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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Feel free to explain how this was an assassination and not a murder

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure assassin roughly means person who you hire to kill people.

The difference is effectively one of motive and contract.

If I'm personally wronged by the victim and I personally plan to kill them myself, that's first degree murder.

If I don't leave the house intending to kill someone, but end up in a fight or situation where I end up intending to cause harm to someone (even if it's protecting myself), and end up killing someone, that's generally second degree murder.

Now if I'm wronged by someone, plan to have them killed, but don't want to do it myself, so I set up a contract with a hit man and pay money to have a target killed. That's assassination.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's an assassination because the dead person had way more social|political|economic power than the killer.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's an assassination because the dead person had way more social|political|economic power than the killer.

So... only bad power seeking people that cross those they have tangible power over to the point of vengeance.

Fuck, in this hellscape of corruption and captured governments world? I'm sold. You should sell the concept of assassination more often. You're good.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure why the downvotes on my previous comment. "Assassination" is the "privilege" of the powerful.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Assassinations are typically politically motivated. We don't know what his motivation was yet, so calling it an assassination is jumping to conclusions.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure why the downvotes on my previous comment.

Because apparently noting what makes this killing different from others means you love slobbing on CEO knob, or something. That's my takeaway from this thread so far.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You seem to be under a false belief of what defined an assassination. Is it an assassination every time a poor person kills a rich person?