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Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".

• somat 2mo ago
  That is the fundamental of guerrilla warfare. The guerrillas can't win but can loose with very little cost while the cost for the established side to "Win" is an order of magnitude more.
• TalkingCodeMonk 2mo ago
  After 9/11 (and long before), the majority of historians and academia warned that the political response to terrorism — the destruction of civil liberties, implementation of mass surveillance, Islamophobia, populism — were a greater threat and risk to our freedoms than the terrorists ever were. I remember, after the Snowden leaks, when anyone warned that governments could use the patriot act and the various other "intelligence" power grabs to destroy democracy and implement totalitarian dictatorship, they would be deemed insane conspiracy theorists. The hilarious part is most of them (including me) were warning about a distant future... yet it barely took a decade for America to collapse into fascist populism, declare ANTI-FAscists the real terrorists, and turn the surveillance apparatus against them.
• andai 2mo ago
  "Encourage your adversary to do more of the thing they've been pushing for half a century."
  • Henchman21 2mo ago
    “When your enemy makes mistakes, don’t stop them.”