• eddanja@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Was the shooter white or other? I just want to know how much effort will put into the consequences.

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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      According to a local news station in Atlanta, they identified the shooter as a white male.

      So, minimal effort. There will be some mild condemnation from local officials because he killed a cop (a black cop, though), but I’m sure he’ll be remembered as an honorable but misguided patriot, particularly now that he’s dead. This will also probably be used as a way to start cutting back at the CDC even more, as it has now become a topic of greater public concern.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      I have an antivax coworker who is also virulently anti-immigrant. Her main reason for being anti-immigrant is that she thinks immigrants are unvaccinated and bring diseases into this country. When she told me this I was too busy looking for my jaw on the ground to try and argue with her. She is exactly as unpleasant and ugly as you would imagine.

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    Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence.

    A key element of stochastic terrorism is the use of media for propagation, where the person carrying out the violence may not have direct connection to any other users of violent rhetoric.

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      No no, they’re saving lives by killing the scary scientists that are secretly injecting nanobots into our children that brainwash them into being woke!

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    11 months ago

    neat. and what else happened in the news today?

    edit to be clear for the bootlickers downvoting: nothing of value was lost.