"interesting new phenomenon"
I would argue, directly targeting the leaders of another state is a "interesting new phenomenon".
Sleepwalking into a dystopia that would had made Aldous Huxley and George Orwell to blush falls into the interesting arena.
This has happened for thousands of years.
Yes, but I am currently not aware of any pre WW2 events.
Typo (not "pre"-> "after"). I am not aware of any case where a nation state openly assasinated the leader of another state in the more recent human affairs till WW2. I know of the attempts towards Castro, but apart from that?
The Ryan Doctrine.
We can talk about Hulk Hogan's death for 100 comments but not this?
We allow death threads for all kinds of celebrities and people with no relationship to tech. Out of all of the guidelines, this one is probably the most often quoted and the least consistently followed.
Re:Khamenei Dead
by on_the_train on Saturday February 28, 2026 @04:26PM
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Yeah NOW it's suddenly about the guidelines lmao
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.