Explosions at Zaventem Airport (Brussels airport)/Brussels metro

[Martinus]

Sigh.

My condolences of course to our European friends. I don't even know how to react anymore to this shit.

Same. It feels like you can copy/paste 50-pages thread.

[Tamas]

yep

[Archy]

fyi we were sent home a bit before noon. Entrance to the freight zone is blockaded by the police. You could leave freely though.

[Brazen]

fyi we were sent home a bit before noon. Entrance to the freight zone is blockaded by the police. You could leave freely though.

Hope your friends and colleagues weren't directly affected Archy.

[Martinus]

My pro-Trump/hate Facebook group (aka fan page of the podcast I subscribe to ) says there is a hostage situation near Amsterdam as well.

[Martinus]

yep

I wonder if this is moving slowly but surely towards the right wing camp, though. I know my views shifted recently, I think Berkut's did too somewhat.

[Martinus]

My friend who works with the European Commission is in Poland today. I wonder how he knew. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

at least everyone I know who works in Brussels and Zaventem, and is on Facebook, is safe.
No confirmation about father-in-law but he's not a person who takes public transport. edit: And he's okay too, but can't leave building.

[Archy]

fyi we were sent home a bit before noon. Entrance to the freight zone is blockaded by the police. You could leave freely though.

Hope your friends and colleagues weren't directly affected Archy.

according to facebook everyone is safe.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

34 dead, 100 (+?) wounded.

[derspiess]

This is beyond terrible.  Getting tired of things like this happening.  Especially in a place like Brussels

[Malicious Intent]

34 dead, 100 (+?) wounded.

Skipping through the news channels. CNN just spoke of nearly 200 injured. But it's CNN, so let's hope their reports are bogus again.

[Tamas]

yep

I wonder if this is moving slowly but surely towards the right wing camp, though. I know my views shifted recently, I think Berkut's did too somewhat.

well, it depends. Collective guilt or punishment will always remain the far right's own thing, but the rest is up for grabs by sane people if they are willing to. Like what's being discussed in the Paris thread about extra security screening on Syrians. Or admitting that integration of Islamic culture into the main European one has failed in such a way that it makes EU citizens commit suicide attacks on what should be their home soil. That's what should be looked at by moderate forces and a rational debate to see if this has been a correctable mistake or what we are seeing is simply an unavoidable byproduct of trying to have two very different views on social and cultural matters coexist in the same society. I honestly don't know which.

But if the mainstream continues to pretend the above questions are not valid, then the far-right's rise to power in most of the EU is pretty much guaranteed.

[Malicious Intent]

Sigh.

My condolences of course to our European friends. I don't even know how to react anymore to this shit.

Same. It feels like you can copy/paste 50-pages thread.

I hate to say this, but it may be time for a European terror megathread. I have a feeling that we will have to revisit the issue more often in the coming months and years... 

[Solmyr]

If only the people in 2) limited themselves to "saying it must stop", you might have a point.

Yeah. Pretty much everyone across the political spectrum is saying it must stop. Firebombing refugee shelters and organizing nazi street patrols is not quite the same thing, though.