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Afatwa, or religious decree, issued by senior Iranian clerics calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump has attracted online funding worth tens of millions of dollars, reports say.

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[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I dunno, I think the idea of President Vance or President Johnson even don’t really seem like upgrades.

One thing trump is really good at is playing people off each other. The man has a learning disability and is under-educated, but only a fool denies his savvy. He accepted vance knowing he couldn’t hold a coalition of the stupid and greedy, and if trump falls, they all fall to infighting unless there’s a dark horse I’m not seeing.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I cannot decide who I'd want least out of those two. They are both so goddamned weird. That porn pact thing that little johnson has with his son - really weird. And he always comes off as just so creepy and awful.

And "JD" - that asshole sitting there and asking Zelenskyy if he said thank you? "JD" can go fuck himself.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Has there ever been an assassination that was motivated by a public bounty? And did the assassin successfully collect?

[–] tyr0sine@mander.xyz 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I’m not asking whether there have been any previous similar bounties—I’m asking whether any of them were the primary incentive for a successful assassination.

The attempt against Rushdie failed, and the attacker claims to have had religious rather than financial motivations (and doesn’t seem to have planned to escape to collect payment in any case).

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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

I upvoted, but only to raise awareness of this important issue. /s

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 20 points 1 day ago

"So how did you solve world hunger?" "First we had a go fund me to assassinate DT. Met our goal. Then we fulfilled our end of the bargain." "Go on..." "The we defunded ICE, and solved world hunger. 120B goes a long way."

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Ugh, does anyone want to see "JD" "Vance" take that role while the qons make a martyr of this shithead?

Or possibly worse, that little dweeby troll magamike johnson if they were to target "JD", too?

The people behind 2025 will use anyone else as their tool and if Taco were to fatwa'ed, it wouldn't make anything better and would most likely make things much worse.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Rare Iran W.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

almost 400 upvotes

Thank you for your attention on this issue!

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Curb your Enthusiasm did a whole season about this. Should be relatively straightforward for him to get them to call it off as long as he follows their blueprint.

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lol why so little? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up!

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[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

The real money is the dead Nazi you make along the way.

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So like is there a kickstarter or gofundme for this or what…? Asking for a friend.

[–] gidostro@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago

Is there a GiveSendGo / GoFundMe type of place we can donate to? ;)

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There should be a website dedicated to funding murder

Kickthebucketstarter.com

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