From TFA: "Their families deserve more than thoughts and prayers. Canadians deserve more than thoughts and prayers."
It feels, these days, as though Canada and Germany are the only remaining functional liberal democracies. Something terrible happens; they respond directly to a root cause of the terrible thing, then move on.
Is there any current research to look at the interplay in some US domestic foreign influence campaigns and stoichastic mass shooting events in the US and Canada?
It seemed like there was a qualitative shift in the last decade to people who have been radicalized online and it seems to 1) have overlap with groups targeted for social influence campaigns like those documented in 2016 and 2) seems to have gotten pushed from a top down level also with the Russian funding and coordination (Torshin, Butina). It's very regrettable that the latest shooting seems to have be in part because the murderer was able to acquire semiautomatic high velocity rifles in the US (https://apnews.com/aeec329e92569a7b1bbdc44bc6aa2fa2) and it would be interesting to trace how he was able to get the information necessary how to acquire them and from whom.
It is strange - absent some coordinating mechanism - that armed protesters are acting in unison in multiple states against covid-19 quarantines and restrictions.
I am from the USA, live in the USA, and have only traveled to Canada occasionally. Nonetheless, as the article points out, I am part of Canada's problem, because mass shootings carried out in Canada use firearms sourced from the USA. This is an important part of how our culture affects other cultures; it's not just us shooting them, but us selling them guns so that they can shoot each other, too.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 19.2 ms ] threadIt feels, these days, as though Canada and Germany are the only remaining functional liberal democracies. Something terrible happens; they respond directly to a root cause of the terrible thing, then move on.
It seemed like there was a qualitative shift in the last decade to people who have been radicalized online and it seems to 1) have overlap with groups targeted for social influence campaigns like those documented in 2016 and 2) seems to have gotten pushed from a top down level also with the Russian funding and coordination (Torshin, Butina). It's very regrettable that the latest shooting seems to have be in part because the murderer was able to acquire semiautomatic high velocity rifles in the US (https://apnews.com/aeec329e92569a7b1bbdc44bc6aa2fa2) and it would be interesting to trace how he was able to get the information necessary how to acquire them and from whom.
It is strange - absent some coordinating mechanism - that armed protesters are acting in unison in multiple states against covid-19 quarantines and restrictions.