• @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Fellas, is it a crime to advocate for the assassination of the current vice president?

    Because that could be another one of Donald’s charges. Just saying.

    • @norimee@lemmy.world
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      317 months ago

      Biden/Kamala

      Not just the current vice president. The current President of the United States.

      Easy to forget in this lunacy of an election campaign, but Biden is still president.

    • @djsoren19@yiffit.net
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      97 months ago

      no, but it’ll kill your career to joke about the assassination of a former president, because in this country we believe in double standards.

      • @dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        137 months ago

        Conservatives love the quote “the shrub of freedom needs to be watered with the blood of parrots from a time to another time”, so they’ve got a healthy dosage of normalizing violence.

        They also LARP about Rome, which had a long and storied tradition of assassination. Famously, citizens of the republic were encouraged to strangle anyone who tried to become King… right up until they didn’t.

        Anyway, the Romans weren’t always monsters; they just usually were.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          27 months ago

          The United States is the truest successor to Rome, just the Roman republic. While others called themselves czar or Kaiser, we completely failed to create a functioning society but failed upwards by dint of knocking everyone else down