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Published: 2015-11-14 11:46:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 53511; Favourites: 1946; 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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What are you talking about? The Bible has been changed and twisted by people pretending to be under the ruling of God for ... Ever sense the start of Jewish faith. Why do you think the Chatholic Church was so pissed off when people started getting the bible in English?
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Maybe you should read Mt5;18
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Unless God is willing to stop men from having free will, which seems to be a pretty big deal to him. I doubt he will strike down anyone who changes his book to benefit themselves.
Because..historically, That is exactly what happened.
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Hmm, Serious topics aside... The whole "British bulldog" and "French poodle" thing is pretty hard set, I wonder if there are other nation dogs stereotypes?
I imagine Canada being a Corgi for some reason, don't know why... That or a Husky, though the Corgi thing is funnier. (Is Canadian himself)
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don't you be talking about the Welsh Corgi as Canadian. Clearly the Corgi is Welsh, the Bulldog (that does't look like it repeatedly ran into a wall that one is an american breed) is English the Poodle for the French, The Wolfhound is Irish, the Vallhund is Swedish, the Caucasian (big and useful but man they can mess you up, look them up they are pretty cool) is Russian. American breeds of dogs sadly don't fit that well into the US citizens views of "'Murica" as most of ours are honestly over-bread the point of being both ugly and useless (maybe it does fit?) Though the Husky or Alaskan Malamute could work for both US or Canada.
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The yellow lab could be a great representation for the US. They're used as hunting dogs, search and rescue, therapy dogs, and such, and tend to be rather loyal as well. Just my thoughts anyway.
And for the Germany, the German Shepard obviously lol
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I'm sure Hungary is not "famous enough" to get a dog stereotype but i'd like it if it was the puli because it's a breed from there and it's kind of hilarious:
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especially the colorful hairpins
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So Italians then a "Volpino Italiano"?
Actually I think the Neapolitan Mastiff is much more suitable.
(has a snout and an attitude that seems it always say "I'm minding my own business. So You mind your own business and sod off").
But to say my opinion, if I have to think of the Italian people, I think that cats are the most suitable.
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How about Germany as a... German Shepard?
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I think a Rottweiler is more appropriate for them.
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Doberman is more appropriate
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I tried both races on Wikipedia and read their characters before I post the comment.
Yet, I still believe the Rottweiler is more appropriate.
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"You're afraid of being ashes. You're afraid of being forgotten. And you WILL be forgotten." (Batman: Arkham Knight).
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And now we watch America deliver posthumous fame to the attackers, by spreading the story across as many forms of news media as possible, like an STD that nobody asked for.
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Terrorists...fleas...same difference.
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They don't usually live a normal life and decide to do such a thing, although there are some but usually a life that has no hope, a hopeless existence will always lead to such actions.
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The problem is: They aren't doing this as warfare. They're doing this because of what it will cause: more hatred and discrimination of muslims, that leads to social isolation, more extremist ideas, and which will lead many of them to join the terrorist group (which as we have seen, from the emigration of people to join the ISIS, is already happening)
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They're doing this because not twelve hours before this happened, the people of Sinjar rose up and ran 'em outta town, and this is their way of trying to make sure everyone stays scared of them.
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True. But the sentiment being repeated a lot as a result of this is that every time IS commits one of these atrocities, fighting them becomes a higher and higher priority for the affected country (and their allies). So in theory, the more of a threat IS proves them self to be, the more serious we get about squashing them.
From certain angles, these attacks may make them marginally stronger, but they also make themselves a much juicier looking target.
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Exactly. The frustrating thing is that I've had classmates and have worked with a decent number of people who are Muslim in the last year and a half who are among the most humble people I've come across, and knowing how even more Islamophobia is spawned from events like this one is really terrible.
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A phobia is an *irrational* fear of something. Given how many acts of terror have been committed by Muslims *in* the name of Islam as compared to any other religion ever since WW2, it's far from irrational to view Muslims with a side-eye. Muslims haven't been the first group prejudiced against (whether the Irish, the Germans, the Japanese in WW2, god knows which other people...), but of any group I can think of that's come closest to earning the enmity they do on a whole, Muslims take the cake, and it isn't even close.
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I think this could have been timed a lot better by waiting longer than you had, but I do agree with your message in its essence.
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Except, if they keep gaining power and weapons, they will step up their attacks. They will escalate. If we don't collectively go in and wipe them out, those "fleas" will do much more than "annoy."
... Which I would venture to say killing hundreds in one night is already more than an annoyance, wouldn't you? Not to mention the hundreds they brutally execute for being gay or christian or singing in their own territory. If you just "shrug it off" you're disrespecting the families who lost lives and you will have a much worse incident soon. Have you ever considered they WANT you to shrug this off and not fight back with conventional means? That this was them dipping their toes in the water?
If more people in your country were upset that the TV was down than lives were taken in an attack, you have a much bigger problem at hand, anyway.
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I thought you didn't fancy yourself that as a political cartoonist. Did that change?
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I think he was being sarcastic... haven't you noticed? o3o
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"Don't worry, I'm not pretending I'm now a political cartoonist."- JollyJack With a sentence like that, you can probably interpret several different things.
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The best way to win against terrorist is to not be terrorized. Give them the middle finger and continue with your day.
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The best way to win against terrorists is not be terroristed.. KILL THEM before they kill you, and continue with your day.
Flipping the bird to someone who will chop off your head because you drew some jackass from the past will do nothing but put you on top of the list to be killed.
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They want a reaction to justify their cause. If we don't give them a reaction they lose justification. Besides my middle finger would be several nuclear war heads that will turn the middle east into a parking lot.
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They don't need a justification, They have one "You don't believe exactly as they think you should"
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They need followers and followers need justification to support them. Other wise they either resist them or flee from them. Communists used the financial differences of the rich and poor to justify the taking of property and money from the rich by force and giving it loyal party members. The Roman Catholic Church used religion to justify the murder of anyone who was against the Church(that's one of the big reasons why we had the dark ages). The American South used the idea that Africans were not human to justify the enslavement of Africans. The Nazi's used the idea of an superior race to justify the killing of anyone that didn't meet their idea of the Aryan race.
Also I wasn't aware your served. I like to thank you because you have bigger balls than I do to serve your country.
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Just as the Islamists have the most dangerous reason. "God told them" They believe that only true believers are the ones that should have the earth, Much like Nazi's thought all non Aryans where an abomination, AND that God told them it is ok (it IS in their book) just like the Crusades and inquisition.
And thank you for that.
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I always wondered if these trigger happy retards will ever figure out that them doing stuff like this only makes us send more people into the places they want us out of. But I guess if they had even a microbe of sense they wouldn't blow themselves up just because someone told them to. No, all they know is how to hurt people, and they should be treated as what they are, lower than animals. At least cockroaches are trying to survive, I wonder what their excuse is.
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That's what made the 9/11 attacks so darn effective. World Trade Centers were much more than just a civilian target, and they even coordinated enough to try to take down the Pentagon (though that attack was not as effective).
But violence like this isn't going to solve any of the problems that drove the terrorists to do what they did, truth be told it's just going to make things worse - which would make more sense if they were Chaos-ists and not terrorists.
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9/11 didn't do anything but piss the Americans off, either.
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Well in the grand scheme of things, 9/11 didn't do much infrastructure damage. But it could be argued that the WTC was an important economic target, and with the military/industrial complex being what it is, it's a far more impactful target upon the American psyche than a theatre is for the French.
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Your description couldn't be more true, and in all honesty coming from the U.S. I missed 9/11 and didn't really know about it until several years later (Shut in that I am) anyways, I have to say your political cartoons always bring me a sense of joy in this hum drum place of a planet (Also daring speedboat escape requires water was one of my favorites)
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This sort of suggestion always reminds me of the Overlords from "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke. We get freaked out and nuke one of their ships, which accomplishes fuck-all because of their uber-tech, and they do...nothing. Like it wasn't even worth responding to, like we're just kids who threw a paper airplane at them. That non-reaction instantly ended humanity's attempts to fight back (admittedly against non-hostile aliens who ultimately were there for our benefit).
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Except we're not here for those sand-maggots' benefit. And we as humans have shown to be very destructive, and very genocidal people when sufficiently provoked. Not to mention, given what Israel can accomplish with its tiny patch of real estate, it seems quite a bit of the Middle East can be put to better use than being terrorist havens.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiQuCd… this says it all
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I am now genuinely worried for the Muslims who have no association with ISIS or any other terrorist group. They are going to blamed for this, and it will be completely undeserved.
And may those who have suffered from these attacks find some peace soon.
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Lived in Aubervilliers for 7 years, and in imigration neightborhood almost all my life. I DON'T blame a whole ethnicity or religion for these actions. People who do that have already a "problem" with the aimed group. Me? The one who introduced me to japanese fansubs was a muslim... Family name Salami. I judge individuals for their acts. I met good people like that.
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I am just as worried as you are. I've known a decent number of people who are Muslim, and have worked with many at the place where I work, and the one's I've known are very kind people.
What happened was a horrible tragedy. But an entire religion and culture of people that make up well over a billion people of the world's population should not have to continue to be blamed for what the extremists are responsible for, and continue to suffer from horrible amounts of bigotry.
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