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Good riddance
by brap 7mo ago
Good riddance
- vkou 7mo agoYou shouldn't celebrate the killings of heads of state, that would set a bad precedent.
- ReptileMan 7mo agoQuite the opposite - if they know they are risking their lives they would be more reasonable.
- dotancohen 7mo agoIt's the stated reason why the United States has an impeachment process. So that they have a process for removing undesirable heads of state without resorting to assassination.
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoTrue but other countries don't have an equivalent process.
- gus_massa 7mo agoMost have, but the decition is made by the local politicians instead of foreing nuclear powers. It's actually very similar to the impeachment.
- Ali_ll 7mo ago[flagged]
- cosmicgadget 7mo agoSorry I phrased that poorly. I meant countries have no means to impeach a foreign head of state so impeachment only serves as a power check if the citizenry disapproves. Not that I think heads of state fearing for their lives from airstrikes is necessarily good, being able to act with impunity is certainly bad.
- wqaatwt 7mo agoThe US has a constitution as well? It seems pretty worthless these days since nobody is willing to enforce it..
- TulliusCicero 7mo agoIf more dictators fear for their lives: good.
- oytis 7mo agoHow is it bad? Imagine a world where instead of sending hundreds of thousands young men to die, countries would just launch targeted attacks on the head of enemy's state.
- jiggawatts 7mo agoThe powerful people that set the rules have made it unacceptable to kill powerful people. Powerless people? Into the meat grinder!
- impossiblefork 7mo agoThey're civilians, for one.
- oytis 7mo agoAre they? In most countries the head of the state is also army's commander-in-chief.
- impossiblefork 7mo agoYes, but these are traditionally not treated as actual soldiers, but civilians commanders-in-chief-in-name-only.
- OkayPhysicist 7mo agoOnly because of professional courtesy between powerful assholes. I have far more sympathy for an infantry grunt from literally any country in the world than any head of state.
- hattimaTim 7mo agoWould you say the same if iran killed trump?
- oytis 7mo agoI cannot confirm or deny that I would say the same thing
- kingofmen 7mo agoWe already have a bad president.
- jatari 7mo agoIf he didn't want to be assassinated maybe he shouldn't have killed all those people.