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Bloomberg Opinion writer. Elected "top neoliberal shill" of 2018. Occasionally posts anime gifs.

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    1. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      3/In the 1920s and 1930s, a wave of assassinations of major political figures destabilized Japan and eventually led to the military taking over the country. http://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/cha3/description10.html … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osachi_Hamaguchi … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_by_assassination …

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    2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      4/Fringe groups like the Proud Boys are openly paying homage to Japanese assassins, showing that I'm not the only one who sees a parallel:http://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/10/inside-the-proud-boy-event-that-sparked-violence-outside-of-uptown-gop-club/ …

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    3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      5/Assassinations, of course, are in addition to politically flavored mass shooting incidents. Since 2015 we've had: Dylann Roof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting … Omar Mateen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_nightclub_shooting … Micah Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers … Farook and Malik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack …

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    4. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      6/The Portland Train Attack of 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Portland_train_attack …

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    5. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      7/Lane Maurice Davis:https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi …

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    6. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      8/William Atchison:http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/aztec-school-shooter-had-swastika-marking-on-his-leg/article_bc357e74-805f-505f-ada0-be4d808a71e0.html …

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    7. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      9/This guy:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/her-son-facing-murder-charges-is-being-called-an-alt-right-killer-this-mother-blames-herself/2018/03/26/6e4326c4-02a9-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.39e7b91f8346 …

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    8. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      10/Of course, it's hard to tell how many of these incidents are actually politically motivated, and how many are just nutjobs who use politics as an excuse to kill people. If you're going to shoot up a nightclub and kill yourself, why not say it's for ISIS? Etc.

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    9. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      11/But on the other hand, there's the possibility that nationwide political hysteria and unrest actually stirs up the passions of nutjobs, making them more likely to kill. Mass shooting deaths are up!https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-matter-how-you-measure-them-mass-shooting-deaths-are-up/ …

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    10. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      12/Does a national mood of stress and fear and bad feelings and apocalyptic rhetoric contribute to stuff like the Las Vegas shooting that injured nearly a thousand people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting …

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      Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

      13/I feel like this is how Cold Civil Wars are fought. Extremists rile everyone up, hoping that a lone nutjob will take the hint and go wreak some havoc. Lone wolf proxy wars.

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        2. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

          14/Each act of political or possibly-political violence stirs the other side to greater hysteria. That hysteria percolates into the minds of unstable individuals watching through their computer screens. Eventually enough hysteria prompts them to grab a gun or bomb and attack.

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        3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25

          15/Thus, the cycle of assassination/terrorism and hysteria continues until...what? How do Cold Civil Wars end? (end)

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        2. 𝕂𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕝 ℍ 𝔹lack Frida𝕪‏ @kabulykos Oct 25
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          Didn't Islamic State pioneer this approach? The ironies.

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        3. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25
          Replying to @kabulykos

          I think the French got to it long before them...

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        4. 𝕂𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕝 ℍ 𝔹lack Frida𝕪‏ @kabulykos Oct 25
          Replying to @Noahpinion

          Reign of Terror? I thought that was a bit more, em, hands-on. "Lone wolf guillotine" is a great mental image btw.

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        5. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25
          Replying to @kabulykos

          How about this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaur%C3%A8s#Assassination …

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        6. 𝕂𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕝 ℍ 𝔹lack Frida𝕪‏ @kabulykos Oct 25
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          Well damn. Love that the perp's name was Villain. Learned something today!

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        7. Noah Smith‏Verified account @Noahpinion Oct 25
          Replying to @kabulykos

          And this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat#Death …

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        8. 𝕂𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕝 ℍ 𝔹lack Frida𝕪‏ @kabulykos Oct 25
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          My head is spinning that the closest analog to the Revolutionary Tribunal in this case is I guess the Muller investigation

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        1. Lawrence Wang‏ @levity Oct 26
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          "Open source insurgency" is what @johnrobb calls it

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        1. Maggie 💕Dean‏ @ahhmaggieno Oct 25
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          damn

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        1. The World Watch‏ @TheWorldWatch Oct 25
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          The saddest thing is that no one in the establishment is taking responsibility. They’ve only talked about non-violence on the whole or blamed others. They’re never part of that.

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