I know France popularized the Guillotine, but what was the highest profile case of an American fucking around and finding out?

Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Freid, and Martin Shkreli come to the top of mind. Maybe Bernie Maddoff?

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton was shot and killed in a duel for insulting Vice President at the time, Aaron Burr.

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      24 hours ago

      I don’t think he was that rich… surely there’s richer Americans who opposed even richer Americans and got knocked down, like at least Aaron Swartz. Not that I disagree with them on what led to their deaths. (Also, insult? More like going to great yet civil and pleasantrishly-polite lengths to oppose his campaigns.)

    • Tm12@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      Can we add Kennedy (Vietnam) and Lincoln (Slavery) too? Or were their FO not related to their FA?

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

        We don’t fully understand JFK’s assassin, but it is likely not due to Vietnam as Vietnam wasn’t a major issue at the time of Kennedy’s death.

        Lincoln’s assassination could be seen as a defense of slavery and other Southern “rights”.