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Right Wing Terrorism
Right wing terrorism has been on the rise for a while now and it's only going to accelerate with the Republican politicians and propaganda outlets encouragement of such violent actions from their base.
This thread is to catalog and discuss these incidents. To start us off we have a terrorist action against the FBI. Suspect Threatens FBI In Cincinnati, Trades Gunfire With Police https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shots...a517ef67b65?wt
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Yeah but Antifa knocked over a trashcan once...
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Imagine if we pursued and publicized these incidents as much as we do foreign terrorists who threaten Americans.
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The first one is really really bad.
The death threats thing just seems like what happens to every public figure. it is depressing, but maybe not predictive? |
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Ever since the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, I have seen a series of nasty messages stating things like:
Abolish the FBI. Get your guns ready. Death to Biden. We are in a police state and we must fight the police state. And so on. I expect that most of this nonsense is just nonsense. However, I also expect that there will be at least a few nut-jobs who will take these screeds seriously, and as such, they will try to do and/or actually do some really horrible things. |
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Maybe I don't? Maybe I take these more seriously than others?
I think there is a very interesting sociology and criminology question here. As preludes to actual violence, it seems most death threats are empty. It is sadly very cheap to scare someone with a death threat. So how should a system process these threats? I have no idea |
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The guy who tried to shoot up the FBI office is another right-wing crazy. He was calling for war on the internet because they couldn't let the raid stand.
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FWIW, the same voices that were making noise yesterday about "the civil war has begun" and publishing the home addresses of the warrant-signing judge and their family members and the like, today are calling this attack on an FBI office a "false flag by the FBI".
It is amusing how quickly MAGA-types leap to explicitly advocating for murder and violence against elected officials, law enforcement, judges, etc and yet whenever someone follows through on those words the crowd's first instinct is to distance itself from the very actions they agitate for, usually by proclaiming themselves spineless. "It couldn't have been us, we only talk the talk, we would never walk the walk." |
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Back on topic... FBI put an end to the Cincinnati standoff.
Reuters: Police shoot dead armed man who tried to breach Ohio FBI building. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...ng-2022-08-11/ |
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It's messed up that I laughed at this tweet but it does really illustrate the derangement inherent to right-wing politics today.
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It is unfortunate that for the shooting of a right wing terrorist I have to rely so much on a briefing by cops for details. Because one place with a lot of lies is a briefing by cops following a police shooting.
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Even so. If you go back to 2012, claim to be from the future, and start reading headlines from now you'd look ten kinds of insane.
Here's a thought experiment: You can pick any year in US history where you can tell people actual news stories from ten years in the future. Is there a weirder date to do it than ten years ago today, and how long has that been true? Maybe that should be a thread. I dunno. If someone wants to start one feel free... |
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Liberals really need to be armed cause when the **** hits the fan and armed MAGA outnumber us 50 to 1, we're gonna be really sad.
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Listen we need to have a real talk here. If it comes down to it, we're screwed.
Listen I love and adore my liberal friends. They are kind and wonderful and smart and caring and the world is a better place for them being in it. What they are NOT is scary or threatening or tough. Nobody is scared of people who posts memes about how they can't order their own pizza because of anxiety. At least the Right can still fire a gun from their mobility scooters. |
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