Manchester

this act was commited by a terrorist organisation.
bad people doing very bad things.
which ever way you look at this, people have lost their lives.
i'm just glad to see the people of manchester and beyond are sticking together and showing these terrorists they will never win.
 
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After France, Belgium, Germany... still horror and no words...
All my thoughts for the families
 
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Being a father of two children, I can imagine how it could feel to lose a child or all my children to something like this, but the actual reality of it would be incomprehensible.
However, while the outpouring of kindness and 'standing together-ness' is what I expect, as we should all be sympathetic to the horror these people are going through, I can't help but feel a little hypocritical when it's been happening to places like Syria and Lybia etc, for longer than I've bothered to find out about and we don't behave in the same manner.
Whether you agree with me or not, social media, journalistic media has its part in creating a 'trend' of this type of public display of empathy which leaves me feeling quite ashamed of myself knowing that our countries all feed in to the conflict that's driving these people toward these actions in some respects. Religion plays its part as well as the unhinged nature of the purpotrators.

This isn't meant to be goading anyone into a bun fight, I'm just expressing something I feel every time I see something like this happen and the aftermath of it seems all to familiar and each time it just takes the realness off of it making me feel more angry but less empowered each time to do something about it.
 
legrandefromage":39luio4e said:
i just to understand why anyone would do that - here, europe, the world - why

Boko Haram abductions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibok_sc ... kidnapping

Magdeline Laundries and childrens homes in Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene ... in_Ireland

Yazidi's in the Middle East

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8015 ... ape-yazidi

Forced emigration of children to Austrailia from the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... me-slavery

Government forcing starvation on families in South Sudan

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/a ... 30275.html

Forced austerity causing child poverty in the UK

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... gures-show

An endless list if you look for it.........
 
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Horrific and my heart goes out to all those who were involved and suffered in Manchester – I was up all night watching the news come in on social media. Reminds me of the day of being in Manchester in '96 when the IRA's bomb tore the city centre apart – remember The Troubles?

For me Retrobike is a refuge from all the politics and all the World's utter nonsense. I work for a living in publishing, multimedia communications and campaigning within a political organisation. I've worked in large media and newspaper groups. I get to see the inside view of how all the vested interests across the political spectrum operate and get to see how newspapers and media groups manipulate and trick vast swathes of humanity to influence their vested interests. When the means of communication are owned by just a few untouchable figures, I say, seize the means of production...

Never underestimate how the politics of fear, ignorance and division breeds resentment between everyone. All it takes is one lone disillusioned individual or small group with a chip. The outcome is a sadly predictable cycle of hate and violence and madness that's consuming the world.
 
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twain":336tw9y0 said:
Being a father of two children, I can imagine how it could feel to lose a child or all my children to something like this, but the actual reality of it would be incomprehensible.
However, while the outpouring of kindness and 'standing together-ness' is what I expect, as we should all be sympathetic to the horror these people are going through, I can't help but feel a little hypocritical when it's been happening to places like Syria and Lybia etc, for longer than I've bothered to find out about and we don't behave in the same manner.
Whether you agree with me or not, social media, journalistic media has its part in creating a 'trend' of this type of public display of empathy which leaves me feeling quite ashamed of myself knowing that our countries all feed in to the conflict that's driving these people toward these actions in some respects. Religion plays its part as well as the unhinged nature of the purpotrators.

This isn't meant to be goading anyone into a bun fight, I'm just expressing something I feel every time I see something like this happen and the aftermath of it seems all to familiar and each time it just takes the realness off of it making me feel more angry but less empowered each time to do something about it.

My view exactly.... and I think it's what Bats was trying to get at in the other thread before it got sent off in a different tangent

G
 
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