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I read the news today (oh boy) - Current world events
22 May 2017
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Reminds me of France. I won’t jump to conclusions, but we have seen this all too often. 

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22 May 2017
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I am now leaning toward it being an attack, as eyewitnesses are saying there was an explosion near to one of the box offices as parents were arriving to collect children attending the concert.

If it proves to be an attack, very disturbing that it was made against a concert that would have been attended by many children because of the appeal of Ariana Grande as an artist.

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22 May 2017
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Treated as possible terrorism and a lot of unconfirmed reports it was a nail bomb. Many fatalities, many more injured.

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22 May 2017
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Manchester Police have just confirmed 19 dead and at least 50 injured. They are also treating it as a terrorist attack.

Expect the number dead and injured to rise.

A sad day for my country indeed.

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22 May 2017
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Ariana Grande has made her first comment on what’s happened:

https://twitter.com/ArianaGran…..1519966208

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23 May 2017
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Bloody horrible, going after kids.

Utter lowest of the low. 

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23 May 2017
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Unfortunately the death toll has risen to 22, with 59 hospitalised with injuries.

There are children among the dead.

A suicide bomber is confirmed.

Such evil b******s will not break us, or our defence of freedom and liberty.

Worthless scum.

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23 May 2017
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I know that stuff like this always sucks, but it especially bums me out when it happens at a place like a concert or a movie theater, because the unfortunate victims went there just to have a good time. 

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23 May 2017
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Europe seems to be the centre of terrorist attacks. What 

 

Sorry, the rest of this post is censored by the BBC for being far too obscene. 

 

What benefit do they get from killing people? Why? Gee this makes me angry.

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23 May 2017
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When Amarica os attacked, people always bring up guns.

This is becomming a pattern in Europe. Immigtation and the open borders is something I hear talk about being a problem.

https://youtu.be/52nwiTs7bk8

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23 May 2017
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The United Kingdom is not a part of the free travel area in Europe.

The majority of attackers in Europe have been European, not immigrants.

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23 May 2017
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Why I’ll be, when I first heard you talking about this, I didn’t think that this guy was going to kill 22 people and injure many others. One thing’s for sure, this guy has some serious mental issues, no sane person would kill this many people. I especially hate when people feel the need to kill others and in doing so they kill themselves, whether it be from the act itself or afterwards so they can’t face criminal charges. If you want to kill yourself, then just kill yourself, don’t kill innocent people.

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23 May 2017
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When Amarica os attacked, people always bring up guns.

This is becomming a pattern in Europe. Immigtation and the open borders is something I hear talk about being a problem.  

No they don’t. They bring up guns when idiots go and shoot people at which point other idiots say gun laws are not part of the problem and some even bigger idiots come out with the opinion that if everyone had guns then such atrocities would not happen – probably because everyone would be dead from getting shot. 

Let’s not get sidetracked on a different issue at such a time tho.

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23 May 2017
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This is absolutely horrible news! The youngest victim has only been eight years old!

And, of course, Isis has already claimed responsibility. It’s so disgusting.

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Terrorist groups are so stupid, ISIS claims responsibility to all of these things without trying to justify them.

At least with the Nazis, Hitler was a powerful motivational speaker in the sense that him and the Nazis convinced the majority of non-Jewish German citizens that Jews were evil and are to blame for all of society’s problems. He didn’t just convince Germany, he also convinced Italy and Japan to join him, even some Americans sided with him such as Henry Ford. Hell, he even initially convinced Russia to side with him. These terrorists never try to justify their attacks, it’s like “f*** you stupid Americans, we succeed in bombing the Twin Towers and killed hundreds of innocent people for no apparent reason”.

What’s in the spoilers may be offensive, I tried to make it not so but I used them just in case due to the nature of the topic at hand.

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23 May 2017
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@Dark Overlord, you may be right about the rhetorical abilities of Hitler but please, please don’t say sentences like

Edit: As DarkOverlord has removed the sentence in question himself I don’t feel it should appear here anymore either.

Terrorists should not take advice from other terrorists, they should start to love instead of hate. We should all give a little bit more love nowadays.

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23 May 2017
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They should believe in love and peace rather than violence and war and it’s sad innocent people have to die because of these attacks although to be fair, us Americans turning to violence and war ourselves to react to these events may not be the best answer either. As for that sentence, in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t’ve said that and I feel the need to rework it. At least no one has a problem with me saying that Hitler is a powerful motivational speaker.

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23 May 2017
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has just raised the threat level from severe to critical, meaning another attack may be “imminent”. This is because the Manchester-born and raised piece of garbage who blew himself to hell last night may have been working with others.

Armed soldiers will be backing up the police, taking over the guarding of sites usually guarded by police, so that there can be more armed police on mobile patrol.

Let’s hope if he did have associates they are quickly found.

Paul made a comment earlier:

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Not at all surprising the level of alert has been increased considering the nature of the attack. 

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23 May 2017
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I hate when things like these happen, if we add more security, we are taking away part of our freedom.

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