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How worried should we, as individuals, be about ISIS?
Fear can be a good thing, for it makes us vigilant. Heightened vigilance amongst the population might be the critical factor necessary in preventing an attack against us. 6%  6%  [ 1 ]
There probably is no ISIS. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Fear encourages uncritical obedience, bad decision making, and can negatively affect your health. The promotion of fear is a harm that is committed against the free citizen by terrorists, government and the media alike. 31%  31%  [ 5 ]
Fear is unfortunate but necessary to rally the people into supporting the fight against ISIS, which is a significant threat to the wold and our interests. 13%  13%  [ 2 ]
The corporate mass media is using this terror hype to promote the interests of war profiteers, and frighten us into passively accepting corporatist fascism and austerity 25%  25%  [ 4 ]
All of the above. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Something else (please state) 25%  25%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 16

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24 Sep 2014, 6:45 pm

Hi. Welcome to my poll.

How fearful should the general public be about ISIS?

Discuss.



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24 Sep 2014, 6:47 pm

Probably about 6.



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24 Sep 2014, 7:09 pm

The_Walrus wrote:
Probably about 6.


Hmm, come to think of it, my poll question should have been: should the public be fearful...? Too late now.



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24 Sep 2014, 7:19 pm

Depends on where you are in the world.

But for everyone reading this, not at all.



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24 Sep 2014, 9:51 pm

Fearful, no. Aware, yes. When ISIS manages to fuel Islamaphobia to the point it was after 9/11, Where every Muslim in the world is viewed as, and treated as, a terrorist, then I think it may be time to fear all of the Muslims who live in my community, because the moment we begin to make them our enemy, they will become our enemy, even if they come out and play in the streets with us today. Maybe that is one of ISIS goals. To fuel such hatred of Muslims that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.



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24 Sep 2014, 10:35 pm

Not unless you live in their area of operations.


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24 Sep 2014, 10:51 pm

Fearful of ISIS? Hah! They should be fearful of our predator drones![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3L7_xZaZM[/youtube]


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24 Sep 2014, 11:39 pm

AspieOtaku wrote:
Fearful of ISIS? Hah! They should be fearful of our predator drones![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3L7_xZaZM[/youtube]


Any weapon we use against someone today WILL eventually be used to retaliate against us. I am glad I am not going to live long enough to see the hellish existence your kind of thinking is going to bring upon America. Are you related to Bill O'Rielly?



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25 Sep 2014, 1:30 am

Nope but they seem rather successful killing scores of ISIS including other terrorists as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKwhJsgRmU
Besides they are too primative to to have the mental capacity of harnessing such technology they are nothing but brutish sandapes with virtually no intelligence who were brought up to kill and rape people in the name of their skydaddy and when all else fails they blow themseves up.


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25 Sep 2014, 2:52 am

In Australia, at least, it's being trumped up as a political strategy.

Tony Abbot's ratings in the polls were extremely low because he wanted to cut funding to every public service he could get his hands on, so ISIS basically saved him. It allowed him to increase our security risk and create paranoia in the community, which also increased his ratings as preferred PM. It's been heavily implied this stragegy was used in the John Howard era and was part of the reason we agreed to go to war with Iraq.

In the meantime, Muslims over here have already been seeing the backlash because of this.

Also, you have to ask yourself, if the PM wants us all to be calm and go about our business in an ordinary way, why did we need 80 police officers and the entire media (who were invited by the police) sent out to arrest 4 people last week? That's not exactly an undercover operation. It's not what you do if you want people to actually be calm. But it is what you do if you want to cause a panic and then call for calm so that it looks like you're being the responsible Prime Minister of a country in crisis.

Honestly, I think at least in Australia, we have to be more worried about other Australians, especially our government, than we do about ISIS.



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25 Sep 2014, 4:01 am

khaoz wrote:
Fearful, no. Aware, yes. When ISIS manages to fuel Islamaphobia to the point it was after 9/11, Where every Muslim in the world is viewed as, and treated as, a terrorist, then I think it may be time to fear all of the Muslims who live in my community, because the moment we begin to make them our enemy, they will become our enemy, even if they come out and play in the streets with us today. Maybe that is one of ISIS goals. To fuel such hatred of Muslims that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.


^ This.


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25 Sep 2014, 10:43 am

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Nope but they seem rather successful killing scores of ISIS including other terrorists as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKwhJsgRmU
Besides they are too primative to to have the mental capacity of harnessing such technology they are nothing but brutish sandapes with virtually no intelligence who were brought up to kill and rape people in the name of their skydaddy and when all else fails they blow themseves up.


You are so young and innocent are any more aware of anything that goes on in the real world beyond what is happening in Game of Thrones and World of Warcraft. I hate to tell you, but ISIS has members who have trained and excelled at some of the finest western universities in the world. Isis has physicists, chemist and other scientists among their ranks You have your head buried in the sand.

A bit of wisdom for you from someone with real world experience..

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMY.



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25 Sep 2014, 11:15 am

khaoz wrote:
Any weapon we use against someone today WILL eventually be used to retaliate against us. I am glad I am not going to live long enough to see the hellish existence your kind of thinking is going to bring upon America.
It's technology is what it is and like every other weapons advancement humanity will most likely survive the drone.

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Are you related to Bill O'Reilly?

Ah yes, if you don't have liberal values you must be related to O'Reilly, Limbaugh, or Beck.
Gotta love that progressive open-mindedness. :roll:


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25 Sep 2014, 11:37 pm

khaoz wrote:
You are so young and innocent are any more aware of anything that goes on in the real world beyond what is happening in Game of Thrones and World of Warcraft. I hate to tell you, but ISIS has members who have trained and excelled at some of the finest western universities in the world. Isis has physicists, chemist and other scientists among their ranks You have your head buried in the sand.

A bit of wisdom for you from someone with real world experience..

If you should ever happen to get in a fistfight at your young age I fear someone is going to carve you up like a Christmas ham.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMY.
Funny you should say that because I have gotten in fist fights and fought my own now I avoid them though because the last time I got in a fight my rage took over and I did not know when to stop beating on my oponent while he was still down and had to have 5 people pull me off the guy. But also ISIS underestimates US forces despite the fact the US forces are doing a bang up job slaughtering em like cattle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZWHlO0FV0


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