Homie doesn’t get that the distinction is meaningless, especially when most European countries don’t elect their heads of government to begin with, and America’s elections are pretty much built to favor the right, because they’re never popular enough to win the popular vote
My point here is that the USA is basically a warlord state dressed up in “first-world” clothes. You all seem to take assassinations in stride while being blissfully unaware of how anomalous this is compared to other countries.
It feels like the only parallel left is that soon we’re going to find out Trump University was created because no other school would let him into their art program
He was elected but then abolished elections, so I’m not sure that really counts — the only way to “vote him out” was to kill him. You’re technically right, though.
Can you name a single elected European leader that people tried to assassinate?
Jo Cox? Unless by “leader”, you specifically mean “head of state”.
Hitler.
Homie really forgot about Hitler . . .
Homie knows his history, actually.
How many burgers after yours?
Homie doesn’t get that the distinction is meaningless, especially when most European countries don’t elect their heads of government to begin with, and America’s elections are pretty much built to favor the right, because they’re never popular enough to win the popular vote
My point here is that the USA is basically a warlord state dressed up in “first-world” clothes. You all seem to take assassinations in stride while being blissfully unaware of how anomalous this is compared to other countries.
He was not elected head of state.
I must have missed the ‘elected’ first time I read it, lol
It feels like the only parallel left is that soon we’re going to find out Trump University was created because no other school would let him into their art program
Olof Palme, tried and succeeded… This has JFK-level conspiracy theories flourishing in Sweden
Forget about Mussolini too or . . . ?
He was elected but then abolished elections, so I’m not sure that really counts — the only way to “vote him out” was to kill him. You’re technically right, though.
And of course miss Maggy Thatcher, longest serving in her position too.
Totally forgot about that one, great counterexample!
Geez, why do the worst people survive assassination
Pim Fortuyn ( not an elected leader at that point, but his party won the election in a landslide afterward) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn