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Old 11-14-2015, 09:49 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Oh well. Looks like they actually had to bring people into France for the attacks and it wasn't just... migrants. That is an important little piece of info.
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Old 11-14-2015, 10:13 AM   #32 (permalink)
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/107516

This petition is getting about a thousand signatures every 30 seconds or so.
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Old 11-14-2015, 10:57 AM   #33 (permalink)
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You don't think I realize that this terrorist attack is something that never should have happened? Of course I do.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's better to be a bit less cavalier in the immediate aftermath of such highly publicized events.

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It's info. If I was informed that some random woman was raped and murdered in Central Park last night I'd feel just as bad as I do about Paris. On the other hand, the whole Middle East thing is a complete cluster **** which most of us have become numb to by now.

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Old 11-14-2015, 11:01 AM   #34 (permalink)
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U2 has apparently cancelled their upcoming concert in Paris.
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Old 11-14-2015, 11:08 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Old 11-14-2015, 11:15 AM   #36 (permalink)
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According to reports, Hollande was at the soccer game and was evacuated from the stadium soon after reports of the attacks emerged.

"We will lead the fight. It will be ruthless," Hollande said outside the concert hall shortly after security forces had stormed the building, ending the siege.

It'll be interesting to see if this means that the French government's response will be even more severe. I imagine the highest ranking government official being in that kind of danger will make him take this particularly personally. I'd be surprised if French nationalists didn't gain even more influence.

To say nothing of the rest of Europe for that matter.


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This just confuses me. Just yesterday I think almost like 50 were killed in Beirut, large amounts of people die from things like this on an almost daily basis and nobody says anything about it really... then it happens at a concert in a first world country and it's like the planet stops spinning. It's creepy to me. Where is this level of outrage the other hundred thousand times this happens?

I guess that's why I have a hard time taking reactions on forums seriously. I think it's mostly just people hamming it up. Someone will get all mad that someone said something that wasn't 100% supportive even though those same people usually say absolutely nothing.

Western countries have little to no cultural connection with that part of the world. When something happens in "our neck of the woods" it just feels a lot closer to home. Tribalism, basically. Not a good thing, but at least it makes us care about some parts of the world other than our own little slice of it.


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U2 has apparently cancelled their upcoming concert in Paris.
At least something good came of this tragedy.
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Old 11-14-2015, 11:17 AM   #37 (permalink)
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U2 has apparently cancelled their upcoming concert in Paris.
I can't imagine what would happen if U2 went through with it. The suicide rate in Paris would skyrocket.
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Old 11-14-2015, 11:26 AM   #38 (permalink)
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I can't imagine what would happen if U2 went through with it. The suicide rate in Paris would skyrocket.
I imagine the suicide bombing rate would as well.
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To be fair, the U2 jokes are the only ones that have been even remotely funny.
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