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This is a fucking wild comment. I couldn't have imagined this being the discourse we have as politically acceptable on either side. We are low-key driving off the cliff and going into civil war territory and I'm seeing it everywhere.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
If you have a problem with this situation--and you should--then your argument is with the GOP and their reckless sword waving.
Do you really think I was serious when I suggested that Joe Biden go kill Trump? What's he going to do, talk him to death?
Don't know but I can't recall a time where I was commenting online that I wanted someone to be assassinated. It's just weird to joke about but it's just so common now.
Then you don't remember the Obama years very well.
Also, maybe if Trump's lawyers didn't say a president could assassinate people, I wouldn't have joked about it.
That's a poor reason to excuse joking about killing someone but it's so common now your excused I guess.
A political party's front-runner's lawyers are discussing the legality of a sitting president killing dissenters on US soil.
This is a perfectly fucking valid reason to make that joke.
Get over yourself.
Oh for god's sake, lighten up. People have told dark jokes for literally centuries.
I cannot imagine clutching pearls this hard over a joke about assassinating somebody who themselves is responsible for thousands or more deaths. The lives of killers are so precious they're above even jokes.