Boston Marathon Bombings

BigAltheGreat921 dijo:
I didn't mean it that way, it's just I'm really pissed off right now. I also suspect it could've been some right-wing extremists. Apparently these groups have been on the rise as of late.
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Yeah and somewhere someone is stirring that pot. (Bad pickleniggo, not the time for conspiracies.)
There's so much fucked up about this, I've been following it at work since it happened and have seen some gruesome images. People are the worst. :heart-empty:
And yeah, mid-April is always kind of a bad time for American tragedies.
 
I don't have much to say that hasn't already been said. It could have been much worse, I'm glad that it wasn't, and whoever did it is a sick fuck. Right now I think that homegrown terrorists are behind it, however many there are (or aren't).
 
trombonista dijo:
I don't get why people do this. What kind of message are they trying to send?
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motivation of one of the london bombers: "i am appalled by the brutalisation of iraqis by american and british troops, so i will brutalise some brits to make a point"
it makes sense in his head, probably, but it's like stabbing a schoolteacher in the neck because you're unhappy with the state of pork farms
can sort of see where you were going with that if i step back but it's still a thing that your human empathy and common sense should have told you not to do

motivation of eric harris: "you never lauded me as the ubermensch i believe myself to be, so i will take your worthless lives"
spree killers are psychologically disturbed, therefore their messages are psychologically disturbed
they can be unfeeling types who just want to see what would happen if they popped some people's heads off, they can be misanthropic harrises with massive diseased egos

i imagine the marathon bomber(s) will be an american trying to make a very insane point, if insanity can be measured by the number of explosives placed around a crowded city (2 detonated and 5 not, afaik)

disclaimer: i am drunk and never went to uni
 
Had my newest crazy co-worker go off about how it must be the bad old US government, just like 9/11 and Sandy Hook and Katrina and pretty much every bad thing that has happened ever.

Remind me again why universal suffrage is a good thing?

Ironically it'll probably end up being someone just like him who thinks he's a freedom fighter, striking a blow against the EVIL GAY-LOVING GODLESS NO-GOLD-BACKED MONEY HAVING GOVERNMENT (TM)
 
I'm going to soapbox for a second here. Please note that all "You"s used yoused are in a general and not a personal sense.

I find the #PrayForBoston movement offensive. I find it offensive because it just looks and feels like blatant "slacktivism". I understand that its meant with good intentions, and those intentions are very much to be appreciated, but the thing is...it just seems so absolutely transparent this time around.

I know that the victims of the Marathon Attack and their friends and family need all the love, help, aid, and support they can get, but what they don't need is to become another viral campaign so that when people put a certain hashtag in their status they can feel all fuzzy wuzzy inside.
However, the victims of the explosions are real people, and this particular hashtag seems to serve as nothing more than the quickest and easiest way to offer condolences, with the poster sometimes not even taking time to accompany it with their own words. You could almost call it a type of sympathy copypasta.

Also note that #PrayForBoston is not actually a prayer in and of itself. It's more of an uppity suggestion for others to pray for Boston, which, if you have only posted "#PrayForBoston" or even "Pray For Boston 2013!" as your status, you have not done yourself.

But honestly, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how I feel about it. If the real victims of yesterday feel like #PrayForBoston is sufficient, then who am I to judge?
 
From Patton Oswalt:

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
 
captkrisma dijo:
From Patton Oswalt:

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."
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Wise words from Ratatouille himself (somehow, it sounds more comforting when reading that in the voice of a CG animated rodent...).
 
bungholio dijo:
People always say, "things are so crazy these days blah blah blah.."

Guess what, this shit has always been going on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
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Probably isn't helped by the media hype.

aspie shoots up school
"ADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZAADAM LANZA" then, they make him a celibrity, and blame objects for his actions. Deranged people see this as a gateway to fame. They see that they will be a household name if they do something disgusting, so they run out and do it.
 
Ivan Komarov dijo:
Deranged people see this as a gateway to fame. They see that they will be a household name if they do something disgusting, so they run out and do it.
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While this may be true, the interesting facet to this whole thing is that no one has come forward claiming to be responsible. And by that, I don't mean the perpetrator(s) has(have) turned himself(themselves) in, I mean that there have been no taunting letters or cryptic messages.
 
Using Bombings to further political opinion in 3............2..................1..............
 

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As of right now, police have apparently captured one of the suspects.

And whoever made the above image deserves to be punched in the face.

Edit: At the time I posted this they didn't mention he was dead.
 
The media has been classy with their handling of this, as usual. Nothing says Justice like the New York Post accusing innocent people of terrorism, on the front page, with gigantic pictures of said innocent people.

I AM THE LAW
 
"are you sad about people having their legs torn off? stop it, be sad about abortions instead"

tasteless
 
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