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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 165 points 3 weeks ago

Don't threaten us with a good time.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 90 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 87 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And just like that, 35% of Americans are now cheering for Iran.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

35? I feel like that's a low ball... though the sad fact is if it happened shit would probably get a lot worse real fast.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's about how I picture America - 35% now love Iran, other 35% are outraged out of their minds and think that Trump should nuke Iran, and the rest think iRan is a fitness app and instantly blocked that source of ads.

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[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I don't normally like seeing violence / gore. It makes me queezy and upset. I don't click on NSFL links ever.

But I would watch this. If the current potus was assassinated by someone (especially a foreign contract for hire), and it was captured on video, I would watch it on repeat, at various speeds, and I would relish in his pain as he capitulates to the cold clutch of death's grip.

I would save the video and revisit it from time to time as a reminder that sometimes people do get what they deserve.

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[–] harcesz@szmer.info 38 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

More like "exciting".

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 33 points 3 weeks ago

We triple dog dare you.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced that the bullet missed at all.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well he was brain dead before the attempt, so it's hard to tell if they missed or not.

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[–] RalfWausE@feddit.org 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would never have thought that I would ever be on the same page with some religious dictator...

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean the iranian one, right?

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[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 12 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of wish they'd take eachother out tbh

[–] Zink@programming.dev 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying "y'all still got any of that 'regime change' we been handing out?"

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there a gofundme that I can donate to to help speed this up?

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

How can we help?

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 3 weeks ago

This time it will not miss the target.

I sure hope not!

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago
[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"chilling"...

I'm tired of the media calling normal human rights heartwarming and news like this "chilling"

An 80 old woman being able to go on retiremen or a child being able to pay for prosthetic limbs because of charity is not heartwarming. These are the real chilling facts.

An action against a President who does not respect international law should be heartwarming although it's drastic

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[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Fingers crossed

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

People forgetting even if Trump will be or had been assassinated, Vance would just take his place and continue the train. Besides, Iran has been claiming they can do this since forever with nothing to show for it.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The hope is Vance doesn’t have the charisma to keep the cult together.

[–] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Neither does Trump. I don't know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from. Republicans fucking love idiots and have been rabidly supporting them for decades now, and they'll blindly follow Vance just like they're blindly following Trump. It could be a sentient mop with a bucket hat, they literally do not care. Trump didn't win the election, project 2025 did.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from.

Charisma isn't a universal thing, it is about appealing to a large chunk of the population but not the population as a while. In this case he has been the face for the fascist MAGA movement for like a decade now with people who constantly ignore how his policies harm them directly and still support him. He has charisma when it comes to hateful morons who want to hear a fat old white dude spout the racist shit in their heads without any kind of moral compass that would lead to being embarrassed.

They won't follow Vance because Vance doesn't have the same belligerent and arrogant delivery despite saying the same hateful stuff because it is clear Vance is a try hard spineless wanna be grifter and not someone who has been an entitled shit their entire lives because they were born into wealth. Vance isn't the strongman that the Republican party has been stoked to follow.

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[–] OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Come you Persian pussies, do it! Trump ain't scared of you!

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We double dog dare you to do it.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

Triple dog 

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bonus points if they get Vance too.

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

Bet you they can't do it.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What about the governments of Iran and the USA start a deathmatch, one versus one, and then they all explode?

I'll chill the champaign!

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well?

Get on with it!

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Chilling? Do you mean arousing?

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

It is chilling; I'd feel much more chill if it happened /j

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Frankly, if I were about to initiate a conflict with the US, I'd rather have Trump running the country, but you do you.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Instead of a bullet make it an ICBM and we are golden! One that could take vance and hegseth out as well.?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

This is the worst fucking soap opera relationship ever

[–] despite_velasquez@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm gonna say something unpopular: canonising your worst enemies as martyrs isn't gonna end well for anyone

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 25 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I really, really hope he dies of natural causes on live TV.

If he's assassinated things are going to get much worse.

[–] TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Wouldn't it be nice to see Trump go down like a sack of potatoes mid self-aggrandizing rant at a press conference or something, and the bonk of his head off the podium to be sampled into a thousand EDM tracks from that moment until the next election?

[–] FelixMortane@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think him falling asleep during some televised brief, at a table with a large group, of people would be better.

Hammer in that point he does nothing of use and would have been literally sitting there dead for 20-minutes before anyone noticed.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

WTF I love Regime change now!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Chilling as in positive

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Oh shit, if this happens, we're about to have an even worse wave of islamaphobia, even worse than the aftermath of 9/11.

It's cooked either way.

Canada, pls save us.

LET ME INNNN!

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[–] jim@lemmy.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

It’s BS cause real killers don’t call in threats

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 3 weeks ago

This will probably be effective on Trump because he's an idiot. Everyone else knows it if you want someone dead you don't tell them about it first.

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