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minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up80arrow-down10·3 months ago Furthermore, Kirk was an influencer activist, and not an elected official. Exactly. Not an assassination. I hate that people keep calling it that.
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up66arrow-down1·3 months agoWhen a Nazi gets killed it’s called ‘a good job’
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 months agoWell, until they’re out of power you should ideally call it nothing at all and deny it ever happened. I walked past the USC campus this morning and saw kirk alive and well. I don’t know what all this hubub is about.
minus-squareTyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoFascinating. Flip the script for the utter disregard of the truth.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoIf you see someone stealing bread–no you didn’t. If you see a dead Nazi–no you didn’t and in fact you met him in public later that evening.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoNo no you have to say I’m just saying …
minus-squarephx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 months agoI’ve never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is “the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person.” And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.
minus-squareUnderwaterbob@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 months agoDoesn’t the act of assassination require that the killer be an assassin? ie someone paid to kill people.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·3 months agoIt’s only an assassin when they are from the Hashshashin, otherwise it’s just sparkling murder.
minus-squareVandals_handle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAs an actor John Wilkes Booth killed it in his last role.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·3 months agoIt’s still an assassination. The definition is broad enough to include the killing of any public figure by surprise attack.
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoYeah, I hear people refer to John Lennon’s killing as an assassination. He wasn’t a politician, just a public figure.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoHe was more popular than Jesus, so that checks out. I highly doubt Kirk even had a security crew of note. Doesn’t have one now, though! 😂 😂 😂
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoLooked like an assisted suicide to me.
minus-squarePenguinMage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoNah, he tripped and fell into a fast moving object. Absolute tragic happenstance. Could’ve happened to any asshole really.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoIt was a pyrotechnics accident, is all.
Exactly. Not an assassination. I hate that people keep calling it that.
When a Nazi gets killed it’s called ‘a good job’
Well, until they’re out of power you should ideally call it nothing at all and deny it ever happened. I walked past the USC campus this morning and saw kirk alive and well. I don’t know what all this hubub is about.
Fascinating. Flip the script for the utter disregard of the truth.
If you see someone stealing bread–no you didn’t.
If you see a dead Nazi–no you didn’t and in fact you met him in public later that evening.
No no you have to say I’m just saying …
I’ve never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is
“the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person.”
And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.
Doesn’t the act of assassination require that the killer be an assassin? ie someone paid to kill people.
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It’s only an assassin when they are from the Hashshashin, otherwise it’s just sparkling murder.
As an actor John Wilkes Booth killed it in his last role.
It’s still an assassination. The definition is broad enough to include the killing of any public figure by surprise attack.
Yeah, I hear people refer to John Lennon’s killing as an assassination. He wasn’t a politician, just a public figure.
He was more popular than Jesus, so that checks out. I highly doubt Kirk even had a security crew of note. Doesn’t have one now, though! 😂 😂 😂
Looked like an assisted suicide to me.
Nah, he tripped and fell into a fast moving object. Absolute tragic happenstance. Could’ve happened to any asshole really.
It was a pyrotechnics accident, is all.