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i'd like to send a card or something. the flag avatar thing on fb is not enough.I feel i need to do something. or turn into superman and stop all the shootings before they start. It just makes so mad that people have nothing better to do then shoot and hurt people. I hate feeling powerless.
I believe the best thing you can do at this point is to understand WHY this happened. Maybe with this understanding, you CAN do something, when the polls open.
I will post this in the hope that it will help. It is pretty long, but it is a complicated subject.
This horrendous violence may be vicious, but it is not pointless.
In the wake of a terror attack, Step One is to forget about "the score" completely.
Whenever some notorious rapist is caught, exactly 100 percent of the conversations or Internet comment sections about the subject will say, 'I hope he gets raped in prison!'
Because that would “even the score”, right? But even five seconds' consideration demonstrates how monstrous that idea is: “rape is awesome, as long as it's targeted toward people who deserve it!” No, the cruel reality is that if that guy gets raped, the score isn't: Rapist 1, Society 1. It's: Rape 2, Society 0 ...
When a bunch of terrorists blow up a school or shoot up a concert hall, do you think it's because they don't know we have guns and bombs and drones? You think they do what they do because they believe we're “too weak to strike back” and that we thus need to “show them how strong we are"?
They know exactly what we're going to do: We're going to overreact. We do it every time. EVERY SINGLE TIME! That's why they do it. So stop, step back, and understand something that most of America doesn't:
They do what they do, because they know we're too weak to RESIST striking back UNTHINKINGLY.
Our knee-jerk, bomb-dropping reflex is our weakness. They are trying to exploit it, because retaliation bombings, which more often than not kill many more innocents than terrorists, are how they recruit more terrorists to their side. The world was on our side -- yes, even France -- after 9/11. If we had captured Bin Laden in Tora Bora and declared ourselves satisfied, we could have gained world wide stature, even in much of the Islamic world.
The reality is that your most automatic, unthinking reflex is always to hit back, and that growing up means resisting it.
It's the thinking part — the human part — that says to stop, resist the initial urge, and actually think about what action will make the world better.
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
I agree with some of your ideas but there is no us and them theres only us everything else is an illusion..there is only traumatized people traumatizing people...ad infinitum
What the fuck are you talking about. These animals kill because they hate us. That's it.
We need to eliminate every last one of these motherfuckers.
-- Lemmiwinks, Gerbil King
There you go, another fucking idiot heard from. Hey braino, of course they hate us, but WHY do they hate us? duh
It certainly can't be because we drop bombs on their families or something, right?
You're such an idiot. ISIS is a flea compared to the U.S army, as well as almost every military. If we wanted, we could pretty much destroy the entire group in a few hours, but our leaders are too stupid and ignorant to think of doing this.
ISIS is completely insane and will do literally anything to please their imaginary friend in the sky. Including killing thousands of innocent people. They are not part of society, they are radicalized lunatics who hunger for blood and violence, and our only option is to destroy them. If we sit back, they will only keep attacking, and more innocent people will die.
Our only option is to completely eradicate ISIS. Kill any man, woman or child involved with this evil group. Personally, I would appreciate it if, when we do capture terrorists, to torture them before their execution. Maybe pull out all of their teeth, smash their limbs and finally dismember them for a bit of fun. We could broadcast their executions on social media too, which is what they do, so all of us can enjoy some proper entertainment.
Amazing! Good on ya. Your ideas are exactly why we have all these people hating us today. Congratulations; you have not learned one single thing from history. What you said is identical to what war mongers like you said about the Viet Cong, and who won that war?
When will we ever learn? If you are an American, I am ashamed of you.
You actually can help.
Donate to IFRC, which is aiding the survivors of the attacks, here: http://www.ifrc.org/en/get-involved/donate/
Donate to Secours Catholique-Caritas France, which is providing relief and often helps during times of crisis, here: https://don.secours-catholique.org/don_non_affecte/~mon-don/
It is their own fault for letting all those Muslims into their country in the first place!
Another brilliant, deep thinker. No wonder America is in such trouble.
All muslims are terrorists, just like ALL Americans are as stupid as you are, right?
Look what is happening in Europe my learned friend...Germany, France, Italy are all letting these so called "refugees" from Syria into their countries without screening them as normal protocol would suggest! the vast majority of these "refugees" are young men between 18-26 years of age. Are they unaware of ISIS and other Islam movements or are they just fucking morons?
They are letting Muslim fanatics into their borders as if they are inviting bombings, shootings and mass slaying of their fellow countrymen / woman.
I did not say that ALL Muslims are terrorists, that is like saying that ALL British citizens are English!
Fucking wake up and smell the roses...by the way, I am not a simple, stupid American, I my friend am a South African and have probably had more to do with Terrorists than you will ever see in American movie in my life time!
So get into your little row boat with your Gypsy friends and row the fuck out of my personal space!
Why is it you guys who are so full of uninformed bullshit always feel the need to make personal attacks in what might have been an interesting discussion with a slur like, "So get into your little row boat with your Gypsy friends and row the fuck out of my personal space!"? That totally negates any intelligent point you might have been making. Your personal attacks in these sorts of discussions do not lend weight to your position, they show you are only posting as an avenue to attack me personally.
lets be real here my friend, a syrian passport was found on one of the attackers. its pretty obvious that one of the "refugees" helped orchestrate such an act. do u with a straight face think that allowing hundreds of thousands of islamic refugees into western countries is a positive?
My point exactly, he is a moron with head shoved up his arse! (ostrich syndrome) if I cannot see it, it cannot see me!
Golly gee whiz. Like these terrorist organizations have any trouble getting their people into the countries they want to attack. Case in point, 9/11. Like they need to hide them within a group of refugees that took how many months to get to wherever they needed to go, at the risk of drowning or being detained at one border or another?
Let us indeed be REAL here. These are very, very rich organizations and need not rely on such an uncertain mode of transportation for their agents. Syrians fly on airplanes just as anyone else would, and until they actually DO something, they generally aren't on any watch list.
You are assuming way, way too much.
Have u done any research on the no go zones in europe? the areas populated with people like these so called refugees who may or may not have even come from syria. U do realize that one of the attackers was sheltered in one of these no go zones as he prepared for the attack. More people from these Islamic countries may quite possibly result in a drop in quality of life for not only non Muslims but the entire continent of Europe.