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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDave Weigel says maybe you've got it all wrong.
Watters isn't talking about violence at all! He's advising the crowd on how to ask Fauci a tough question on video.
"Thirty seconds! Now, you get that footage to us."
Still weird. Imagine
@chrislhayes
telling Netroots which questions to ambush Rs with.
"Thirty seconds! Now, you get that footage to us."
Still weird. Imagine
@chrislhayes
telling Netroots which questions to ambush Rs with.
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Dave Weigel says maybe you've got it all wrong. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Dec 2021
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ProfessorGAC
(65,182 posts)1. How Convenient
And, the term "kill shot" is common parlance for asking a question too?
I think not.
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BlueJac
(7,838 posts)3. Yeah, right!
crickets
(25,983 posts)4. One of the hallmarks of stochastic terrorism is on full display.
https://www.wired.com/story/jargon-watch-rising-danger-stochastic-terrorism/
When President Trump tweeted a video of himself body-slamming the CNN logo in 2017, most people took it as a stupid joke. For Cesar Sayoc, it may have been a call to arms: Last October the avowed Trump fan allegedly mailed a pipe bomb to CNN headquarters.
No one told Sayoc to do it, but the fact that it happened was really no surprise. In 2011, after the shooting of US representative Gabby Giffords, a Daily Kos blog warned of a new threat the writer called stochastic terrorism: the use of mass media to incite attacks by random nut jobsacts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. The writer had in mind right-wing radio and TV agitators, but in 2016, Rolling Stone accused then-candidate Trump of using the same playbook when he joked that Second Amendment people might do something if Hillary Clinton won the election.
Of course, Trumps people later said he meant they might vote. Thats how it works: Stochastic terrorism lets bullies operate in the open with full deniability, since the random element erases any provable causation.
Tellingly, the word stochastic comes from the Greek stochastikos, meaning proceeding by guesswork and skillful in aiming. Both are apt here. It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies.
No one told Sayoc to do it, but the fact that it happened was really no surprise. In 2011, after the shooting of US representative Gabby Giffords, a Daily Kos blog warned of a new threat the writer called stochastic terrorism: the use of mass media to incite attacks by random nut jobsacts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. The writer had in mind right-wing radio and TV agitators, but in 2016, Rolling Stone accused then-candidate Trump of using the same playbook when he joked that Second Amendment people might do something if Hillary Clinton won the election.
Of course, Trumps people later said he meant they might vote. Thats how it works: Stochastic terrorism lets bullies operate in the open with full deniability, since the random element erases any provable causation.
Tellingly, the word stochastic comes from the Greek stochastikos, meaning proceeding by guesswork and skillful in aiming. Both are apt here. It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies.