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"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?!" (media.piefed.social)

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago

Is the target's randomness actually part of stochastic terrorism as a definition?

I think it would be the other way around - that the event/terrorist itself is random, and only statistically predictable, without there being a call for it.

For example, the whole Paul Pelosi attack was an instance of stochastic terrorism - right wing pundits have been painting a target on her back for years, one of their followers decided to act on those veiled calls to violence, and the only reason why Nancy wasn't hurt was because she wasn't home. The culprit even admitted that he wanted to torture her and that attacking the husband was just collateral damage.