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WebsterMark Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13171 Gender:	More actions from the most serious threat against 06/03/21 at 04:43:02 Journalist chased down, beaten, forced to hide in hotel while attackers pounded windows. Had to be from the most serious threat to the homeland. https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/510966-408531-ngo-confirms-attack-while-under cover-at-portland-protest?wallit_nosession=1
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Reply #1 - 06/03/21 at 08:41:35

This I predict this will, just like every time before, devolve into an article contest where one type of violence is countered with another.

Took me about 15 seconds to find a "White-wing" assault in CO over the weekend. Another 15 seconds to find "Left-wing" violence.

To me the question is how to define Left vs Right and how easily can each event be classified, and how reliable is the reporting method(S)

I am ok with the methods CSIS uses for the most part, but there are a few discrepancies I would discuss if anyone reads this:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/war-comes-home-evolution-domestic-terrorism-uni...

For instance I don't completely agree with the analysis of Unconventional weapons and Tech.

This is more comprehensive and we use it regularly.

https://start.umd.edu/research

At the end of the day I think too few Left-wing violent (or planned) events are appropriately classified, and too many Right-wing violent (or planned) events are improperly classified.

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Reply #2 - 06/03/21 at 09:32:17

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Eegore wrote on 06/03/21 at 08:41:35:
" ... I am ok with the methods CSIS uses for the most part, ... "

Sounds a lot like a, ‘opinion’.

“… white supremacists and other like-minded extremists conducted 67 percent of terrorist plots and attacks in the United States in 2020…”

“… there was a rise in the number of anarchist, anti-fascist, and other like-minded attacks and plots in 2020 compared to previous years,
which comprised 20 percent of terrorist incidents …”

So you agree, Quote:
“… for the most part…”
, with the findings of a ‘study’, which stated their opinion, called it a ‘study’, (to receive grants/funds/donations from taxpayers), and provided NO PROOF !

67% were Far Right groups.
And 20% were Far Left groups.

OK. Got It !

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" ... This is more comprehensive and we use it regularly ... "

A Government paid study to write a summery of a definitive answer to a subjective question which the matter needs to be further resolved.
So the answer is, not responding to a question, which is not the answer, to the definitive answer.
To further clarify, it is my duty to inform all of you that my opinion, is not a opinion, that is gathered from not, relying on the impute from others on their opinion.
In conclusion, a opinion may be, or may not be, the negative of a opinion, which could be a positive opinion, if does not agree with the opinion, which is stated, as being a opinion.

Kinna Like the US Government paying a bunch of money
to study a 2 p ecker billy goat
in the mountains of Zwanduie.

A-Yep, got that also !!!!!

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Reply #3 - 06/03/21 at 10:16:18

Sounds a lot like a, ‘opinion’.

Yes. My opinion is that I am ok with the methods used by CSIS.

So you agree, Quote:
“… for the most part…”
, with the findings of a ‘study’, which stated their opinion, called it a ‘study’, (to receive grants/funds/donations from taxpayers), and provided NO PROOF !

Incorrect. I specifically said there were a few discrepancies specific to methods. Go through the methodology, actually read it before you complain, and we can go over the discrepancies. As for NO PROOF, they provide more than you do. You won't even disclose what "local news" station you heard something on. You think CSIS is using incorrect methods? Show us where and actually contribute instead of complaining about it.

A Government paid study to write a summery of a definitive answer to a subjective question which the matter needs to be further resolved.

Incorrect. It's not a study or a summary, you obviously never looked at any of the information there.

So the answer is, not responding to a question, which is not the answer, to the definitive answer.

Incorrect. Webstermark poses no question.

I proposed the methods are for the most part acceptable to me, but there are discrepancies I would be willing to discuss because the outcomes are not accurate. Instead of having a discussion you complain about something you wont even look at.

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Reply #4 - 06/03/21 at 10:18:15

At the end of the day I think too few Left-wing violent (or planned) events are appropriately classified, and too many Right-wing violent (or planned) events are improperly classified.

And therein lies your problem my friend. Your default setting is to find some type of, for lack of a better phrase that comes to mind at the moment, moral equivalence. You take the pronouncement “ judge not lest ye be judged” without context and too literally.

There is good, evil and countless levels in between. Most people make fractional shifts up or down from levels clustered around the center. If that were not so, society would break down.

That does not mean group ideologies don’t tend to stagnant nearer to one side of the divide or the other. At some point you can’t pretend that the Palestinians are on the same level as the Israelis as an example. Actions matter.

The left today more quickly resorts to violence and others from the left who don’t participate search for excuses to justify that violence or look the other way.

The fact is the attack on this journalist will go unreported on virtually all news outlets while an identical attack on a journalist by any group even loosely associated with the right side of the political spectrum would be front page news.

That’s not a small matter. That’s not whataboutism. That is in fact what keeps the fire burning so to speak.

Soon as I come first full circle and return to the beginning of this, perhaps your habit of vigorously trying to level the ground isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The only problem is it does not solve anything. I have no idea what the right wing attack you found in 15 seconds was. But I suspect it does not compare with dozens chasing down a journalist, beating him and probably would’ve killed him if given the opportunity. You should say that.

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Reply #5 - 06/03/21 at 10:52:15

The fact is the attack on this journalist will go unreported on virtually all news outlets while an identical attack on a journalist by any group even loosely associated with the right side of the political spectrum would be front page news.

That’s not a small matter. That’s not whataboutism. That is in fact what keeps the fire burning so to speak.

I agree with that. My assessment is almost all, not all or every but most, as in the majority, of these "news outlets" will cite references like CSIS, or the over-used SPLC, etc. as justification for their reporting being accurate. So a man with a Red Hat is "White-wing extremism" because it One: makes money, and Two: is sitting in places like CSIS as "linked" to "extremism".

This isn't saying that this "news outlet" won't find another source, but at the end of the day most counter-violence funding allocation comes from analyzing compiled data, not news outlets reports.

My understanding is this post is related to Biden's statement regarding domestic violence and terrorism. I can't say for sure but I doubt his briefing was a bunch of compiled news-outlet reports. It was most likely huge metadata sets analyzed by DHS, CIA, FBI, at least 3 NGO's and metrics from the USPS and others.

The morality of violent encounters may or may not have been examined but that's a really hard thing to start pinning numbers on.

"But I suspect it does not compare with dozens chasing down a journalist, beating him and probably would’ve killed him if given the opportunity. You should say that."

I don't place numbers of violent events on any type of morality scale. If three men beat a Korean mother and two of them sexually assault her daughter is it more moral because they didn't intend to kill them and dozens were not involved? I don't even know how we would start comparing and classifying things like this into a usable table of information.

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WebsterMark Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13171 Gender:	Re: More actions from the most serious threat agai Reply #6 - 06/03/21 at 13:54:33 To paraphrase and edit a Supreme Court Justice regarding your lack of assigning values to violent events; “You should know it when you see it” Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings is exponentially worse than gang bangers killing each other in a drug dispute.
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Reply #7 - 06/03/21 at 14:49:59

Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings is exponentially worse than gang bangers killing each other in a drug dispute.

I agree. But why would I assign a moral value to the numbers killed?

10 kids, 10 drug dealers is still 20 people. Right-wing "linking" of violence is not a moral assessment, it is a classification based off evidence.

Left-wing violence based off of political affiliation is not a moral assessment, it is a classification based off evidence.

I am saying how that evidence is classified could be refined since a lot of that data is referenced.

When you say: " I suspect it does not compare with dozens chasing down a journalist, beating him and probably would’ve killed him if given the opportunity. You should say that."

I do not think I should say that my example of violence is less comparable to your example. Especially since I don't even look at it from a morally comparable stance.

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WebsterMark Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13171 Gender:	Re: More actions from the most serious threat agai Reply #8 - 06/03/21 at 16:19:29 I agree. But why would I assign a moral value to the numbers killed? Oh I don’t know, maybe because you’re human.
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Eegore Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 8398	Re: More actions from the most serious threat agai Reply #9 - 06/03/21 at 19:58:35 Oh I don’t know, maybe because you’re human. If 10 children are killed, and 10 drug dealers are killed, how does the morality of each murder impact the number of people killed?
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WebsterMark Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 13171 Gender:	Re: More actions from the most serious threat agai Reply #10 - 06/04/21 at 03:48:07 Why is it front page news when a person walks into his work and kills the same number of people as die every weekend night in the sh!thole of Chicago?
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Reply #11 - 06/04/21 at 06:13:22

"Why is it front page news when a person walks into his work and kills the same number of people as die every weekend night in the sh!thole of Chicago?"

There are a number of factors. I was not aware that Biden's statements on domestic threats, specific to "right-wing extremism" had any direct nexus to that. I am saying there is inaccurate methods utilized to classify left/right wing violence that need to be refined.

If 10 children are killed, and 10 drug dealers are killed, how does the morality of each murder impact the number of people killed?

Why should the morality of each event be somehow calculated in order to classify them by the age, location, affiliation if any, and associated risk factors? How will a morality scale help increase the accuracy of defining right/left violence classification?

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Eegore Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 8398	Re: More actions from the most serious threat agai Reply #13 - 06/08/21 at 13:07:48 "The number is the same. But I can cheer about ten of them and mourn the kids." Aggreed.
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Reply #14 - 06/08/21 at 13:43:16

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Eegore wrote on 06/03/21 at 14:49:59:
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But why would I assign a moral value to the numbers killed?
...

So these two killings of a Human baby,
In your world,
are exactly the same.

A 48 year woman, with serious health issues,
is violently Raped.
She is presented with a, ‘morning after’, type pill.

A 20 year old woman, who is in the peak of health,
Decides to have a rod inserted into her 4 month old Babies head,
Because having a Baby is an inconvenience.
(and her Bikini just doesn't fit right)

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