a TV interruption in Russia or/Europe when the news breaks—they never heard of Wallace."

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      Kind of amazing to think how recent the Democratic Party's heel-turn away from the Dixiecrats was, and how one of the assholes in their orbit made it to the Vice Presidency and then the Presidency anyway.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        5 months ago

        I'd love to find Biden's response to the Wallace shooting, but since he wasn't yet a Senator (he'd be elected that year) he may not have had to make a statement. For more on Biden and Wallace, here's a Rolling Stone summary from 2019.

        Several paragraphs

        On Thursday, another decades-old quote of Biden’s surfaced courtesy of the Trump campaign’s opposition research team. A September 20, 1987, story in the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Biden had bragged about receiving an award from George Wallace, the former Alabama governor and one of America’s most notorious segregationists.

        The same story went to quote a presidential primary campaign speech Biden had given in Alabama in which he said “we (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.”

        Biden went on to distance himself from Wallace. On Twitter, Biden spokesman Bill Russo shared a 1976 news story quoting Biden saying he would not support Wallace’s presidential bid and would back the Republican candidate if Wallace somehow won the Democratic nomination.

        A Biden spokesman tells Rolling Stone in a statement: “As a young Senator, Joe Biden declared that if George Wallace — an unhinged, racist maniac — became the presidential nominee of his party, he would support Gerald Ford. If more GOP leaders had a scintilla of that same courage in 2016, they wouldn’t be debasing themselves this very minute by defending another unhinged, racist maniac.”

        Biden’s campaign declined to comment on the candidate saying Delaware sided with the pro-slavery Confederacy during the Civil War.

        They don't mention the year but I think the award in question was from 1973.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    well at least the depressed kids are shooting aristocrats now instead of schools. people with some actual blame for the shit, i consider it a step up. congrats, us.

    • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, for years the complaint has been "why shoot up a school instead of a petrochemical office?", this is progress

      Reform in action!