Without exaggeration, doing this now (depending on the person) would risk life imprisonment for bioweaponry terrorism, or just getting shot
Because we stopped doing shit like this and gave in to bullshit civility politics. That shit only benefits the fascists.
Because we stopped doing shit like this
Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.
Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials
This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.
But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.
Great research and insight thank you
Bruh I’m just talking about throwing pies in assholes’ faces I don’t need all this jeez louise
Easily get shot these days. Most of the big names are surrounded by exSF who are carrying far more firepower in their briefcases than any one of us can ever purchase.
Most of the time they are even carrying firearms that are illegal or never properly gone through NFA. A few rappers and their bodyguard occasionally get a weapons charge but you never see Musks or Fuckerberg get in trouble.
Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.
These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.
Yup.
What changed is not the risk, just how we perceive it. Not long ago living under fascism was literally considered a fate worse than death
I mean, there are face tracking cameras everywhere and everyone has a camera in their pocket. Being anonymous is very difficult
Granted, but people were also just less afraid of putting their face to their actions and being “hunted” by the enemy
Ooh did you say this is how to get… Into a tickle fight?
Is that because modern food is so unhealthy?
I hope that girl gets free drinks in whichever pub she sets foot in.
Glorious 🤌
You do something like that today they’ll try to put you away for 30 years on terrorism charges.
Someone chucked a milkshake at Nigel Farage a couple of years ago and got a 13-week suspended jail sentence for assault. Along with endless pearl-clutching from the right and Farage talking about how distressed he was.
Which is funny when you compared it to back in the 90s when someone threw an egg at John Prescott and he immediately punched them in the face lol.
Fucking Andy Ngo and his milkshake whining. “It had concrete in it!” No it didn’t, what would that even do? It was liquid. You’re just a baby.
I would but I do not enjoy being shot
Honestly it’s only bad once the shock were off and you don’t have more pain meds because insurance denied you getting more. Being stabbed is worse, unless it hits something major enough to cause shock in the first place. Then insurance will only approve mild localized anesthesia to fix it and ibuprofen but as long as you don’t have to move, breath, or otherwise exist as a person, you’re good!
Guess which country I’m from…
Cops and secret service don’t just shoot you once in the leg dude, they unload the clip center mass until you’re dead
(it’s a mostly joking comment, don’t take it so seriously)
You’d get charged with terrorism now. Might as well go full Luigi.
Funny story, here in Sweden, our speaker of the parliament was visiting a school to speak. Someone threw a “banana or part of a banana”. Bodyguards “aprehended” the boy until police arrived and the boy was interrogated at the police station.
The speaker then started a criminal suit against the boy (who was 16) with the charge of disorderly conduct. The damage was noted as, “a stained shirt”.
According to the speaker, incidents like this could cause politicians to not want to speak at schools (oh no… how will the children cope?)
Anyway, people are calling him out as the clown he is. And i’d be very surprised if he gets to keep his post after our election (regardless of who wins)
Wait, whoa stop. Politicians are held to account in your country?! What sort of magical utopia is this?
Shoes.
George W. Bush knew how to dodge a shoe.
" 👉 hehe almost got me"
Thank you for the reminder and the laugh. I had totally forgotten about that
Sadly, the most prolific pie thrower recently died. He was an amazing iconoclast.
Man, why are all the GOOD 80 year olds dying while the worst 80 year old gets to keep ruining the world?
I prefer bringing a guillotine to the meeting, like what happened in Salem during a council meeting with a data center CEO. Or Luigi style pie throwing, with bullets.
It’s milkshake in the UK. Search for images of Farage milkshake.
That sounds like a risky click.
We’d probably have a better chance of getting away with it in groups of 1,000+ gathered around/transporting guillotines.
What? I’m just tossing out hypothetical ideas here. *winkTo everyone in this thread saying “I’d never do that, I don’t want to get shot”
A local politicial got egged recently and when i saw someone about it he claimed it was a violent assault lol
Sorry, Luigi raised the bar.
Remember when we used to hang or behead powerful people we didn’t like? Yeah, that wasn’t just one time in France either.
