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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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What if you found yourself with a perfect vantage point from which to snipe modern-day Hitler?
I'd probably miss so hard, but I have zero sniping experience.
coward
And this is why practice is important ...
If I had a gun in that situation, I'd likely be killed by his bodyguards within seconds.
Line of sight goes both ways.
And I wouldn't even want to shoot. I'm no assassin and also don't believe that assassinating him would magically solve all the problems his movement causes.
That's why I said snipe, namely to shoot from a long distance from a concealed location.
Also, while it wouldn't fix any structural problems it would break the cult of personality, and mean that whoever wants to follow in his footsteps in he immediate future would be aware that if they go too far there might be repercussions (unlike at the moment, where people are being killed and nobody is taking physical action to stop it).
Can you name a single instance of the assassination of a ruler that lead to a positive outcome down the line?
Luis Carrero Blanco's assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco's regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn't a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.
Fun story, he was killed with a bomb which caused the car he was in to fly so far into the air that he's often referred to as Spain's first astronaut.
It's worth reading the whole account if how the bombing was executed, FWIW
In other news, here in Spain that joke is old enough to not make anyone laugh any more ...
By that time there was a lot brewing in Spain for quite a long time, but it might have helped to reduce the opposition to successor's reforms. We will never know for sure, of course
I am strongly anti assassination, but if not for the assassination of William McKinley we probably would never have got Teddy Roosevelt, who was instrumental in busting the trusts and restoring balance to the economy.