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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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[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 282 points 2 days ago (11 children)

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

A GoFundMe for a political assassination.

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 89 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

Scams all the way down.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 😄

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours 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

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

And you know what, I desperately want my (tax) money to go to supporting them in their disaster.

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