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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This is basically like when
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feminists call out men for their abuses of “power” and consent but see no problem doing it in excruciating detail on massive opaque social media platforms with designs of capturing all of our personal data but lol what do I know 

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I think I’ll leave it to you to comment on that particular brand of threat inflation

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I remember Michael Hastings ripping Obama’s drone speech to criticise Obama for adopting Bush & Cheney’s neoconservative paradigm. Inflating Islamic threats to justify more military action & various other legislation when it should be just a police matterhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcE2dxa5ZKc …
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declaring how many folks one's comments anger and emphasizing that one doesn't care is also moral grandiosity. appliances and wild animals don't have ideologies, which makes for a different category. nor do those macro issues, which are structural not ideological
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Police state, hyper-militarization, merger of state and corporate interests... sounds a bit fascist
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Too many people think that ethnic nationalism is an essential component of fascism, when in reality any sort of good divisive "us/them" dichotomy will do just fine. Xenophobia is incredibly flexible and ironically quite diverse in its manifestations.
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Because these people they court are children
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They attract greater attention because they are played up intentionally for ratings. I'd assume it's to sell war for the MIC too, but then where's the leaked memos?
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They're salacious because of how preventable they are, imo. Every society will have a certain level of crime, accidents, graft, and corruption. IMPORTING more crime/terrorism is pure insanity.
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We are importing populations that we are actively bombing in other countries and a portion is, PREDICTABLY, committing terrorism. This blatent idiocy cannot be hand waved away by saying "well we had crime already anyway" That's willful, dangerous, purposeful missing the point
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Fear unites the dual proclaimed polar opposites and then they can get down to the business of common militarization. I mean, don’t you want your local police force to sport one of these before “those others” get theirs?pic.twitter.com/0AVySCVhji
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Truthfully, I love those. I don't love that we actually might need them someday for any reason. So long as it isn't to roll over me like in Venezuala or Croatia, I think these are fine.
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It’s a fair point, but if you don’t stop terrorism there are exponential situations where millions die from nukes
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Had to take that turn hard at the end there. Otherwise well said.
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You’re doing issue hierarchy when the culprit is all Capital / State other working theories—you do this on repeat as an excuse to do geopolitics - downplay far right alter globalization / talk about terror abroad. White supremacy feeds US-led & Russian counter-terrorism abroad!
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Agreed, but its a sad result of each side ignoring each other. With no valid way to certify/verify these perceived threats they assume the worst and dig deeper into their respective echo chambers. Thinking its better to be prepared than unprepared I suppose...
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See also: Glassner's "Culture of Fear", Siegel's "False Alarm", etc.
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Adjectives and adverbs and ugly nouns are misused to sell ads in sidebars and banners, back page, good time slots. It desensitzes us on one hand and over sensitizes on the other. Take any news piece: strip out all of above and how many facts actually remain? Boring right? Facts??
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