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Plinkey posted:Most no longer have contact with their families if the holiday posts/threads are any evidence. So it's basically a bunch of retired people with nothing better to do. Man, this thread makes me really glad that my father took up bicycling in his retirement instead of becoming an angry old shut-in. I recently showed him this article just so I could say, "Thank you so much for not turning out like this!"
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How the hell do you think people identify as 'race ambiguous'? Is it supposed to be about mixed raced people who refuse to pick which race they truly are?
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So a student from Long Island got accepted to all 8 ivy league schools, an amazing achievement. The student's name is Kwasi Enin and, as a "" posted:Maybe I’ll change my kids names to things like Kwasi, or Kmbo so they can have a shot at an ivy league school. "" posted:Every Ivy League school is dying to get minority students, but the sad thing is that they often fail -- because they are competing with the best white and asian students, who are smarter because they don't get minority treatment. Most of these minority students would be much better off if they went to lesser schools where the whites and asians are at the same level as they are. "" posted:Sigh. And if his name was Casey Ellis? "" posted:2250 is a pretty good SAT score, but in fact, it is just about at the median for most Ivy’s, and even below for hyper competitive schools like Stanford, Harvard, MIT. "" posted:The US Supreme Court has decided that you are any gender or race that you decide you are. "" posted:He would be better off going to Grove City College. He would certainly learn more... "" posted:8 schools? "" posted:Oh come on! Does anyone really think that a white kid with identical qualifications would have been accepted in ALL the Ivy league schools? "" posted:My daughter graduated 2nd in a very competative White/Asian high school in California (two valedictorians were both white, BTW). She had SAT and ACT scores in the 95+ percentile, 5’s on her APs including in Calculus I and II.
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Apr 1, 2014 22:37
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This is some prime-time know-nothing poo poo right here:quote:He would be better off going to Grove City College. He would certainly learn more... And it's almost like the Ivies are looking for something besides grades and test scores... quote:My daughter graduated 2nd in a very competative White/Asian high school in California (two valedictorians were both white, BTW). She had SAT and ACT scores in the 95+ percentile, 5’s on her APs including in Calculus I and II.
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Apr 1, 2014 22:58
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Anyone who says "I know who student who got X on the SAT and 5s on all his AP tests and blah blah blah" fundamentally doesn't understand how college admissions work. I used to work in an admissions office at a competitive private school and the thing is that every applicant has scores like that. What makes you stand out to these schools is sculpting your application to present a compelling narrative that makes the admissions officers feel that you'll be a good fit at that school. Showing good grades and test scores is only a part of that larger narrative which includes your essay, community service, etc. Your application needs to scream "I'd be awesome at this school and do awesome things here" because if it doesn't there are sometimes as many as 10 applicants for every spot in the freshman class. Of course most people only familiar with big state schools where admissions is usually based on much more standardized methods would find private school admissions arbitrary and "unfair." And of course since this is Freep there is no room for nuance. Obviously since the student with bigger numbers didn't get in, it must be racism.
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Apr 1, 2014 23:03
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I'm guessing it's vastly more likely none of that story is true.
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Apr 1, 2014 23:42
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Zeroisanumber posted:This is some prime-time know-nothing poo poo right here: Wonder what their essay thingy was like. Which I'm going to assume that's why they were rejected. Well if this isn't just STDH.
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Apr 1, 2014 23:53
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Oh god, Grove City College. I spent two years and change there in the 90's, I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since then.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:04
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:I'm guessing it's vastly more likely none of that story is true. Oh it could be true. I know at my own highschool there was a bit of a flap because the white male class valedictorian missed out on several Ivy's that he tried for while a female Hispanic student made it into most of the ones he tried for. There were definitely whispers of affirmative action and unfairness, but the thing was she was still like 8th in our graduating class and came from an incredibly poor immigrant family and was bussed in from the inner city while the valedictorian came from an incredibly rich family living in one of the more expensive housing markets in the country down the block from our school. If you look at the balance of things she came quite close to the valedictorians grades and SAT scores while dealing with a lot more difficult circumstances. It's just that when Freepers and the like look at it they don't look at the full context. The white kid had a higher GPA by 0.1 and a few dozen more points on the SAT, so they deserve the best spots full stop. The fact that they got those scores with a lot more breaks than others doesn't factor in.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:07
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skaboomizzy posted:Oh god, Grove City College. I spent two years and change there in the 90's, I can only imagine how much worse it's gotten since then. I have (had?) a good friend who went to Grove City starting in 2007. He left single and a political moderate and came back married and Tea Party.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:08
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Rosalind posted:Anyone who says "I know who student who got X on the SAT and 5s on all his AP tests and blah blah blah" fundamentally doesn't understand how college admissions work. I used to work in an admissions office at a competitive private school and the thing is that every applicant has scores like that. What makes you stand out to these schools is sculpting your application to present a compelling narrative that makes the admissions officers feel that you'll be a good fit at that school. Showing good grades and test scores is only a part of that larger narrative which includes your essay, community service, etc. Your application needs to scream "I'd be awesome at this school and do awesome things here" because if it doesn't there are sometimes as many as 10 applicants for every spot in the freshman class. The kid should have written an essay about how her dad was an ignorant hateful Freeper, but she manaaged to overcome that handicap and become a functioning thinking member of society through sheer force of will.
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Apr 2, 2014 00:29
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predicto posted:The kid should have written an essay about how her dad was an ignorant hateful Freeper, but she manaaged to overcome that handicap and become a functioning thinking member of society through sheer force of will. Realtalk: If a kid who was interested in Anthropology or Sociology mentioned that they came out of a FReeper's house, I'd bump them up a half-step on the admission chain.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:13
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Rosalind posted:Anyone who says "I know who student who got X on the SAT and 5s on all his AP tests and blah blah blah" fundamentally doesn't understand how college admissions work. I used to work in an admissions office at a competitive private school and the thing is that every applicant has scores like that. What makes you stand out to these schools is sculpting your application to present a compelling narrative that makes the admissions officers feel that you'll be a good fit at that school. Showing good grades and test scores is only a part of that larger narrative which includes your essay, community service, etc. Your application needs to scream "I'd be awesome at this school and do awesome things here" because if it doesn't there are sometimes as many as 10 applicants for every spot in the freshman class. Once again for a group claiming to be so dedicated to capitalism they know gently caress-all about it and its effects.
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Apr 2, 2014 02:21
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You'd think if unfair admissions bothered them so much, they'd be more pissed at the legacy admissions who get in because daddy is rich and donates a lot to the school. Also that kid is a first generation immigrant from Ghana. His parents are most likely professionals of some sort (assuming they're not refugees). But Freepers act like he's an inner city crack dealer anyway. "We don't hate black people, we hate 'urban' culture" then instantly turn towards the person with basically no connection to this supposed culture they hate and blame him for it. Fake Edit: Like, without wanting to stereotype, there are quite a few immigrants, including many from Africa and the Caribbean, working at my job, and they all came to Canada as adults because they were educated professionals looking for more opportunities, except for the guy who trained me, who came to Canada as a refugee at age 8 from Rwanda. I just find it hilarious that their first impression, especially after learning his clearly African name, is that he's some up-jumped ghetto thug. Immigration channels aren't that easy to navigate most of the time, usually the people who make it over (even with refugee cases often) have some degree of education or expertise that allowed them to figure out the ins and outs of the system. At the very least you almost guaranteed have to be literate unless you get an NGO to help, and NGO sponsored applicants are a drop in the bucket. I guarantee you this kid's parents have probably accomplished quite a bit, and part of the reason they came to America was probably to provide a better life for their children. Political Whores fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Apr 2, 2014 03:28
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cafel posted:Oh it could be true. I know at my own highschool there was a bit of a flap because the white male class valedictorian missed out on several Ivy's that he tried for while a female Hispanic student made it into most of the ones he tried for. There were definitely whispers of affirmative action and unfairness, but the thing was she was still like 8th in our graduating class and came from an incredibly poor immigrant family and was bussed in from the inner city while the valedictorian came from an incredibly rich family living in one of the more expensive housing markets in the country down the block from our school. If you look at the balance of things she came quite close to the valedictorians grades and SAT scores while dealing with a lot more difficult circumstances. No, I don't think you understand. It's affirmative action because some brown girl got into an Ivy League school while the valedictorian didn't. So what if he was white and privileged! Reverse racism! It's not his fault he was born with the right skin colour and therefore doesn't need to lie down on the street and die!
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Apr 2, 2014 05:11
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Zeroisanumber posted:Realtalk: If a kid who was interested in Anthropology or Sociology mentioned that they came out of a FReeper's house, I'd bump them up a half-step on the admission chain. Just write in the letter "Freep home, please help."
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Apr 2, 2014 05:24
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Way back in the before times I read an article on pulped tree about Harvard admissions. Apparently they had a policy against just taking the valedictorian types and deliberately mixed lower scoring students in on purpose. You see. The valedictorian types are used to being top dog. Cock of the walk. Brainiac++. If all you admit are the tippy top candidates then when they get to Harvard some of them go from the too to the bottom of the heap. Cause someone has to be last. For the kind of high strung, competitive, adolescents who make valedictorian to come in last is intensely stressful. Academics, after all, is their life up to this point. They don't have jobs or children yet. Suicide becomes a problem. So mixing in lower ( but still excellent ) scoring students with good extra-curricular activities is a way to keep the best and brightest from offing themselves or having break downs.
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Apr 2, 2014 06:25
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wilderthanmild posted:This is awesome. It's like complaining that they don't refer to African Americans as "urban ferals" in polls. Im reminded of whatever talk show did a bit where they asked people off the street if they support the Affordable Care Act they'd say yes, but then ask them if they support obamacare and theyd be like NO ITS SOCIALISM ITS NOT AMERICAN Edit: Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2scvIFGjE RagnarokAngel fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 2, 2014 |
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Apr 2, 2014 08:17
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LyinLibs is a lovely human being. Literally just PAGES of conspiracy theory tripe about MH370, Obama's birth certificate, and the whole shebang. Let's take a walk:quote:MH370: Hopes dashed as orange objects turn out to be fishing equipment quote:Finding lost Malaysia plane may be impossible: US official quote:Crucial Radar Outage Scrubs US National Security and SpaceX Launches for Several Weeks from Cape... quote:FBI turning against DNC/Obama? quote:MH370 pilot upset over wife's decision to move out and in 'no state of mind to be flying' ... quote:Gen McInerney:US Has Not Come Clean With Flight 370 Data: quote:Schumer: Senate has votes for media shield law quote:Empire State Bldg Owners Sued – Didn’t Allow Muslim Prayers on Observation Deck quote:BREAKING: Intel Group With Source Inside Boeing Says Missing Flight #MH370 Went to Pakistan It has been revealed that pResident Baraq HUSSEIN n0BSMA (known gay moslem) moonlights as an international assassin.
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Apr 2, 2014 13:18
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quote:LyinLibs to lbryce  , BENGHAZI, not putting boots on the ground in Crimea *trails off and begins frothing at the mouth*
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Apr 2, 2014 15:05
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kik2dagroin posted:Yeah! They botch everything! Including their hiding of his real birth certificate, their outright fraud in stealing elections, their intimidation of Roberts to get him to consider the mandate as a TAX This reminds me of one of my favorite Freep posts of all time. I don't remember who it was made by and I don't even remember the context. It was just another "Obama does a thing therefore it is bad" thread. But I do remember the first two sentences of it very clearly: "0bama is an idiot. He knows exactly what he's doing." That's about the most condensed example of compartmentalized thinking any of us will ever see. Literally, from one short sentence to the next, Obama is a brainless mongoloid and also an evil super-genius mastermind at the same time. Freepers are the stupidest loving people alive.
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Apr 2, 2014 16:15
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Wait I'm behind on my crazy rear end theories. What's the difference between an EMP and a full-on nuclear strike?
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Apr 2, 2014 16:32
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DemeaninDemon posted:Wait I'm behind on my crazy rear end theories. What's the difference between an EMP and a full-on nuclear strike? EMP doesn't kill anyone. It just takes out all electronics.
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Apr 2, 2014 16:34
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Elephant Ambush posted:This reminds me of one of my favorite Freep posts of all time. I don't remember who it was made by and I don't even remember the context. It was just another "Obama does a thing therefore it is bad" thread. But I do remember the first two sentences of it very clearly: Yes! I get to crosspost from the Political Cartoons thread:  Something a little bit exactly like this?
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Apr 2, 2014 16:38
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McAlister posted:Way back in the before times I read an article on pulped tree about Harvard admissions. Apparently they had a policy against just taking the valedictorian types and deliberately mixed lower scoring students in on purpose.
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Apr 2, 2014 17:21
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Man I hope Barack "Mocha Messiah" Obamahitler doesn't nuke Miami with the stolen plane, that would make my afternoon a bit unpleasant. 
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Apr 2, 2014 17:42
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Zero_Grade posted:Man I hope Barack "Mocha Messiah" Obamahitler doesn't nuke Miami with the stolen plane, that would make my afternoon a bit unpleasant. On the upside, it would simplify my datacenter migration planning.
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Apr 2, 2014 17:43
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If there was some Iranian or Pakistani plot to blow something up with an airliner, why would they steal one and therefore be using the most sought-after airplane on earth for their mission, when they could use any number of airliners already on the ground within those two countries?
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Apr 2, 2014 17:44
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StandardVC10 posted:If there was some Iranian or Pakistani plot to blow something up with an airliner, why would they steal one and therefore be using the most sought-after airplane on earth for their mission, when they could use any number of airliners already on the ground within those two countries? The US wasted millions on the F22 when apparently Boing 777's are already great stealth planes. I mean, how else do they propose the thing fly from the Indian ocean to Miami completely unnoticed? No one is going to find it strange that an unidentified plane is approaching the city? So much for nevah forget...
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Apr 2, 2014 18:19
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StandardVC10 posted:If there was some Iranian or Pakistani plot to blow something up with an airliner, why would they steal one and therefore be using the most sought-after airplane on earth for their mission, when they could use any number of airliners already on the ground within those two countries? Occam's Razor? I don't need five blades Obummer 
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Apr 2, 2014 18:23
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StandardVC10 posted:If there was some Iranian or Pakistani plot to blow something up with an airliner, why would they steal one and therefore be using the most sought-after airplane on earth for their mission, when they could use any number of airliners already on the ground within those two countries? Because Obama ordered it to be captured so he could get the Freescale design PATENTS. He also needed these engineers so that he could force them to build his Iron Man suit (will be muslim man in the future) so that he can force sharia law on everyone through force and the military and UNARMED CIVILIANS won't be able to stop him
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Apr 2, 2014 18:23
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So Freep must be overjoyed with the latest SCOTUS decision to let the guiding hands of The Most Holy Job Creators decide our elections from now on.
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Apr 2, 2014 18:43
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DemeaninDemon posted:Wait I'm behind on my crazy rear end theories. What's the difference between an EMP and a full-on nuclear strike? One is much cheaper to do up as special effects on your White Men versus the Terrorists movie, so holds a rather larger portion of the publics attention. And EMP like folks imagine would be a fairly considerable nuclear explosion. There were some EMP effects to some of the early atmospheric nuclear tests, that allowed scientists to theorize that you could build a nuclear bomb that did more EMP than those tests, but this isn't weaponized, and still involves a goodly sized nuclear explosion. Not what they show in the movies where a white electrostatic ring propagates from your non-explosion and the lights turn out, while one of our heroes exposits "That was an EMP!"
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Apr 2, 2014 18:47
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Slo-Tek posted:One is much cheaper to do up as special effects on your White Men versus the Terrorists movie, so holds a rather larger portion of the publics attention. Oh right they barely understand gravity let alone any of the other forces. Except Dalereed I'm pretty sure he's mastered that dark side force power that lets you live forever.
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Apr 2, 2014 18:52
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Slo-Tek posted:
Ye, EMP fears are basically pretty dumb. While it may be possible to build a nuclear device that's more EMP than explosion (I have no idea), it would still probably have to be large enough that you may as well just go the explodey path anyhow since whichever you choose, all it's going to do is ensure a bunch of SLBMs get launched at you, and all an EMP would do is inconvenience your target for a while while you wait to die.
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Apr 2, 2014 18:56
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EMP devices that don't require a nuclear explosion are possible to build. However they require a lot of electricity to run and only affect a relatively small area. The US military uses them to test EMP shielding on vehicles and equipment.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:05
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Darkman Fanpage posted:EMP devices that don't require a nuclear explosion are possible to build. However they require a lot of electricity to run and only affect a relatively small area. The US military uses them to test EMP shielding on vehicles and equipment.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:23
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Yeah but one of these things is much more exciting and like a John Clancy book than the others.
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Apr 2, 2014 19:26
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What exactly is the next step in the terrorist playbook after their hypothetical super-nuclear EMP thing anyway? I mean you can argue they succeeded in their goal in 9/11, they got us to lash out. But what does an EMP do other than cost us a lot of money and not even kill very many people, followed by total berserk rage? Give Iran the PERFECT OPPORTUNITY to NUKE ISRAEL? Let Putin annex the Ukraine? Do they even think about that?
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Nessus posted:What exactly is the next step in the terrorist playbook after their hypothetical super-nuclear EMP thing anyway? I mean you can argue they succeeded in their goal in 9/11, they got us to lash out. But what does an EMP do other than cost us a lot of money and not even kill very many people, followed by total berserk rage? Give Iran the PERFECT OPPORTUNITY to NUKE ISRAEL? Let Putin annex the Ukraine? Do they even think about that? Terrorists hate America because of its freedoms. They want to destroy freedom because Allah hates freedom. Anything that hurts the US is useful for that. Besides that "costs the west a lot of money" is a perfectly reasonable goal if you are waging a terror campaign, especially if you can be sure that the response will be seen as exceptionally brutal by people in your recruitment area and get you new recruits. I would even argue that some of the foiled terror plots over the last few years were still very successful because they hurt the west in terms of money spent on new security measures.
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