JWeinCom said:
KLXVER said:
Ok, is that a thing that happens all the time? Is that the biggest threat to the US right now? I mean its a horrible incident, but is that what people should worry about right now?
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The department of homeland security thinks so.
“Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social, ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States,” the draft reads. “Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236
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This is exactly why I have such a hard time even considering the points of alt-right folks. Like, the advice is RIGHT THERE, just like when I showed the statistics and census information. the information is there, they chose to disregard it because it doesn't suit their narrative. The only part of his post missing was the olympic-level mental gymnastics to prove that 'well actually, this proves that white people are the LEAST dangerous people in the US'
And people wonder why I'm so full of myself. I am so condescending becuase some people are just WRONG and they think they're right and conflate their shitty logic with actual facts and reason. I'm an arrogant person because I'm sick of willingly ignorant people acting like they're smart, then guiding the conversation to make two wholly unequal sides of the argument seem equal because smart people - or at least intellectually mature people (not me, though, I Want to make it clear that I am not intellectually mature, I'm very aggressive and passionate) - usually do everything to be nice and don't want to insult the intelligence of their opposition, preferring instead to educate and try to understand.
Some people are just wrong. Some people are right. Most issues have a right and a wrong answer, and situations like this (where people blatantly disregard hard evidence and professional opinion as propaganda or fake news) infuriate me daily by reminding me that, holy shit some people are just terrible at parsing information and identifying the difference between facts and opinions. Reality and fantasy.
And Trump being in office proves that the idiot masses have WAY more power than they should.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers."
I wish I had the patience of folks like Torillian or Pemalite or SpokenTruth. I'm just so fed up with morons making the world a worse place. Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a monkey. It always ends with the monkey flipping the board and throwing its shit everywhere then looking smug (Presumably about how they totally pwned the libs).
Ugh! So frustrated (Or maybe I'm just even more enraged because Padib honestly tried justifying what RTJM1991 said to and about me just because I'm often harsh with my words and arrogant about important matters like this. That shit's not okay, and false equivalencies are a real problem.)
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