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> My attacks on you are consequence culture. Your attacks on me are stochastic terrorism.

Let's not group mean tweets and mass shootings under the same umbrella



I didn’t read it like that. I read “attacks” in the “verbal attacks” sense as opposed to physical.


The idea that verbal attacks can be somehow synonymous to physical attacks is nonsensical.

Like the term "verbal violence" - what a way to conflate meanings to a misleading extent.


In other words you’re just repeating that sticks and stones may break bones but words will never hurt. Hardly a well established / obvious statement, and one that’s covered in early grade school discourse


You should tell that to people who invented the phrase "stochastic terrorism."




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