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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday October 02 2017, @10:18PM (4 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday October 02 2017, @10:18PM (#576259)

    It's not about what the shooter believes. It's about what the journalists believe. If the reporters think IS is evil, why the hell are they spreading their propaganda?

    And because people don't seem to understand the power of ideas, let me make this clear: the power of IS is in their ability to convince people around the world that they are a legitimate threat. They must convince Muslims that they are the caliphate, and they must do that by being more than just another violent mountain tribe. It is their goal to inspire lone wolf copycats by showing people that their tactics are effective and meaningful.

    It's why they send us videos of beheadings. They clearly want the world to think of them as barbaric killers. Maybe we shouldn't help them with that.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 02 2017, @10:54PM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 02 2017, @10:54PM (#576282) Homepage Journal

    No, I'm fine with that. It doesn't cost me any sleep letting them die for their cause.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:17AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:17AM (#576435)

      It doesn't cost me any sleep letting [Muslim zealots] die for their cause

      Has no one among you Militarist Authoritarians ever heard the Jason and the Argonauts story about how when you chop off 1 of the Hydra's heads, 2 grow back?

      Have you never stopped to consider that every time USA.mil kills one of theirs in their occupied land that it creates 10 more zealots among the family, neighbors, and friends?

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      • (Score: 1) by rylyeh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:43AM (1 child)

        by rylyeh (6726) <{kadath} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:43AM (#576482)

        "If men are not afraid to die,
        It is no avail to threaten them with death."

        -Lao Tzu

        The US cannot ignore the new threats it created by it's actions in the Middle East and elsewhere.
        That's why it should not wage wars (military police actions in most cases) unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR DEFENSE.

        WWII - required.
        Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - Not!

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        "a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @07:49PM (#576748)

          The US cannot ignore the new threats it created by it's action

          We're largely on the same wavelength.

          Note here that a pronoun never requires an apostrophe to make it possessive (its, yours, theirs, hers, ours).
          it's == it is; it has
          its == belongs to it

          Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq - Not [necessary]

          Yup. Everything since September 2, 1945 has been about USAian|Western hegemony.
          In order to get the full truth, throw in repeated instances of a president's sagging approval numbers.
          (Only Carter resisted the temptation to do an overt military aggression--though he did plenty of covert stuff e.g. in Latin America.)

          WWII - required

          We need to acknowledge that the USAian hegemony thing was going on even back then.
          A point that is routinely mentioned in the context of Pearl Harbor [google.com] is USA's naval blockade of Japan's trade in petroleum via the Malaccan Strait. [wikimedia.org]

          Antagonism by USA, rather than engaging in proper diplomacy, was a major factor in the outbreak of WWII.
          ...and, again, Japan's Imperialism has to be compared to USA's Imperialism (The Philippines[1] had been a colonial possession of USA since the Spanish-American War[2]; Hawaii was invaded and occupied by USAian Marines in the same era).

          [1] ...the site of much butchery by USA.gov during that occupation.

          [2] ...yet another war started on false pretenses. [google.com]

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