Topic: Boston Marathon Explosions - page 16. (Read 15043 times)

John's Gulch from Atlas Shrug? You need to stop buying your books from those discount outlets

This here is pretty much why I agree with the other thread, that compares Bitcoin to Galt's Gulch from Atlas Shrug, and think that the best, and possibly only, option for us is to just slowly migrate into bitcoin by ourselves, away from the established banking and political system, and leave everyone to their own stupid shit. Easy enough when BTC aren't taxed, aren't restricted, and are easy enough to take with you to other countries and trade for cash there.

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Am I the only person in the US who can admit that they don't actually care about what's going on in either of these places? I'm so sick of hearing about this crap that I'm actually annoyed by the coverage.

I mean, I hate war and death, yes. But I have no more emotional investment into the concept of 'murica than I do the middle east. It's horrible and all, and yeah I'd rather it not be happening, but it's outside of my control and not even within the realm of my interests. Why should I give some sort of traumatic emotional response to something I'm not at all invested in?

I live in a country that accounts for nearly half of the world's total military spending, so why should I be surprised that there's feedback from our conquests?

I saw someone saying something to that effect on youtube recently, there was a documentary about monetary systems, and a user said, well - only 110000 views, and a video where some silly girl is drunk on a reality show gets 7 million views.

It only goes to show that most people don't care about anything but existing. They've been  conditioned into thinking that working and providing for their family is all there is. And outside of that they just seek entertainment, they're not interested in political stuff. That's difficult - and difficult - people don't like that.

These are the same masses that are duped by huge PR campaigns and political campaigns before elections.

If everyone straightend up and said: Damn it, I will support the banking system no more, and everybody started accepting bitcoin, then the farmer could take bitcoins for his eggs, he could pay the gas station owner for bitcoins buying his gas, the gas station owner could buy bread from the bakery with bitcoins, and the owner of the bakery could buy eggs from the farmer with the bitcoins. Thus a local economy could be sustained with bitcoin only.

And yes, the most recent PSY video sucks balls. His first one was great, but now it seems like he thinks he's a success no matter what he does, so he just does random shit. Nice asian chicks though.

It's worse than that. Psy has a new video out that in my opinion sucks, yet has had 77 million plus views in two days, but here we are in this forum structuring a system to make their lives better and 99,999999% of those viewers could give a shit.

It has always occured strange to me that after incidents like this, police, millitary and other security forces are on high alert, and patroling the area with heavy armed officers. Everyone knows that this always happens. So if anyone does anything nefarious, they'll make damn sure they get away as quickly as possible, and preferrably have a bomb that they can set off remotely. I understand the police needs to be alert, but I always find the overreaction in such cases mildly amusing.

I read that SWAT teams are guarding the streets as much as 10 blocks away from the scene of the bomb, I guess if anything actually happened, the local authorities would get critisism for not having better security, but really - isn't this just trying to close the stall door after the horse has gone ?

My point was that common sense often isn't used when things like this happens. (Let alone the fact that whoever did it also didn't use any common sense.)

The time stamp might be worth looking at too... I made that post nearly 7.5 hours before yours - during the time that shit was just getting out about it. People are gonna speculate on how things will unfold.

Why did you ask me why? Please, don't bother answering why.

Non stop vision vision of the events in Boston on tv all day here in Adelaide, regardless of the cynicism expressed in the above posts, some idiot or collection of idiots has once again seen fit to kill innocent people in order to vent their spleen or further their misbegotten causes.

My sympathy to ALL Americans, my condolences to victims families.

That incident was in Austin, TX.  He flew it into the IRS office.  The building was totaled from the fire.  I drove by there as a matter of routine.
He gave up, and lost all his options.  Never give up.

They trotted the Lead Oval Office Talking Head out for this one. It's National Security Theater designed to make the unthinking population (50%+) scared and thus more manipulable.

I can't see this being Islamic terrorists. Tax day in Boston?

I'm surprised we haven't seen more speculation on the news. I would have thought they'd have been making insinuations about the tea party. It's bound to just be some nutcase like that guy who flew his little plane into that building a few years back. Though truly, the tax burden is bound to push a few people to the edge, the MO of this attack just screams "unbalanced".

I still laugh whenever I watch that on YouTube.

Why? I haven't seen or heard that. Likely Islamic terrorists or domestic. Common sense points to those two, as the past has indicated that those two have happened before.

And don't bother answering why. I actually think your supposition is ridiculous - not what the media might blame it on.

I see your point   Also, congrats on your 8000th post

I don't know about you, but I don't even own a Predator drone, and if I did, I certainly wouldn't use it to blow up weddings. If you're doing so, I suggest you stop. It seems to be pissing them off.

Good point: lots of participants were international. This is a known fact about Boston Marathon. Whoever detonated the bombs, knew this, too.

Seems like a perfect target if you wish to pump up international efforts on "war on terror". Help our allies jump on board, and head towards... uhm... Iran? Syria? NK? We will know soon.

No wonder the middle east hates us, then, 'cos we've been doing that to them every other day for the past decade.

I don't know what country you're in but if a bombing happens on our on soil it IS more important and more newsworthy, even if the death toll isn't as high. It would be the same as if the same type of bombing happend in England or Spain. Domestic attacks are always more important.

tbh, I'm surprised there was actually an explosion. Their normal routine is to grab a disaffected youth, convince him it's X/Y/Z's fault his mommy didn't get him a porsche for his 16th birthday, and tell him to call this cell number blow up an X/Y/Z event to get back at them. Of course, the cell phone number isn't attached to anything, and the whole operation's been a set-up to begin with, but hey, they "foiled a terrorist plot," so they get a nice fat bonus on the next round of appropriations.

I don't know what anyone could have hoped to achieve by blowing up a f'kin marathon, but, then, I'm sane.