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Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools
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Noodleface
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I guessed that too though. Most radical terrorists that pull this off are in their 20s. Friday was a good guess too. I bet that person was hoping the perp was a white extremist mad about gun control though.
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I'm not calling you out on anything here but... are you saying once you find out no one you knew was hurt THEN it's okay to crack jokes?
It's either okay to do so or it's not. There's not really a grace period about such things.
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Noodleface
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She wasn't cracking jokes, she was posting conspiracy shit literally immediately after the bombs went off. I don't care if people want to talk about that but the smoke hasn't even cleared yet.
If there was a conspiracy when would have been a good time? Come on now you aren't making the argument you think you are making.
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Lol, the onion thinks 1/10 American's know where Chechnya is more like 1/100 until this incident. Also I actually believe them on the Muslim part. I'm pretty sure as soon as most people here find out they were muslim's they'll be good to go as far as stereotypes and blaming goes.
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While the coverage was certainly horrible, I'm not sure the media can be blamed for this. Them not immediately jumping to conclusions and identifying possible suspects (like they did with Newton) was one of few responsible things they actually did during the coverage.
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I think it also speaks a lot about how good he was at his job. He never went into specifics about what he thought was true or wasn't true but he always encouraged people coming forward to talk about things that they thought was true. He was about as open minded and tolerant as a person could get really.
Guess what?
Sometimes the radical terrorists actually have a point!
Not so much in this case but seriously, people that will blow themselves up or set themselves on fire in protest *generally* have something to say. Agree or not with the message, if someone is willing to die for it, I'll at least give it a glance.
Sometimes the radical terrorists actually have a point!
Not so much in this case but seriously, people that will blow themselves up or set themselves on fire in protest *generally* have something to say. Agree or not with the message, if someone is willing to die for it, I'll at least give it a glance.
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Actually the majority of suicide bombers are brainwashed and illiterate. Mostly children which is being seen in Afghanistan. Sometimes they don't even know they have bombs strapped to them or are told that the bomb wont hurt them. Willing to listen to someone because they want to blow themselves up is just fucking silly.
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Yeah, watching that Vice show about how they convince child bombers that the best has some kind of magic shield that makes it so only everyone around you dies was fucking mind blowing. I'd like to say "I wasn't that stupid at 12-14"....But I'll be honest, if my parents/family friends had all told me X would happen, I'd have believed them. Just sad.
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I also think that the media is at a disadvantage in this because I don't think it's legal for them to simply repeat what's said on police radio.
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Grim1
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King has a point but it will not happen here again, at least not as an official policy. It goes against everything we stand for. Profiling works very well, Israel and other countries use it to great effect in their airports etc.. And we did it in WWII with Japanese Americans. But our current values wont except it and for good reason. We'll just have to live through longer airport lines and other inconveniences.
