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The weaponization of language continues with a frightening new term
American Thinker ^ | 15 Oct, 2022 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 10/15/2022 12:16:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber

It’s ‘democracy’ vs. the ‘stochastic terrorists’ — AKA, the Regime vs. the People.

Do you stand outside abortion mills, praying for intercession or singing hymns? Or do you possibly minister to the mothers as they transport their unborn to the medical gallows?

Do you oppose the physical and physiological mutilation of children at Big Pharma “gender” centers?

Do you believe that schools should teach the basics, rather than cultural Marxism and deviant sexual ideology?

Do you maybe, just maybe, believe the government could be lying about “official” narratives?

Odds are, you’re probably a “terrorist.”

Enter a novel, and rather ingenious anonym: “stochastic terrorism.”

We’ve seen this all before: the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror. No clear identification of the enemy means the enemy can be whatever (or whoever) at any given moment in time. There can never be an end to the conflict, because how can you defeat an ambiguous enemy? Accepting crusades against vague foes is a clear indicator that we are marching towards a tyrannical government.

It makes me think of 1984’s Winston, as he sat atop the chute that led to the incinerator — nicknamed the Memory Hole if you recall — where he contemplated his role in ever-changing “history.” Oceania’s enemy was fluid, and based on the whims of the Party, but because Winston burned every piece of documentation, the enemy du jour had always been the enemy.

A war on “poverty” dictates that as long as there is poverty, there’s justification for massive welfare programs, even as they bankrupt an entire nation. A war on “drugs” means federal agencies have license to expand and trample the Constitution — after all, you don’t want cartels and drug dealers hurting children do you?

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 2022election; communism; demagogicparty; election2022; language; stochasticterrorists; theleft; tyranny
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1 posted on 10/15/2022 12:16:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Your voter registration tells the DOJ if you are a terrorist or not.

And too bad there is not a war on COVID vaccines!

2 posted on 10/15/2022 12:17:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 10/15/2022 12:17:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Someone had better start making the distinction between “democracy” and democratic republic pretty quickly, before the left succeeds in changing the definition of “democracy” into straight up collectivism.


4 posted on 10/15/2022 12:21:43 PM PDT by skeeter
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In what way is a group of social conservatives who have consistently pushed for the same laws and same polices over decades considered 'stochastic'?

The burning, looting, assaulting, and murdering of BLM and Antifa is truly 'stochastic' behavior.

5 posted on 10/15/2022 12:29:49 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: MtnClimber

The early opponents of abortion were ‘terrorists’ to both sides ...

The ‘good’ people gave us just about as much grief as the abortion pushes ...

I was an ‘enemy of God’ etc ...


6 posted on 10/15/2022 12:37:03 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: skeeter
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. …

— The Principles of Communism, 1847

… (I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …

— Woodrow Wilson, 1887
The left was defining democracy as socialism hundreds of years before either of us were born. To them, democracy was and is about collectivism and the destruction of individual rights.
7 posted on 10/15/2022 12:37:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Nothing defines the term “stochastic terrorism” more than the actions of the Joebama usurpation.


8 posted on 10/15/2022 12:38:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Biden needs to fire these focus groups who come up with these.

Stochastic is difficult for people to remember and it means ‘random’.

So they are talking about ‘random terrorists/ism’.

Ohhhhh! That’s scary!

MAGA — easy to remember and extremely meaningful. Attacking MAGA is attacking the fundamentals that make America great.


9 posted on 10/15/2022 12:53:29 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: MtnClimber

stochastic
stō-kăs′tĭk
adjective
Of, relating to, or characterized by conjecture; conjectural.
Involving or containing a random variable or process.
Conjectural; able to conjecture.

Ideas, opinions that disagree with liberals are terrorism.


10 posted on 10/15/2022 1:26:12 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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As described by leading scholars, stochastic terrorism involves 'the use of mass media to provoke random acts of ideologically motivated violence that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable' (Hamm and Spaaij, 2017).
I immediately thought of Hari Seldon's "Psychohistory."

Yet on second thought, after I pasted the description, I realized that it is exactly what the Leftists have been doing to us for years, as the Alinsky Rules instructed them.

They use the media to provoke Leftist acts of violence as they have statistically predicted.

Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: "Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt."

11 posted on 10/15/2022 1:29:14 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Excellent


12 posted on 10/15/2022 1:31:30 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: skeeter

I think we are a constitutional republic, not a democratic republic.


13 posted on 10/15/2022 1:32:50 PM PDT by boxlunch (Red State governors, kick the fednazis OUT of red states! BTW, We are a REPUBLIC not a democracy!)
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To: skeeter

Right.

The Left is using the word “democracy” to sound appealing but are undermining every bit of freedom in our Republic as they do so.

Knowingly.


14 posted on 10/15/2022 1:51:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: MtnClimber

It’ll never catch on...its too hard for their base to understand...


15 posted on 10/15/2022 1:52:53 PM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: MtnClimber
Stochastic oscillator charting generally consists of two lines: one reflecting the actual value of the oscillator for each session, and one reflecting its three-day simple moving average.

The only thing I know about stoch is that.

Yeah I trade stocks...and I am a chartist.

16 posted on 10/15/2022 1:56:15 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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the bigger and ACTUAL threat is a much simpler phrase...

“Statist terrorism”

THAT’S the real threat to humans globally


17 posted on 10/15/2022 2:13:02 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burdern, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: MtnClimber

The Normal Curve is the basis of all statistical analysis. The left hand tail of the Income Normal Curve defines poverty when whatever arbitrarily determined standard deviation is exceeded. What the critters in D.C. are trying to do is truncate that poverty-determined portion of Normal Curve which is statistically impossible because then the Normal Curve ceases to be normal. That is also why Socialism will never be successful.


18 posted on 10/15/2022 2:45:12 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: MtnClimber

The left has always been big on inventing their own language…and using it as a battering ram against normality.


19 posted on 10/15/2022 2:46:45 PM PDT by livius
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To: Osage Orange
Yeah I trade stocks...and I am a chartist.

And there's nothing wrong with that. We support you anyway (LOL...goes to get more coffee).

Seriously though this language war really pissed me off when they insist on labeling child mutilation "gender affirming health care".

The newest obscenity really upsets me where they call honest protests "insurrectionists" in mainstream news to purposely alter public perception. Like they don't have enough good Americans wasting away in DC prison for standing up for our country.

20 posted on 10/15/2022 2:48:40 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (It's time to Build Gallows Back Better.)
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