RE: Assassins, Blame Games, and American Politics
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I agree that politics and rhetoric are driving a wedge in society and we all need to respect one another’s views. I think it’s one of our biggest societal problems today, and my personal opinion is that our president leads the pack in creating that divide.
On the topic of right-wing vs. left-wing perpetrators of gun violence, it’s quite easy today to get your answer with Google AI.
Here’s the prompt I used:
Have there been more acts of gun violence perpetrated by left-wing or right-wing Americans?
And here’s a screenshot of the top of the resulting info:
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I really distrust AI aggregation and synopses. It doesn't think, it regurgitates words based on its training data. So many violent people are just called "right-wing" without a definition of terms. It's become a meaningless label. Hell, the Democrats are basically authoritarian center right according to a lot of analysts.
Don't forget that a lot of incidents are incited by agents provocateur, too, from finding the dumbest kid in the mosque to encourage a "bomb threat" they can bust all the way to orchestrating the government kidnapping plot. And there are all kinds of rumors surrounding everything from January 7th to the Oklahoma City bombings where... Irregularities... suggest we aren't getting the whole story.