Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence
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Yup. Just waiting for the series premier of “Ow My Balls.” Although it could be argued Jackass got a head start on that a few decades back.
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We all know the facts and any published investigation pointing to the same, but I believe that truth has been so much under fire and the cognitive dissonance so large that we have reached the point where even Ars Technics will get under fire for simply posting a bit of factual information on this topic, just the same way Jimmy Kimmel got canceled "just because".
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Idiocracy seems optimistic; announcing a government crackdown on political opponents using trumped-up [sic] "threats to domestic security" suggests Germany circa 1938 is more likely...
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Who would have thought the side that rely on misinformation and moral panics to instill harmful and unpopular policies to maintain power is more violent?
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No mention of January 6, which was right-wing political violence televised, promoted (by Charlie Kirk too), and then pardoned. The political violence is coming from the top. Every accusation is a confession.
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Of course they're not, but they are based on the fascist playbook. Vilify your opponents and accuse them of the crimes you want to commit (or already have) to confuse the public and invigorate your base. We have seen this song and dance in authoritarian governments time and time again.
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Please don't spear me, but it seems weird to this Canadian that it's gotten to the point down there where there's even debates on which kind of violence is better or worse, and not that there's violence in the first place.
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Remember when that guy in Panama murdered those 2 protestors in cold blood for blocking the road, after their government rammed through some mining deal that was going to decimate an important migratory corridor? You can still go look at the End Wokeness twitter thread where they blamed the victims and posted memes about it. For some reason that's fine, but do the same to their top youth propagandist and they'll plunge us into 1984 at record pace.
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Of course it is
But the left is terrible at articulating that fact and the main stream media gets more clicks from perpetuating any nonsense that comes out of Trumps mouth so they go with what makes them money.
But the left is terrible at articulating that fact and the main stream media gets more clicks from perpetuating any nonsense that comes out of Trumps mouth so they go with what makes them money.
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But he’ll do it anyway because no-one is stopping him.
He just declared Antifa to be a ‘major terrorist organisation’. So get used to even more people being arrested, intimidated and harassed.
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It may not directly pertain to science or tech, but it is absolutely important to get this information out there. America needs to have some real conversations, and Ars is part of that (we all are.)
And besides, the bigger, more generalized news sources are too busy firing people for displeasing the regime.
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Wait, you mean the same subculture that fetishizes guns, is over-represented in the military, and feels left behind by society is the subculture trying to get even? I'm shocked!
The peak of left wing violence was the Black Panther/Weather Underground era; those parts of society are doing much better now. The redneck recession is going to put more people out of work and trump's violent grievance rhetoric is going to inspire them to shoot more Republicans.
The peak of left wing violence was the Black Panther/Weather Underground era; those parts of society are doing much better now. The redneck recession is going to put more people out of work and trump's violent grievance rhetoric is going to inspire them to shoot more Republicans.
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I am also Canadian and this is not shocking in the slightest. If you've been paying attention to US news in the past 20 years you should have seen this coming. And frankly give it a few years and expect to see more of it here at home too.
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The author might need to rewrite that line, "The FBI and DHS aren't supposed to investigate people ..."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow...employee-wouldnt-print-charlie-kir-rcna231860
And a lot more of similar incidents since Trump inauguration.
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The fact that Ars posts truth, is all the indication I need that you guys are worthy of my read. A protest in itself when lies are the norm for media for fear of retaliation.
Thank you to the editorial staff. You are heroes in a time of insanity.
Thank you to the editorial staff. You are heroes in a time of insanity.
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Wayback Machine to the rescue https://web.archive.org/web/20250912005717/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf
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A huge swath of the US will blame literally anything but the guns, including words.
A gun is a mass murder machine. It’s literally insane to treat them as anything other than such.
To take a page from the anti-abortion people, just keep passing laws against gun ownership. Break the culture by making it illegal for minors to use weapons and impose strict penalties on parents who provide any access to firearms.
A gun is a mass murder machine. It’s literally insane to treat them as anything other than such.
To take a page from the anti-abortion people, just keep passing laws against gun ownership. Break the culture by making it illegal for minors to use weapons and impose strict penalties on parents who provide any access to firearms.
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Couple points to make here.
A) The current administration and their party are explicitly trying to paint political violence in the US as an almost exclusively left-wing phenomenon. This is a blatant lie, and needs to be called out.
B) Prioritization is a basic function of triage. This is not a function of "better or worse." If my curtains are slightly on fire, while your house is completely burning down and spreading to the entire neighborhood, who gets the firetruck?
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Since Antifa isn't an actual organized anything, they're basically writing a blank check to treat anyone they deem "Antifa" as extra-judicial.
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Just hypothetically, can anyone think of anything more this administration could have even done to use Charlie Kirks death as an authoritarian power grab?
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Martial law to suppress the protests when Kirk is given national honors? /s
Given that we are not yet at a fully fledged dictatorship (but are fast approaching it), there is still plenty of room for doing more.
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As a STEM major, I make fun of the social sciences, but they are still sciences. Studying human behavior is a science.
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If you RTFA you will notice many references to studies, academics, databases, and similar accoutrements of the scientific endeavor, in this case as applied to the scientific study of violent extremism. Does that clear it up for you?
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No. That is an insult to President Camacho.
Idiocracy had a president who might have been incredibly under-educated or mis-educated, but at the end of the day, still wanted to do good at some level (figure out why all the crops were dying and save people).
Our current president is malicious, vindictive, and spiteful. If he could kill the crops to "own the libs" this administration would make it happen.
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Canceling a TV show because the host said that the current administration is using this assassination for an authoritarian power grab?
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McVeigh's (lack of) party association has nothing on the planet earth to do with anything. His views are what made him right-wing, not his party affiliation. Next you're going to tell me that North Korea is a democracy because their name is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"
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