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Cut off the internet and you just create the incentive for developing popular decentralized networking and motivate millions of the 'silent majority' to research how to connect to it.

I don't see what the internet has to do with how little it takes for these terrorists to radicalize loners. Surely fixing that would be better goal, and less of a hydra..

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heh... This is not how Trump works. He's all about the simple answer ( which is why I think he got voted in because many people seem to think the simple answers are the way to go )

Terrorists use the internet to organize themselves...well obviously cut off the internet and they can't communicate.

Lots of illegal immigrants from Mexico crossing the border? Build a wall!

The economy is a mess? Get leaders from big business to run the country!

Pretty sure any problem you put to Trump he'll "solve" it within 30 seconds :)

Are they loners? Not sure religious extremist terrorism is equatable to the solo nutjob unabomber-style terrorist.

I guess my assumption is the more people you can go to in a community (or community within a community), the less likely your political belief is to target its citizens. That it presents uses signifiers and phrases from religion (ie a vehicle for rituals) doesn't alter that it's just a totalitarian political belief (self-granted permission to use violence to gain power); if anything, the radical fundamentalism comes from something like "we have been powerless because we were too pragmatic and not unreasonable enough" - imo, which pretty much confirms that the violence arises from nihilistic disavowal of religion.

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