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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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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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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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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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Replying to @Noahpinion
Didn't Islamic State pioneer this approach? The ironies.
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Replying to @kabulykos
I think the French got to it long before them...
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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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Replying to @kabulykos
How about this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Jaur%C3%A8s#Assassination …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Well damn. Love that the perp's name was Villain. Learned something today!
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And this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat#Death …
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Replying to @Noahpinion
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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