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Multiple injuries and possible fatality reported as truck plows into christmas market

Re: Multiple injuries and possible fatality reported as truck plows into christmas ma

j-mac said:
From your own article:

"Frank added: “We don’t know if there was one perpetrator or several, or if there was any support.” But he underlined continuing belief about the nature of the attack, saying: “We are working on the basis this was an attack with a terrorist background.”

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"At a press conference on Tuesday morning, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said: “We have to assume we are dealing with a terrorist attack.”

So, both the police chief, and Merkel both say that they believe that they are dealing with terrorists....Why then are you trying to say that it isn't?
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It was a terrorist attack, so by definition they're looking for terrorists.

I'll try to say this nicely. It is impossible to overemphasize how stupid and dangerous it is to jump to unsupported conclusions or to color to the publics perception early in an investigation. Not only do you piss off massive groups of people by potentially falsely implicating them in an event that may be unrelated to them, you also make them targets for backlash by stupid ignorant bigots. Even if you end up being right, the fact that you assumed before you knew causes just as much anger. And because you have the public focused in one direction you blind yourself to other real dangers.

Jesus. An alt right terrorist could wear a turban and kill a couple hundred people and morons would spend all of their time harassing Muslims. Let the damn investigations go forward and act on what you know, not from some bigoted hunch.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
"Consistency quality control"? Excuse me for seeing if people are consistent with their logic when making claims on a political debate site.
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But like I said, who are you? I personally don't care if you think that you have to verify everyone's political utterance in here, all I am saying is when you take the time to type it out like you have some kind of higher calling in here, it is arrogant and annoying....

next, I believe I spoke generally about claims that GW Bush was not keeping America safe when 9/11 happened....What you answered with was a deflection as I think you are smarter than the answer you tried to pull off there.
 
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Mithros said:
It was a terrorist attack, so by definition they're looking for terrorists.

I'll try to say this nicely. It is impossible to overemphasize how stupid and dangerous it is to jump to unsupported conclusions or to color to the publics perception early in an investigation. Not only do you piss off massive groups of people by potentially falsely implicating them in an event that may be unrelated to them, you also make them targets for backlash by stupid ignorant bigots. Even if you end up being right, the fact that you assumed before you knew causes just as much anger. And because you have the public focused in one direction you blind yourself to other real dangers.

Jesus. An alt right terrorist could wear a turban and kill a couple hundred people and morons would spend all of their time harassing Muslims. Let the damn investigations go forward and act on what you know, not from some bigoted hunch.
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Yep, and an alt left could don a hijab and claim that groups of Trump supporters tried to pull it off, and assault her too....Til we found out she was lying....right?
 
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j-mac said:
Yep, and an alt left could don a hijab and claim that groups of Trump supporters tried to pull it off, and assault her too....Til we found out she was lying....right?
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Which is exactly why intelligent people that aren't completely incompetent don't go injecting personal bias and innuendo into ongoing investigations, particularly in the early stages... and double extra extremely so when it's suspected that the perpetrator is still at large and dangerous.
 
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j-mac said:
But like I said, who are you? I personally don't care if you think that you have to verify everyone's political utterance in here, all I am saying is when you take the time to type it out like you have some kind of higher calling in here, it is arrogant and annoying....
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Who am I? Simply a member of this site trying to participate in a debate.

next, I believe I spoke generally about claims that GW Bush was not keeping America safe when 9/11 happened....What you answered with was a deflection as I think you are smarter than the answer you tried to pull off there.
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"posters in here like yourself try to hang around GW Bush's neck concerning 9/11?"
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
Nope. As I pointed out earlier I was simply seeing if your logic is consistent.
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I don't mind delving into dusty old history when nothing else is going on

But that's not the case here

Innocent people are dying because stubborn bleeding heart liberals care more about foreigners from Islam than the people in their own country
 
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Mac77 said:
I don't mind delving into dusty old history when nothing else is going on

But that's not the case here

Innocent people are dying because stubborn bleeding heart liberals care more about foreigners from Islam than the people in their own country
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Did you just label Angela Merkel a liberal!? :lamo
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
Did you just label Angela Merkel a liberal!? :lamo
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Yes.

A liberal/progressive in US terms
 
Re: Multiple injuries and possible fatality reported as truck plows into christmas ma

Mithros said:
Which is exactly why intelligent people that aren't completely incompetent don't go injecting personal bias and innuendo into ongoing investigations, particularly in the early stages... and double extra extremely so when it's suspected that the perpetrator is still at large and dangerous.
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But why would intelligent people suggest that it's just as likely that an alt-right turban wearing Jesus lover would blow himself up in a crowd?
When the facts tend to prove the morons correct, the intelligent people don't seem to reaccess what they believe. Instead, the argument becomes not all Muslims are terrorists ect ect ect.
WHICH IS ENTIRELY BESIDE THE POINT.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
Did you just label Angela Merkel a liberal!? :lamo
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Time magazine seems to have, thanks to her immigration policies
 
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