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kpete

(71,965 posts) Tue May 23, 2017, 05:01 PM May 2017

"Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; its time to disrupt it."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekci/dont-let-isis-shape-the-news?utm_term=.udW1d6zA1#.xmMm6arnm

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"Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; its time to disrupt it." (Original Post) kpete May 2017 OP

WE also act like their goals are anti-ours. Igel May 2017 #1

The weekend after the Brussels attack, the biggest event in Belgium was a bike race jberryhill May 2017 #2

Igel

(35,282 posts)

1. WE also act like their goals are anti-ours.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue May 23, 2017, 05:12 PM

May 2017

They're not.

They don't win when we have more difficult TSA procedures.

They win when we submit. When we fear discussing them in ways that they don't like,ways that'll make their task harder. When we fear to offend. When we limit "libelous" utterances.

The tour should have continued.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. The weekend after the Brussels attack, the biggest event in Belgium was a bike race