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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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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15/Thus, the cycle of assassination/terrorism and hysteria continues until...what? How do Cold Civil Wars end? (end)
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Didn't Islamic State pioneer this approach? The ironies.
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I think the French got to it long before them...
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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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Well damn. Love that the perp's name was Villain. Learned something today!
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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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"Open source insurgency" is what
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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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