Happy Valley Political Shooting

[Moksha]

Yep. Groyper. And now all the MAGA folk who were calling for civil war against Democrats are saying, “Why can’t we all just get along?” Because they know.

And here is the thing: now WE know that they will use any excuse to destroy democracy and persecute people outside of right-wing politics. Because he’s a groyper, they don’t want more trouble.

So Ajax falls into this category?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Yep. Groyper. And now all the MAGA folk who were calling for civil war against Democrats are saying, “Why can’t we all just get along?” Because they know.

And here is the thing: now WE know that they will use any excuse to destroy democracy and persecute people outside of right-wing politics. Because he’s a groyper, they don’t want more trouble.

So Ajax falls into this category?

No. Ajax is a literal Nazi, a white supremacist, and a Mormon exceptionalist. Groypers are an online culture starting to manifest in the real world, but are still too unknowable for Ajax to have any understanding of them, who they are, and what they’re about.

- Doc

[I Have Questions]

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At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

Charlie Kirk would view his own death as acceptable collateral damage in maintaining the Second Amendment.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://archive.is/2024.10.24-222147/ht ... -terrorism

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

NIJ-funded research projects have led to a better understanding of the processes that result in violent action, factors that increase the risk of radicalizing to violence, and how best to prevent and respond to violent extremism.

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.[2] A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.[3]

Over the past 20 years, the body of research that examines terrorism and domestic violent extremism has grown exponentially. Studies have looked at the similarities and differences between radicalization to violent domestic ideologies and radicalization to foreign extremist ideologies. Research has found that radicalization processes and outcomes — and perhaps potential prevention and intervention points — vary by group structure and crime type. In addition, research has explored promising and effective approaches for how communities can respond to radicalization and prevent future attacks.[4]

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has played a unique role in the evolving literature on terrorism and violent extremism. NIJ has promoted the development of comprehensive terrorism databases to help inform criminal justice responses to terrorism, address the risk of terrorism to potential targets, examine the links between terrorism and other crimes, and study the organizational, structural, and cultural dynamics of terrorism. In 2012, the U.S. Congress requested that NIJ build on these focal points by funding “research targeted toward developing a better understanding of the domestic radicalization phenomenon and advancing evidence-based strategies for effective intervention and prevention.”[5] NIJ has since funded more than 50 research projects on domestic radicalization, which have led to a better understanding of the processes that result in violent action, factors that increase the risk of radicalizing to violence, and how best to prevent and respond to violent extremism.

This article discusses the findings of several NIJ-supported domestic radicalization studies that cover a range of individual and network-centered risk and protective factors that affect radicalization processes, including military involvement and online environments. The article also explores factors that shape the longevity of radicalization processes and their variation by group structure and crime type, and examines factors that affect pathways away from domestic extremism. It concludes with a discussion of how these findings can inform terrorism prevention strategies, criminal justice policy, and community-based prevention programming.

There’s more article at the link above. The DoJ scrubbed this article from the active website under a Presidential order. There’s another paper, if you do some poking around, that deep dives Internet culture and the influence it’s having on young men these days. The prognosis doesn’t look good, frankly. I understand why the Right ultimately wants us to return to a low-information society, dependent on church and small social circles, but I don’t think that’s a good long-term solution for humanity’s ability to survive in this hostile universe.

- Doc

[Moksha]

At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

Charlie Kirk so loved the Mormons that he shed his life so that we could have guns.

[Gunnar]

https://archive.is/2024.10.24-222147/ht ... -terrorism


There’s more article at the link above. The DoJ scrubbed this article from the active website under a Presidential order. There’s another paper, if you do some poking around, that deep dives Internet culture and the influence it’s having on young men these days. The prognosis doesn’t look good, frankly. I understand why the Right ultimately wants us to return to a low-information society, dependent on church and small social circles, but I don’t think that’s a good long-term solution for humanity’s ability to survive in this hostile universe.

- Doc

Great article, Doc!
The fact that Trump ordered this article scrubbed from the website is yet more conclusive proof of his dishonesty and complete disdain for any truth that he doesn't like. Can anything be more destructive of a healthy, just and strong democracy than a complete disdain for truth whenever it seems inconvenient for whomever is leading it?