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struggle4progress

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7. Maybe pollsters should ask Americans who they most want to see assassinated.

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2026, 08:19 PM

Yesterday

Do we want to take out guys (like Kim Jong Un) who hang big banners of themselves on public buildings? There are so many possibilities! Do we want to go after regimes that attack protestors? Maybe we should assassinate rich kleptocrats who coddle pedophiles? How about folk who build and run concentration camps for profit?

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Trump 'could kill Ayatollah's son and senior mullahs to topple Iranian regime' [View all] Swede Yesterday OP

It's a WTF kind of day. yellow dahlia Yesterday #1

Yep. Do these whiz kids ever consider conseqeneces? Attilatheblond Yesterday #2

Seriously - they aren't even playing tiddly winks, never mind three dimensional chess. yellow dahlia Yesterday #4

I'd call it flinging shit all around the sandbox... ananda Yesterday #6

Right. The Tech billionaires are ready to swoop in and claim their Dark Enlightenment yellow dahlia Yesterday #9

It's interesting to imagine them taking over an obliterated mess. ananda Yesterday #10

They want the mess. yellow dahlia Yesterday #11

Can you imagine living in an obliterated world... ananda Yesterday #12

Indeed. We are in a place too familiar to the futuristic dystopian scenarios of fiction. yellow dahlia Yesterday #13

I just saw a clip of Barbara Jordan in the Watergate hearing... ananda 23 hrs ago #14

Indeed. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #15

Might open up a decade of terrorism aimed against US interests globally... not good WarGamer Yesterday #3

Have any of the dumbfucks in the DOD or State Dept been told that that action will not RockRaven Yesterday #5

If they don't also kill hundreds of the top IRGC members as well Arazi 21 hrs ago #16

Maybe pollsters should ask Americans who they most want to see assassinated. struggle4progress Yesterday #7

I don't take seriously anything the Telegraph writes. Mosby Yesterday #8