[tomder55]

Flashback 1881 the socialist movement 'Narodnaya Volya' People's Will began in 1879 . It was a short lived movement that could be identified as the beginning of the end of tsarist Russia. 1881 there was a notable assassination. Tsar Alexander II was murdered in March . He was attacked with bombs thrown at his carriage in Saint Petersburg. The executive committee of People's Will planned the attack.


Russia has a series of terrorist attacks and assassinations in the prelude to the Russian Revolution Groups like the Socialists Revolutionary party (SR') had a Combat Organization that targeted high-ranking officials, including Ministers of the Interior and Grand Dukes, in an effort to weaken the Tsarist government. They used a variety of methods, including assassinations, bombings, and incendiary attacks.


Then there was the White Terror ;and the Red Terror against and by the Bolsheviks.
Assassination was accepted as a legitimate political tool

Fast forward to last year. There were 2 attempts on the life of Trump. There was the execution style murder of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione. The coward shot him in the back. Mangione has become a hero to the left.

Yesterday the Pennsylvania Governor's mansion was fire bombed while Guv Josh Shapiro and family slept inside. (as of this time no motive has been revealed ) .

Elon Musk revealed that he is the subject of multiple death threats .

Nicholas Roske ,a would be assassin was targeting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh .

'Network Contagion Research Institute '(NCRI) has published a report that should be stunning but in fact doesn't surprise me at all. Joel Finkelstein of NCRI calls it an acceptance of an 'Assassination Culture'.“What was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable,”

4/7/25 - NCRI Assassination Culture Brief - Network Contagion Research Institute

55.2% of lefties said that assassinating Trump was somewhat justified (why not ;wouldn't assassinating Hitler been justified ? ) Almost 50% felt the same about Musk. Targeting Tesla dealers was justified . (58%)

In California a ballot initiative against Health Care companies is called the Luigi Mangione Act.
"Luigi Mangione Act" controversial health care initiative | cbs8.com

The survey says these opinions are mainstream ;a " part of a tightly connected belief system linked to what we call left-wing authoritarianism."

The report singles out BlueSky, a social media platform favored by progressive users, as a major amplifier of extremist ideation.
“BlueSky was modeled as a safe alternative to Twitter for the left, but what it’s become is an extremist platform,” Finkelstein said. “It functions today much like 4chan or Gab once did for far-right ideologies. These platforms are now lead indicators of violent real-world trends.”
According to the NCRI’s open-source analysis, BlueSky saw a spike in engagement on posts referencing Mangione, Trump and Musk, crossing over 200,000 posts and 2 million engagements in just months. Reddit currently hosts pro-Mangione communities with tens of thousands of members.

New study reveals a spread of 'assassination culture' under Trump's rule

But a big hat tip has to go the Dem leaders who frequently suggest that political violence is acceptable .
(I will not post them again as I have already provided a number of examples. )
Did their words set the tone ?

[tomder55]

Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest.
What motivates these attitudes? To answer that, we looked for statistical associations between respondents’ backing for political violence and other psychological and behavioral measures. We identified three key variables that predict support for violence: left-wing authoritarianism (characterized by a willingness to use coercion and punishment for progressive aims), external locus of control (the extent to which individuals feel powerless in their lives), and use of the left-wing social media platform Bluesky.
This finding is especially concerning, as it reveals that many progressives have adopted a coherent ideology that justifies political violence. While right-wing extremism certainly exists, its left-wing equivalent merits considerable attention. Unfortunately, it has been historically understudied and, according to corroborating reports, is on the rise.

Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence

[tomder55]

Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest.
What motivates these attitudes? To answer that, we looked for statistical associations between respondents’ backing for political violence and other psychological and behavioral measures. We identified three key variables that predict support for violence: left-wing authoritarianism (characterized by a willingness to use coercion and punishment for progressive aims), external locus of control (the extent to which individuals feel powerless in their lives), and use of the left-wing social media platform Bluesky.
This finding is especially concerning, as it reveals that many progressives have adopted a coherent ideology that justifies political violence. While right-wing extremism certainly exists, its left-wing equivalent merits considerable attention. Unfortunately, it has been historically understudied and, according to corroborating reports, is on the rise.

Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence


What a surprise . The man who fire bombed the Pennsylvania Guv mansion and attempted to assassinate Guv Shapiro and family is Cody Balmer .

No motive has yet been given for the arson attack on the governor’s Harrisburg home, but a Facebook account believed to be run by Balmer, according to sources, includes a number of radical posts, images of guns and at least one apparent call for violence.

He told police he’d planned to beat Shapiro with a hammer if he encountered him, according to a probable cause affidavit........Balmer also shared multiple left-wing anti-capitalist posts on his Facebook
Cody Balmer, suspected Josh Shapiro arsonist, pictured


Last month a kid in Wisconsin was charged with killing his parents. His motive was to get money to fund an assassination of Trump.

FBI: Waukesha teen killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump

[tomder55]

Balmer called 9-11 after the arson attack and said he did it for what Shapiro wanted to do to the Palestinian people.

Suspected arsonist Cody Balmer targeted Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's home over what pol 'wants to do to Palestinian people'

[tomder55]

The lunatics are celebrating the murder of Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione with a musical. It's debut next month was sold out within hours of the tickets going on sale.

It is a "comedy " that imagines him in the same prison cell as Sam Bankman-Fried and Sean "Diddy" Combs

Our characters reflect three institutions of modern disillusionment: healthcare, tech, and Hollywood. Each represents a pillar of American life where public trust has eroded and where people increasingly feel betrayed, exploited, or abandoned.

Luigi: The Musical

There are already musicals that deal with cold blooded murder I would recommend .


"They all deserve to die" (says Johnny Depp) | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | CLIP

Chicago: Cell Block Tango

[tomder55]

More examples of the assassination culture

1 A man blows up a fertility clinic because no one asked him to be born .
Nihilistic writings of suspect in California fertility clinic bombing being analyzed - POLITICO

This presumably gives him the right to deny the choice to others . The pro-choice movement brought to it's illogical conclusion.

2 . A member of the extreme left murders 2 staffers of the Israeli embassy .




"and do not support it "
But they presumably support 'from the river to the sea ' destruction of the State of Israel.



The left has completely bought into the rhetoric of the Islamic terrorists .

In the first decade of the 21st century, the United States was attacked by jihadists who drew the country into a yearslong, multifront war. At the start of the third decade, we were attacked in a far different fashion, from within. Left-wing radicals embarked on a violent campaign to upend the cultural and political order of the nation. Both attacks changed us in significant ways, but neither one broke us. In 2023, seizing on Hamas’s October 7 massacre of Israelis, the jihadists and the left-wing radicals explicitly joined forces.
The Woke Jihad – Commentary Magazine

On college campuses and the streets of urban America around the nation they chant to globalize the intifada.
Hundreds Storm New York Museum; 'Intifada' Chants Raised Protesting Against Israel | Watch

But no police force, not even the best in the world, can hold back a culture that has embraced violence as a means of expression, that has lost hold of the difference between life and death.
Bari Weiss: Welcome to the Global Intifada - by Bari Weiss

[tomder55]

NY Slimes doing it's thing . Shooter shouted 'free Palestine' But the Slimes initial news break read

[jlisenbe]

So as it turns out, beliefs really do matter.

[jlisenbe]

Tom, are you still posting here? If not, then do you have a site you post in?

[tomder55]

I am writing a new fiction novel called 'The Shadow Government ' . It is about a President becoming infirmed and incapable of doing the work of the Presidency . So a cabal of staffers essentially run the nation signing the President's name to official legal documents using an autopen. The cabal includes the First Lady and the son of the President along with 3 staffers who worked in the shadows . Have these three no-name employees — have they been operating a shadow government? Have they been privy to classified information? Do they have national security clearance? Have they been ordering the Cabinet secretaries to do various job duties?

The most active time in this President's term was in the last 100 days with a flurry of executive orders that affect the decision making powers of the next President . He also issues 2500 clemency and pardons in his last days in office. Overall there was probably more Presidential activity in his last 100 days than the rest of his Presidency as he spends most of his time sleeping on a beach.

The pardons includes family members who ran a criminal crime organization using his influence as a powerful office holder to accept bribes from various nations both friendly and hostile .

It is so incredibly unbelievably that it has to be a great conspiracy fiction novel.

[jlisenbe]

Strange, but that scenario somehow reminds me of a recent event in history. I just can't quite put my finger on it. It'll come to me sooner or later.