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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    Oh my. Many would do it for free, but with this much incentive perhaps someone more “skilled” might want to get some skin in the game and expedite results.

    Under other circumstances I’d find this kind of effort deplorable, but oh well. I’ll label it balance/Newton’s 3rd Law and call it a day. When you have these elephants dancing around with billions of lives there tends to be a push back of some kind, sooner or later.

    Even if not now, with this specific effort, someday the bill will have to come due to those involved. Just like Hitler managed to get pretty far in his quest to spread suffering but eventually got his comeuppance. A marathon, not a race, as they say.

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    The problem is that Trump isn’t actually in charge. He’s just the figurehead who holds everyone’s attention.

    You’d have to remove half the supreme court, Congress, the electoral college, and the entire Heritage Foundation if you wanted a chance at fixing the US.

    Trump on his own is a bumbling toddler who couldn’t even make his own executive order to sign. I’d rather see him in a nursing home while the people who put him in power get tried for their crimes.

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    If some Iranians want to hunt down and put an end to some vile child molester’s wretched existence, who am I to stand in their way?

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    I fatwa $50 billion on Putin if the killer sırvives. If he does then I will kill him myself to not pay the price.

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    Is there a donation website or something?

    Just curious. I wouldn’t send money. Thoughts and prayers maybe. No money.

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    Alright, i am a very vocal opponent to Cryptocurrency, but i do see that there might be some cases where they are useful.

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      Kill Hitler fundraisers are unironically one of supposed ancap mechanisms against tyranny.

      I just love how reality keeps proving me right.

      (Would prefer a heaven where it doesn’t, of course)

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    How does a fatwa work? I don’t know much about it. Can anyone collect that bounty or do you, like, need to be Islamic/Iranian?