“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln
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I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.

Oct 13, 2020 · 6:41 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Your point was...is...valid: Lincoln has one of the seven largest, constructed monuments in the US. His assassin does not.
Replying to @marwilliamson
#1 I have no idea how you could come up with an argument that supports/proves this #2 you are comparing change created by voting which encompasses a lot of events to a single death so the comparison is inherently uneven
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He stopped slavery with a civil war, not an election.
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The assassinations of MLK, RFK, JFK, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, etc. got an entire generations to give up on change and sell out instead.
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Funny how assassinations often have the side effect of suppressing social movements 🤔
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The "Rather - Fake but Accurate" defense.
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but he was wrong about this, why else would the usa wage wars of empire instead of just interfering with elections all over the world?
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When have White Americans in your White American history ever voted to give others the rights you've always had?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Gavrilo Princip would like a word