Northern Ireland: “Welcome to hell, lads!”

  • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    Hmm, apparently terrorism is way less of a big deal than it seems like. This map covers 47 years, and only a few thousand (or maybe a couple of tens of thousands) deaths (rough estimate - am I wrong?).

    Compared to maybe 3M excess deaths in Europe during covid…

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      30 minutes ago

      Yeah right? Let’s see a map showing all the deaths from bombs that have been dropped in the Middle East and North Africa in the same timeframe. While it’s still a horrible thing to happen of course, it always amazes me how people in my country will act like a few people being killed in an attack is a huge tragedy. But then just treat mass deaths of civilians somewhere not in Europe like it’s nothing

    • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
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      12 hours ago

      The thing about terrorism is the sudden shock that comes with it. Someone is deliberately doing a terrible action. It mentally affects an entire nation.

      I didn’t feel well for an entire week after Utoya, and I’m not even Norwegian.