Northern Ireland: “Welcome to hell, lads!”
I knew Thatcher was busy, but damn
This could be improved by changing the dot colors to reflect a second metric. I’m thinking color to refer to year. Would be an interesting way to interpret frequency visually.
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…
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
Yeah but it is more politically convenient to discuss
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.
I’m not sure these overlapping dots necessary represent the data so well… e.g. it gives the impression that London has only had about three terrorism incidents…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_London
…i am just asking questions, but in these places, were the intended consequences reached?..I truly do not wish to be provocative, but because there are so few examples, did they achieve their said goals?..were the goals incremental through extraordinairy circumstance, or do these same conditions exist in places where this particular “terrorism” was invoke?..
god that’s stupid, sorry
The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so… no, I guess?
I don’t know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.
god that’s stupid, sorry
Asking if terrorism works isn’t a stupid question. It’s a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.
For the Northern Ireland one it’s a particularly messy question to answer because the attacks were not all working towards the same goal. Pro-UK paramilitaries were a huge part of the Troubles, it wasn’t just pro-independence paramilitaries vs the British army
…i really was just asking, thank you for the honest answer…
The Good Friday agreement was signed regarding Northern Ireland, so they definitely got something for their efforts.
TIL there has been four terrorist attacks in my country
Sverige?
Russia:
300+ in Beslan school
200+ on Nord-Ost musical
150+ Crocus City Hall2024
Multiple other cases with 100+ casualties.
Something is wrong either with the data, or the legendBeslan and Moscow are both off the eastern edge of the map
Ok, Beslan is, my bad. But Moscow is right at the right edge
