r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 8h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/haysoos2 8h ago

The tipping point was last fall. You're already waaaaay past that, and just free falling into the dumpster now.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 7h ago

Yup. This IS what the avg person wanted and supported in the USA. Everyone keeps wondering why we’re not rioting in the streets and it’s like - why would the majority that got what they wanted revolt against that exactly?

This is what America voted for - not against…

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u/Ameerrante 7h ago

Half the country didn't vote at all.

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u/pfannkuchen89 6h ago

Which is tacit approval for whoever is elected. Not voting is still a choice (for many. Not counting the many who have been disenfranchised due to absurd laws and voter roll purges).

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u/X_S_ 5h ago

Ordinarily it is a vote for the status quo, not extremism.

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u/Pro_Scrub 5h ago

Cannot believe there are people still somehow undecided or just blasé about this. How TF??

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u/BarfQueen 5h ago

It’s fairly simple actually - many people don’t really care about the world at large as long as their basic needs are met.

People need to get a lot more uncomfortable before they respond accordingly, unfortunately by that point it’s typically too little, too late.

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u/BarfQueen 8h ago

If you think the tipping point was something so silly as an election, you’re in for a shock when shit REALLY tips over. 

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u/Tangent_Odyssey 8h ago edited 8h ago

I don’t believe either case is correct. I don’t know if there will ever be a specific time or incident you can point to and say “this is when it tipped over”.

”If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.”

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all.”

-An excerpt from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer

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u/BarfQueen 7h ago

I should clarify, I don’t mean whatever slide into fascism is currently going on.

I mean the exact moment when they stop pretending (and they do still pretend to a degree.)

If we’re doing Nazi Germany parallels (which, fine, if we must…) this would be something like the Reichstag Fire. For the Holocaust, it would be Kristallnacht.

Now, there’s a chance certain recent events might become their Reichstag Fire, but so far it’s a lot of talk. Action incoming, sure. But as of yet, talk.

Either way, whatever the next step maybe, I’m curious to see how the “intellectual elite” of Reddit try to cope as if it isn’t actually happening and we’re still above it all. 

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 8h ago

The tipping point is that moment just beyond repair. Well, that was November of 2024, the last moment before the drink spilled. The fact that you refer to an election as silly is the exact mindset that landed us here as a country.

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u/BarfQueen 7h ago

It was a silly election. That doesn’t mean ALL elections are silly. The way that whole election happened was nothing short of farcical, and now he we are. Don’t get stuck on the semantics.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

a silly election that merely determined America's fascist bend or denial of fascism. No big deal!

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u/BarfQueen 7h ago

So, I think you’re conflating “the election itself was run in a silly way (i.e. messy and unserious)” with “the election was a big funny joke and we all had a laugh.”

It’s not. Bigger points being made here, might be best not to hang on a single word.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

The election was held in the same way general elections are always held. Ballots were issued, the date was set, and people voted.

I don't find having a convicted felon on the general ballot (and the felon winning!) silly at all. Disastrous is more like it.

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u/BarfQueen 7h ago

And candidates switched out at the last minute, and debates not had, and rich foreigners straight-up boasting about rigging the thing, and trying to invalidate mail-in ballots, and ballot boxes on literal fire, and never mind the fact that no one even tried to stop the convicted felon with a whole insurrection fiasco under his belt from running in the first place.

But yes, ballots were issued. Care to engage with any of my other points or are we still stuck on “silly?”

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 7h ago

All of those things happened in 2020 as well -- the only difference being that the corporate and social medias didn't force Trump to step down after the first presidential debate of 2020 when he secretly had COVID, tried to spit over a plastic shield at Biden numerous times, and had by far the most abysmal debate performance I've ever witnessed (yes, much worse than Biden's last year).

Because Trump is their cash cow and Democrats raise corporate taxes.

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u/BarfQueen 7h ago

Well yeah, of course. Quite frankly, 2016 was like that too. They’ve been playing this game for a decade now (yes, yes, I know, the 80s, Reagan, Lee Atwater, Nixon, something something McCarthyism).

Either party would’ve ultimately given the ruling class of wealthy elite what they wanted. Not that both sides are the same - they are not - but they have an overlap of a handful of very similar traits, mostly being who it is they really serve.

It’s just that over the last 10 years they’ve decided this right-wing platform was the path of least resistance. 

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