There are cases where there are legitimately no obvious signs, where there was no warning you could rationally expect people to see. Not all cases are like that, but they do exist. Far-right, Islamist, or something else, I’ve seen multiple cases. 

Most radicalization happens later than that. I’m not sure a focus on children will have the requisite benefits, outside of cases like ISIS literally indoctrinating children.

You are, quite literally, echoing the bad faith responses of far-right trolls on Twitter verbatim. If that’s not trolling, I don’t know what is.

None of these outside groups have a chance in hell of standing up to Trump. He’s turned most of the base and half the politicians into a personality cult. This will just put you on Trump’s radar to be destroyed in the future.

Honestly, I suspect we don’t. Some far-right de-radicalization programs would be useful. A lot of people won’t commit violence and can be brought out, it’s the same with Islamists. There’s far more people who will justify violence ideologically but who don’t personally commit it, but they’re at risk for taking the…

Absolutely. The category is absolute bullshit. If it wasn’t for the way the concept of white was so thoroughly entrenched I’d personally love to toss it off. I’m ethnically Irish and my nationality is American. White is just my skin color (and unlike most I’m pale enough for that to actually be accurate). 

I think kids prone to radicalization might actually go the wrong way with classes like that. It’ll fuel the false-persecution complex common in far-right ideology. “Useless leftists are trying to brainwash us I’m the only one who sees through them”. You get a lot of that already, without anything to really justify it…

You really want to troll after a mass-shooting? Have some basic decency. 

I always get a chuckle since the word “Aryan” many of them value so much comes from the Indo-Aryan branch, and the root of “Iran” comes from an evolution of that word. Much of the populace of Iran has Indo-European roots, though of course their racial categories rarely comport with history or evidence. 

There’s not been any large-scale anti-radicalization program that’s really worked. There’s some out there claiming they’ve been effective against Islamic extremists, but most of them vastly overstate their success to earn money/influence. Getting to people before they radicalize is difficult because the lower levels…

The far-right on social media is already trying to disavow him. Popular lies include calling that text an anarchist text (it contains some anarchist ideology but that’s dwarfed by the white supremacist content and it’s current in far-right circles) and calling the shooter an “Iranian” or saying that he’s non-white.…

Putin is terrified of “color revolutions” for a reason. They’ve had comparably little chaos, though you can argue they’ve also not fixed issues of corruption or the like that fueled them.

Honestly, we’re more likely to pick up the habits from the Israelis than the Russians, given the number of training programs both in Israel or led/directed by Israeli “experts”. The numbers in Russia are more impressive, but some of the behaviors (delaying/denying medical treatment, excessive use of force, political…

FYI, Navalny’s doctor has claimed it’s an “unidentified chemical reaction” not an allergic reaction. Reportedly the police tried to prevent Navalny from getting medical attention but the ambulance drivers threatened to make a scene.

When the evidence contradicts your words, I know which is a more reliable indicator 9 time out of 10. 

What’s left of State is chugging away, though they’ve gutted most of the senior non-political roles. But foreign policy at least is more variable and there’s usually more willingness to toss aside a single crazed ruler. It’ll take time to rebuild State, but I think the damage to the IC could be harmful because it can…

I live up in Carroll so we’ve got a fair number of those. It’s not like Hunt Valley type rich white flight, but there’s a fair bit here.

You’ve just contradicted your entire concern-trolling with that sentence. Your actions outweigh your words.

Am I missing his intelligence background or does he actually have none? As a federal prosecutor he may have interacted with the IC, but he’s not part of the IC. The DNI is supposed to be the clearinghouse for all the IC agencies (that don’t always talk well), a position designed to limit pre-9/11 compartmentalization…

Then you’re an idiot, because you’ve made an equivalence between someone using that rhetoric with malice and someone turning it around to use it in a purely rhetorical sense that is in no way equivalent to the initial usage. If you look at that and think “both sides are guilty” then you’re a huge part of the problem.