QoleDec 8, 2024
After the events of the past few days, I decided to reread "Radicalized" by @pluralistic
and I was shocked again at its prescience. There's even a politician who gets his earlobe shot by an AR-15. Makes me wonder when #YouShouldBeAfraid will start trending.
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There's a big difference between Radicalized (published 5 years ago) and real life, of course. In the story, older men monologue into YouTube videos before suicide bombing the C suites of health insurance buildings. The actual assassin seems to be young, remains anonymous and clearly had no plans to die. There also seems to be a surprising amount of public support for the assassin.
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My timeline is being flooded with posts that might be tagged with #YouShouldBeAfraid in the Radicalized universe. There's a worrying amount of anger out there.

Here's 3 examples.
https://hachyderm.io/@freeformz/113619602615115978
https://sfba.social/@drahardja/113621279623367620

freeformz 🏳️‍🌈 (@[email protected])

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Hachyderm.io
Dec 9, 2024 at 6:31amWeb
Show threadQoleDec 9, 2024
'[H]undreds of people have gotten in touch with me to ask me how I feel about this turn of events, how it feels to have "predicted" this.
I've been thinking about it for a few days now, and I gotta tell you, I have complicated feelings.'
@pluralistic writes an awesome response to the assassination and its fallout.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/radicalized/#deny-defend-depose
Pluralistic: Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow