#StochasticTerror

2025-08-11

AP: In CDC attack, man fired 180 shots, breaking 150 windows

"...A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal opened fire late Friday, killing a police officer. No one at CDC was injured.

The shooter was stopped by CDC security guards before driving to a nearby pharmacy and opening fire late Friday afternoon..."

pbs.org/newshour/nation/in-cdc

#cdc #terror #stochasticterror #vaccines

There's a great article up by @cwarzel in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.

ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.

(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)

bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.

#sociopathy #evil #fascism #escalation #asmr #radicalizing #StochasticTerror #StochasticTerrorism #weaponizing #USPolitics #politics

Silkestersilkester
2025-03-11

What the ACLU & Supreme Court got wrong is the deliberate attempt by in Ohio v Brandenburg & related cases: There's a line, that when there's a measurable link of violence against a group of people, whether it's PoCs or election workers in 2020 & the rhetoric of agitators, the buck stops. I agree the bar needs to be high, but Volksverhetzung (= hate speech against groups of people) is a threat to democracy + where the tolerance paradox applies.

2025-02-17

"Grandma, go set fire to a church and I'll give you some Trumpcoins," how could that scheme not work out #stochasticterror

If tfg were serious about declaring a shooting war on Canada, starting with a tariff war is a logical first step to build a pretext to invade. He could twist any tariff retaliation into a victimhood cry of Canada’s “unfairness”, banging drums for mindless followers to escalate. #StochasticTerror

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3tyrck4b52ae5fygjaaksfy/post/3lh5wjkp26k2y

2024-10-04

@davidlnoll and Jon Michaels joined SideBar to discuss their new book Vigilante Nation. The books is an excellent distillation of the movement to use legal and extra-legal vigilantism to enforce right-wing, Christian Nationalist moral codes.

#stochasticterror #ChristianNationalism #uspol #vote #VoteBlue

legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/

2024-09-15

I'm sure there is no correlation whatsoever, but I can't resist pointing out the same day Trump makes his stochastic shout out "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" (Who will rid me of this troublesome popstar?), a potential assassin shows up in his bushes, not in Swift's shrubbery.

#trump #stochasticterror #taylorswift

Joshua HollandJoshuaHolland
2024-09-15

Political scientists had long found that candidates who used explicit racial demagoguery paid a price for it at the polls. Hence the need for coded dog-whistles.

But after Obama's election, they found that that penalty had disappeared.

And here we are.

thenation.com/article/archive/



Schaffner’s research isn’t in conflict with those other studies that found a white backlash against Obama before Trump arrived on the scene; it’s complementary. Schaffner says that before Obama’s election, political scientists believed that “when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them. So the idea was that if politicians wanted to make racial appeals, they had to do it in a subtle, implicit way.” But more recent studies... found that those penalties were no longer showing up.

It appears that both are true: Obama’s election activated white voters’ racial grievances and anxieties about being displaced by other groups. But it was Trump’s nasty rhetoric that gave them permission to say what they might have kept quiet out loud—and in some cases, to act on those feelings.Headlines about how hateful fascist propaganda about pet-eating Haitians is leading to bomb threats and harassment in Springfield, OH.
Joshua HollandJoshuaHolland
2024-09-15

Your occasional reminder that there's a growing life expectancy-gap between red and blue states attributable to the former's conservative environmental, gun, labor, public health and other policies.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

Scott MacFarlane twoot:

"Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) in responding to question from CNN this morning about dog and cat eating in Springfield,  '..If I have to I create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do...'"
Joshua HollandJoshuaHolland
2024-09-12

"The morning after Trump repeated racist claims about Haitians in Springfield, OH, some Haitian families are keeping their children home from school for their safety...

“We’re all victims this morning,” said [one] woman, who moved to Springfield 6 years ago. “They’re attacking us in every way.”

"Tthe woman also said her cars have been vandalized twice in the middle of the night. She woke up one morning to broken windows..."

haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/ha

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2024-06-03
Tyler K. Nothingtylerknowsnothing
2024-03-30

The more desperate the man child Trump gets, the more violent his rhetoric gets. There are so many things he's said and shared, or "Truthed", that crosses every single moral line ever drawn, I don't know where to put this one. salon.com/2024/03/29/shares-vi

Joshua HollandJoshuaHolland
2024-02-19

So fucking typical.

"That man is not the shooter, not a suspect, nor an undocumented immigrant"

rawstory.com/chiefs-fan-falsel

Joshua HollandJoshuaHolland
2024-02-07

Nothing could have been easier to predict. The right’s bee engaging in such obvious .

“A Tennessee man, galvanized by anti-immigrant rhetoric about an “invasion,” plotted to launch an attack on migrants and federal law enforcement at the southern border using explosives and sniper rifles, according to the FBI.”

vice.com/en/article/dy3j5w/ten

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