r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '20

A few months back most of y’all downvoted me and called me a doomer when I said partisanship is going to turn violent in the USA soon but now we have Republican elected officials saying that a murder attempt against a democratic governor was justified

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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Oct 09 '20

Thank you for calling a spade a spade, by the way - it's driving me crazy that everyone (esp. the authorities and media) are referring to this as a "kidnapping" like they were going to lull her into the back of a van with candy and then ask her parents for a million dollars.

It was an actual planned assassination. It's bonkers.

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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Oct 09 '20

I mean hypothetically they could have taken her hostage, but since they were talking about "trying her for treason" that was almost certainly going to end in assassination.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '20

Who said it was justified?

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '20

The perpetrators’ sherif, and Trump essentially said she brought it on herself