Acts of Terrorism megathread

[mongers]

Shocking that the websites of the the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror newspapers hosted exerts of the gunman's murder video.

[Valmy]

Terrorist propaganda? Why would they do that?

[Eddie Teach]

Seems Rush has crazied himself up to the point he's attacking Fox News.

That's not even the crazy part.

[mongers]

Terrorist propaganda? Why would they do that?

Click-bate advertising revenue.

[jimmy olsen]

On Friday, following a devastating attack at two mosques in New Zealand's Christchurch, an Australian senator proved that some far-right ideologues' justifications can sound harrowingly similar when Muslims are the victims. Muslims, far-right independent Queensland Senator Fraser Anning said, "may have been the victims today, usually they are the perpetrators."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/15/right-wing-australian-senator-blames-immigration-new-zealand-mosque-attacks/?utm_term=.0614daa8a833

What a massive piece of shit.

I mean I would like to say I am surprised and appalled or something but hell if our President tweeted that I wouldn't be too surprised these days.

The only reason this guy is senator is because the guy who was actually elected was discovered after the election to be ineligible. This guy literally had only 19 votes and fluked his way into power. He was later kicked out of this white nationalist party for being too racist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Anning#cite_ref-9

Anning was third on the One Nation senate ticket in Queensland at the 2016 federal election. He gained just 19 below-the-line first-preference votes under the optional preferential voting system.[9] Due to its high statewide count, One Nation elected two senators in Queensland at the 2016 election – party leader Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts. In October 2017, during the parliamentary eligibility crisis, the Court of Disputed Returns ruled Roberts was ineligible to be elected to the Senate due to his failure to renounce his British citizenship.[10] The following month, on 10 November, Anning was declared elected in place of Roberts following a special recount.[11] Prior to his elevation to the Senate, he was facing bankruptcy legal action due to money owed to the Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. This could have made him ineligible to sit in parliament, but the case was withdrawn.[1]

[Syt]

So apparently the members of a large HOI4 Discord community got carpet banned.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mass-banning-of-hoi4-community-players-on-discord.1160651/

I don't know the server "The Tribe", but apparently there was some cheering for the mass shooting with an admin making memes about it?

[mongers]

So apparently the members of a large HOI4 Discord community got carpet banned.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/mass-banning-of-hoi4-community-players-on-discord.1160651/

I don't know the server "The Tribe", but apparently there was some cheering for the mass shooting with an admin making memes about it?

wtf. good job that racists stuff wasn't on the paradox forums.

edit:
some of those comments in the paradox thread complaining about the mass banning are hilarious:

Collective punishment is a violation of the Geneva Convention. While getting banned from a server and being executed because there was some resistance fighter in your town is obviously not the same thing, it is interesting to see that there are so many people on this forum that have the same philosophical mindset as war criminals.

[Admiral Yi]

The only reason this guy is senator is because the guy who was actually elected was discovered after the election to be ineligible. This guy literally had only 19 votes and fluked his way into power. He was later kicked out of this white nationalist party for being too racist.

He got 19 first preference votes, not 19 votes total.  And the person who was disqualified was another Nazi.

[11B4V]

The only reason this guy is senator is because the guy who was actually elected was discovered after the election to be ineligible. This guy literally had only 19 votes and fluked his way into power. He was later kicked out of this white nationalist party for being too racist.

He got 19 first preference votes, not 19 votes total.  And the person who was disqualified was another Nazi.

Huh, even White Nationalists and Nazi's have a line. Who would have thought.

[Syt]

The subreddits for Paradox games all have reminders that racist or anti-Muslim posts will not be tolerated.

[Oexmelin]

Yes, it's a real thing. Same in college - medieval history is being taken by white supremacists students.

[PDH]

Yes, it's a real thing. Same in college - medieval history is being taken by white supremacists students.

Great - now I can't tell anyone I got my MA in Medieval History.

[Tamas]

I think this mixes up cause and effect. If you get a hard-on from the thought of shiny white knights ruling over a shiny white land, then of course you'll be attracted to a game that represents a period of history which has exactly that as its idealised version.

But learning about medieval history, idealised or not, will not make you a white supremacist on its own.


In general, we, or our educators, seek to reinforce our existing (or intended) world views with "lessons" from history. It takes an open mind to try and use history to expand your horizons, and if you are willing to do that, you are already not in danger of being some radical dimwit.

[11B4V]

The subreddits for Paradox games all have reminders that racist or anti-Muslim posts will not be tolerated.

So Paradox is a White Supremacist platform. 

[Legbiter]

So Paradox is a White Supremacist platform. 

It's Vice....

Here's how their journalism works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA