I'm honestly worried about tonight. Saturday night, plenty of places where people gather, and a lot of extremists are just waiting for a moment for escalation that they can exploit.

Attempting to take the life of the party leader during an election is going to push some people over the edge.

I honestly give it a 50% chance that there's some sort of mass casualty event in the next 12 hours related to this. I fucking hope I'm wrong, or that the odds are somehow in our favor, but I've run out of optimism.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 35 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm far less concerned about emboldened supporters than I am about the likely backlash by the state. Events like this are always taken as justification for more harsh oppression of the people. Also, Biden now has to make statements sympathetic to Trump. This couldn't have gone worse - we get the blowback from an attempt, and he's able to ride this to more popularity.

Assassination isn't the way, folks. I know you're hurting, I know you're disempowered by the electoral system, but Trump and Biden aren't the core of the problem. You can't cut the head off because it's not a snake, it's a hydra. The way to beat this system is to build alternatives and wean people off of their dependence on it, and deprive it of victims. You have to starve the beast.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden doesn't have to do shit. He can just ignore it all together.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

He's already made those statements and his campaign has ceased all outgoing communications. He doesn't have to, but he's a liberal, so he's not going to let an opportunity to lose pass him by.

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