• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    Right wing violence (which includes neo Nazis, fundamentalist Christians bombing abortion clinics, etc) and fundamentalist Islam attacks make up the overwhelming majority of political violence in the USA but left wing violence exists. And of that left wing violence the majority is what they call “ecoterrorism”

    It’s not obscenely common (tbf no political violence is “extremely common” in America, statistically still very unlikely) but it does happen. It’s just far less publicized because “some people bombed an oil transport line/hummer dealership at night/etc” is not nearly as clickbaity as “weird scumbag with a manifesto about great replacement theory posted to 8chan shot 35 people”

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      5 days ago

      It’s not nearly as much as it should be based on how many people are angry at the regime, but also the news doesn’t want to publicize it because they don’t want to give other people any ideas. Look at the response after they tried trashing Luigi, everyone loved and supported his cause, and they quickly dropped coverage.

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      9 days ago

      I don’t want to sound condescending but so it’s both not known about and doesn’t seem to work. I mean you won’t have regime change because an insurance company has to pay elon musk for burnt unsold cars.