The phrase you're looking for is "stochastic terrorism"

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://presswatchers.org/2022/08/the-phrase-youre-looking-for-is-stochastic-terrorism/

Mainstream media reporters are having a hard time fully explaining the link between the increasingly violent rhetoric from Republican media figures, on the one hand, and violent acts like Thursday’s attempted attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati.

The phrase they’re looking for is “stochastic terrorism.”

It may not trip off the tongue, but it needs to become part of the media lexicon.

Stochastic terrorism means terrorism that’s statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In simpler language, it means that when Trump or his allies encourage violence — when the say the kind of stuff they say all the time now — it is not just possible that someone at some point will do something about it, it’s damn near inevitable.

Calling certain forms of violent rhetoric stochastic terrorism is essential to holding the perpetrators accountable for the tragic consequences.

When Donald Trump told white supremacists to “stand by” at the September 2020 presidential debate, then summoned them to Washington on January 6 and told them to “fight like hell,” he was engaging in stochastic terrorism.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Thom Hartmann,

a GREAT liberal, has been giving the explanation of stochastic terrorism on his show for many years. Since the Bush days.

That is absolutely what is going on.

I'm sure someone will be along to whine about Hartmann & RT, but that changes nothing.

[rubbersole]

3. Thom Hartmann may be the most informed person in media today.

Everyone should listen to what he has to say. You'll be better off for it.

[Vdizzle]

4. 100% agree.

Thom is awesome. If you can’t get him on the radio, download the progressive voices app on your phone and hear him broadcast from Portland OR.

[OMGWTF]

5. 'Professor' Hartmann has written more books than I have read

Not really, but he is very well-researched and prolific.

[crickets]

2. Finally. K&R

[calimary]

6. The donald is literally a poster child for stochastic terrorism.

One of these days, you're likely to look it up and his picture will be right there with the definition. Or at least not should be.

[Joinfortmill]

7. 👍

[bringthePaine]

8. why yes, and thank you! EXACTLY the phrase👍

[mitch96]

9. Humm Stochastic... I had to look that one up...

sto·chas·tic
/stəˈkastik/

adjective: stochastic
randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
Origin

mid 17th century: from Greek stokhastikos, from stokhazesthai ‘aim at, guess’,
from stokhos ‘aim’.