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This guy is just walking around public spaces still people. A drone with some thermite taped to it would probably do it ffs.
I am sure that then everything will get better and the huge cabal of politicians and billionaires will just forget about what they were doing.
Jesus Christ I am so tired of liberals online who are in complete denial of how dire this situation really is. There is no fucking cabal of politicians and billionaires, there doesn't need to be, because this is a capitalist system that operates in the interest of, go figure, capital. It isn't a fucking secret society of exceptionally corrupt individuals pushing fascism, they don't have mind control powers or actual infinite resources to facilitate their nefarious schemes. This system is built to their interest.
Donald Trump's death does not need to undo a system to still have value. His personality is extremely effective at absorbing the middle class, white, liberal imagination of the violence this system must inflict to survive. So far, he hasn't even done anything that exceptional relative to hundreds of years of US imperialism. Except, because liberals, like you, are primed to think of this system as perfect bar the few nasty bad actors, they are satisfied with his exceptionally loud delivery of this violence as an explanation for why the violence is happening. Even if it's just for justice for those his administration is responsible for killing and harming, it would be valuable.
Like, what the fuck else is going to convince you people that violence is going to be necessary? Sorry that it's scary, but smug denial of this reality is a very short term solution.
I agree with you 100%. Violence will be necessary. Eery day it's getting harder to control my anger and not just lash out at some Trump supporters near me, there are a bunch. It's just I have a wife and daughter and I would very much like to walk my daughter down the aisle ten-15 years from now. I love seeing her grow up.
So I feel helpless. Things for me will have to much worse that I know it will endanger my daughter's future before I'll probably act.