#stochastic terrorism

[a-very-tired-jew]

Watching people use the same rhetoric as far right MAGA and QAnon types to defend protestors using rhetoric from recognized terrorist groups, justifying said terrorists’ actions, and distributing their materials has been something else.

Y’all do realize you’re using the same goalposting, sealioning, gymnastics that the far right has used and continues to use to justify their bigotry and actions, right?

The same cries of “First Amendment rights!” have been used to justify right wing transphobic rhetoric on college campuses just as its being used to justify and defend college protestors and rhetoric from terrorist groups.

In the former situation many people will point to the harm that said rhetoric does, how i has (and continues to) contribute and/or influence stochastic against trans individuals and people (as a whole). We recognize the actors that contribute to this and object to their presence and actions.

Conversely, an individual and group actively handing out terrorist approved and produced materials is a form of support according to USA Law (especially when it comes to foreign nationals on visas and green cards). When you endorse these groups, use their same rhetoric, and distribute their materials then your speech is no longer protected.

Defending it as such is the same as the MAGA and QAnon folk defending the rhetoric of people causing stochastic terrorism, but with even more legal precedent and standing.

Objecting to one but not the other indicates that you do not understand the law as much as you claim, hold double standards, and want “laws for thee, but not for me” standards that are hypocritical.

We can object to ICE, the Trump Admin, and everything all we want. But if you want to claim rule of law and the laws surrounding certain Rights, then it is paramount that you understand them else you just sound ignorant.

[grneyedmonster15]

The circumstances surrounding Nex Benedict’s death are so frightening to me. Little kids getting bullied and murdered just for existing as their authentic selves is horrific on its own, but it’s even worse that this murder was instigated by that fascist terrorist Chaya Raichik and that this same fascist terrorist was appointed to an Oklahoma Board of Education library media advisory committee by an apparently equally fascist superintendent. On top of that, I heard that the school punished Nex, the *victim* of this vicious attack, rather than the perpetrators.

Now law enforcement is claiming Nex didn’t die of trauma from the assault, which is absolute horseshit because even if it turns out their head injury wasn’t the immediate cause of death, their death was still a direct and foreseeable result of being terrorized and assaulted by other kids and then being punished by the school for being victimized.

Nex’s death was especially jarring to me because they looked a lot like my youngest child, who is pansexual. My heart lurched when I saw their picture. I was already worried about my child’s safety at school because we live in a red area, because my child has been bullied before over being autistic, and because of our country’s absolute failure to address gun violence, but now that the fascists are ramping up their terrorism against LGBTQIA children, I’m absolutely terrified for my child.

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

On January 21, 2025, a day after Trump was sworn in, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde presided over service at Washington National Cathedral. At the end of the service, she gave a plea to show mercy and understanding towards the immigrant and queer communities, and to in general "speak the truth to one another in love".

You can just see how much she made them squirm.

And, suffice to say, some did not hesitate to make their displeasure known:

But sure, they aren't a cult.

Of course, besides the fact that one should not be deported for a sermon or speech period, one could fact check him to see that Budde was born in New Jersey.

However, Collins probably already knew this, and it's not a stretch to see them agitate to strip the citizenship of even those who are generational Americans. Even if that doesn't happen, agitation like his is a form of stochastic terror that can have violent consequences.

[edenfenixblogs]

If non-Palestinian goyim leftist activists would just condemn antisemitism then it would really free up Jewish leftists from all the time we have to spend proving that it exists. And then we’d have more time and energy to spend fighting for Palestinian liberation WITH YOU instead of desperately trying to combat a constant barrage of hate all by ourselves.

It is so emotionally draining to have to be the one to shout “HEY. PEOPLE ARE ATTACKING ME SO PLEASE JUST HELP BY SAYING THAT YOU THINK ITS WRONG THEYRE DOING THAT. SHAME THEM A LITTLE BIT!” All day every day.

Because we know you won’t do it. You’ve demonstrated every day since 10/7 that you won’t do it. I cannot fathom why except that you hate Jews or are scared of letting your other friends know that you like Jews.

Just, like, practice what you preach my dudes.

[victusinveritas]

[afanofmanyhats]

this is what "globalize the intifada" means. not liberating Palestine, but killing Jews. this is what the last two years of rhetoric and vitriol has been building up to. just a couple weeks ago a random Israeli couple was shot for being at an Israeli event that was about ensuring peace and justice for Palestine. last year there was a pogrom in Amsterdam. what's next? are we going to have a Kristallnacht in the U.S.? if you care about the freedom of Palestine then maybe stop justifying Israel's point that they're the only safe place in the world for Jews. maybe stop supporting terrorist organizations that explicitly state their end goal is the worldwide genocide of Jews. maybe stop talking about this conflict in black and white and look at how your asinine chants encourage the worst in antisemites. maybe stop erasing Jewish history with idiotic statements like "Jesus was Palestinian" or "Jews aren't indigenous to the Middle East." learn from history. learn the rhetoric that Nazis and Stailinists and Islamists use to demonize Jews, and I mean ALL JEWS, not just "Zionists". see how it has rotted through the pro-Palestine movement to its core. all the hatred towards Israel and Jews in diaspora has not gotten Palestine any closer to freedom. it's time to change tactics. it's time define the movement with compassion and understanding rather than fearmongering and outrage.

I knew all this stuff in middle school. all you "antizionists" have no excuse to not learn it now.

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

Imagine waking up and finding some brainwashed fuck going into your dms and sending you "proofs" from fucking LIBS OF TIKTOK of all fucking things! LMFAOOO

Libs of fucking TikTok.

The white supremacist who promotes hate and commits Stochastic Terrorism insisting violence against children's hospital over lies.

Trying to cite Libs of TikTok as a source of "proof" is like trying to cite the Onion as a source of proof.

Libs of TikTok, aka Chaya Raichik is a fucking Domestic Terrorist who uses Stochastic Terrorism to get white supremacists to commit bombings, shootings, and other heinous crimes against doctors, schools and anyone she doesn't fucking like because she feels like it.

I don't even think she's fucking human.

Using her as a source is like using Hitler as a source. You are not helping your case. You are just telling me you are one of the people who threatened to bomb a fucking school just because you believed some bullshit that fell out of her mouth.

[liberalsarecool]

Why do all the Lone Wolves believe the same shit and follow the same media? 🤔

#MAGA

[isaacsapphire]

How do you balance knowledge of how bad it can be with continuing to care about petty issues that most first world people spend their energy on; “You aren’t starving in a ditch, stop complaining about how horrible it is that the convenience store stopped carrying your favorite drink flavor.”

How many combat videos of guts spilled and brains spattered before the next season of whatever show or arguments about girls lacrosse just stops feeling like something anyone has any business caring about to you? Does anyone really want to kill and die and sleep and eat and shit in a hole in the woods for months over their childhood fondness for bestselling books or Marvel movies?

How do you deal with people who sincerely believe that we are months away from massive violence and bloodshed and war between the US and Canada and possibly WW3 And The Second American Civil War combined and of course food will become unavailable so there will be starvation too?

They’re incredibly stressed by this and they’re so certain. The leftlib sphere seems to be trying to make this happen, trying to stochastic terrorism their vulnerable adherents into lighting the Reichstag on fire. The well-heeled ones are bolting from the country sincerely thinking that they are rats leaving a sinking ship.

But if they’re actually right, where would even be safe? If Trump is about to annex Canada, it’s obviously not a good idea to run away from Trump to Canada. If Russia and the NATO and United States are about to have a war, neither an off-the-grid cabin in Alaska or returning to an EU country seem like places where you could sit the conflict out. If China is going kinetic, Australia/New Zealand seems kinda vulnerable too.

[sordidamok]

Trump is deliberately attacking the rule of law in USA and his cult followers are imitating him. This is a threat to democracy. The fact that he is getting away with is proof that the law favors rich, white men.

Serious work to do.

[edenfenixblogs]

For some reason this one really wrecked me, more than most. What a complete disregard for culture and peace.

Yiddish is a language of diaspora Jews desperately clinging to a shred of their heritage while being oppressed in Western Europe. It is the language of European Jews forced to live in shtetls. It is a language that predates modern Israel and the resurrection of Hebrew. It is the language of the diaspora in which antisemites and anti-zionists so desperately want Jews to remain. It is a language of the oppressed. It is a language of loss. It is a language of exclusion. It is a language of community. Of Jews finding each other and building community in the face of oppression.

Sholem Aleichem was a Yiddish author and playwright. His works inspired Fiddler on the Roof, a musical about literal Jewish expulsion from Russia after continued violent assault.

Additionally, the related Hebrew greeting (Shalom aleichem) means, “peace be upon you”)

Also, it nearly exact to the traditional Arabic greeting “As-salamu alaykum” which means the exact same thing. And is used by Muslims as well as Arab Jews who were expelled by Muslim countries between 1948 and 1972.

Finally, shalom aleichem is a Jewish liturgical song—one of my favorites—and it explicitly calls on G-d and angels to bring peace.

It’s used to ring in Shabbat

I cannot put into words how deeply offensive this is to me personally. I am so wounded by this.

[victusinveritas]

[jonostroveart]

Con Text

Trump, increasingly reckless with his violent rhetorical imagery, spent the day contextualizing the graphic image he spewed to Tucker Carlson last night, where he has Liz Cheney looking down the barrels of 9 rifles. The Republican candidate for President is a stochastic terrorist.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[unsolicited-opinions]

American Jews who support Trump are bad at being Jewish.

[isaacsapphire]

It’s interesting how “stochastic terrorism” doesn’t seem to be discussed much in the last few years or months, even though it’s increasingly prevalent in public discussion.