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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#258526: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:36:07 AM

[up][up][up][up] That’s a distinction without a difference, really.

[up][up][up] They’ve been engaging in violence, for ages now. A good portion of the deadliest terror attacks in the US have been committed by far right radicals.

Edited by archonspeaks on Oct 24th 2018 at 7:36:44 AM

They should have sent a poet.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#258527: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:37:21 AM

CNN is breaking that the White House got suspect packages sent to it as well. That's 5 incidents (at least) in 2 days.

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PresidentStalkeyes Eats moldy bread and flies into windows from United Kingdom of England-land Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: Do you like me? (Yes ⎕ Definitely ⎕ Absolutely!!! ⎕)
Eats moldy bread and flies into windows
#258528: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:39:15 AM

Would it be safe to assume that, if the Democrats do take the House, there'll be a push for more action against right-wing domestic terrorists?

Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on Oct 24th 2018 at 3:40:31 PM

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#258529: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:42:26 AM

Well sure, but they’d need the Senate and White House to cooperate on that.

Good luck.

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BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
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#258530: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:45:36 AM

A good portion of the deadliest terror attacks in the US have been committed by far right radicals.
When was the last left-wing terror attack in the US?

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SteamKnight Since: Jun, 2018
#258531: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:45:57 AM

I wonder how Fox and the far-right are going to cover this one. The first thing that comes to my mind is that they are going to try both side this one with all hate is wrong and that the left is as bad as the right because they hate the right. I mean I have met people who claimed that the left is the dangerous one because they shot first (i.e. that shooting at Republican baseball practice). It is hard to argue with that logic.

[up] Based on what I can remember about left-esque terrorist attacks in the USA from reading various stuff in the Internet, the TV is still black and white.

[down] I don't think that one is left at least whatever it's supposed to be.

Edited by SteamKnight on Oct 24th 2018 at 9:50:12 PM

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Friendperson Since: May, 2018
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#258533: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:48:40 AM

Reuters saying the White House bomb was just a false alarm.

[up]

Jihadism. Not like there's a lot of debate about it, unless the person is completely divorced from reality.

Edited by TerminusEst on Oct 24th 2018 at 7:50:06 AM

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258534: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:50:54 AM

Personally I'm worrying what'll happen when/if we get an explosive that's not caught in time

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 8:52:10 AM

archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#258535: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:51:00 AM

[up][up][up][up][up] Maybe Weather Underground or the Symbionese Liberation Army, If those count.

Edited by archonspeaks on Oct 24th 2018 at 7:52:32 AM

They should have sent a poet.
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#258536: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:51:11 AM

I mean, you get isolated acts of vandalism and sabotage by the occasional ecoterror or anarchist group; but in terms of mass causality events, you are going to have to go back a good deal.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258537: Oct 24th 2018 at 7:57:53 AM

Since the White House one was a fluke, does anyone have a source for the CNN one?

I wonder if there's any chance these are all connected somehow? I know that correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but it is one heck of a coincidence.

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 24th 2018 at 11:01:44 AM

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#258538: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:02:46 AM

Maybe those defeatist headlines are a deliberate gambit to motivate Democrats in the hope they might counteract it.

A nice thought but no, it's just the media playing up the horse race to make things interesting and attract clicks.

Democratic House Odds are just as high as they've been for a while (85%) and Senate Odds are in the normal range (18%).

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258539: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:07:29 AM

[up][up] The timing and the targets definitely suggest a connection. Especially with the White House one being a false alarm, since it would have been the odd man out in the Left Wing Target pattern the other four show

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 9:11:29 AM

kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#258540: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:08:41 AM

[up][up]Maybe. But there's still the fact that more Republicans have been voting early this year than Dems, at least so far. I've been trying to just shrug it off, but it hasn't been easy.

Edited by kkhohoho on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:09:03 AM

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#258541: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:10:25 AM

Since the White House one was a fluke, does anyone have a source for the CNN one?
Sorry, was being lazy earlier. Here you go.

Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#258542: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:10:40 AM

There is literally no way in hell this is a coincidence. Prominent liberals of advocates or liberal causes, every single one of them.

Edited by Friendperson on Oct 24th 2018 at 8:10:56 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258543: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:11:17 AM

And the only odd man out was a false alarm

Edit to add: I don't know where everyone involved is so I'm curious, how widespread are the places that have gotten these packages? Are they all in DC?

Edited by sgamer82 on Oct 24th 2018 at 9:11:37 AM

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#258544: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:12:37 AM

stochastic terrorism [stuh-kas-tik ter-uh-riz-uh m] Word Origin noun the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:

Huh, there's always a word for these things, isn't there?

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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#258545: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:18:04 AM

What are the odds that Russian intelligence had a hand (however many intermediaries were involved) in this obviously concerted series of attempted bomb deliveries?

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258546: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:19:34 AM

If they did, would that constitute an Act of War?

Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#258547: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:20:10 AM

I doubt this was the Russians. This sounds like MAGA NPC's hard at work.

Edited by Friendperson on Oct 24th 2018 at 8:20:38 AM

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#258548: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:23:21 AM

Maybe. But there's still the fact that more Republicans have been voting early this year than Dems, at least so far. I've been trying to just shrug it off, but it hasn't been easy.

Eh, I'll take Five Thirty Eight's data over early voting numbers any day.

It's not irrelevant but it's just one piece of the puzzle.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#258549: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:25:28 AM

[up]x4 Odds are almost zero. It’s not really their style, and their other influence operations are already working so well.

They should have sent a poet.
Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#258550: Oct 24th 2018 at 8:28:40 AM

Sgamer: The Clinton and CNN bombs were in New York.


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