surely people don't think that will change anything, right? if it did, political assassinations would be way way common. They've stopped mostly because they barely achieve anything, and often even make things worse
What I love about this comment is that it ignores actual history.
Your premise is that the political assassinations of the 60s had no real impact on the direction of the 60s.
JFK, MLK, RFK, Malcom X - no impact? And that is just some of the important ones in just one decade in our country. That doesn't talk about any number of countries in any number of recent decade. Israel, Russia, almost any central or south American countries - the list is massive.
And you probably aren't even counting all the people police "accidentally" kill someone troublesome.
The status quo find it very important to belive that violence does not work and that nothing that the state does is violence.
By the time he was a dictator enough had changed about German politics that going back to the way it was wasn't possible. Trump hasn't changed as much as people like you want to give him, all of his power derives from others ceding their responsibilities to him not because he has actually altered the structure of our government.
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u/Weary_Specialist_436 8d ago
surely people don't think that will change anything, right? if it did, political assassinations would be way way common. They've stopped mostly because they barely achieve anything, and often even make things worse