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Published: 2015-11-14 11:46:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 53472; Favourites: 1947; Downloads: 456
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I don't think the people conducting these attacks quite understand: on an individual level, for those directly caught up in the event, terrorism is as harrowing and tragic an experience as any other act of aggression, but collectively, no one here gives a sh*t. Why? Because Europe was the birthplace of Industrial Warfare. Random killings don’t achieve anything. Small minded fools with delusions of grandeur who think killing a few civilians and then dying themselves will somehow benefit their cause are just seen as an irritation.Take the 2005 bombings in London, for example. More people were pissed off because the Tube was shut down rather than because an act of terror had just happened in the capital.
Picking up a gun and shooting lots of unarmed people before you yourself are taken down doesn't make you special. Anyone can do it and at the end of it, you’re dead, so the problem has essentially solved itself. The infrastructure you’re blaming for all the evils in the world is still fully functional because it’s never military or industrial targets that are attacked. It’s not “warfare”, it’s just random violence, and that’s easy for a nation to shrug off.
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This isn't "real" terrorism, this is false flag attacks, except the target is not a nation, it is a demographic, and the goal is not destruction, it is political disruption.
Sow fear, reap chaos, never let a crisis go to waste, yada, yada, blah blah blah, etc.
The local minders of these terrorists are not stupid, only the patsies sent out to do the acts of terror are stupid and/or operating at allegorical gunpoint.
Modern day political disruption is more difficult than it has been in a long while; too much cynicism at all levels, too much lazy gormless new blood in the upper echelons, too much awareness in the masses, too much ADHD in the political machines of all the western world.
They(?) have few safe denial tactics, as conspiracy theorists have greater and greater following regardless of truths and facts.
They(?) have few reliable distraction tactics, for reasons similar to above, combined with alternative media sources offering counter-distractions and others offering counter-counter-distractions.
They(?) have few effective disruption tactics, for cynical globalization and an anonymity delusion that permeates the masses induces aggressive epiphanies of "i know i don't count, but if enough of us pretend that we do, we can fake it until we make it real
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sorry for the rambling. The implied message is pretty clear, i hope. Sorry for this communication fail...
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Why on Earth would anyone think terrorist attacks would effect France? These are a people who, at one point in their history, were decapitating people nearly every day out in public. Mass shootings ain't gonna scare these people.
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affect, not effect.
Affect: verb, you can affect something
Effect: noun, your action has an effect.
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Every year, 20,000 people get killed due to terrorism: 18,000 muslim (out of 2 billion muslims in the world) and 2,000 non-muslim (out of 5 billion non muslims in the world)
This says:
1. Muslims are killing each other, not us.
2. The rate at which they ARE killing us is literally less than one in a million.
EDIT: I found points 3 and 4 were factually incorrect after doing some fact checking.
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That was very well expressed. You nailed it, Jack. You're exactly right.
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Unfortunately, most Americans are too ignorant to realize your point and allow the media to scare them into submission.
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Speaking of which, what dog breed would represent the United States?
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I'd use a Pit Bull Terrier...
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These days? A Chihuahua.
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I would say American Bulldog, or a non-descript mutt.
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Well the English Bulldog is appropriate (more than the Corgi, which is more associated with the monarchy).
As for the United States the Pit Bull (aka Spuds MacKenzie) sounds like a good call or the Golden Retriever (Alex the dog).
Canada could be a Labrador Retriever (just a slightly different and more northern version of the Golden).
Mexico could be a Chihuahua or Mexican Hairless.
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The I suppose for Australia it would be the good old Border Collie or the Blue Healer?
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Sadly, it may just take one loon with an atomic device to make Fallout 4 a reality.
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A corgi would be a better Britain, but whatever, nice work regardless.
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I'm imagining the bulldog having the voice of Albert Finney's character in Corpse Bride
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Also, in tons of other places of the world they do it for even stupider or no good reason at all!
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I've said this a ton of times after I initially heard the phrase but: I don't want to live in this planet anymore...
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i like to think that it's better for all those people to go away from our planet...this planet it spretty nice without them
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Agreed. In the end terrorist attacks as of this day and age don't accomplish the "shock and awe" as the intended attackers think it does. People are more pissed off that it was allowed or that it happened in the first place rather than the loss of life or the intention of the killer. It's kind of sick, in a way, how desensitized everyone is to terror now...
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This is EXTREMELY precise..... too precise.
Do you do political cartoons in newspapers and articles pages..... cuz you'd definately would have tenure in one.
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Somewhat sadly, this is a very accurate cartoon. My heart goes out to the families and friends of those who died, as well as the victims themselves, but in the end, nothing is going to change anytime soon....well, except more random acts of terror that ultimately accomplish nothing except to devastate the lives of those actually involved in the attacks, and leave the rest of the world either spitting mad and indignant from behind the safety of their own borders, or just going "meh" and carrying on. Such is the way of the world, hmm?
Beautifully blunt, almost horribly so. Excellent work, although the reason for it to be made at all is disheartening.
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daesh still needs to be fucked up the ass soon, by who is the question...
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Trying desperately to keep my nose out of politics on the web. Too much hard work explaining simple things to even simpler people.
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case and point is canada's recent federal election. Our new prime minister actually ran on a platform of legalizing pot and giving winter coats to syria...and what's worse he won by a majority vote *facewall*
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Need to add in a dog to represent 'Murica in this that is going batshit crazy over the whole thing.
American pitbull maybe?
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Chihuahua or a Springer Spaniel would be a good candidate for a dog losing its shit.
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Nah, Chihuahuas are more iconic to Mexico. I think an American Pitbull might work though.
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Yeah, how the dogs would react would work better with a Chihuahua, but I was trying to stay with the theme here of "English Bulldog" "French Poodle."
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Well, expected logic from religous extremists? ._.
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I agree. But I feel like the only reason why they attack civilians and not military locations is because they usually cant get past the walls of any military base.
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Then why dont just wipe out high-ranked officers while they are on their trips/holidays/weekends outside of military area ? That would have much more sense, imho.
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It's not too unlike what the mass shootings here in America have become. The media hypes the events up and the politicians try to milk them for political gain, but ultimately it amounts to about the same; an aggravation which seems to be quickly shrugged off as just another day in a fucked-up world. The only real difference being that in America its not terrorists but native citizens who have gone batshit, so instead of it being like fleas on a dog, its more like a dog turning around and biting its own tail.
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Nice metaphor! But if a country has tourism as a significant source of income a few explosions in streets can be a more serious problem than any attack on military targets. Many people around the World will wrote in their online communities "WE ARE PARIS!!!" yet this same people will still cancel their family trips to Paris if more one or two attempts happen.
Maybe because they are afraid to have a loved one randomly selected for a bomb (chances are small, but aren't any better in lottery and people still play lottery), or maybe just because the paranoid state after this attempts really isn't any fun for tourists.
That probably don't matter that much, assuming France do MUST have their military imposing France's national interests, culture and values beyond their borders. Some French will pay for it, some will even died for it, one way or another (and it make sense, it isn't really uncalled for, because military are really not diplomats), sad as it is. But what must be done must be done.
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I just know the European far right is just going to use this as an excuse to get more votes and send Europe in a downward spiral, all the while using the victims of tragedy as pawns in their twisted game of chess. It sickens me
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which set of political topics is far-right, in europe?
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