So, how did we end up getting rid of the anarchist and communist terrorists anyway...

So, how did we end up getting rid of the anarchist and communist terrorists anyway? They were the big bads of the 1890s-1920s and 1970s-1980s.

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"Big bads" meaning "unironically the good guys"

"They" tried killing them but that didn't really work.

Everyone stopped caring as much about anarchism after WW1, and especially after the Soviet Union came along and started to monopolize the market on idealistic misfits.

Communist terrorism kind of dropped off after the USSR fell.

>that anarchist death toll
>"anarchists claimed the lives of President Sadi Carnot of France (1894), Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, the prime minister of Spain (1897), Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1898), King Umberto of Italy (1900), President William McKinley of the United States (1901) and José Canalejas y Méndez, another Spanish prime minister (1912)."

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>especially after the Soviet Union came along and started to monopolize the market on idealistic misfits.

So an Islamic Caliphate could stop Islamist terrorism?

I've thought about this too, given the recent focus on "anti-government views"= right wing (in the US at least), and the best I can come up with is that post-Reagan, the US has been fairly socially liberal, so the people who feel like their views are the ones being left out of society and government, and hence be anti-government, are more likely to be socially conservative. Generally leftist views seem to be ascending, so their supporters probably feel like that's the direction we are inevitably headed in, so there's no need to turn to violence (aside from the cop shooter last week), just be patient. This can obviously change and leftist views like anarchism and communism can be the ones committing terror attacks, like your examples.

Also, and this is especially true in the US, but rights to guns and weapons are generally viewed as the realm of right-wingers, so most leftists, except very far-leftists, wouldn't own a gun to contemplate some type of political violence. For instance, Alexander Cockburn, a career leftist and beyond the pale of mainstream views in the US, was branded as a right winger by many mainstream US liberals for his strong support for gun rights (along with his opposition to hate speech laws, his mockery of Democrats, and his approval of various anti-government militia groups even if he didn't agree with their Christian views).

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>We're allowed to commit atrocities too if they're doing it!
Why do gommies always resort to this?

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