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kpete

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Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:05 AM Sep 2014

This Anti-ISIS Joke Is So Funny, the State Department Retweeted It

Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro that mocks what he sees as the actual ridiculousness of the group’s structures, a series of “pretend” and “nonexistent” entities, by his reckoning:





The U.S. State Department’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications retweeted Sharro’s drawing on Monday. It’s all part of the State Department’s social media campaign specifically created to counter ISIS’ own online efforts called “Think Again Turn Away.”

It’s a small, odd honor that Sharro himself finds more bizarre than anything else. “Maybe it’s a good thing that they have a sense of humor,” he says. Ultimately, though, he feels the State Department should focus less on the social media wars than the serious stuff—like, you know, policy? “Leave it to amateurs like me,” he says, “to do all the mocking.”

http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-jokes/

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