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Stochastic terrorism is "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." Donald Trump has been using social media to blast prosecutors, judges, and witnesses, and his followers have answered with calls for violence. If the ex-president is a stochastic terrorist, what should we do in response? https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-stochastic-terrorist-threats
That’s going to have to be resolved by the legal system. The judges need to tell him to stop doing this if he wants to avoid isolation in jail during the trial and back up that position if needed.
@SummerDay @georgetakei They can't. It's perfectly legal under our constitution. See the test for Brandenburg v Ohio. To be criminal, his speech must be intended to, and understood by a reasonable person to, cause imminent lawless action. That's a high bar to prove. They might have enough on him to nail him under that standard for J6, but not on any subsequent speech that I'm aware of.
