Explosion at Brussels Airport (Update: also at Molenbeek metro station) 34 dead

[afleitch]

1. Don't assume this is an Islamic act of terror.
2. It is. But let's not be disproportionate as that's what terrorists want.
3. Start a hashtag. Change Facebook picture.
4. We will not be defeated.
5. If reactionary left go to 6. If reactionary right go to 7.
6. Muslims are in many ways the real victims here. Media don't report terror in Islamic nations. Think of the refugees. US foreign policy. Israel.
7. MUSLIMS!!! Merkel, Schengen, migrants.
8. Arrests.
9. 'But he was a really quiet kid', 'Must have been brainwashed', 'Family stunned '
10. A week after the events the town is starting to move on...

Repeat

[afleitch]

Fyck nihilist death cults.

They aren't nihilist. The very fact they are for something so powerful that it consumes them is testament to that. They are more accurately sociopathic in nature. Unfortunately 'non sociopathic' ways of combatting this is probably doomed to fail. We might have to lose a sense of our selves (as we  did when confronting outright fascism) in order to eradicate the problem.

[afleitch]

Keep it cool. I'll sort out this thread later.