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If this indeed an organized terrorist thing, then...it's actually pretty smart. lovely and scary, but smart. Don't blow your load on occasional huge attacks. Instead, have a steady drumbeat of random violent chaos. Very lucky that nobody died in this bullshit.
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Pros and cons of the names: ISIS: The best choice, the mainstream choice, the most workable choice. The first name popularized in the US, based off of a sloppy-but-not-horrible translation of their name at the time. Inflicted collateral damage on Archer, a prog metal band, and some e-payment service. It's also good to poo poo on ISIS's name change. ISIL: The worst choice, the choice for people who smugly call glass a liquid. Pedants will say that this translation is more accurate than "ISIS", because the L is for "Levant", but the second I should really be for something like Mesopotamia, and either way, it's not their name anymore, so if accuracy is your concern, then why are you sticking with it? Daesh: The pretentious choice, unless you are a native speaker of Arabic. Like a gringo rolling the r when ordering a burrito at Taco Bell. ISIS doesn't give a gently caress that you're referring to them by a derogatory name. Islamic State: Technically accurate, not a bad choice. The "proper" name, per them. Understandably, people don't want to appear to be appeasing ISIS by respecting their name change. Somewhat oddly, some people reject the name instead because they don't want to give Islam a bad name, which is pretty much unprecedented. Were there people who refused to say "USSR", because it wasn't really socialist? What about the Christian Coalition?
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Sep 18, 2016 21:13
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Kinda disappointed that the perp will not be the Tumblr moron. I would love a domestic terrorist who really is just loving no-joke retarded and whose deeds require no further discussion. Other forms of extremism almost definitionally have some sort of vision, some kind of connection to our world, whereas the Tumblr dude is just a disembodied butt farting mindlessly in the corner of an empty room with no doors or windows.
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People in the NYC metro area received an emergency text to help locate a POI named Ahmad Khan Rahami. From teh FBI's website: [Quote]Rahami is a 28-year-old United States citizen of Afghan descent born on January 23, 1988, in Afghanistan. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He is about 5’ 6” tall and weighs approximately 200 pounds. Rahami has brown hair, brown eyes, and brown facial hair.[quote] 5'6"? 200lbs? What a fat manlet. What a plump little man-berry. Just rolling around, using his micropenis as a steering device, leaving behind pressure cookers and nu-metal beards.
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