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Terrorism isn't marketing? Marketing is all about advertising your ideas and changing people's ideas. 9/11 wasn't marketing for Al-Quaeda?

Even if he was purely driven out of self-interest and ego, the result of his actions is that today we are discussing his ideas when we should be working.

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I think it comes down to order of operations and intent. If we knew that he first had a manifesto to present, then decided to murder strangers to draw attention to it then I grant you it was terrorism as marketing.

I'm just suspicious whether this was the case.

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