uwotm8920

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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   This is a throw away. My main account is about 2 years younger than yours. How can you not see that the rhetoric here has declined drastically over the past year? Do you disagree that there are significantly more political/non-technica
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   Why would you assume that the drone strike was intended to kill this boy and not the other Al Qaida members he was with? That doesn't seem like a very intelligent thing to do.
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   It's not goalpost moving. > It's local blowback for local policies. Right. So a girl wants self determination and education and local policies allow her to do that and she gets shot in the head for that. The point is that there
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   So you're saying that Islamism (political Islam) is a response to American imperialism?
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   Great. So we've established that not every terrorist attack is blowback for purely political/nationalist reasons. Often religion and ideology comes into play.
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   Sure thing, Jacques. It's just a few silly individuals. It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11&#x2
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   So what is this a blowback for?
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   Ok excellent. We've established that it's terrorism. So how is that blowback for American policies?
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   by uwotm8920 13y ago

   Yup that's exactly what I said verbatim.
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    by uwotm8920 13y ago

    Lobsters seems like the best alternative but it doesn't appear to be very active. I'm in the same boat as you.
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    by uwotm8920 13y ago

    So by that logic, if you got enough people from reddit to come here and upvote political stories and conspiracy theories, it would de facto be Hacker News. Well good thing that's not happening.
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    by uwotm8920 13y ago

    > Terrorists aren't just crazy folk Ok, explain the geopolitical motivations behind shooting a 14 year old school girl in the head. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai