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“make gun insurance more expensive for people who have a history of committing hate crimes” is an all-timer
Also something tells me long-term overhead costs are not a top concern of people planning suicidal terrorist attacks.
Though having liability insurance serve as a financial backstop for victims seeking restitution might not be the worst idea?
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Where we are now: Someone like Beto O’Rourke calling the sitting president a racist would historically be a big political story. (Could you imagine Obama doing this to McCain or Romney?) But this is just how a lot of Democrats talk about Trump now.
FWIW the point I was trying to make isn’t being scoldy about norms or whatever, but just observing how a lot of typically cautious classes of people have come around to talking openly and frankly about Trump’s racism; it took a long time, but now it’s almost ever-present.
Anyway, this is just me, but I think this sort of thing matters because violent racism or ethnonationalism doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and it’s important to watch not just for enablers but for the marks of how strongly (or feebly) a society pushes back against it, denies it space.
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.@oneunderscore__ — who I trust on these matters — says the anti-immigrant manifesto currently circulating online was posted on 8chan hours before today’s shooting in El Paso.

If authentic, that would make today’s shooting an act of domestic terrorism. msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/el…
A few questions that need to be answered: 1. Whether the shooter got his gun(s) legally; 2. whether he was on the FBI’s radar before the shooting; 3. whether there were other warning signs that often precede this kind of attack, such as a history of domestic violence.
At a broader level, this sort of attack (if the manifesto is authentic) would fit into a pattern of white nationalist/fascist domestic terrorism we’ve seen rising in the U.S. recent years, and which law enforcement has struggled — or has been slow — to respond to.
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I find it touching how Tocqueville had a glum view of democratic governance, but he was amazed how democracy creates an army of citizens who just love to run shit.
When the workplace isn’t unionized:
When the workplace is unionized:
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