Afatwa, or religious decree, issued by senior Iranian clerics calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump has attracted online funding worth tens of millions of dollars, reports say.

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[–] 284 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That’s it. We found the most 21st century thing ever:

A GoFundMe for a political assassination.

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  • [–] 93 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I saw a billboard (in California) for a gofundme for Texas disaster relief. That feels peak 2025 to me.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And those people have been trained to hate California(ns).

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think Maher is right when it come to how people in shithole states are taught to hate California, when the reality is that they are jealous of Cali.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's probably at least partly right, but the most smugly arrogant American that isn't the Mango Mussolini himself is perhaps not the best messenger for a "they hate me 'cause they ain't me" message 😄

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I doubt most of the teabaggers would listen to anything that counters their emotional beliefs. And yeah, Maher comes across as smug - but he's not at all wrong....I mean, it's probably even more true these days since California is the 4th largest economy now.

    The people always bitching about Cali (but most likely have never been) have real "I hate the prom queen and prom king, they are so stuck up!" energy.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6739677/Bill-Maher-makes-fun-Americans-living-red-states-saying-affluent-educated.html

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I seem to recall reading one of the divisive things the cipherpunks on their mailing list discussion was about untraceable digital money (before Bitcoin) and the thought experiment about just this very kind of thing (minus the siren server like GoFundMe, because why would you want that in the mix if you were doing this kind of thing).

    Not that anyone set it up, and the many proposals around digital cash did not really gain traction until 2009 or so...but this was from the 90s.

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