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> That isn't an issue in my comments. "seemingly arbitrary state violence is an old, well-established tactic of states" You weren't referring to the subsequen
by cma 2y ago
> That isn't an issue in my comments.
"seemingly arbitrary state violence is an old, well-established tactic of states"
You weren't referring to the subsequent "war on terror," relating the state response to that to the state reponse to this? It was just thrown in unrelated?
> But because it was seemingly random, people thought it could happen anywhere.
While people everywhere did fear, what was "seemingly random" about targeting: the Pentagon, the US Capitol, and the most prominent buildings in the NY skyline, which had already been targeted before in a bombing plot by the same groups?
- mmooss 2y agoHey - think some more. The curse of certainty is excluding other possibilities.