Mind-boggling "feedback" from around the webz

[htpcl]

All right, scared panickers who are now demanding for blood good peace-loving folks who've surely shown their best side in the last few days! Calmed down somewhat from all the shock & drama already, have we? Now that one suspect is down, the other captured, people cheering on the streets and babies finally being able to sleep calm at night, and

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ugh...

[rick_day]

Unfortunately most of the criticism is legitimate. Some of it is hateful, but as they say in Texas, payback is a motherfucker.

See 404's response. Sometimes far too often we US citizens just come off as better than everyone else and their tragedy is our back page news.

Pax Americana, you reap what you sow. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living fantasy. We killed a lot of innocents before and after 9-11. This is the price: global judgement.

[rick_day]

you get no argument from me. No one else seems able to admit the shame of our self-centered culture.

*sigh* unfortunately it's the best we got for now. Pretty soon, even typing these words might get me a 'visit'.

Or not. They tend to leave us taxed citizens alone. Don't slaughter your milk cows, etc...

[notmrgarrison]

Yet our own Australian News sites were running half-page fucking flowery tributes to the 3 victims who died in Boston

33% of those victims were Chinese nationals.

But what about the 100 or so people who died in car accidents in the US that day? Are they worthless in comparison too?

As I tried pointing out in another thread, when something happens that happens all the time, it's not really news.

[notmrgarrison]

Again, 33 of them were Chinese nationals.
Did you get all that tribute with the 14 who died in West Texas?

[notmrgarrison]

You're missing things.

The fertilizer plant explosion in the US didn't result in such tributes. People from all over the world come to see and compete in the Boston Marathon. You would just as well be reading things if this happened at the Olympics in Brazil.

[notmrgarrison]

You continually ignore the part where you didn't hear much about the people killed in West Texas.

Now you're trying to compare apples and orange

Like sporting event bombing deaths and dismemberment, and wartime deaths and injuries?
Because that's what you were doing.