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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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    5. 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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      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. Anna Khachiyan‏ @annakhachiyan May 19
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          This is basically like when #MeToo 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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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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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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        1.  ⏳ 🎗‏ @_Shells_Bells_ May 19
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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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        1. Patrick J. Murphy‏ @profpjm May 19
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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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        2. daria‏ @daria_rylkova May 19
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          Police state, hyper-militarization, merger of state and corporate interests... sounds a bit fascist

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        3. DC Kurtz‏ @dc_kurtz May 19
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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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        1. JC Souperstar‏ @storyheadjillmc May 19
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          pic.twitter.com/8D9p1Vg5QQ

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        1. Tim‏ @Goodfoodblimp May 19
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          Because these people they court are children

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        1. William Maggos‏ @wjmaggos May 19
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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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        2. SuperSecretSigma‏ @Eidotheia May 19
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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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        3. SuperSecretSigma‏ @Eidotheia May 19
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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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        2. Casey Atchison‏ @RB_Atch May 19
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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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        3. NPPubs‏ @NP_Pubs May 19
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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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        1. danteinvest‏ @danteinvest May 19
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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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        1. Mikey D‏ @ThinkProudly May 19
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          Had to take that turn hard at the end there. Otherwise well said.

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        1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements May 19
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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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        1. Joevenile‏ @145184 May 19
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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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        1. Anthony  🧟‍♂️ Citrano‏Verified account @acitrano May 19
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          See also: Glassner's "Culture of Fear", Siegel's "False Alarm", etc.

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        1. NPPubs‏ @NP_Pubs May 19
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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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