Many dead in coordinated Paris shootings and explosions

[DrRingDing]

You obviously don't understand the difference between "near" and "far".

Or you white and black.

 

[8115]

This just makes me feel so fucking depressed. What a total fucking mess the war on terror has turned out to be. Fifteen years later here we are.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

More flags is wot we need!

This got boring a while ago, you know. Well done on your small contribution towards division by dismissing a whole bunch of well-meaning people, btw.

 

[spitfire]

How many people changed their profile pic to a Kenyan flag in April when Al Shabab murdered 148 students?

How many public buildings were lit up white, red, black and green?

You obviously don't understand the difference between "near" and "far".

 

[Mr Moose]

Here's what we're going to hear time and again...

And one of the attackers was a woman so I hope Nigel has plans to ban them too.

 

[bimble]

I'm going to party so knock yourself out for a bit.

Thanks Ding for your time. Party on.

 

[Favelado]

How many people changed their profile pic to a Kenyan flag in April when Al Shabab murdered 148 students?

167,825

 

[Favelado]

Could everyone on the thread please change their avatar to a tricolor, just to annoy him?

 

[spitfire]

Could everyone on the thread please change their avatar to a tricolor, just to annoy him?

No, don't be so ridiculous.

 

[spitfire]

oops.

 

[Citizen66]

I've just looked at my FB news feed and it is kinda irritating now tbh. I don't think it indicates support for Le Pen or any other batshit theory ding ding wants to draw from it though.

 

[Ax^]

this is what i meant earlier

 

[mauvais]

The Union Flag is just that, the national flag of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is not the 'property' of any group of fundamentalist extremists, be the Orangemen or BNF.

The national flag, it belongs to the country, and everyone within the country. Rather than shunning the flag, because it has been hijacked by vermin, exterminate the vermin.

I know what you mean, and I agree, but the fact remains that it has come to represent something. The tricolore is different both on contemporary association and what's behind it, just as a symbol of a monarchy is almost certainly going to represent something different to a symbol of a republic, IYSWIM.

 

[bimble]

Could everyone on the thread please change their avatar to a tricolor, just to annoy him?

Banned myself from FB but am standing by the computer waving a freternite type flag

 

[spitfire]

I agree TBH and I haven't done it on FB, it is a bit annoying. But to extrapolate that to mean everyone that does it r rasscisisists then GTF.

 

[spitfire]

Anyhoo.

Paris.

 

[hot air baboon]

Apols if this has been covered already, (been away from internet all day), but I understand that the French police have said that 2 of the jihadists had travelled through the Greek island of Leros in the last month or so.

If true, this is going to be exploited hideously by the right, (I understand that UKIP figures are already tweeting the "told you so" story). This will be very challenging.

...how quickly they forget...


Nigel Farage calls for Syrian refugees to be allowed into UK - BBC News

29 December 2013

 

[Ax^]

 

[brogdale]

And one of the attackers was a woman so I hope Nigel has plans to ban them too.

Oh yeah, and I wish it were that easy to contend with the impending rightist tsunami of bile that we'll be exposed to. My post was not an endorsement of the the Farage prescience, but an attempt to raise the notion that elements of this outrage will play directly into the narrative of the right...ranging from Cameron's resistance to accept large numbers of Syrian refugees/keep them in the camps, right through to out and out Faragist xenophobia. Depressing.

 

[brogdale]

...how quickly they forget...


Nigel Farage calls for Syrian refugees to be allowed into UK - BBC News

29 December 2013

Quite so, but you know that he'll attempt to spin that by emphasising his "christian syrian" restrictor.

 

[Mr Moose]

Oh yeah, and I wish it were that easy to contend with the impending rightist tsunami of bile that we'll be exposed to. My post was not an endorsement of the the Farage prescience, but an attempt to raise the notion that elements of this outrage will play directly into the narrative of the right...ranging from Cameron's resistance to accept large numbers of Syrian refugees/keep them in the camps, right through to out and out Faragist xenophobia. Depressing.

I think I got where you were with Farage, don't worry.

 

[Citizen66]

A (possibly) major event in world politics boils down to Facebook etiquette.

 

[spitfire]

Again. RIP Nick.

Paris attacks: Briton confirmed among dead - BBC News

 

[rekil]

And one of the attackers was a woman so I hope Nigel has plans to ban them too.

If it makes Nige feel any better, there are two Tunisian sisters amongst the victims according to AFP.

 

[alan_]

Stenography is the act of capturing speech, verbatim, by the use of an appropriate machine.

I know the word you mean, just cannot quite... is it 'stetanography' or something like that?

steganography

 

[bimble]

If it makes Nige feel any better, there are two Tunisian sisters amongst the victims according to AFP.

Nige is totally like literally 110% in favour of sisters , see his policy on vat and tampax. Wrong day for this though.

 

[Sprocket.]

I left this thread around midnight and have been away all day and occasionally being able to drop likes in when I had a decent signal.
I come back to arguments about flags and nationalism.
By heck, polarisation has reached deeper than I thought!

 

[Ax^]

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[Citizen66]

It obviously exploded last night (bad choice of words) and it's taken me all day to catch up.

 

[pocketscience]

steganography

thanks for decoding