this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
114 points (91.3% liked)

News

23310 readers
4858 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Yes, two more assassination plots.

all 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (3 children)

the last thing we need is the orange turd popped off suddenly so he can become a martyr. best to let him fade off into dementia

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

last thing we need is the orange turd popped off suddenly

even worse if it's done by a foreign entity. then all the maga chuds would 100% be bleating and yammering for all out nuclear bombardment on whatever side of the planet it came from

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

At this point any attempt will be deemed to have foreign origins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It sounds like Trump becoming a martyr is a massive problem. Sorry for my ignorance, but would it be a problem to explain how?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Trump's camp is full of conspiracy theorists. Being assassinated would lead to many of his followers thinking it happened because progressives saw the danger in him winning a second term.

The better option for politics in America is for as much of his actions to come to light as possible so his own followers can come to the correct conclusion on their own: he's a liar and a fraud.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I mean bless you but that ain’t going to happen.

Many of those people need literally years of deprogramming and even then the prognosis is probably quite poor.

What would be more helpful is to give high school kids a mandatory course in digital marketing and communications. Let them literally see dollars rolling onto an account after something is posted online and monetised. No one seems so distinguish between ads and facts anymore. Seent it on Insta? Shit’s as real as the air you’re breathing, to many people these days. Given the opportunity to understand why someone would post BS online and to connect the dots that it’s literally for a few cents of attention I think that society would change for the better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

so his own followers can come to the correct conclusion on their own

Oh you sweet summer child...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Why would Iran want to assassinate Trump?

Edit:

Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesperson, said the briefing concerned “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate [Trump] in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States”.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

And...

The Iranian motivation to kill Trump is believed to stem from a desire for revenge over his decision when he was president to order the US strike that killed Maj Gen Qassim Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds force in January 2020.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

And he pulled out of a mutually beneficial nuclear treaty so that he could slap a bunch of sanctions on them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Haha little do they know...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

As other people have said, it would be way worse to have him him assassinated. If it's looking like he's going to lose, I could see the people who want the US unstable to prefer assassinating him instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I think stabilize was the word they're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Laughed out loud at this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To paraphrase a famous Trump quote, "Iran, if you're listening...."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hold off until January and we'll ship him to you in a crate with a few air holes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you skip the air holes, you can claim Trump is both dead and alive, as long as no one opens the box. It is a win for both sides!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Lmao this one got me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Secret Service watching the growing line of buffoons fail to kill a geriatric cheeto:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

assassination is Trump's biggest fundraiser

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

If he actually dies I bet he could win lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Shouldn’t we just move past this?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

He doesn't look like a briefs guy, more like a cheap adult diaper type.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Gee Diaper Don, why is everyone trying to kill you? You think maybe YOU are the bad guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

By far the best outcome for the GOP is for Trump to get got.

They can win elections on this forever, and walk in any solid corpo-fascist they want under a Maga hat, for instance jd Vance.