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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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    3. 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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    4. 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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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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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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      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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        1. 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. Matt Stoller‏Verified account @matthewstoller May 19
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          I take your point. I'm actually saying something slightly different. Drowning in a bathtub is an accident with a certain moral frame, an opioid OD epidemic or a terrorist attack actually have moral villains.

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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          I agree with that.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1130103988827897857 …

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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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        1. Jenny Li‏ @jennyjenli May 19
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          I've been saying this forever. Only I don't have a blue check next to my name. Also.. Wall Street destroys more black families than any racist reporting a lemonade stand

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        1. Ritty‏ @RittyRich May 19
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          Doesn’t the source of the threat play a larger role than its lethality? Eg. we don’t talk suicides when arguing gun restrictions because it’s self inflicted. Opioid crisis fits this narrative?

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        1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements May 19
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          state violence toward immigrants, the risk of systemic poverty & living a shorter life due to exposure to toxics, the risk of being incarcerated over debt —all ongoing.The risk of bombing other countries is a constant. White supremacy is the through line that makes it acceptable

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        1. Johan van de Beek‏ @DjoeGio May 19
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          I get your thread. This specific argument however is not convincing. This is from ‘The Bathtub Fallacy and Risks of Terrorism’ by Kenneth Anderson:pic.twitter.com/zs2q8frSYI

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        1. LDMoney‏ @LDWhitmire May 19
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          Coconuts falling out of trees are more dangerous.

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        1. CommonCents Politics‏ @commoncents1234 May 19
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          TODAY

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        1. Moideen Kalladi‏ @moideenkalladi May 19
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          I’m in 100% agreement about the threat to civil liberties and free speech, but the risk of dying from terrorism cannot be estimated from past events the way accidents and freak events can — mediocristan vs extremistan as @nntaleb puts it

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        1. Sunnyandsalty‏ @sunnyandsalty May 19
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          Let’s keep it that way. I feel like the left won’t acknowledge the scale of Islamic terrirism until we won’t be able to get on a bus anywhere without fear of it blowing up. And Natzis? There is a threat but it’s literally expunged from acceptance. EVERYWHERE

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        1. Daniel Baryon‏ @apeirophobic May 19
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          Yeah I don't think people are opposing white nationalism just because they're afraid of dying in one of many white nationalist massacres, Michael. The shootings are symptoms of the rise of an ideology. How is this so hard for your brain to handle?

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        1. name cannot be blank‏ @210_7312aaa May 19
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          Was that true in 2001?

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        1. william munny‏ @bmMunny May 20
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          following from that observation is that terrorism is not a national security threat. And, following from that, all government claims that suppress information in courts and congress are illegitimate.

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