Chaos and Carnage in Manchester - Page 5 - Politics and Economics

Not going to lie, having people say stuff like "omg, what is Trump gonna say" and "this is great news for Trump and the media focus!" has made me really miss Obama. Obama wouldn't be the focus of so many people's attention.

Except for on Fox, where Muslim Obama and his sidekick Hillary created ISIS, and were currently funding terrorism.

05-22-2017 , 09:40 PM

#102

rafiki

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"Two US officials tell Reuters that a suicide bomber is suspected in the Manchester explosion."

How are the Americans first to break that? Seems odd.

05-22-2017 , 09:40 PM

#103

SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

Does Cernovich even know where Manchester is?

There's a Manchester in New Hampshire. Maybe he thinks it's there.

05-22-2017 , 09:41 PM

#104

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I totally agree and wish my mind didn't go there first but I'm 100% confident he will make this much worse.

Just one more reason why the world is such a worse place since January.

05-22-2017 , 09:41 PM

#105

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rafiki

"Two US officials tell Reuters that a suicide bomber is suspected in the Manchester explosion."

How are the Americans first to break that? Seems odd.

I just think American press is less reserved with the sensationalism.

05-22-2017 , 09:41 PM

#106

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This post makes zero sense. So literally nothing anyone could do wrt to this incident short of causing it deserves any scorn or discussion?

"literally nothing" - the guy made a couple of joke tweets.

I just don't think anyone going at that dude is sincere and is using these times to do their virtue signalling nonsense. I do recognize however that I will get nowhere here so take your shats and I'll stfu about the tweet guy.

05-22-2017 , 09:44 PM

#107

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Originally Posted by lenC

For people who have the capability of feeling empathy, they absolutely are being sincere.

05-22-2017 , 09:44 PM

#108

Gizmo

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God, this was probably the first concert for a bunch of children.

05-22-2017 , 09:46 PM

#109

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God, this was probably the first concert for a bunch of children.

This is a new low level for these scumbags. Attacking children is the definition of evil.

05-22-2017 , 09:46 PM

#110

SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

I just think American press is less reserved with the sensationalism.

I'm actually pretty impressed with how long the major American outlets lasted before calling it a terror attack.

05-22-2017 , 09:47 PM

#111

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CBS news says large group of young girls among the dead.

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I've read in different places saying that 10 of the 19 were girls from this group.

05-22-2017 , 09:47 PM

#112

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For people who have the capability of feeling empathy, they absolutely are being sincere.

Channeling all your anger at some random guy isn't a better look.

05-22-2017 , 09:48 PM

#113

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For people who have the capability of feeling empathy, they absolutely are being sincere.

Don't ever reply to someone using the phrase virtue signally or SJW. Both are absolute locks the poster is a total moron not worth your attention. I wish there was an auto filter that instantly put anyone using those phrases on ignore.

05-22-2017 , 09:50 PM

#114

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Originally Posted by Gizmo

Does Cernovich even know where Manchester is?

I mean, this is either Cernovich endorsing this as karma or taking responsibility for it, right? What a ****ing guy.

05-22-2017 , 09:51 PM

#115

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Originally Posted by Clovis8

This is a new low level for these scumbags. Attacking children is the definition of evil.

Keeping them as sex slaves is also the definition of evil.

Of course the fact that the rest of the Muslim world hates Daesh as much as we do won't mean anything when it comes time to make their lives hell over stuff like this.

05-22-2017 , 09:52 PM

#116

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My "radical Islamic terrorism!" post was ironic.

Second, you guys were coming up with absolutely ridiculous theories of what happened. It's obviously islamic terrorism or "white kid metal illness", both of which I'd call terrorism. I don't think my post would have got so much attention if there weren't some truth to it.

05-22-2017 , 09:54 PM

#117

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We posted news accounts saying it was balloons, and no one had said 20 dead yet. Stop substituting the reality you want for what actually happened.

05-22-2017 , 09:55 PM

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You guys are getting your rocks off on the latest slaughter to bound down the pike. This thread isn't empathy defined, I mean bless everyone's heart.

just chill

05-22-2017 , 09:55 PM

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Whenever these attacks happen in Europe part of me always believes them to be proxy attacks towards the US. We have certainly had attacks on US soil but they almost seem to always be more isolated in terms of organized terrorism.

05-22-2017 , 09:58 PM

#120

SuperUberBob

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Originally Posted by markksman

Whenever this attacks happen in Europe part of me always believes them to be proxy attacks towards the US.

They are in a way. Obviously the emotional impact of attacks abroad are lesser than ones in America but it's still a way to reinforce the views of Islamophobes without having to fly over an ocean to do it.

05-22-2017 , 10:00 PM

#121

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The Hannity/infowars/zerohedge crowd is on the case.

05-22-2017 , 10:06 PM

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Seriously though, was there any reason for four pages of thinking up possible scenarios that didn't involve terrorism? Are you guys competing at who can look the most liberal by showing you aren't assuming it was terrorism?

1. Four pages? You're doing it wrong.

2. Waiting for facts before assuming something was malicious / terrorism related is not liberal or conservative...it's called being a reasonable person.

3. **** you