Reaction to the Manchester attack

May 24, 2017 6:20 PM

Pettson

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Saw this the other day, cheers to this guy. Cheers to Manchester.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gollum's got a point.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

imprison everyone attending hatespeeches in mosques for being part of a terrorist association.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

and close all mosques that let imams preach hate speech.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Baggiiinnseesssss

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yup. Keep loving them until they take over. Or, get realistic. Take active measures to ensure it never happens again. Kill the radicals.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 5

Agent 47.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It isn't time for unity. It's time for an alliance. An alliance to rid the world of ISIS and its ilk.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

1. Raise alert 2.light buildings 3.facebook flags 4.rally up and moan. Wait for the next attack rinse and repeat

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 9

How sad and true is this. Don't forget the #notallmuslims

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 7

Yeah very sad indeed

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 3

deus vult motherfuckers

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

They don't want to divide you, they just wanna kill you. Stop romanticizing.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

Meanwhile that cunt Alex Jones blames 'liberals' for allowing this to happen.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 19

When will they realize that bombing anyone only unites the nations against them?

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 8

when will usa and its allies learn this?

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 12

You do realize that, in the grand scheme of things, the world is currently in the midst of one of the most peaceful times in history?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

It obviously doesn't because they are getting more funding and they are having no trouble getting recruits.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Holy fuck, I can *see* the accent.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Sure that guy doesn't mind sharing his city, but what happens when the people that he shares with don't want to share it with him?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

How bout what you do is secure your border and stop letting people like this in?

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 18

The guy was born in Manchester and was a student at Salford uni down the road. Borders are not an issue here.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 5

His parents were Muslim immigrants.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The guy who blew himself up was born in Manchester. The highest walls can't stop ideals from flowing

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 4

I swear I had nothing to do with this

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 4

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Seems like a good chap.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

"I choose violence." - Cersei Lannister.

9 years ago | Likes 460 Dislikes 20

here's the link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWEr-nmhT9g

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"I encourage violence"- Tiberius Stormwind of Draconia(Orion Acaba #criticalrole)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 0

He donated 90% of his frames to the cause <3

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Mad props to this guy, he gets it.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 4

Well shit.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Damn onions

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

agreed, he said it beautifully.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

I see other people have posted the video, and I highly recommend watching it. He goes on to say that he's going to walk around and smile…

9 years ago | Likes 62 Dislikes 2

…at people, because it's all he feels he can do to help.

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

I prefer to listen to the interviews families give who lost someone. I want to hear what the families with dead wives and kids have to say.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 9

I'm sure theyre not in the mood to chat about it.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

People often don't think rationally right after a terrible event. So, it's good to wait. Let the families say what they think, when ready.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Look at these Brits acting reasonable and shit when the world wants a race war.

9 years ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 19

It's not keep calm and carry on for no reason!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

The people in power want a race war to keep us plebs occupied whilst they continue to sponge off society

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 7

So, in this race war, would all the black midgets be fighting the white midgets? https://youtu.be/4REO0pucYY8

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

"First race war, huh?" - Morty Smith

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

It's wonderful that he acknowledges the refusal to divide. he understands that we are all one and we should regroup instead of separate.

9 years ago | Likes 182 Dislikes 21

oorrrr ... hear me out ... we unite against the millions united against us ...

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I don't think there are that many. Regardless of numbers,fighting out of love to bring equality is a good fight.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

There are millions that want to kill us. The military has the stats. ISIS is massive, and everyone wants to ignore reality.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And fighting out of love is the most retarded thing I keep hearing.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

THEY WILL NOT DIVIDE US!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good choice of words. I'm going to keep that word in mind: regroup

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

I'm glad to hear it. I hope it serves you well.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's this kind of thinking that continues the cycle. When good people do nothing evil expands.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 7

...what? Isn't this refusing to do nothing? You sure you don't have that backwards?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

I don't mean to sound like an asshole, but saying, "we need to unite" is basically doing nothing. People say that EVERY time people are 1/

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Shot, stabbed, blown up, run over or any other method these shit heads use. There's a raid or 2 and then it happens again a couple 2/

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Months later. I don't have an answer as what should be done. It's just frustrating people have to go through this and repeat this platitude.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It seemed that they were attacked before by the IRA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean. The IRA set off probably hundreds of bombs across the UK.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I been in Ireland before and they simply don't like English people..

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Well in fairness England hasnt been great to ireland over the years.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Most of the world has a reason to not like English people. Most of the world also doesn't bomb England.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Agreed..

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah the English really treated the irish like shit.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm French-Canadian. The English tried to exterminate my ancestors by sending us sick Irishmen as bioweapons; -->

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Question: what IS being done to work towards this not happening again? Serious question.

9 years ago | Likes 203 Dislikes 9

If I had to guess, probably a lot of internal security/investigation, espionage, and foiling of supply lines.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Or, if you ask UKIP supporters, banning the refugees.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Nothing

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Deport every Muslim and I can assure you the terrorist attacks would stop. But they're not going to do that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Definitely not a travel ban.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In a truly free society there will always be terrorism.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd like to think there is a lot going on globally to stop extremist attacks but realistically we can't know when or where every time.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well the american republicans are blaming the liberals for allowing muslims to exist, so that should solve the problem.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

The best thing to do would be put on a pot of tea and invite the neighbours over for lunch.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can't. Even the most repressive regimes cannot completely guard against this. The "medicine" of repression is worse than the disease.

9 years ago | Likes 102 Dislikes 11

"The 'medicine' of repression is worse than the disease." ...goddamn that's an amazing quote

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

The *only* thing you can do is stop killing *their* civilians, and hope they stop killing ours.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Considering all you need is a car or a bus, and that most terrorists are domestic, it's very hard to do anything.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

Decreased civil rights. For your safety.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

prayers, facebook profile pictures, lighting up buildings, everything but dealing with the fact 20-25% of british muslims support bombings.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

Some have downvoted but it's true.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

James Bond is gonna shoot some Russians

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You've seen the Kingsmen right? Well, that.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Absolutely nothing, and if this government win the next election they intend to cut police budgets even further, it's beyond effed.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

In WW2 we used to eliminate threats and control the border, maybe that would work.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 10

Maybe you can put all your Muslim neighbors into camps while you wait to deport them. Even those who were born there.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

Please tell me you're being facetious

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why Muslim? Terrorists come from all ideologies, that is the criteria, a direct threat, I don't care what faith, colour or origin of country

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 7

Fifty days of bombing tells me we didn't exactly control it well. We can't stop it all. We can just be better than it.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

A lot of the time we are finding out these guys are being watched, nothing is done, once a viable terrorist is identified they should have

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

their citizenship revoked or be eliminated, we need to take the steps we did in WW2 for dealing with enemy agents, we also should get rid of

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

the ones in the jails radicalizing all of the criminals because this is at a stage now where we have to take these measures.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

Its incredibly immoral, you have to make jihadists fear the military more than they love their god. It wouldn't be pretty.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

maybe stop dropping bombs in others country

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 32

Didn't see Sweden dropping many bombs.

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 2

We have forces in Afghanistan, though. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svenska_insatsen_i_Afghanistan

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"It referred to the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Stockholm_bombings

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reacting in any way adds value to their efforts. We need to stay strong, mourn our losses and move on without further sacrificing our (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

freedom through further oppressive security and fear. Or the freedom of others through bloody retaliation. Not enough chars for my rant(2/2)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nothing. Deportation of all those afflicted is the only effective solution.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 10

Where do you deport British people to?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

People who have laid their ancestors' bones in British soil for 400 generations are British. 99% of the afflicted have no such claim.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

400 generations is about eight thousand years, the number of British people whose only ancestors were there that long ago is zero.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It is somewhat reassuring that everyone who has disagreed has made stupid arguments, but yours is something special and amazingly dumb.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Parts of crime: convergence of a motivated offender, desirable target, absence of guardian. We need to remove motivation to truly solve it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait and stop being a pussy. There is no solution other than time and indiference

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 20

The answer is too lengthy for here. A complicated issue. To start though, 3,800 soldiers are deployed for the threat level.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 3

3,800 soldiers readily available at the disposal of police forces, I think it's about 800 deployed last I seen.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yes, operation temperer, 3800 available to be deployed.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Your secret services are doing a lot. The reason why you dont' hear about it, because transparency would undermine their efforts.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All you need to do, is to make sure your society doesn't stigmatize innocent people, by stereotyping them with these bad people.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And that is by being like the guy in this GIF. Understandably sad/angry, but understands their intent, and works towards cooperation.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean... It was outside the security area, after the event. You can better track bomb making materials and the people, but not much else.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted May 24, 2017 11:27 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Dumb da dumb dumb dumb

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

that's no solution

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Ever hear of Christian terrorists? The kkk and all that. You don't hear about them now, but they happened

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Stopping random people blowing themselves up is an almost impossible task. However our security has stopped this happening before.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

Absolutely nothing. They'll just do something that makes people feel that they are safer.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That's the thing with security, if you announce what it is, it doesn't work so well. But I'm sure Mi5 and GCHQ are doing plenty

9 years ago | Likes 134 Dislikes 3

A friend of mine works for Manchester anti terrorism and hasn't been home for 2 days straight

9 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 0

Did he go on a vacation?

9 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

Yes. He's been telling me about the lovely sights he's been seeing in Iraq.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If movies and video games have taught me anything, never fuck with English security agencies, and the guys who did are and have been fucked

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

they've caught a few that were responsible

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

During the 2012 Olympics, London faced over two hundred attack attempts. All of them were intercepted and prevented. The UK are the masters

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

of counter terrorism. We train nearly every country in the world, after all we've had plenty of practice.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

What about Spain, though. They've had their share of attacks throughout time, too. (Anti-Terror buddies, go!)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In addition to the useful & useless security & surveillance, there are deradicalisation programmes, and schemes to prevent travel to Syria.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Yeah domestic terrorists tend to start in enclosed communities, where echo-chambers create extremists.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

These are really important - European-born kids are being radicalized, and anti-Muslim public sentiment is helping the process.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 6

Indeed.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

To quote Billy Connelly after the Glasgow airport car incident "imagine the naivety of Al Queda, bringing a religious war to Glasgow..1/2

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 1

You don't even have a football team, no ones going to care"

9 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

"Don't come to Glasgow. We'll set right about you!" -John Smeaton

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Barry the blender: don't come to ireland, my nan could make you a nail bomb while she makes you a stew

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0