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Political violence in US could potentially surge after elections, experts warn
(www.theguardian.com)
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The people at the Capitol are ready this time, right? Right‽
Could?
After? I really hate to say this, but I am expecting at least one person with a rifle sniping at people in line to vote on election day.
Trump wins: 1st American Purge!!!
Harris wins: Take back the stolen election!1!
The magats have been gearing up for violence for a year or so, now. There IS going to be violence. Seriously SERIOUSLY wanna be wrong on this one.
It's a Good Thing Merrick Garland is on the case and WON'T allow anything Bad to happen!
I see the Guardian is going as Captain Fucking Obvious for Halloween this year.
No way! Really? Slap my knee, and color me surprised! Who'd a thunk!?
We have seen FB groups of people planning to open carry to the polls. Likely to intimidate voters in my area. If you live in a state with open carry and someone intimidates you, call the police. Open carry does not allow for harassment or assault. Be safe y'all.
I'm planning to take the day off and join a counter protest of MAGA "poll watchers". We were trying to encourage people to plan to counter protest after they vote. So that there can be a united front that grows as people show up.
call the police
Some that work forces...
You call the cops and the Punisher wannabe's phone goes off
Even with concealed carry, which is basically every state these days.
Even if its illegal to carry, don't count on these thugs to follow the law.
Even if the person intimidating you is unarmed, they have been known to be supervised by concealed groups of thugs armed with anything from bludgeons to AR-15s in order to turn the tide against someone standing up to them.
Call the police, don't get carried away on principle and put yourself in danger.
Some of those who burn crosses are those who work forces
Agreed
Even if the person intimidating you is unarmed, they have been known to be supervised by concealed groups of thugs armed with anything from bludgeons to AR-15s in order to turn the tide against someone standing up to them.
That way they can all be Kyle Rittenhouse.
For example, in October, violent rhetoric related to election denialism increased by 317% on Telegram, 105% on Gab, 25% on communities.win, and 75% across a selection of Fediverse communities.
While it's nice to be included, weird that they used "a selection"
What else could they do? There’s no way to make a comprehensive list of every Fediverse-supporting server in existence, let alone aggregate their data.
They could name the instance (what they probably meant) or the communities (what they said).
A 75% increase in parts of the Fediverse means absolutely nothing...
Like, you understand that was my complaint, right?
That X% of a non defined subgroup is literally meaningless?
Yeah, I agree. Even if they were trying to be comprehensive, there's no real way to make sure they got the entire long tail of tiny instances, especially since, for all we know, there might be clusters of them federated with each other but disconnected from the "main" cluster containing the biggest servers.
Moreover, I agree that failing to name the instances/communities is absolutely worthless. A 75% increase on lemmy.world might mean a very different thing than a 75% increase on exploding-heads.com, which might in turn mean a very different thing than a 75% increase on lemmygrad.ml.
Also, scale matters. If 4 posts increased to 7, that's a 75% increase I'm not concerned about. Now, 40,000 to 70,000 concerns me.