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Afatwa, or religious decree, issued by senior Iranian clerics calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump has attracted online funding worth tens of millions of dollars, reports say.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago

It'll never succeed and to be honest, killing the Orange Jackass now world be counter productive. He's the head of a cult and one of the most important lessons of Christianity is to never make martyrsb out of cult leaders.

The best thing that could happen is he dies or is otherwise incapacitated by a stroke or heart attack. Then he MAGA will year itself apart trying to consolidate around over if several new leaders who lack the particular kind of charisma Trump possessed. Vance will be a puppet President that will seesaw between whichever faction is ascendant at any particular point, or else stick to one faction that has the most leverage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

Ugh, does anyone want to see "JD" "Vance" take that role while the qons make a martyr of this shithead?

Or possibly worse, that little dweeby troll magamike johnson if they were to target "JD", too?

The people behind 2025 will use anyone else as their tool and if Taco were to fatwa'ed, it wouldn't make anything better and would most likely make things much worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 minutes ago

Hypothetically, if Trump flatlined, Vance would be FAR better. He doesn't command the cult. The cult would finally fracture. Rats would finally speak truth to power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

I dunno, I think the idea of President Vance or President Johnson even don’t really seem like upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Yeah, I cannot decide who I'd want least out of those two. They are both so goddamned weird. That porn pact thing that little johnson has with his son - really weird. And he always comes off as just so creepy and awful.

And "JD" - that asshole sitting there and asking Zelenskyy if he said thank you? "JD" can go fuck himself.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Did you know that it's illegal to say, "I wish someone would kill the president of the united states"?

Im not saying it, im just letting you know that it's illegal. Like a public service announcement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

I see they got my $7

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago

It would be delightfully ironic if they used the crypto that Trump is deregulating.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago

"So how did you solve world hunger?" "First we had a go fund me to assassinate DT. Met our goal. Then we fulfilled our end of the bargain." "Go on..." "The we defunded ICE, and solved world hunger. 120B goes a long way."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What are the stretch goals? I mean, we have a whole slew of shitbags the world would be better off without.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

"The above sum ($40,286, 867) will be received by the people who have committed themselves to any freedman who will carry out the sentence of justice."

($45,286, 867)

"A photo of the deceased will be published."

($50,286, 867)

"A recording of their last words will be published."

($60,286, 867)

"Ol' Pete will get the Russian resignation treatment."

($65,286, 867)

"Marco will get a special tea to drink."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lol why so little? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They should throw at least 100 virgins on top of the payout!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

I'll volunteer my virginity as well!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

So like is there a kickstarter or gofundme for this or what…? Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

That’s it. We found the most 21st century thing ever:

A GoFundMe for a political assassination.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I seem to recall reading one of the divisive things the cipherpunks on their mailing list discussion was about untraceable digital money (before Bitcoin) and the thought experiment about just this very kind of thing (minus the siren server like GoFundMe, because why would you want that in the mix if you were doing this kind of thing).

Not that anyone set it up, and the many proposals around digital cash did not really gain traction until 2009 or so...but this was from the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Things will get wild once someone invents a decentralized assassination market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Plot twist their CIA version is thinking about a coup.. or just as simple a bribe..

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I saw a billboard (in California) for a gofundme for Texas disaster relief. That feels peak 2025 to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

And those people have been trained to hate California(ns).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 35 minutes ago

I think Maher is right when it come to how people in shithole states are taught to hate California, when the reality is that they are jealous of Cali.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 50 minutes ago

And you know what, I desperately want my (tax) money to go to supporting them in their disaster.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago

Scams all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago

I upvoted, but only to raise awareness of this important issue. /s

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Is there a GiveSendGo / GoFundMe type of place we can donate to? ;)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hear Gitmo is nice this time of year

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

I was joking but I will probably see a camp in my lifetime regardless of what I post on lemmy

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