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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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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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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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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But islamic terrorists have done basically the same thing, which is crucial to Michael's point
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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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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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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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Here it's Republicans terrorizing voters and women and instituting martial law.
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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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Lol at “at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety”
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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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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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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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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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Please elaborate re: nazis in Ukraine, please.
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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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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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