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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
@georgetakei The best answer to bad speech is more good speech.
@LouisIngenthron @georgetakei
What's the big deal? It's only a speech.
(pic shows Goebbles and Hitler giving speeches)
@LevZadov @georgetakei What does this have to do with what I posted? If you're posting unrelated thoughts, you shouldn't use the reply button.
@LouisIngenthron @georgetakei
The best answer to bad speech is *not* more good speech. The best speeches ever made against what these men said didn't stop the killing of millions that heir own speeches caused. Fascism cannot be spoken away. Is that not self-evident?
@LevZadov @georgetakei Of course it can. That's why a historic number of people came out and voted for Joe Biden to prevent Trump from carrying on his plainly tyrannical path. It's what convinced the Allies to lay down their lives to put your example away. It's what created the documents that underlie, to this day, the very legal rights that help keep power in the hands of the people.
The idea you're invoking; that speech cannot solve a problem just because speech did not solve that problem once before; is fallacious. There are thousands of historical examples of speech averting mass tragedy.
It wasn't Chamberlain's blather at Munich words that stopped Hitler. It was bullets and bombs.
@LevZadov @georgetakei If you think speech has nothing to do with men's willingness to fight, I have a bridge to sell you.
@LouisIngenthron @georgetakei
The Greatest Generation didn't fight the fascists because Roosevelt called their action "infamous" or because Churchill said, "Never surrender." The fought because they were attacked. That's what mammals do.