• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    22 days ago

    No, this belongs more to a collapse or civil war thread than it does here.

    This is not an endorsement, this is observation of basic, predictable human behavior. The working class is squeezed financially to the nth degree. There IS a breaking point. That sense of impending “something” many people have been feeling since well before the election has not gone away, and the squeeze is a source.

    And here it is. What is probably the first shot fired on someone in charge of that ongoing financial hardship, that squeeze.

    The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.

    This is a domino.

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          22 days ago

          Considering the Archduke was the heir of the austro-hungarian throne and the HRE having been defunct for over 100 years, this is basically on the level of someone assassinating the VP

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            22 days ago

            Lol I wasn’t trying to elevate him but say that he was no more than an oligarch (CEO) today. Didn’t realize he was the heir to the successor state, just being silly… Guess I was wrong!

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        21 days ago

        People should quit while ahead and stop looking up to wealth and titles if they don’t want to run into a Gavrilo Princip

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      22 days ago

      The scariest thing here is that there’s social contagion to these behaviors, especially those squeezed hard enough they feel they’ve little to nothing left to lose.

      This is a domino.

      Here’s hoping. We’re WAY overdue for guillotine day.

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      21 days ago

      Yea the tariffs will probably be seen as some sort of breaking point together with this some years from now.