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Newly appointed fentanyl czar
So I guess Canada should be added to Trump's travel ban now?
Sometimes I feel like a supporting character in my own life.
I hope I at least have "and also" before my name.
Food for thought:
Opinion | What About the Terrorism of the Far Right?
With a rather sobering fact mixed in...
The frequency of far-right attacks is particularly significant in the United States, where white supremacist, anti-government and neo-Nazi extremists have been responsible for 73 percent of deadly terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Who exactly is the greatest threat here?
Assigning everyone to "teams" and treating either side like they are "the enemy" is not going to make anything better. Be better than this forty_three.
I didn't write it...
I think it's fair to say that it seemed like you were tacitly endorsing it. It sounded a lot like "there may be flies on some of YOU GUYS, but there ain't no flies on US!".
Not my intention, sorry if it seemed that way.
I just thought it interesting that the blind generalizations about where the threat is coming from is quite inaccurate. I'm not picking sides as I am neither kind of terrorist. Both need to go away, but only one is getting attention.
You're kind of doing it again here though, assigning these acts to their own sides. Murderous looney tunes who happen to have some political beliefs in common (or even some common motives) are not all on the same "team".
eh. From a threat analytics perspective there is value in reviewing commonalities in attacks to determine what your threat vectors are.
To me the piece highlights that's been done and one clear set of commonalities is being largely ignored, when it could be argued that set of commonalities is a more clear and present danger.
Threat analytics is part of my job, so maybe I am seeing it a bit different. I don't think it's trying to say all of any one group is bad or pitting group v group. To me it seems to state facts about threats and ask why the more immediate danger isn't being looked at as sharply. That's what I got out of it.
Like if you are a bank, and most hackers are attacking you through your ATM software to steal money. It's counter productive to spend most of your efforts protecting your HVAC system software. Not that you shouldn't protect it at all, just spend effort where the threat is more likely to surface.
I guess agree to disagree on this one.
edit: I should be clear that I see your point, and agree that too much us vs them is very counterproductive. It's just that is not what I got from this is all.