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Warpy

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18. Tyrants can and do martyr themselves, but are too cowardly to pull the trigger

Reply to AZ8theist (Reply #16)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 04:29 PM

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and usually have a fanatically loyal bodyguard do it for them, which is why I mentioned the possibility. Most recent case im point: Jim Jones. After he listened to the screams and watched people having seizures before they died, there was no way he was going to drink that shit, nor would he pull the trigger. He had his good buddy shoot him. Adolf Hitler took the same route, too chickenshit to pull the trigger, himself.

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