re: Australian cops bust ISIS beheading plot

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There are now millions of Americans that fear this group is going to bring their band of beards to the US, and that they will see beheadings in Times Square if we do not stop them. It's all absurd.

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You're acting like we've not been attacked here on our own soil just in the last few years.... Successfully attacked I might add.

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It's obvious I could never get to your level of understanding the ins and outs of the threat ISIS poses and how or what our country's leaders are doing to handle it.

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Dude, your earlier posts in this thread speak for themselves. I'm sorry, but they were retarded. I agree that sensationalizing the threat of ISIS is likewise an error and could be dangerous as well, but I don't see anyone here doing that. And you admittedly don't know shite about them, sooooo...

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I know exactly what you are trying to do, no need to elaborate. You are trying to make a mockery of people who take a differing perspective than you by portraying their opinions as far more ridiculous and sensational than they are. It's a dishonest and childish tactic.

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Childish?

What is childish is living in the most well-protected land on the globe, defended by the most elaborate and well-positioned military ever created, and fearing some group of primitive cave dwellers.

I don't get it.

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So because an outlier occurred, we should sit and stew in our panic and fear every damn time someone does something somewhere?

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A bomb detonated in the middle of the Boston Marathon is not an "outlier". And speaking if getting a grip, I suggest you get one. I'm not saying ISUS is coming over here and will take over the country, what I'm saying is it is quite easy for them to either infiltrate a few or even easier still recruit a few nuts to carry out attacks. If you're so stupid you can't see his they can do the. Then there is nothing I can do for you.

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Get a grip. McVeigh did not incite this kind of fear, and he came first. This country is full of ignorant assholes that are scared of brown people because here told to be.

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Stop acting like people who take the threat of radical Islanists more seriously than you are in a state of hysteria. It's unbelievable that you can't have a measured discussion with differing perspectives.

And McVeigh surely didn't come before the World Trade Center bombings nor is he relevant to the threat we face from radical Islamists.

Again, some angry individuals.

You're right, I am stupid because I am not afraid of threats that are statistically smaller than dying in an airplane crash. Aw shucks.

I bet if you polled the entire US population, less than half would even know about the WTC Bombings in the nineties.

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If you and yours want to freak out over something I would consider a threat that will be handled, then by all means. It's your right to do so.

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Yes, because I'm just freaking out over here. My challenge to your ridiculous assertions about how incapable Islamists are at carrying out attacks in the US therefore equal "wanting to kill 'em all," "living in fear," "wanting war with Iran and the entire Middle East," and "freaking out."

Who exactly do you think looks less reasonable and rational here?

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Sounds good. I'm always up for a good history discussion.

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Tag me! You're one of the only posters on this site who doesn't freak out when someone challenges the monolithic narratives on WWI and WWII.

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I would consider a threat that will be handled, then by all means.

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Riddle me this, how does the threat get handled if someone does not acknowledge and take seriously the threat in the first place?