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   Qole (qole@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 02:42:27 JST Qole

   • Cory Doctorow

   After the events of the past few days, I decided to reread "Radicalized" by @pluralistic
   and I was shocked again at its prescience. There's even a politician who gets his earlobe shot by an AR-15. Makes me wonder when #YouShouldBeAfraid will start trending.

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     Qole (qole@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 02:42:27 JST Qole

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @pluralistic
     There's a big difference between Radicalized (published 5 years ago) and real life, of course. In the story, older men monologue into YouTube videos before suicide bombing the C suites of health insurance buildings. The actual assassin seems to be young, remains anonymous and clearly had no plans to die. There also seems to be a surprising amount of public support for the assassin.

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     Qole (qole@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:58:50 JST Qole

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     • Cory Doctorow

     '[H]undreds of people have gotten in touch with me to ask me how I feel about this turn of events, how it feels to have "predicted" this.
     I've been thinking about it for a few days now, and I gotta tell you, I have complicated feelings.'
     @pluralistic writes an awesome response to the assassination and its fallout.
     https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose

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     Qole (qole@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 05:58:51 JST Qole

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     My timeline is being flooded with posts that might be tagged with #YouShouldBeAfraid in the Radicalized universe. There's a worrying amount of anger out there.

     Here's 3 examples.
     https://hachyderm.io/@freeformz/113619602615115978
     https://sfba.social/@drahardja/113621279623367620

     Cory Doctorow and Glyn Moody repeated this.