Comment on Do political assassinations generally help or harm the cause of the person that was assassinated?
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
From my limited sample size, they don’t help. But they don’t help the cause of the assassin either.
Paradoxically, the winner seems to be the status quo as society clamps down on the people around the assassin, and mainstreams the victim the grieving process.
Well then, when the assassin is doing so in order to preserve some status quo, they win.
Example: MLK. Killing him did a great job of preventing a very very very charismatic leader from bringing white and black people together against their corporate overlords.
Another example is the infiltration and sabotage of OWS.
Mr_Pap_Shmear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The house always wins