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Yeah, but most people talking about "ways and means" aren't planning anything, don't execute any plan, they're just being edgelords or spitballing hypotheticals

Yeah, but most people talking about "ways and means" aren't planning anything, don't execute any plan, they're just being edgelords or spitballing hypotheticals or teasing the (probably nonexistent) feds that are watching them. For every actual terrorist put on some type of watchlist there are bound to be thousands of edgy teenagers that are on that list for goofing around. That doesn't even speak to the fact that such a tool will be used to go after people simply criticizing their government for it's heavy handed authoritarian activities. Anyway, my point with the above comment was to poke fun at the article's extreme emphasis on the right wing aspect as opposed to the terrorist aspect. Extremists of all stripes engage in extreme behavior.

PaulHoule 2y ago
The last left-wing group that I think people were really afraid of in the US was the thoroughly unhinged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army which leaves me wondering how much deadlier bullets really can be if you lace them with cyanide. See https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/comparison-political-violence-left-wing-right-wing-and-islamist-extremists-united https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/comparison-political-v... which says Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent. In the United States, we find no difference between the level of violence perpetrated by right-wing and Islamist extremists. However, differences in violence emerge on the global level, with Islamist extremists being more likely than right-wing extremists to engage in more violent acts. The stereotype of the violent extremist in the US is ideologically confused: they find they had a copy of The Communist Manifesto in their room but drove their neighbors crazy listening to Rush (the Canadian band) at 3am.
- big-green-man 2y ago
  I'm not sure I understand what youre trying to say.

PaulHoule 2y ago

The last left-wing group that I think people were really afraid of in the US was the thoroughly unhinged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army which leaves me wondering how much deadlier bullets really can be if you lace them with cyanide. See https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/comparison-political-violence-left-wing-right-wing-and-islamist-extremists-united https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/comparison-political-v... which says Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent. In the United States, we find no difference between the level of violence perpetrated by right-wing and Islamist extremists. However, differences in violence emerge on the global level, with Islamist extremists being more likely than right-wing extremists to engage in more violent acts. The stereotype of the violent extremist in the US is ideologically confused: they find they had a copy of The Communist Manifesto in their room but drove their neighbors crazy listening to Rush (the Canadian band) at 3am.

big-green-man 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand what youre trying to say.