> He exposed the fact that the US Military was breaking the law. And what about the other 700,000 classified documents?
Clearly the environment on HN has become such that longer time users feel the need to protect their identities in order to go against the circlejerk. That isn't evidence of a conspiracy. And where have I derailed the…
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…
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.
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…
So you're saying that Islamism (political Islam) is a response to American imperialism?
Great. So we've established that not every terrorist attack is blowback for purely political/nationalist reasons. Often religion and ideology comes into play.
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/2012/11/21/250864.html…
So what is this a blowback for?
Ok excellent. We've established that it's terrorism. So how is that blowback for American policies?
Yup that's exactly what I said verbatim.
Lobsters seems like the best alternative but it doesn't appear to be very active. I'm in the same boat as you.
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.
> 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
> He exposed the fact that the US Military was breaking the law. And what about the other 700,000 classified documents?
Clearly the environment on HN has become such that longer time users feel the need to protect their identities in order to go against the circlejerk. That isn't evidence of a conspiracy. And where have I derailed the…
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…
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.
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…
So you're saying that Islamism (political Islam) is a response to American imperialism?
Great. So we've established that not every terrorist attack is blowback for purely political/nationalist reasons. Often religion and ideology comes into play.
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/2012/11/21/250864.html…
So what is this a blowback for?
Ok excellent. We've established that it's terrorism. So how is that blowback for American policies?
Yup that's exactly what I said verbatim.
Lobsters seems like the best alternative but it doesn't appear to be very active. I'm in the same boat as you.
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.
> 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