In newly released audio, former President Donald Trump said that "it doesn't matter" if a person is the "most horrible human being" because all that matters are ratings.
    • schnokobaerEnglish
      12·
      6 个月前

      I was thinking the same thing, this quote is either 20 years old or fake.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 个月前

      Normally, but malignantly narcissistic behaviour is just about the only subject on which he is a passionate expert.

  • Skates@feddit.nlEnglish
    32·
    6 个月前

    How the shit does someone not just Lee Harvey Oswald this man already? There’ve been better men killed for worse reasons.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      174·
      6 个月前

      It’s mostly right wingers who murder for political reasons. When you know deep down your worldview is a snakepit, that’s when you decide to take the law into your own hands like that.

      • 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guruEnglish
        710·
        6 个月前

        OK so this was Interesting so I dug into it

        John Wilkes Booth was part of the Know Nothing Party a left leaning party

        Lee Harvey Oswald was a socialist which is left leaning

        Both women that shot at Gerald R Ford were part of different left leaning programs

        Actually looks like most of the assissinations are done from left leaning individuals. Not that I’m taking sides on that matter just a cursory Google search

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          6 个月前

          Even if thats the case, it implicitly suggests that leftists go after the powerful while rights go after the people. Their peers

          • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 个月前

            What situation are you thinking of when you think of the right killing their peers for political reasons?

        • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          6 个月前

          [citation needed]

          Considering what these presidents were doing politically when they were assassinated for their politics, this sounds like a mighty convenient narrative for a dogmatically anti-communist state to feed to the populace after the fact.

        • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          6 个月前

          Interesting choices. I think the only valid one there would be the second attempt on Gerald Ford (Sara Jane Moore), who wanted to spark a revolution.

          The first attempt on him was by one of the Mason Family (Lynette Fromme), who were sometimes described as hippies, but were also keen on bringing about a race war.

          John Wilkes Booth seems surprising to call left leaning, as he was pro-confederacy and angry about the abolition of slavery.

          Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet defector, and did indeed call himself a socialist. However there’s the whole probable scenario that he wasn’t actually the shooter and never went on trial.

          To mention other presidential assassinations, there’s Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield, who was a loyal republican, but felt he was personally wronged by the President (as well as mental illness).

          Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley would probably support your hypothesis more than the others, as an anarchist.

          All in all, not really overwhelmingly left leaning.

          • 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guruEnglish
            16·
            6 个月前

            I think your confused. The abolition of slavery was a right wing thing.

            The want to have a slaves was left wing

            • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              6·
              6 个月前

              No. “Republican” does not equal “Right wing”. Maybe in the modern context, but political parties evolve and shift on the left right scale over time. The Republican party was originally established as a less Conservative opposition to the Democrats.

              Besides, the policial party pushing for the thing is surely much less important than the thing itself. The act of enslaving a portion of the population, based entirely on racial divisions, is an extremely right wing position.

                • Guntrigger@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  6 个月前

                  Racism isn’t inherently a political issue and isn’t the whole story of slavery, but is a major factor when talking about enslaving a race. However, its close relationship to other major factors like colonialism, nationalism, supremacism and xenophobia, as well as financial structures allowing such enslavement and ownership, are all found well to the right of the spectrum.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          6 个月前

          I’m not digging it back up but I’ve seen a lot of evidence that is exact opposite to what you’re concluding.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              6 个月前

              I don’t have time. The problem is that academics do not want to be seen as making a political statement so you have to find a particular type of source.

              I’ve definitely seen and fact checked lists of terrorist acts aside their committers’ political leanings. Most of them are right wingers, in the US at least. That’s been true since at least the 80s

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      6 个月前

      If the assassination of Julius Caesar became a model for the effective removal of a tyrant, it was also a powerful reminder that getting rid of a tyrant did not necessarily dispose of tyranny.

      -Dame Mary Beard

    • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 个月前

      21st century custom would seem to suggest a limited yield warhead delivered via FPV drone, whilst another recon drone films both.

      Yes, the required moral barrier warranting it has long been cleared… It was past deserved back in the central park five days.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

      You talk as if being an evil politician is a predictor of being assassinated. That’s 100% the opposite of how that works.

        • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          Yes. It’s the good ones who are assassinated. And no not by Trump. Not by Presidents. By hidden people you haven’t heard of.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    241·
    6 个月前

    Stupid american politicians aside, I hate how this community is just US news nowadays.

    Yeah I know it’s because of the significant inherent overlap, but do we not have some /c/usnews or such?

    • Skates@feddit.nlEnglish
      111·
      6 个月前

      I propose USA National Television & News, or /c/UNTnews for short.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1110·
      6 个月前

      Stupid american politicians aside

      …that’s like 60% of the headlines in the world that fit this community hand waved away… 80% if you only count the ones in English.

      It’s like going to a baker and complaining that there’s too many flour-based products…

    • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      6 个月前

      People liking paying attention to me is more important than anything else in my life

      Like a shitty child, he’s just looking for attention. Good or bad, attention is attention. Bad attention is easier to get so here we are.

  • an_onanist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    6 个月前

    I dislike Trump as much as the next sane, intelligent human, but context matters. The ways specifically talking about going to NBC and running a show. And there, yes, ratings are all that matters.

  • IsaEnglish
    6·
    6 个月前

    He acknowledges then that he is evil!?

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    6 个月前

    Actually what trump said is “You can be nice” because “the only thing that matters is ratings”.

    See? I can do bullshit too.

    • MasterNerd@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 个月前

      Yeah I despise Trump but we don’t need to ignore context to make him look bad. He does that plenty without the quote mining

  • mycathas9lives@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 个月前

    YEAH!!! RUNNING MAN!!! Let’s do this people. It is the logical next step. We have cameras, audience, and contestants. This would be a money maker for advertisers.