#stochasticviolence — Public Fediverse posts
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The only controversial thing about _Paper Towns_ is that bigots and assholes want to ban it.
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Seriously
The parade of cringing, hand-wringing cowards and quislings suddenly popping up like mushrooms after a spring rain is exactly how we got in this situation in the first place
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Violence, triggered by stochastic violence
#Trump #StochasticTerrorism #StochasticViolence
Stochastic violence committed by whom?
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Stochastic violence
Ever hear of it?
Where has it been coming from, relentlessly?
From Trump himself
Spare me your pious thoughts and prayers
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Move along, nothing to see here. Just a #UnitedStates #Senator publicly advocating for the non-defensive #assault of #protesters who are inconveniencing people. How #American!
#GOPfascists #RepublicanFascism #TomCotton #stochasticViolence #RepublicansAreTheProblem #MAGAfools #PartyOfStupid #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/15/tom-cotton-pro-palestine-protesters-thrown-off-bridge/
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How deranged do you have to be to deputize yourself as #DonaldTrump's personal, unpaid #hitMan? What sort of delusions do you have to be living in for this behavior to make sense? I'm sure #Trump is thrilled that some pawn was sufficiently infected by his relentless lies to take action, and commit the very #stochasticViolence he intended, but this guy will be facing the consequences alone and without Trump's assistance. Loyalty with Trump is a one-way street.
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First, #proTrump media feeds its audience a steady diet of #misinformation, and violent encouragement. Then, once the audience is whipped into an #ignorance-based frenzy, the pro-Trump media organizations start distributing #weapons to them, because freedom! Watch how fast they switch to pearl-clutching indignation when someone they provided a weapon to goes out and kills someone. Watch how fast they disavow any responsibility for the inevitable.
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Now this is more like it! Stochastic terrorism needs to be a bright red line. Kudos to Michael Steele for not mincing words.
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Glad to see the coverage on this is turning to focus on inciting violence:
"He's threatening the president's life," Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor emeritus said in a March 29."
One candidate for the presidency of the United States is engaging in stochastic terrorism and it has to be identified as such by the media or they actually become complicit in perpetrating the violence.
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The story today is "stochastic terrorism." Not "increasingly caustic and personal attacks" as the New York Times frames the issue.
What is stochastic violence?
How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence >>> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/
"Dehumanizing and vilifying a person or group of people can provoke... stochastic terrorism, in which ideologically driven hate speech increases the likelihood that people will violently and unpredictably attack the targets..."
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This one is actually better than most of the others because it addresses the objective inciting violence by posting of these images, also known as 'stochastic violence'.
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Absolutely agree. The framing is all wrong. The story should be "stochastic violence' not 'personal attacks' or 'violent imagery. He is glorifying violence with the objective of inciting some lunatic to commit violence. When the media euphemises these attacks they actually reinforce them.
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Lawyers for #DonaldTrump made an extraordinary request in his hush-money case on Friday: they want state #SupremeCourtJustice #JuanMerchan to affirm that Tuesday's #gagOrder lets #Trump continue verbally attacking the judge's progressive daughter.
The two-page letter is essentially Trump asking Merchan this question: 'Judge, can you tell prosecutors that it's OK for me to keep bashing your daughter?'
#TrumpIndictment #TrumpLies #guilty #Trump4Prison #stochasticViolence
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-asks-judge-to-let-him-keep-attacking-judges-daughter-2024-3
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Understand that #Trump's sole purpose in publicly attacking the family of the judge presiding over his NY criminal case is to incite #stochasticViolence against the judge's family. When he posts the name of #JudgeMerchan's daughter, he's signaling his delusional, anti-American supporters to engage in threats, harassment, and violence against her. He wants to see her being attacked in his name.
#RepublicansAreTheProblem #TrumpCult #TrumpFascism #TrumpLies #VoteBlue
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This #Christofascist #traitor and disgrace to the uniform is displaying his #patriotism by threatening to assassinate the #President. So, of course he's running for office as a #Republican. The #GQP is a party of traitors and #bigots, and no longer a legitimate governing body. It's a #terrorist organization specializing in #stochasticViolence, and this proud #ChristianNationalist is just the latest bomber.
https://2paragraphs.com/2024/02/gop-candidate-shoots-joe-biden-photo-with-rifle-target-practice/
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"During his cross-examination by the Crown Tuesday, Veltman said that he fell into white nationalist beliefs after falling down a radicalization pipeline,
“'I consumed libertarian content, mainstream conservative content,' he said on the stand. 'Then I slowly started looking at some alt-right content on YouTube, and then stumbled across some of the more fringe.'
"The content he described focused on the Great Replacement—a popular conspiracy theory among the far-right focused on minorities taking over white majority countries—and the idea that Muslim violence is under-covered by mainstream media. He said that he consumed conspiratorial content like Alex Jones’ Infowars where he found 'conspiracies that Middle Eastern wars were a conspiracy to try to bring Muslim immigration into Europe.' This then led him to white nationalist content."
#infowars #alexjones #islamophobia #greatreplacement #stochasticviolence #stochasticterrorism
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I’ve just seen a fairly egregious misuse of the term “stochastic terrorism” in the context of what I think is an otherwise really good post. I’m not at all interested in being anyone’s language police, but “stochastic terrorism” is a really useful term (if a bit unwieldy), and I sort of fear its usage being stretched to the point of meaninglessness. I know this is probably a futile effort, but I’d like to just try to break it down in the hope that we can maintain its usefulness at least a little bit longer.
“Stochastic terrorism” (or sometimes just “stochastic violence”) is what happens when someone with a platform uses vilifying, dehumanizing, or generally violent rhetoric in a way that is likely to provoke violent physical action without that speaker directly or explicitly any particular person or group to carry out an act of violence. Tucker Carlson, for instance, often tells his viewers that the US is being invaded, white people are being replaced, and “they want you dead”. So when someone hears that, decides that immigrants are an existential threat to white people, and then starts attacking people in an immigrant neighborhood, that’s what stochastic terrorism is. Carlson didn’t directly order anyone to kill, but he created conditions where violence was likely, and it would have been difficult or impossible to know in advance just which person would actually do it or where or when.
If it helps, “stochastic terrorism” was coined by mathematician Gordon Woo in a 2002 essay about insurance. In his case, he was talking about the decentralized model used by groups like Al-Qaeda. If, for instance, a cassette was circulating with a recording of a speech by Osama bin Laden calling for attacks on the infrastructure of major Western cities, insurers could adjust their actuarial tables on the assumption that an attack was likely, but they couldn’t know in advance just where or when an attack would happen. So Woo offered some mathy solutions for addressing that (I sort of glazed over at that part of the essay – sorry!).
At any rate, that’s the gist of what stochastic terrorism actually is. Marches and rallies organized by shitty, reactionary people for shitty, reactionary causes may involve speeches or slogans that ratchet up the possibility of subsequent material violence, but they are not, in and of themselves, “the outcome of stochastic terrorism”. If anything, most of the time they are more likely the instigators of stochastic terrorism (more like Tucker Carlson or Osama bin Laden than like the person or group that actually carries out an attack.
It’s not a term that covers every possible contingency; it has limits. When parents go to school board meetings and get really aggressive about the absolute need for a ban on book X or movie Y, is that stochastic terrorism? Maybe. It probably depends mostly on just how aggressive they actually are and how you define “terrorism” – a term many of us who remember the Bush years tend to avoid as much as possible (hence the term “stochastic violence”). But at any rate, “stochastic terrorism” is not just another term for fascism or other shitty, hateful worldviews. Its meaning is really pretty narrow, and I honestly hope it will remain that way, so that it can continue to label this particular dynamic for the foreseeable future.
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#Republicans continue to engage in stochastic terrorism, and normalize #violence as an acceptable way to achieve their political goals. #WeThePeople cannot accept this.
#GOPfascists #RepublicansAreTheProblem #RepublicansAreFascists #stochasticTerrorism #stochasticViolence #VoteThemOut #fascism101
https://people.com/south-carolina-governor-mcmaster-hunt-democrats-with-dogs-7501836