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JohnSJ

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1. This is not comparable to the Reichstag fire. What it is comparable to is Luigi Mangione who murdered

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 22, 2025, 02:37 AM

May 22

Brian Thompson.

Both Luigi and Rodriguez are sick SOBs with some deranged illusion of grandeur or martyr complex.

Their actions actually have the opposite effect of what they intended.

In other words they are out of their f**king gourd.

Maybe that is what the OP is trying say.

Hell, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was the catalyst that precipitated WWI.

What happened on January 6th demonstrated just how close we came to losing our Democracy, and the stupidity of the American public putting this insurrectionist back into the WH, makes that a real possibility now.

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"Most historians believe that the Reichstag fire ... was probably just set by a dude acting alone ..." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 22 OP

This is not comparable to the Reichstag fire. What it is comparable to is Luigi Mangione who murdered JohnSJ May 22 #1

To answer your question: No. And who is this "we" you include yourself in?. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz May 22 #2