Dark Soldier wrote:GooberTheHat wrote:No, but it's something that will ratchet up tension. Hopefully the shooter wont be Turkish, or have any significant connection to Turkey. Relations are already strained.
He's a Turkish cop, according to rumours anyhoo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-38316934So what is 2016 and what might it remind us of?
I wish I could stop, but I find myself thinking of 1914.
The world then had seemed so stable, so manageable.
Crises - political, social, economic, military - came and went but "they", bankers, statesmen, politicians, always managed them in the end.
Yes, there were grumblings - from the working classes or women, or those who were losing their livelihoods because of free trade or mechanisation.
And there were some strong emotions about: fears of rapid change, passionate nationalisms that meant love of one's own country and hatred of others.
Ominous in retrospect because we know what happened. But at the time there was a complacency - it would surely all work out all right.
That confidence was dangerous because it meant that people didn't take the warning signs seriously enough.
legaldinho wrote:Jesus fucking Christ I hop he is a random terrorist, that is bad.He's a Turkish cop, according to rumours anyhoo.No, but it's something that will ratchet up tension. Hopefully the shooter wont be Turkish, or have any significant connection to Turkey. Relations are already strained.
Dark Soldier wrote:Well its hope or shitting ourselves at every little thing, so ya know I prefer the former.
Truck runs into crowded Christmas market in Berlin; multiple injuries reported.
Roujin wrote:I got some current affairs for you fucks - this forum is bless.
legaldinho wrote:Anybody ever go on liveleak to watch these things? A morbid sense of curiosity sometimes leads me there. Was bad for the attack in Nice. Anyway, the comments make you sad for human kind. There is a lot of anger bubbling under the surface. There is a universe coming where a lot of Muslims get rounded up and shat on as a result. I fear in that universe I'll count as one, even though I think it's bullshit. Hey ho.
GooberTheHat wrote:legaldinho wrote:Anybody ever go on liveleak to watch these things? A morbid sense of curiosity sometimes leads me there. Was bad for the attack in Nice. Anyway, the comments make you sad for human kind. There is a lot of anger bubbling under the surface. There is a universe coming where a lot of Muslims get rounded up and shat on as a result. I fear in that universe I'll count as one, even though I think it's bullshit. Hey ho.
I was thinking very similar thoughts earlier reading the news. I don't think we are to far away from one of these nationalist parties coming to power, and I wouldn't be surprised to see internment camps being set up shortly after. For immigrants and assylum seekers initially, but it won't take much for that to be expanded.
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