Right it’s more that it’s odd that there’s all these assassinations of conservatives (UnitedHealthCare etc). And previously there were many assassinations of progressives. I think it’s just the leaders in a dominant part of a force in society become casualties. Loss of life is always tragic even if we disagree with everything they stand for. But anyway the historical part (if that is what is happening - hard to tease out if there’s just more gun violence in general) helps me make sense of it. The dominant wave has breaks or we see them more somehow.

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solid_fuel 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's not like the assassinations of progressives ever stopped - the Hoffmans were killed literally a few months ago. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_le...

	▲	tomjakubowski 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's the Hortmans who were killed, the Hoffmans survived their attack. It's easy to confuse them because the assassin was working his way through an alphabetized list of democratic politicians.

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dinkumthinkum 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	NickC25 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> Gabby Giffords assailant was pretty insane but reports from people that knew him claimed he was liberal Unmasking myself a bit here but one of my college roommates at University of Arizona also attended classes with Jared at Pima Community College. Jared liked to burn flags, collect guns, and think the world was conspiring against him. The dude was insane (see his mughsot), not liberal.