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The American Red Cross has come under recent criticism for a number of logistical failings, but overall the International Red Cross (of which the American branch is just a national affiliate) is still considered a capable large-scale general disaster-relief charity.
GiveWell, an effective altruism group that tries to track the efficacy of charitable donations, still lists MSF (DWB) and the local Red Cross as their general recommendations for disaster relief charities. They have performed numerous reviews and evaluations on the performances of aid relief in the wake of disasters long after the initial event, and seem satisfied with International Red Cross in general terms, despite supposed underperfomances from the American branch.
I am creating a petition to ban all political cartoons from all venues anywhere forever and am looking for signees
I dunno...
Could you illustrate your grievance using crocodile popes?
Crocodile popes stacked like cordwood in front of a newspaper factory while Uncle Sam weeps into his hands, everything is labeled but the text is illegible through the dirt and grime on the page
By definition, the statue of liberty can do what she wants
and we're free to stand still
Marty: The future, it's where you're going? Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I feel gutted and frustrated and afraid. It's so very sad and senseless. I can only imagine the tremendous pain and grief these evildoers have caused to the much more directly affected, and what horrors and terrors have been suffered in Paris that night.
I can literally not think of anything constructive. No silver lining. Which makes me sorry for myself.
How helpless and desperate and weak does somebody have to feel, so rather than to attack combatants in the field, to target civilians directly instead, and slaughter them like sheep? Setting up a killbox for innocent weekend merrymakers? It's pure evil and unbound insanity. These attackers do not know how batshit crazy they are. I can't help but fear that acts like these are going to infect us all, and perpetuate ever increasing violence and ignorance for decades to come, and soon it's going to feel like the new normal.
Brace yourselves. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists' chopping block.
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists chopping block.
Please stop trying to dismantle people's coping mechanisms
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists chopping block.
Please stop trying to dismantle people's coping mechanisms
It's a discussion thread, not a blog. No one is being offensive or insulting.
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists chopping block.
Please stop trying to dismantle people's coping mechanisms
It's a discussion thread, not a blog. No one is being offensive or insulting.
I'm not saying it's offensive or insulting. I'm saying it's a shitty thing to do.
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists chopping block.
Please stop trying to dismantle people's coping mechanisms
It's a discussion thread, not a blog. No one is being offensive or insulting.
I'm not saying it's offensive or insulting. I'm saying it's a shitty thing to do.
"I feel bad, and this helps me."
"It shouldn't."
That's needless and dickish.
Edit: hell, I even asked politely
Royce made a comment, I made a counter comment, and Brannigan related how it affected him. No one was being "shitty". Not to mention he is an adult, if he feels insulted then how about we let him say so, rather than you deciding he is, and acting as his proxy?
Being polite has no bearing on trying to tell people what they can and cannot discuss, when they are doing it in a civil manner.
The truth of it is you are always on someone's chopping block. The religious fanatic is just honest and vocal about it. The mechanic screwing around on the job repairing a duckboat, the rich kid stealing booze and getting drunk before driving in the direction of four innocents, the 14 year old who takes you ten year old joy riding.
Death is an ever present companion, fuel spills, natural disasters, or murder at the hand of your brother, its all inevitable.
What is not inevitable are the reasons to live, the chapters in your book that make you laugh in the face of certain pain and death, legends told to others of your brilliance or your madness.
Spend more time making your death a good one, rather than fearing it, or wishing it would be good.
There was also that one guy on his way into the fully crowded Germany/France soccer game with explosives, but he got cornered by security and blew himself up. Can't find anything about anyone harmed in that event though? Small favors...
They catched two accomplishes to that dude though.
Quote from a coworker:
"Christmas came early for me this year. I'm glad this happened. Maybe now these idiots will learn what happens when you take people's guns away. Police sure as shit didn't protect them."
I can beat that
A co worker of mine was disappointed when the Pope came to Philly they did not call for a Crusade of the Faithful as they would have signed up on the spot
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Your coworker is, to put it without extreme profanity, a deeply unfortunate creature that darkens the light of humanity and it saddens me.
Quote from a coworker:
"Christmas came early for me this year. I'm glad this happened. Maybe now these idiots will learn what happens when you take people's guns away. Police sure as shit didn't protect them."
This asshole cannot quit soon enough.
When spree shootings happen outside of America, it's because people didn't have guns. When they happen in America, it's because they didn't have enough guns. Why do people think "fight fire with fire" is a literal suggestion?
I'm disturbed by the fact that so many people ignore the power of initiative in these events and assume one can enter combat mode at the drop of a hat. They targeted these sites for reasons.
Any American (or indeed, anyone from anywhere else with similar views) who voices the idea that more guns is the solution to this kind of thing at a time like this is a total fucking idiot who needs to keep their mouth shut
I am willing to tolerate the culture gap between the US and European gun-ownership views when it comes to the US dealing with gun crime within their own country, as someone who is ultimately an outsider I am saddened but cannot really claim to be from the same cultural backdrop, but keep that godawful shite in your own country ta.
Any American (or indeed, anyone from anywhere else with similar views) who voices the idea that more guns is the solution to this kind of thing at a time like this is a total fucking idiot who needs to keep their mouth shut
I am willing to tolerate the culture gap between the US and European gun-ownership views when it comes to the US dealing with gun crime within their own country, as someone who is ultimately an outsider I am saddened but cannot really claim to be from the same cultural backdrop, but keep that godawful shite in your own country ta.
I'm from this so-called culture and I find that viewpoint repugnant. I'd be fine with getting rid of it here too.
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GiveWell, an effective altruism group that tries to track the efficacy of charitable donations, still lists MSF (DWB) and the local Red Cross as their general recommendations for disaster relief charities. They have performed numerous reviews and evaluations on the performances of aid relief in the wake of disasters long after the initial event, and seem satisfied with International Red Cross in general terms, despite supposed underperfomances from the American branch.
just stop it USA Today
I dunno...
Could you illustrate your grievance using crocodile popes?
Crocodile popes stacked like cordwood in front of a newspaper factory while Uncle Sam weeps into his hands, everything is labeled but the text is illegible through the dirt and grime on the page
It's almost as bad as the Kony 2012 meme.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I agree.
but, I mean.
She is French, after all.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
and we're free to stand still
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I mean, I guess I can't say I'm surprised, really?
It's not hard!
It had 133 upvotes.
People are the worst.
What I don't understand is that wouldn't it make it easier for these horrific attacks to occur?
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
I can literally not think of anything constructive. No silver lining. Which makes me sorry for myself.
How helpless and desperate and weak does somebody have to feel, so rather than to attack combatants in the field, to target civilians directly instead, and slaughter them like sheep? Setting up a killbox for innocent weekend merrymakers? It's pure evil and unbound insanity. These attackers do not know how batshit crazy they are. I can't help but fear that acts like these are going to infect us all, and perpetuate ever increasing violence and ignorance for decades to come, and soon it's going to feel like the new normal.
Brace yourselves. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
What the fuuuuuuuck.
Good escalates more
That we exist still is proof of that.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
What I don't understand is this happens all the time in America.
Not on this scale or by these people but the latter doesn't really matter.
We have spree killings every week man.
https://gofund.me/fa5990a5
Only works to a point.
"Good" escalating, means nothing, when "evil" has escalated to the point of blowing up cities.
Also - I have been a merrymaker in Paris. It could have been me. All the hope in the world is no consolation when it's you on some fundamentalists' chopping block.
Please stop trying to dismantle people's coping mechanisms
It's a discussion thread, not a blog. No one is being offensive or insulting.
I'm not saying it's offensive or insulting. I'm saying it's a shitty thing to do.
"I feel bad, and this helps me."
"It shouldn't."
That's needless and dickish.
Edit: hell, I even asked politely
Royce made a comment, I made a counter comment, and Brannigan related how it affected him. No one was being "shitty". Not to mention he is an adult, if he feels insulted then how about we let him say so, rather than you deciding he is, and acting as his proxy?
Being polite has no bearing on trying to tell people what they can and cannot discuss, when they are doing it in a civil manner.
Death is an ever present companion, fuel spills, natural disasters, or murder at the hand of your brother, its all inevitable.
What is not inevitable are the reasons to live, the chapters in your book that make you laugh in the face of certain pain and death, legends told to others of your brilliance or your madness.
Spend more time making your death a good one, rather than fearing it, or wishing it would be good.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
They catched two accomplishes to that dude though.
"Christmas came early for me this year. I'm glad this happened. Maybe now these idiots will learn what happens when you take people's guns away. Police sure as shit didn't protect them."
This asshole cannot quit soon enough.
A co worker of mine was disappointed when the Pope came to Philly they did not call for a Crusade of the Faithful as they would have signed up on the spot
When spree shootings happen outside of America, it's because people didn't have guns. When they happen in America, it's because they didn't have enough guns. Why do people think "fight fire with fire" is a literal suggestion?
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
I am willing to tolerate the culture gap between the US and European gun-ownership views when it comes to the US dealing with gun crime within their own country, as someone who is ultimately an outsider I am saddened but cannot really claim to be from the same cultural backdrop, but keep that godawful shite in your own country ta.
I'm from this so-called culture and I find that viewpoint repugnant. I'd be fine with getting rid of it here too.