Pretty insane and scary that two British MPs have been murdered in five years...https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58930593 …
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2/ I am going to expose myself as embarrassingly ignorant about U.S. history with this question, but is this correct, that the last sitting U.S. MoC killed on American soil was RFK???https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress_members_killed_or_wounded_in_office …
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3/ My hottest hot take for a long time has been that the U.S. has approximately zero political violence by world-historical standards and I actually still believe that
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There were something like 2,500 domestic bombings in the US 1970-71. The Nixon era was a fairly intense period from the point of view of political violence that seems to be culturally mostly forgotten.
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