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Goad had been corresponding for a while with Richard Ramirez, who as the “Night Stalker” was responsible for killing over a dozen people. “After I sent him the Rape issue, his letters stopped,” recalls Goad. “One of Ramirez’s pen pals later informed me that Ricky had asked him, ‘Don’t you think that issue went a little too far?’”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Mr. Suspicion. Another variant on the breeds above, this is a future Joe Stalin. He sees what he wants to see—usually the worst—in other people, and imagines that everyone is after him. Mr. Suspicion is in fact the least dangerous of the three: Genuinely unbalanced, he is easy to deceive, just as Stalin himself was constantly deceived. Play on his
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Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs
The Adolescent Style in American Politics - The Atlantic
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“We don’t know that for sure. What we do know is that the media is now covering this Roy Cooper like he’s our own, homegrown George Zimmerman. Like he got mugged once, so now he’s out there on some kind of vendetta.”
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
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Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
Republicans don’t just aim to cause fear, as some Democrats charge. They trigger the full range of intuitions described by Moral Foundations Theory. Like Democrats, they can talk about innocent victims (of harmful Democratic policies) and about fairness (particularly the unfairness of taking tax money from hardworking and prudent people to support
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Such is the power of sheer animus: it disables our ethical and our practical judgment.