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James Debord@jamesdebord.bsky.social |
This isn't a helpful statistic. No president has even been the target of a serious assassination attempt in 43 years. No one has been murdered in 60 years -- because security has gotten much better. Not saying it couldn't happen, only that these numbers are deceptive.
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Sara Manns
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this is unhingedly wrong 1) drones (security is better, emergency medicine is better, robots that lower the skills required? also better) 2) the political payoff for putting Johnson in the WH is what changes the odds of attempts 3) read up on white supremacists' organizing online & give it thought
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Josh Chafetz
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It's also the case that, as the parties have become more internally cohesive, the payoff to assassination has declined. For most part, no chance in recent years of a Lincoln-->Johnson shift or a Garfield-->Arthur. But the possibility of a Harris-->Johnson shift ...
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