• Wheaties [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    It is alleged that Myers' actions may not have been prompted by greed, but more by ideology.

    holy fuck is there a lot to unpack in that sentence

    • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Feels like it's implying that greed is the most common and normal motivation, and anything else is strange and alien. Some pure ideology at work.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      "What would have been 'worse' to you Mr. Wikidipshit?"

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      3 years ago

      from what I've learned from COINTEL operations studies is that there is a threat profile ranking system that rates threat targets by what drives them. I can't remember the acronym that was used but it rated threats in sequence from lesser to greater threat: monetary, voluntary, political, religious, and ideological.

      • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        MICE

        There's variants but that's the one I'm familiar with. Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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          3 years ago

          The one I learned years back was during an educational seminar on the psychology of terrorism and how to combat it. I wish I still had the notes from it since it was a neat analysis into the varying root causes of it and the nuanced examination into the psychology of the varying kinds of terrorists.