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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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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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Well the last time America had a cold Civil War...it became a hot one.
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That was not a Cold Civil War, FFS look at the culture/media environment, the maintenance of consensus politics, see EPA, Detente, Watergate, frick they even built a subway for Atlanta. There's a reason people like Biden/Pelosi even Warren tend to harken back to that era.
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