hopeneverdies said:
If there was such a thing as stupid incarnate, we have found it. Seriously, announcing terrorism in today's world is like the equivalent of saying, "Here I am, I'm Adolf Hitler" back in WW2.
I'm not sure how seriously to take this claim, but then again you have kids who have done stupid stuff like send death threats to presidents and the like just for yucks. I'd suspect that the idea was that he expected to get attention, but didn't expect it to be taken so seriously when he actually did. Probably expected the FBI/whomever to show up say "it's just a kid" and leave, at which point he'd get some laughs. Instead he and his parents are having their lives turned totally upside down as they are treating it like they would a credible threat... and arguably that's the best deterrant. Things similar to this have happened before.
Honestly though it seems that mostly crud like this happens over /B/. I vaguely remember a while ago that some kid got onto /B/ and posted all these images of weapons claiming he was going to take out his school columbine style. He asked for Anonymous' support, but instead got turned in which lead to some mild debate as to whether or not Anonymous by it's creed should instead have supported him. Allegedly all of the weapons were real and seized. Then again Anonymous DOES say flat out "we are not your private army" to discourage stuff like that I guess .
I'd also wonder if someone did hack his account. If nobody did, I can virtually guarantee we're in for a rough ride in the next few months. Disputes in WoW can get nasty and people hack each other's accounts all the time (aside from gold farming). Now instead of simply selling the gear of a guy you hate's characters and posing his main naked except for a pirate hat out on a ship in Booty Bay (which happened to someone I knew), you can log them into Dalaran and spam terrorist threats over trade and eventually get the person a lot of grief IRL.
This is going to be a fun trend. :/
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Also: That's a bad example because Hitler was loved through most of the world which is why there was a war to begin with, and one of the reasons why the US itself had to use so many propaganda and media control tools.
I point this out yet again, because I feel that people are never going to learn from that war until they properly understand what Hitler actually was like. He was an international man of the year, a bloody genius, and charismatic as all get out. What's more he was right about ALMOST everything (when you get past the whole conquering the world and comitting genocide thing, but even then people today underestimate how many people cheered both of those things around the world. It wasn't a global bloodbath because of a single maniac with a handfull of suppporters, it was a global bloodbath because the dude divided the world).
See, Hitler is someone I find fairly terrifying, but truthfully I see more of a shadow of him in leaders like Barak Obama who are popular enough to get their own comic book titles, than guys like George Bush (oftentimes compared to Hitler) who if anything was roasted in the media.
No Obama/Bush comments here please, the point is one of public popularity. It's the leader you love that has a chance to be "a Hitler" not the one you hate, mistrust, or fear.
