nonentity 12 points 2 months ago

On 2001-09-12, Al-Qaeda and bin Laden became superfluous because the US and those aligned with them plagiarised their play book and implemented it as the Patriot Act and related societal debasements.

A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

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marcos 6 points 2 months ago

It's not their playbook. Their playbook is very different from that.

On that date, the US declared defeat and adopted the terms Al-Qaeda imposed on them.

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Rhaedas 1 point 2 months ago

They also were surprised at how successful their plan worked out. It shouldn't have been, but Bush got into office and opened the door.

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JerryMerweather 9 points 2 months ago

The picture below is in no way made by someone who knows arabic:

the caption is written from left to right , but unlike other normal languages, arabic is written from right to left .
the letters are disconnected, in arabic letters are connected depending on their position
the caption gives off google translator vibes.

Anyway, I wouldn't doubt if this was really the case

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samus12345 7 points 2 months ago

Whoever made that Onion article 12 years ago wasn't interested in putting accurate Arabic in the image.

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Elgenzay 1 point 2 months ago

How can you tell it's written left to right? There's equal space on both sides

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cazssiew 5 points 2 months ago

Because what's written only makes sense (sort of) from left to right. It says ننتظر الآن والسماح الغرب لتدمير نفسه... but backwards with every letter separated, which is typical of computers which haven't been configured for arabic script

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IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet 5 points 2 months ago

For all we know it could be the last 420 in america.

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kingofras 3 points 2 months ago

What a way to celebrate the fuhrer’s birthday

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mumblerfish 2 points 2 months ago

You may think of it as the führer's birthday, I think of it as the birthday of the man who killed the führer. Much better perspective.

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