• d4rknusw1ld@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Please. I kind of wish they’d just do the thing already so we can put this shit to rest once and for all.

    • Candelestine@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Really? Because it’s more likely to take the form of terrorist attacks than anything else. Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber are heroes to some.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber are heroes to some.

        Cross posting from another thread because it’s in my clipboard history, making this easy:

        There’s a lot of stellar reporting on this stuff. There was a limited-series podcast about the evolution of white supremacy in the US that did an excellent job of explaining and illustrating the shifts called Long Shadow trailer. It starts with Waco and Ruby Ridge and really helped me better understand how and why we’re seeing what’s happening today. (Scroll down; the white supremacist eps were preceded by a season about 9/11, which I haven’t listened to).

        The gig-economy metaphor makes more sense with the perspective that they understand that the KKK is unpopular and they rely on small cells and individuals for acts of terror and violence. Then the leaders of the movement can “condemn” the violence, which was what they always wanted and knew their rhetoric would bring.

    • Pepperette
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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly how every Canadian feels about the US every election cycle.

    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes, usually when these situations escalate to violence it gets settled once and for all, and doesn’t deepen divisions