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The list of billionaires spending big in a last-ditch effort to keep Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2025
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In theory, I guess. But when's the last time that sort of thing actually happened in the U.S.? Even perpetrators of "kirkings" of right-wingers are usually either infighting right-wingers themselves, or are just nutjobs with some motive other than politics entirely (e.g. impressing Jodie Foster).
...2 michigan state reps were assassinated in their homes just this year
First of all, it was ~~Massachusetts~~ (edit: damn, I apparently can't tell m-states apart either), not Michigan (although some articles claim he was planning to target some Michigan politicians too).
Second, that's proving my point, not refuting it. The assertion I was challenging was that it was in "our" (i.e. leftist, or at least liberal) repertoire too, but what you cited was the common case of a right-winger targeting progressives, not the other way around.
It was state representative Melissa Hortman who was assassinated and she was from Minnesota not Massachusetts.