(09-17-2025, 09:00 AM)Moon68 Wrote: Study Concerning Modern Assassination Culture
I'll just leave this for your casual perusing. It shows a direct correlation between nihilist rhetoric programming political violence.
I first fact-checked their bias, and they came up as slightly centre-right/conservative and tend to use words to sway people more over to the right, but supposedly they have a high accuracy of being factual. That doesn't mean they are wholly factual about everything if they are somewhat right leaning.
From your source:
"We hypothesize that support for violence is part of a broader assassination culture,
underpinned by psychological and ideological factors.
● Online Amplification of Radical Ideation: Our analysis supports the belief that BlueSky plays
a significant and predictive role in amplifying radical ideation.
○ Users are increasingly associating the memeification of Luigi Mangione with calls for
political violence against Musk, Trump, and others, reflecting the growing
cyber-social presence of assassination culture."
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Now while they hypothesize and conduct surveys, actual psychologists are working with these people who murder to ascertain the facts for each separate case.
I'll wait to see what the psychologists' reports about this murderer and not paint everyone with the same brush.
And they make no mention that BlueSky warned every user on their platform that they would be permanently banned if they didn't stop with their unwelcome rhetoric.