Actually, we do. Mainly overseas, but with enough direct involvement to satisfy the requirements for felony murder convictions in many if not all US states for non-trigger pullers. And what are the killings by militarized police forces of local dissidents- like at Cop City- if not warnings to the rest of us unknown and unwashed to keep our heads down and shut up? Stalin was different, in that he did in people on the inside whom he fancied wanted his position, as opposed to Malcolm X and MLK, who were nowhere near the point of taking power, but constituted a challenge to the powerful. But there is JFK, as well...
We don’t summarily execute our political adversaries, unlike Stalin. I think you left that part out in your comparison.
Actually, we do. Mainly overseas, but with enough direct involvement to satisfy the requirements for felony murder convictions in many if not all US states for non-trigger pullers. And what are the killings by militarized police forces of local dissidents- like at Cop City- if not warnings to the rest of us unknown and unwashed to keep our heads down and shut up? Stalin was different, in that he did in people on the inside whom he fancied wanted his position, as opposed to Malcolm X and MLK, who were nowhere near the point of taking power, but constituted a challenge to the powerful. But there is JFK, as well...
Ah, you subscribe to the lone gunman conspiracy theory.
Oh, well that makes it okay then!