I’d never seen that quote. Holy shit.

That would be in keeping with the origin of the term lone wolf, is the funny thing. It began as a proposal by white supremacist leaders that people carry out solo attacks in support of their ideology and goals even if they don’t have direct connections to organized white supremacist groups. In other words, they hoped…

but they’d claim to have stolen a kid’s candy if that was reported in the news.

Attacks like this always get the dumb slobs with Rambo fantasies all worked up. They play paintball with their fellow idiots and assume it makes them expert marksmen with combat experience, a steady hand, and nerves of steel.

Stop watering down the meaning of “terrorism” because it lessens the impact of actual acts of terrorism.

I thought it was defined by the effect, i.e. that it inflicts a sense of terror on the population.

I don’t see how you correct people misusing a term by deliberately misusing it yourself.

ISIS is actually extremely lazy that way.

ISIS would claim anything for an attention.

Word of advice to the happy couple: do not pick Egypt for your honeymoon. Egypt is currently going insane over rainbow flags and the, I kid you not, “volcano of homosexuality.”

It’s certainly a weird one. Two of the best sources on this kind of thing are covering this claim, Aymenn al-Tamimi and Rukmini Callimachi. And while I’ve found Graeme Wood to be somewhat hit-or-miss in his coverage of Daesh, he has a good new piece in The Atlantic on whether or not this is one of Daesh’s “rare false”…

I tried making that point on Twitter and oh dear was that ever a mistake on my part.

It’s worth it if it means outlawing clowns.

How do you coddle, nurture the green in your homes?

Me, I always know a defense of Assad is destined to follow. Hell, there are popular Democratic Socialists of America assholes who not only stick for Assad but also outright think it’s hilarious to mock his victims (e.g., some on Twitter recently made fun of Bana Alabed, a little girl who tweeted from Aleppo about the…

UKIP managed to avoid going full anti-islamic Far-Right psychosis today by not electing Anne-Marie Waters as leader as the pundits had been expecting.

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Speaking of which, there’s a hilarious thread here:

I’ve seen him on the interstate.

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