Comment on How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it?

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AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

In the end, all you do is make them a martyr and propel us faster into war.

I think the lesson they learned from the martyrs they created in the 60s (King, the Kennedys) is that it’s much easier and just as effective to assassinate character. And it’s mostly legal.

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