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Terrorist attack in Nice, 73 dead reported.

bwaniebwanie Posting into the voidRegistered User regular
edited July 2016 in Social Entropy++
news incoming about a terrorist attack in Nice.

Truck plows into crowd on promenade. Driver and allegedly more people emerged shooting.

Driver shot, 60 people reported dead.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    60 dead, 100+ wounded. drove a large truck into a crowd on bastille day. have a small unconfirmed report that the drive got out and started shooting as well but is dead now.

    updated to 60.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    Dutch tv has various feeds but the one reporting 60 dead has been ahead of the rest since i started watching.

    There were reports of a hostage situation in a restaurant but that seems to have not been the case.

  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    It's been crossing my mind since i read mr mercedes.


    And now it's happened god mother fucking shit i am livid.

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    The initial details suggest a tactic that jihadi propaganda has suggested for several years, with a vehicle ploughing into a crowd. For instance, Inspire magazine – affiliated with al-Qaida – urged the tactic several years ago.

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    Jesus.

  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    I can't wait until the day where live coverage of these atrocities aren't supplemented by a piece on what Donald fucking Trump has to say on the matter. Every God damn fucking time.

    America, if you only do one good thing again, let it be ensuring Trump doesn't even get a whiff of the Presidency. - Rest of the World.

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    Whelp this sucks.

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Ugh, reports the death toll at 73 now

  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    I heard this on the radio and I had hoped it was a tragic accident instead of what I immediately feared.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    I can't wait until the day where live coverage of these atrocities aren't supplemented by a piece on what Donald fucking Trump has to say on the matter. Every God damn fucking time.

    America, if you only do one good thing again, let it be ensuring Trump doesn't even get a whiff of the Presidency. - Rest of the World.

    Look, you don't gotta tell any of us here.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    New info says he started shooting before driving and the truck was loaded with explosives.

    Edit: confirmed by police officials.

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  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    Also grenades in his posession. I don't even...

  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    I can't wait to hear the driver being someone who lived in France for years.

  • number13number13 Registered User regular
    If there are any forumers in or around France, I hope they are and stay safe.

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  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    I can't really say I'm surprised anymore, or even shocked, just numbly aware that this is the world we live in now.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    This summer is just a drain on our collective emotional state

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    This summer is just a drain on our collective emotional state

    Most of 2016 it seems. Year starts with deaths of beloved artists and just keeps on building into the shit ball we've got now.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Going to bed, numb and sick.

    Guess I'll get up in the morning and wait for it all to happen again.

  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    My friends were in France with their baby and I was so relieved to hear they were fine. But it just made me realise there were probably other families with kids there

    I also don't understand how it got let through so many checkpoints, there should've been a blanket ban on any vehicles going through, stuff like that has happened before

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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    How big was this truck anyway?

    70 people is a lot of people holy crap D:

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    How big was this truck anyway?

    70 people is a lot of people holy crap D:

    Ever been to a public gathering in the streets? It's called a crowd for a reason you've got a lot of people in a small area. Doesn't take much driving, sadly.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    It was probably a big dense crowd, apparently it was a bastille day celebration

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    How big was this truck anyway?

    70 people is a lot of people holy crap D:

    It ran over a public plaza, which had a large crowd because today was Bastille Day.

    Just, fuck, no words. Fucking unbelievable monsters.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fuck.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Is there any idea who the attackers were? Religious radicals?

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    It just feels like the scale of these things is increasing and they're so frequent. Like the numbers of victims never used to be so high with terrorist attacks in the 70s-90s.

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Barcardi wrote: »
    I can't really say I'm surprised anymore, or even shocked, just numbly aware that this is the world we live in now.

    I was just thinking about this yesterday...

    That I have this expectation that there will, sometime within the next month or two, be another tragedy where a bunch of people will die

    And it's just going to keep happening...

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    Prohass wrote: »
    It just feels like the scale of these things is increasing and they're so frequent. Like the numbers of victims never used to be so high with terrorist attacks in the 70s-90s.

    Like most things, people get better at it

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    Automatic weapons and explosives have always had the capacity to inflict this much damage. The difference now is, after a few high profile attacks in recent years, they've shown to be effective terror tactics, which in turn spawns more copies. These attacks are being replicated because of their effectiveness.

    These kinds of attacks can't topple nations, but they can cause panic, instability, and economic damage disproportional to the tragedy itself. Terrorists don't need to spend years learning how to hijack a 747, they can just grab a car and a gun.

    The police and/or counter terrorist units are always going to clean these things up quickly, but leading the six o'clock news cycle itself is the goal.

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  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Automatic weapons and explosives have always had the capacity to inflict this much damage. The difference now is, after a few high profile attacks in recent years, they've shown to be effective terror tactics, which in turn spawns more copies. These attacks are being replicated because of their effectiveness.

    The police and/or counter terrorist units are always going to clean these things up quickly, but leading the six o'clock news itself is the goal.

    Which is also why I find the coverage of these attacks to always be horrendously fucking frustrating

    Showing injuries and bodies and people running and screaming for cover is the absolute worst thing you can do, media

    Pushing the agenda of fear and publicizing the name of the killer(s) and their pictures and their manifestos does nothing but promote their goals and make the world worse

    Statistically speaking the world has never been better or safer or freer of conflict, and it's important to remember that, but goddamn do I wish the news media would care less about ratings and more about reporting ethics

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Prohass wrote: »
    It just feels like the scale of these things is increasing and they're so frequent. Like the numbers of victims never used to be so high with terrorist attacks in the 70s-90s.

    Like most things, people get better at it

    Also terrorist attacks in the Middle East have had numbers like this for a long time. They just don't get as much attention in the west. We're seeing more global exporting of home grown tactics.

  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    Media being responsible? oh ho

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    Gundi wrote: »
    Media being responsible? oh ho

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  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    This year has almost completely drained me

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    "There are children among the dead" might just be the worst thing ever

  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    Looks like it's up to 84 now

    Also
    French media reported that the killer was known to police but for petty crime, not terrorism. A police source told Reuters that the driver was was a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian born in Tunisia.

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Automatic weapons and explosives have always had the capacity to inflict this much damage. The difference now is, after a few high profile attacks in recent years, they've shown to be effective terror tactics, which in turn spawns more copies. These attacks are being replicated because of their effectiveness.

    These kinds of attacks can't topple nations, but they can cause panic, instability, and economic damage disproportional to the tragedy itself. Terrorists don't need to spend years learning how to hijack a 747, they can just grab a car and a gun.

    The police and/or counter terrorist units are always going to clean these things up quickly, but leading the six o'clock news cycle itself is the goal.

    i looked at the username of the poster who wrote this and winced

  • Panda4YouPanda4You Registered User regular
    edited July 2016
    JoeUser wrote: »
    Looks like it's up to 84 now

    Also
    French media reported that the killer was known to police but for petty crime, not terrorism. A police source told Reuters that the driver was was a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian born in Tunisia.
    Not much of a surprise then.

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    Automatic weapons and explosives have always had the capacity to inflict this much damage. The difference now is, after a few high profile attacks in recent years, they've shown to be effective terror tactics, which in turn spawns more copies. These attacks are being replicated because of their effectiveness.

    These kinds of attacks can't topple nations, but they can cause panic, instability, and economic damage disproportional to the tragedy itself. Terrorists don't need to spend years learning how to hijack a 747, they can just grab a car and a gun.

    The police and/or counter terrorist units are always going to clean these things up quickly, but leading the six o'clock news cycle itself is the goal.

    The media's outrage at the propagation of terrorism stops on a fucking dime when they have something to gain from it themselves.

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