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1/6 insurrection

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1/6 insurrection

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1/6 insurrection is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 17, 2021 and July 08, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “big viral protests lately except Black Lives Matter and the 1/6 insurrection”; “the beginning of the pandemic and the 1/6 insurrection”. It most often appears alongside New York Times, US, Abdel al-Sisi.

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  • Category: Events
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 17, 2021
  • Last seen: July 08, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public
September 17, 2021 · Original source
Gurri divides the world between the Center and the Border. He thinks the Center - politicians, experts, journalists, officials - will be in a constant retreat, and the Border - bloggers, protesters, and randos - on a constant advance. His thesis got a boost when Brexit and Trump - both Border positions - crushed and embarrassed their respective Centers. But since then I'm not sure things have been so clear. The blogosphere is in retreat (maybe Substack is reversing this?), but the biggest and most mainstream of mainstream news organizations, like the New York Times are becoming more trusted and certainly more profitable. The new President of the US is a boring moderate career politician. The public cheers on elite censorship of social media. There haven't been many big viral protests lately except Black Lives Matter and the 1/6 insurrection, and both seemed to have a perfectly serviceable set of specific demands (defunding the police, decertifying the elections). Maybe I've just grown used to it, but it doesn't really feel like a world where a tiny remnant of elites are being attacked on all sides by a giant mob of entitled nihilists.
Inline links: is in retreat, becoming more trusted
Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike
July 08, 2022 · Original source
The people buying new guns are mostly (~80%) people who have guns already. This varies a bit by time period but other periods (the beginning of the pandemic and the 1/6 insurrection) were more disproportionately new gun owners than the June period when homicides started to spike. This also shows that the largest month-over-month increases in gun purchases, both new and total, were March 2020 and January 2021. There was no sudden homicide spike associated with either of these months, only May/June 2020. Finally, guns are usually more correlated with suicide deaths than with homicide deaths… State by state correlation between gun ownership and murder rates (left), and between gun ownership and suicide rates (right). Source here. …but there was no spike in suicides at the same time as the murder spike: Source This is what you’d expect given that the number of guns only increased by 2% over trend - a completely invisible effect on suicide. Unrelatedly, homicides rose by 30%. So the gun hypothesis requires that: Crime tracks the flow, rather than the stock, of guns.
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