They are telling locals to bomb our mall

RAMI said:
Let's get our "facts" straight. The only people telling anyone anything here is the media/government.
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That brings up a good point. What is the point of terrorism? To terrorize a population by doing something terrible that they will react to. In our culture of mass-media, terrorism is the tactic used against us because our mass-media goes into knee-jerk mode, emotionalizing and sensationalizing their actions in a 24 news cycle, thus, technically, doing their work for them. The media hype that goes along with the war on terror actually does more to empower the sort of people who want to do that than to stop them. We're not dealing with people who are ashamed of their evil deeds: They WANT the whole country living in fear of them.

The truth is that if you wanted to get serious about defeating the tactic of terrorism, stop reporting on it as front page news every time it happens. Give it a small footnote, honor the victims, and otherwise don't give terrorists any publicity. Don't mention the group that claims responsibility. Don't publish any of their ideas, motives or beliefs. Go after all the criminals involved, but make them, and their ideas, stay as anonymous as possible. The legitimate way to spread any idea, no matter if it's right or wrong, in our society, is through the marketplace of ideas: Why does the media hype terrorist acts to the point where they give them a huge national platform? Quit giving them publicity.
 
"I can't believe how easy it is to perform mass brain-washing and control people like puppets. It's like, if they want millions of people to all of a sudden be scared, or mad, or patriotic, or start debating something so they don't notice something else, or anything else they want the non-thinking, non-questioning population to do like puppets on a string, they simply create fake stories, fake headlines, fake disasters, fake terrorists, or anything else. And people simply repeat what they read without questioning it. It's really fucking sad."






More sickening than sad, Rami.

If ISIS was really a threat, we could have dispatched them long ago.


Did you ever wonder why Israel is not fighting, full force; against the World's greatest "Threat"?..........ISIS, ISIL, AlQaeda?:rolleyes:

It is in THEIR backyard, supposedly.
 
"Why does the media hype terrorist acts to the point where they give them a huge national platform?"





Follow the money through the MIC.
 
Slowrider said:
"I can't believe how easy it is to perform mass brain-washing and control people like puppets. It's like, if they want millions of people to all of a sudden be scared, or mad, or patriotic, or start debating something so they don't notice something else, or anything else they want the non-thinking, non-questioning population to do like puppets on a string, they simply create fake stories, fake headlines, fake disasters, fake terrorists, or anything else. And people simply repeat what they read without questioning it. It's really fucking sad."






More sickening than sad, Rami.

If ISIS was really a threat, we could have dispatched them long ago.


Did you ever wonder why Israel is not fighting, full force; against the World's greatest "Threat"?..........ISIS, ISIL, AlQaeda?:rolleyes:

It is in THEIR backyard, supposedly.
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Slowrider said:
"Why does the media hype terrorist acts to the point where they give them a huge national platform?"





Follow the money through the MIC.
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Whats your favourite type of salsa?
 
Slowrider said:
Follow the money through the MIC.
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Well, there's some truth that in a for-profit war economy, there is a tendency to incentivize conflict, or at least to dis-incentivize the end of conflict. I'm not sure how much or how little is deliberate over the broad scope of people involved (probably a lot more at the top than anywhere else as you get down to the people who's job it is to carry out the foreign policies), but I'm sure it wouldn't be a happy day for the CEOs and shareholders of war contractors if an era of peace were around the corner. That's where the "Getting tough on _____" argument comes from. If there's a nail, hammer it. . . if there isn't a nail, manufacture one and hammer it, lest you throw all the people in the hammer manufacturing business out of work.
 
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