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No Mention?

Puzzle Piece — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:07:30 GMT

There hasn't been a thread on the Paris incident at Notre Dame or the incident over in Australia. Both tayhorism.

Is this not to be mentioned here?

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Oznell — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:08:45 GMT

I heard about the attack at Notre Dame, Love Roses, but what happened in Australia?

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Puzzle Piece — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:16:59 GMT

@Oznell Another hay wired attempt to be criminal. In Melborne.

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goldensrbest — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:30:37 GMT

There is so much going on in our world.

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Bhvbum — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:26:40 GMT

Things like this, someone treatens the police, happen in almost every large city in the USA daily. For Chicago last year: The city saw a surge in gun violence, 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims, according to a statement released by the police department.

So a man with a hammer threatens the police and makes international news.

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Moonchilde — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:59:52 GMT

@Bhvbum wrote:
Things like this, someone treatens the police, happen in almost every large city in the USA daily. For Chicago last year: The city saw a surge in gun violence, 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims, according to a statement released by the police department.

So a man with a hammer threatens the police and makes international news.

In my local news today a woman was trying to kill police and firefighters with a machete. She's very lucky they didn't shoot to kill. Methamphetamines.

Bet it doesn't make the national news. Happening every day now.

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blackhole99 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:00:36 GMT

This thread won't last long, the mods will view it as political and poof it. Isn't censorship grand!

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QueenDanceALot — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:37:55 GMT

Tayhorism?

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Kachina624 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:41:39 GMT

The threads on world events always seem to lapse into something political. What's to say other than to give our condolences?

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Moonchilde — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:50:54 GMT

@blackhole99 wrote:
This thread won't last long, the mods will view it as political and poof it. Isn't censorship grand!

If it goes poof, it was kinda directed that way from the get-go. It's a new and different way of challenging the moderation, IMO. Instead of asking "why aren't there any posts about this" and "asking" if it's "not allowed" (set up to turn bad), I wonder why the OP didn't just post about the attacks.

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JaneMarple — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:55:42 GMT

@Puzzle Piece wrote:
There hasn't been a thread on the Paris incident at Notre Dame or the incident over in Australia. Both tayhorism.
Is this not to be mentioned here?

I knew from watching and reading the news what happened in Paris today and also what happened in Orlando yesterday. I hope you're not suggesting that we receive our world news via The CC forum OP.

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tansy — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:07:09 GMT

@QueenDanceALot wrote:
Tayhorism?

Goes along with how she spells religious...something like relijous😏

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Moonchilde — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:12:14 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
The threads on world events always seem to lapse into something political. What's to say other than to give our condolences?

That's why I don't comment on the terrorist attacks, mass shootings, disasters, etc. Everyone feels bad about it, but there's nothing anyone can do about it. Just about the only comments anyone can make besides the obvious ("How horrible! Praying for the victims & their families") are political. World events are invariaby political. To pretend they're not is disingenuous.

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Puzzle Piece — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:40:27 GMT

@tansy Deliberate mispelling because such things are usually frowned upon when written about.

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Puzzle Piece — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 17:42:51 GMT

@Moonchilde You make assumptions. I mistakenly posted on another forum. Human to make errors.

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Isobel Archer — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:10:05 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
The threads on world events always seem to lapse into something political. What's to say other than to give our condolences?

That's why I don't comment on the terrorist attacks, mass shootings, disasters, etc. Everyone feels bad about it, but there's nothing anyone can do about it. Just about the only comments anyone can make besides the obvious ("How horrible! Praying for the victims & their families") are political. World events are invariaby political. To pretend they're not is disingenuous.

I know you meant posters, but unfortunately too many believe there is just nothing we can do about terrorism - other than not to say anything to offend them and to offer them unconditional love and acceptance.

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Isobel Archer — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:35:11 GMT

Another attack in London - a woman attacked, beaten and stabbed by 3 women in the name of Allah.

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sunshine45 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:36:48 GMT

if you are following the news today, there was also a terrorist attack in iran. 12 people have been killed, many more injured......it happened in two different places.

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Moonchilde — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:12:23 GMT

@Isobel Archer wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
The threads on world events always seem to lapse into something political. What's to say other than to give our condolences?

That's why I don't comment on the terrorist attacks, mass shootings, disasters, etc. Everyone feels bad about it, but there's nothing anyone can do about it. Just about the only comments anyone can make besides the obvious ("How horrible! Praying for the victims & their families") are political. World events are invariaby political. To pretend they're not is disingenuous.
I know you meant posters, but unfortunately too many believe there is just nothing we can do about terrorism - other than not to say anything to offend them and to offer them unconditional love and acceptance.

Well, there isn't literally anything "we" can do. "We" are individuals. "We" can't prevent an attack in another country, or most probably our own, unless we report a suspicious person and they turn out to have a bomb.

What governments do, or don't do, isn't "we" IMO. And I mean in this country as well, since "we" are split 50-50 on our ideology. What half of us might want done, or not done, is probably not what the other half would want done (or not) in the same manner. So no, I don't think individual citizens, even acting as part of a larger group, can do anything about the worldwide situation except bemoan it.