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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 political/non-technical stories reaching the front page?

Even if you agree with the gist arguments being made, disregard your personal politics and beliefs in coming to an assessment.

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 that there are real people in the world that have very regressive views and are willing to murder school girls to promote their ideology.

These are dangerous people. As much as you would like to bury your head in the sand and pretend that it's all a government conspiracy, these people do exist and they are smart and ambitious.

> a sockpuppet loser who needs to continue the "terrorism is evil and we are stopping it!" propaganda

Oh I disagree with you so I must be a shill. What a liberal and open minded person you are.

Please fucking go back to reddit. Actually, on second thought, please invite all your friends here so this place burns down faster.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

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