It’s blatant extortion now.

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    22 hours ago

    Do you expect the average American to just be able to stroll up to him with a gun and shoot him? We’re literally a police state. He’s got secret service watching him. It’s complicated, and if somebody was successful they would be throwing away their own entire life guaranteed.

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      9 hours ago

      Give me a gun and a strategy to get close enough and I would gladly sacrifice my life. It’s THAT fucking important at this point.

      Nothing changes until people are willing to put their own lives at risk.

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        9 hours ago

        For what? Another will take his place. There’s no shortage of people pushing for project 2025 and supporting his political policies. It’s not just trump.

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          8 hours ago

          Then you do the same to the next one. And the one after that. And the one after that. Until someone gets up there and decides he/she doesn’t want it happening to them too.

          The point isn’t that there’s “going to be another”…that’s just defeatism. The point is to make them realise that they will NEVER be safe. That there are people willing to do anything to see them strung up by their ankles in a town square.

          Courage is contagious.

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            8 hours ago

            It’s not defeatism, at all, it’s the recognition of an ineffective method of resolving things. Real life isn’t a movie where things just work out when you do stupid shit.

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              8 hours ago

              History disagrees with you.

              No despot in history has ever fallen without violence. Hell, your own, country was built on that fact.

              At exactly what point did America go from “the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots” to “this is an ineffective means of resolving things.”?

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                8 hours ago

                Political violence that will make change will be larger scale and organized, not individuals trying to kill a bad president, or two, or three.

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      22 hours ago

      That kid nearly did it. Soon there will be fake trumps like the fake Putin’s.