Kit Malone on Nostr: If you tell people that your enemy is mutilating kids, it hardly matters if that's ...

If you tell people that your enemy is mutilating kids, it hardly matters if that's true or not.

A certain percentage of people are gonna believe you, and because they believe you -- a certain percentage of *them* are going to feel comfortable using any imaginable level of violence to stop what they think of as a credible threat.

When we talk about "stochastic terrorism" as one of the products of hate speech, this is what we mean.