Terrorist Attack at London Bridge & Borough Market

[Machado]

He said that the threat of terror attacks are part and parcel of living in a big city, and that London and its citizens had to be prepared for such events, which is different than saying they need to get used to terror attacks.

The threat being constant is factual especially in the big cities. If London, or a major city wasn't ready and prepared for such events, then well... something would be deeply wrong. All the US major cities and the likes of Paris, Berlin and so on, evidently have plans and procedures to deal with mass causality crime, be it terrorism or not. It's not his fault that everything he says is at risk of getting demonized because of his religion.

[Panflute]

16 minutes ago, Spike said:

They can do whatever they please, if they wish to give lip service they are allowed to. 

This story is nothing. If they don't realise this after getting fucking stabbed and bombed and contort the truth to fit their fantasy world then this won't do a single bloody thing. You give people too much credit, most will do anything to bury their heads. Ban false-sympathy? It'll simply manifest in another manner.

Oh a lot of people don't realise this. Why do you think "not being scared" and "carrying on like nothing happened" while your countrymen's brain fragments and intestines are still being scraped off the pavement are extolled as virtues by the increasingly apathetic and suicidal Western European audience? Out of all the things, Saudis confirming they have 0 respect for us should be the last thing you need to get outraged about right now. I'm not talking about banning false sympathy: people can do as they please. I'm merely pointing out how retarded these meaningless gestures are.

[Honey Honey]

An Aussie girl died in that attack. It wasn't entirely some sympathy for other western countries. That fact makes what the Saudi players did a lot colder.

I wonder where the order came from. 

[6666]

Think both Panflute and Cannabis are generally correct here. There definitely is a link between geography and when football decides it cares about innocent people dying but while that is a valid conversation you can't take the moral high ground by "giving them a taste of their own medicine" when it comes to a minute's silence for innocent dead people. It's not about people suddenly deciding they care about innocent people dying at that moment, it's specifically about the victims.

[6666]

3 hours ago, Machado said:

He said that the threat of terror attacks are part and parcel of living in a big city, and that London and its citizens had to be prepared for such events, which is different than saying they need to get used to terror attacks.

The threat being constant is factual especially in the big cities. If London, or a major city wasn't ready and prepared for such events, then well... something would be deeply wrong. All the US major cities and the likes of Paris, Berlin and so on, evidently have plans and procedures to deal with mass causality crime, be it terrorism or not. It's not his fault that everything he says is at risk of getting demonized because of his religion.

It's not even difficult to understand what he's saying but somehow that empty headed clown, Donald Trump, is convincing more and more people that letting your stupid side takeover is a sign of winning.

[6666]

Back to Saudi Arabia though, and this isn't about them not observing a minute's silence but more about how they're treated as great allies. A US official here beautifully responding to a question about Saudi Arabia recently and why Iran are the bad guys and Saudi Arabia are the good guys. 

 

[Kowabunga]

Why the west’s view of the Saudis is shifting

While not necessarily siding with all the points the author made, an interesting read useful in order to put things into perspective nonetheless.