The Current Events Thread

BurntToShreds · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2016 11:49 pm

Police were targeted in the midst of a protest in Dallas, Texas. 11 officers wounded, 4 officers dead.

The protesters and the police were doing their best to maintain civility and ensure that they served as examples to live up to, but then two individuals had to ruin everything. I have friends and family who are officers here in Houston; I'm dreading what tomorrow brings and am praying that they and their coworkers maintain their composure rather than contribute to the endless loop of contempt and violence that feeds this lack of trust between citizenry and police.

EDIT: 12 officers were shot, and 5 dead.

The police used a remote-controlled bomb robot to place an explosive device close to the shooter and detonated it to resolve the situation. There are people who actually find that to be morally dubious, which downright confuses me. A shootout with the suspect would have possibly resulted in even more police deaths or injuries; using the robot was the best way for them to deal with the shooter.

Alkarii · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:48 pm

Well, I sure didn't expect this:

http://madworldnews.com/blm-approach-counter-protesters/

Exeres · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:47 pm

So I happened to glance at the "about the author" bit at the bottom of the page.

About Dom the Conservative wrote:

Dom is a conservative Christian who specializes in Middle Eastern affairs, Islamic immigration (hijra), Christianity, Islam, and Sharia law. She hopes to expose Islam as a fundamentally violent, political and religious ideology that seeks to use freedom and democracy to destroy freedom and democracy.

I'd also hesitate to get my news from something called "Mad World News".

Alkarii · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:04 pm

So, I try to post some good news, and the first thing anyone will say is that because of both the name of the site, and the fact that the author is a conservative Christian, it's automatically a lie?

Exeres · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:09 pm

That's the first thing that came to mind, yeah. I mean, imagine posting news about international politics from Buzzfeed or something. Checking your sources is kind of an important thing to do.

And I didn't say the article was a lie, or anything LIKE that, I'm just saying the site in general seems pretty sketchy.

Ersatz · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:52 pm **Posts:** 2278

Alkarii wrote:

So, I try to post some good news, and the first thing anyone will say is that because of both the name of the site, and the fact that the author is a conservative Christian, it's automatically a lie?

Alkarii, two pages ago, wrote:

However, I also wonder about the veracity of those sites. Conservative media websites are often suspected of being not entirely honest, and I don't believe liberal and moderate websites are any different.

Galaxy Man · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:45 am

bruh the like, second paragraph says that the BLM movement calls for a genocide of white people, the writer is not only a fuckin' racist piece of shit but they're also extremely and drastically ignorant and trying to provoke hatred

TheStranger · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:24 pm

Galaxy Man wrote:

bruh the like, second paragraph says that the BLM movement calls for a genocide of white people, the writer is not only a fuckin' racist piece of shit but they're also extremely and drastically ignorant and trying to provoke hatred

And they're like every other selfabsorbed shitbag like AllLivesMatter and MRA's who dont know the first thing about suffering OR prejudice and genuinely belive that being told that being a white man is Easy Mode is the same as getting lynched.

The Nightman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:46 pm

A terrorist attack happened in France today. 80 deaths so far, 100 injured.

This world we live in is a disgusting place at times.

D-vid · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:41 pm

Uhm, so, uh... Turkey.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07 ... n-ankara1/

Lotharu · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2016 7:04 pm

Apparently Turkey has a lot of coups, I'm reading. The military was formed with the ideals of the country's founder in mind, and isn't controlled by the president. Also, since every citizen has to serve it generally also has the support of the people.
Hopefully this is a fairly bloodless one.

Blitz Walrus · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:22 am

Supposedly the Army is reluctant to fire on civilians and the president has ordered people to do his dirty work for him and it's led to a sort of stalemate.

DarkSurfer · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:59 pm

So, for Turkey there are a lot of people suggesting that the coup was staged to allow Ergogan to seize more power and crackdown on inter-office dissidents, which would be something he would absolutely do. The problem with that is this coup kinda went overboard and when you're a nuclear equipped NATO frontline nation with an already shaky past, you're not doing yourself any favors. NATO is threatening to boot Turkey out, especially if all this shit was staged and if THAT happens a REAL booty coup might happen because Erdogan would have just had the country go from 0 to 60 on the oh shit scale in a week.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 42491.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turke ... ce=twitter
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 42111.html

Alkarii · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:32 am

Wow... I didn't know Turkey had their own nuclear arsenal. I know that the US had some there at one point during the Cold War that were later withdrawn, but I never heard they had built their own.

Soapbar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:36 pm **Posts:** 488

Alkarii wrote:

Wow... I didn't know Turkey had their own nuclear arsenal. I know that the US had some there at one point during the Cold War that were later withdrawn, but I never heard they had built their own.

Wikipedia wrote:

Under NATO nuclear weapons sharing, the United States has provided nuclear weapons for Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey to deploy and store. This involves pilots and other staff of the "non-nuclear" NATO states practicing, handling, and delivering the U.S. nuclear bombs, and adapting non-U.S. warplanes to deliver U.S. nuclear bombs. However, since all U.S. nuclear weapons are protected with Permissive Action Links, the host states cannot arm the bombs without authorization codes from the U.S. Department of Defense.

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