Stochastic terrorism tends to rise when the fascists LOSE at the ballot boxes; for obvious reasons - fascism is about power, and if denied the power they feel they're owed by legal means, they will naturally turn to the only thing they know - violence.
Throw in that I've been saying this is the logical outcome of tolerating eliminationism in our society and no I'm not shocked the club shooting happened, or there's more arrests in New York.
This is literally what fascism do.
Like your reactionary propaganda model has taught you to think of people in groups, and they never put anything into CONTEXT on the evening news - so it's hard for people to realize that these fash are at war with pretty much everyone they hate, all at the same time.
Folks want to put "anti trans violence" in a box separate from "antisemitism" and "domestic violence" and "Proud boys" and "School Board mobs" - it's all the same fascist impulse, behaving in exactly the same fascist ways.
Think about it this way right; who does these folks hate?
African Americans, the LGBTQ community, teachers, liberals, Hollywood, Jewish people, migrants, Americans of Latin American descent. Add it up man, that's like 2/3's of society?
And well, I tried to tell ya this was the shape of things even before Downmarket Mussolini went for a coup:
If you're part of that 1/3 in the middle in this scenario? I'd wise up, because these folks keep calling you commie pedophile kabbalists who drink baby brain juice and thus I think you can bet you're next once they're done with the 1/3 of us the New York Times just likes to "ask questions" about...
@AnarchoNinaWrites I constantly hear about the role of "leadership" as essential for authoritarians. Can they complete their projects without that? Can they adapt to be organic?
@veirling Okay so here's the thing right? Fascism can't ever complete its project; it's literally a death cult, winning in an ultimate sense would mean everyone is dead already.
But stochastic terrorism isn't about the TERRORIST accomplishing his goals; it's about meeting out violence and fear, in service of the larger fascist project.
And it absolutely works; it's more or less HOW right wing terrorism in America has always worked.
@AnarchoNinaWrites I remember this interview with some scholar who had written about the death of political Islam after 9/11 and they were like doesn't this disprove your thesis and he was like in no way, movements pull this kind of shit exactly when they're losing their mass base