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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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      Every time I say this, "both sides" freak out but it doesn't make it any less true: Liberals and leftists who fixate endlessly on an exaggerated threat of "Nazis" are the mirror image of right-wingers who fixate endlessly on the exaggerated threat of "Radical Islamic Terror"

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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      Yeah, I'm aware that one person died in Charlottesville in August 2017. Two months later, eight people died in Manhattan as a result of a "radical Islamic terror" attack. Inflating the threat posed by EITHER phenomenon because it flatters your sense of moral grandiosity is inane

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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      And again, clearly radical Islamism is a serious threat in places like Syria, and the same can be said for Nazis in Ukraine. But what happens in the US, at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety, is that moralizing political actors inflate threats when it suits their agenda

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        2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          What always happens is that the threats are then used as justification for overzealous legislative and law enforcement action, which threatens civil liberties (and more recently gets invoked to censor the internet.) That's the pattern, and I don't care if noting it makes you mad

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          Michael Tracey Retweeted Matt Stoller

          As the cryptographer Bruce Schneier often observes: "The risk of dying in the US from terrorism is substantially less than the risk of drowning in your bathtub, the risk of a home appliance killing you, or the risk of dying in an accident caused by a deer"https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1130100249878499328 …

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          Matt StollerVerified account @matthewstoller
          115 people die a day from opioid overdoses. Whatever you think of claims from the right or left about threats, I see no interest in framing mass murder by the billionaire Sackler family with anywhere near the same heat as either side's political opposition. https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1130096582257512448 …
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        4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          Yet somehow, these relatively minor threats -- because they're salacious and provoke wide-ranging culture war fury -- always seem to attract dramatically greater attention than the threat posed by: the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, corrupt cops, Big Pharma

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        2. Timothy 🕉️Trismegistus Ⓥ‏ @Amor_y_Luz33 May 19
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          But islamic terrorists have done basically the same thing, which is crucial to Michael's point

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        1. Daniel Baryon‏ @apeirophobic May 19
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          And, apparently, contrarians de-emphasize real problems when it suits their agenda, as you have demonstrated here.

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        1. Slava Zilber‏ @v_zilber May 19
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          And the respective threats abroad to present their own intervention as a 'liberation.'https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithslava/elliott-abrams-to-the-rescue-an-interview-with-prof-alfred-de-zayas …

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        1. Big John 23‏ @BigJohn2310 May 19
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          That's fair. I'd still stay that the number of Islamists far far FAR exceeds the number of "nazis". But still, in America we are safe on both fronts.

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        1. Zap Radon‏ @zapradon May 19
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          Here it's Republicans terrorizing voters and women and instituting martial law.

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        1. SereneDeplorable‏ @SereneApathy May 20
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          It's almost as if they are deliberately creating demographics for the purpose of data mining those data...to ultimately provide cherry-picked "demonstrable fact"...just to show data with confirmation bias. It's all an effort to create "unmanipulated" data...you follow?

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        1. Heba Hersi‏ @Hebahersi May 20
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          Lol at “at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety”

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        1. Andy‏ @FrancisTheSailr May 19
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          What if I told you I think terror by both white supremacists and jihadists should be taken seriously?

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        1. PuroresuKid‏ @PuroresuKid May 19
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          PuroresuKid Retweeted Michael Tracey

          More than happy to discuss the actual hard reality of the "Nazis in Ukraine" bullshit that comes from Russian-prop cranks, however, this has been your most accurate take...https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/507246346571898880 …

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          I continue to feel miserably ill-informed about the Russia/Ukraine situation, and thus will continue to refrain from tweeting about it.
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        1. AnCap‏ @AnCapZero May 19
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          Nazism vs Islamism is not remotely comparable as a threat to the west currently. Just like they were not remotely comparable in 1939. The threat then was certainly nazism and communism. The threat today is undoubtedly islamism and communism. To say otherwise is to deny reality.

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        1. SaraTheWeeze‏ @saraismyhandle May 19
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          I’d say 9/11 was not an inflated attack for anyone’s political agenda. The USA is apart of the world and we need to pay attention to all attacks world wide. Even if they are being used as a political push it’s important for everyone to be aware.

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        1. 4xODAL‏ @kishmirintuches May 19
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          Please elaborate re: nazis in Ukraine, please.

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        1. AlexanderChow‏ @AlexanderChow May 19
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          The problem is that “radical Islamism” isn’t in the White House. An apologist for white power, who is also a woman-hater, a bigot and a proven serial liar, is. That is why liberals get upset about the threat of white power and Nazis.

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        1. marc  🦏‏ @marcbienaime May 20
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          Yet we should still call into serious question, and upon our problem solving skills, at micro instances of idiocy, ignorance, hate, violence.

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