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The World Against ISIS Project

30 points by iduuck 11y ago

Kristine1975 11y ago
>-Post mocking photos of Isis >-Post photos of goats while @ing Isis members with captions talking about their wives That sure will show them!
- SpaceInvader 11y ago
  Exactly my thoughts. Nevertheless I do believe such happening can be fruitful on some level ;-)
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    > Nevertheless I do believe such happening can be fruitful on some level ;-) Why do you believe this?
    - SpaceInvader 11y ago
      It's drawing attention.
- yammerbygane 11y ago
  > Post photos of goats while @ing Isis members with captions talking about their wives And it's disgusting to have a go at someone's wife because of the beliefs and actions of the husband.
- jay-saint 11y ago
  The effectiveness of this strategy is not so much mocking Daesh. The strategy can be effective by adding noise to their signal. This works in live protests as well, this is the electronic equivalent of a protest I saw in college. A white supremacist was giving a speech at a public library in central Illinois. Protesters out numbered actual audience members 2 to 1. They proceed to sing children's songs and play instruments. This blocked the message of hate helping to prevent further recruitment and coordination.
  - chrisseaton 11y ago
    > They proceed to sing children's songs and play instruments. Surely it's better to block the message by debating them? Children's songs make it look like you have nothing intelligent to say against them.
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    - lewisl9029 11y ago
      Sure, that would work if the group you're dealing with is receptive to the prospect of intelligent debate.
      - chrisseaton 11y ago
        I can just imagine someone not already well informed walking away with the impression that the nice rational people who only wanted to talk about their ideas were being drowned out by the mob literally acting like children.
        gremlinsinc 11y ago
        Have you ever tried debating with bigots? Both sides end up talking over each other.. I think it makes brilliant sense, to sing songs, hymns, etc and make the other side look dumbfounded and unable to respond..what do they do sing metal ballads about how all other races should be slaves?
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qznc 11y ago
According to some cartoonist the killer meme is: DAESH fighters are genetic dead-enders fighting to spread the genes of their leaders. And they are succeeding. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133596339051/daesh-linguistic-kill-shot http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133596339051/daesh-linguistic-k...
dlss 11y ago
1. You know you can trust this guy about how isis functions because he publishes his results as a poorly formatted .txt file. 2. This is cute even if it doesn't work. I think you basically have to be in favor of 4chan, etc trolling ISIS instead of their regular targets :)
bdg 11y ago
I was expecting some kind of indegogo-backed mercenary team.
jacquesm 11y ago
Flagged for being totally dumb.
madeofpalk 11y ago
Doesn't anyone see how all this "trolling" plays into ISIS plans and they'll come out better? I can see lots of "at risk" Muslims who are already feeling targeted by western society who will just see this as everyone attaching their religion and identity and they'll convert over to join ISIS or try to do something in their name. Mass peaceful demonstrations around the world I can see as a good, but they're kidding themselves if they think photos of goats are going to help.
mrzool 11y ago
So that's what they were talking about! https://news.vice.com/article/anonymous-hacking-group-declares-war-on-islamic-state-following-paris-attacks https://news.vice.com/article/anonymous-hacking-group-declar...

30 points by iduuck 11y ago

Kristine1975 11y ago

>-Post mocking photos of Isis >-Post photos of goats while @ing Isis members with captions talking about their wives That sure will show them!

SpaceInvader 11y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Nevertheless I do believe such happening can be fruitful on some level ;-)
- jacquesm 11y ago
  > Nevertheless I do believe such happening can be fruitful on some level ;-) Why do you believe this?
  - SpaceInvader 11y ago
    It's drawing attention.
yammerbygane 11y ago
> Post photos of goats while @ing Isis members with captions talking about their wives And it's disgusting to have a go at someone's wife because of the beliefs and actions of the husband.
jay-saint 11y ago
The effectiveness of this strategy is not so much mocking Daesh. The strategy can be effective by adding noise to their signal. This works in live protests as well, this is the electronic equivalent of a protest I saw in college. A white supremacist was giving a speech at a public library in central Illinois. Protesters out numbered actual audience members 2 to 1. They proceed to sing children's songs and play instruments. This blocked the message of hate helping to prevent further recruitment and coordination.
- chrisseaton 11y ago
  > They proceed to sing children's songs and play instruments. Surely it's better to block the message by debating them? Children's songs make it look like you have nothing intelligent to say against them.
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  - lewisl9029 11y ago
    Sure, that would work if the group you're dealing with is receptive to the prospect of intelligent debate.
    - chrisseaton 11y ago
      I can just imagine someone not already well informed walking away with the impression that the nice rational people who only wanted to talk about their ideas were being drowned out by the mob literally acting like children.
      - gremlinsinc 11y ago
        Have you ever tried debating with bigots? Both sides end up talking over each other.. I think it makes brilliant sense, to sing songs, hymns, etc and make the other side look dumbfounded and unable to respond..what do they do sing metal ballads about how all other races should be slaves?

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qznc 11y ago

According to some cartoonist the killer meme is: DAESH fighters are genetic dead-enders fighting to spread the genes of their leaders. And they are succeeding. http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133596339051/daesh-linguistic-kill-shot http://blog.dilbert.com/post/133596339051/daesh-linguistic-k...

dlss 11y ago

1. You know you can trust this guy about how isis functions because he publishes his results as a poorly formatted .txt file. 2. This is cute even if it doesn't work. I think you basically have to be in favor of 4chan, etc trolling ISIS instead of their regular targets :)

bdg 11y ago

I was expecting some kind of indegogo-backed mercenary team.

jacquesm 11y ago

Flagged for being totally dumb.

madeofpalk 11y ago

Doesn't anyone see how all this "trolling" plays into ISIS plans and they'll come out better? I can see lots of "at risk" Muslims who are already feeling targeted by western society who will just see this as everyone attaching their religion and identity and they'll convert over to join ISIS or try to do something in their name. Mass peaceful demonstrations around the world I can see as a good, but they're kidding themselves if they think photos of goats are going to help.

mrzool 11y ago

So that's what they were talking about! https://news.vice.com/article/anonymous-hacking-group-declares-war-on-islamic-state-following-paris-attacks https://news.vice.com/article/anonymous-hacking-group-declar...