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minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up76arrow-down10·3 个月前 Furthermore, Kirk was an influencer activist, and not an elected official. Exactly. Not an assassination. I hate that people keep calling it that.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 个月前It was a pyrotechnics accident, is all.
minus-squarephx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 个月前I’ve never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is “the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person.” And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.
minus-squareUnderwaterbob@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·3 个月前Doesn’t the act of assassination require that the killer be an assassin? ie someone paid to kill people.
minus-squarexyzzy@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-23 个月前The killer in an assassination is by definition an assassin. An assassin is not always some paid mercenary killer (this is rarely the case). John Wilkes Booth is an easy example. He was an actor.
minus-squareVandals_handle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 个月前As an actor John Wilkes Booth killed it in his last role.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·3 个月前It’s only an assassin when they are from the Hashshashin, otherwise it’s just sparkling murder.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·3 个月前It’s still an assassination. The definition is broad enough to include the killing of any public figure by surprise attack.
minus-squareRivalarrival@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 个月前Looked like an assisted suicide to me.
minus-squarePenguinMage@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 个月前Nah, he tripped and fell into a fast moving object. Absolute tragic happenstance. Could’ve happened to any asshole really.
minus-squareOneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 个月前Yeah, I hear people refer to John Lennon’s killing as an assassination. He wasn’t a politician, just a public figure.
minus-squarePunnyName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 个月前He was more popular than Jesus, so that checks out. I highly doubt Kirk even had a security crew of note. Doesn’t have one now, though! 😂 😂 😂
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up64arrow-down1·3 个月前When a Nazi gets killed it’s called ‘a good job’
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·3 个月前Well, until they’re out of power you should ideally call it nothing at all and deny it ever happened. I walked past the USC campus this morning and saw kirk alive and well. I don’t know what all this hubub is about.
minus-squareTyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 个月前Fascinating. Flip the script for the utter disregard of the truth.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 个月前If you see someone stealing bread–no you didn’t. If you see a dead Nazi–no you didn’t and in fact you met him in public later that evening.
Exactly. Not an assassination. I hate that people keep calling it that.
It was a pyrotechnics accident, is all.
I’ve never heard being elected official as a criteria for the term, the dictionary definition of assassination is
“the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person.”
And there have been plenty of non-electoral assassinations, including those by (or of) mob figures, journalists, and many others.
Doesn’t the act of assassination require that the killer be an assassin? ie someone paid to kill people.
The killer in an assassination is by definition an assassin. An assassin is not always some paid mercenary killer (this is rarely the case).
John Wilkes Booth is an easy example. He was an actor.
As an actor John Wilkes Booth killed it in his last role.
It’s only an assassin when they are from the Hashshashin, otherwise it’s just sparkling murder.
It’s still an assassination. The definition is broad enough to include the killing of any public figure by surprise attack.
Looked like an assisted suicide to me.
Nah, he tripped and fell into a fast moving object. Absolute tragic happenstance. Could’ve happened to any asshole really.
Yeah, I hear people refer to John Lennon’s killing as an assassination. He wasn’t a politician, just a public figure.
He was more popular than Jesus, so that checks out. I highly doubt Kirk even had a security crew of note. Doesn’t have one now, though! 😂 😂 😂
When a Nazi gets killed it’s called ‘a good job’
Well, until they’re out of power you should ideally call it nothing at all and deny it ever happened. I walked past the USC campus this morning and saw kirk alive and well. I don’t know what all this hubub is about.
No no you have to say I’m just saying …
Fascinating. Flip the script for the utter disregard of the truth.
If you see someone stealing bread–no you didn’t.
If you see a dead Nazi–no you didn’t and in fact you met him in public later that evening.