New Zealnd Mosque Shootings
March 16th, 2019 at 6:59:39 AM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | In my daily life I find most people to be quite "normal" and polite. I almost wish people wouldn't hold the door at my local convenience store when I'm like twenty feet away. |
March 16th, 2019 at 3:44:52 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I always like Keanu: The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 17th, 2019 at 4:47:53 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18222 | At Least 32 Christians killed as mob burns homes, church in Nigeria Where was the new coverage for this? The President is a fink. |
March 17th, 2019 at 6:17:59 AM permalink | |
SOOPOO Member since: Feb 19, 2014 Threads: 22 Posts: 4182 |
I've always noticed how we Americans downplay the importance or at least interest in travesties in Africa. A single American dies of salmonella and it is front page news. 1000 Africans die of malaria and it is not news. Muslims killing Christians in a predominantly Muslim country does not move the needle. The single horrific terrorist attack of a Christian massacring Muslims in a predominantly Christian country will be front page news for weeks. |
March 17th, 2019 at 7:14:02 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
How to be front page news for something positive: Be: not male not white not conservative not Christian not wealthy (unless you are donating money to one of the above in this list) anti-Trump How to be front page new for something negative: Be: male white conservative Christian wealthy pro-Trump |
March 17th, 2019 at 7:40:18 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Deaths are not even close to being equal. RECOMMENDATION Michael Lewis is much better known for his later books that were made into films (Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, Flash Boys ), but I could recommend an earlier book of essays: Lewis, Michael (1991). The Money Culture. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03037-7. One of the essays points out that while earthquakes and natural disasters happen all the time, they primarily hit poor people (largely because there are far more poor people than wealthy ones). He looks at the havoc a natural disaster (e.g., an earthquake) in Tokyo could wreak on the world's capital markets. As the book was written in 1991, Tokyo was at the pinnacle of its wealth. He does point out that a Tokyo earthquake may not have the roughly half a million deaths apiece seen in Bhola cyclone in Bangladesh on November 13, 1970 or the Tangshan earthquake in China on July 28, 1976. But the impact on the world's markets of the wealthiest piece of real estate on the planet being hit. |
March 17th, 2019 at 7:29:09 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18776 |
The only problem with other non-white races is they have some racists too. You get a bunch of races together without any of the racists, everything is just fine. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
March 17th, 2019 at 8:14:29 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | New Zealand, "If you dig into what really happened, you will notice that a heroic bystander wrestled the weapon from the shooter and managed to fire two rounds as the attacker attempted to flee the scene." I hadn't heard that until now, that a bystander shot at the assassin ? https://www.libertynation.com/new-zealand-firearms-they-never-learn/ For the gun enthusiasts : Seattle, https://www.libertynation.com/good-guy-gun-7-eleven-hatchet/ " But the customer, a 60-year-old regular customer from Seattle with a concealed carry permit, drew a gun and shot the assailant, who was pronounced dead at the scene when medics arrived." And NZ is preparing to write even more anti gun laws. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
March 21st, 2019 at 7:29:15 AM permalink | |
pew Member since: Jan 8, 2013 Threads: 4 Posts: 1232 | If we could only get rid of all the guns people would become morally perfect and mentally stable across the whole world and we could all join hands in solidarity all for one and one for all. |