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Gamma Donna @gammamadonna.bsky.social

Sadly, the average citizen doesn’t understand what stochastic terrorism is. The predator-in-chief is a master of stochastic terrorism.

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Stochastic terrorism: using language and other forms of communication 'to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.' - A public figure (or group) with access to the airwaves or pulpit demonizes a person or group of persons. - With repetition, the targeted person or group is gradually dehumanized, depicted as loathsome and dangerous—arousing a combustible combination of fear and moral disgust - Violent images and metaphors, jokes about violence, analogies to past 'purges' against reviled groups, use of righteous religious language—all of these typically stop just short of an explicit call to arms. - When violence erupts, the public figures who have incited the violence condemn it—claiming no one could possibly have foreseen the 'tragedy.'"

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