The News Thread

[kuehnepips]

Shooters still at large, 5 dead, multiple wounded.

[Dukefrukem]

6 Dead according to the AP.

[kuehnepips]

Meanwhile 7

[Scar]

Three shooters.

With "long guns".

[Irish]

Nothing quite calms the senses like seeing armed Germans running around European cities, right?

Amirite, guy? Rite?

[Scar]

Nothing quite calms the senses like seeing armed Germans running around European cities, right?

Amirite, guy? Rite?

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[ledfloyd]

Apparently a lone gunman. It's bizarre how many times initial police reports claim multiple shooters and then it ends up being one. Happened in both Dallas and Baton Rouge.

[Scar]

Apparently a lone gunman. It's bizarre how many times initial police reports claim multiple shooters and then it ends up being one. Happened in both Dallas and Baton Rouge.

Everyone is looking for the instantaneous scoop. Reporting without verifying.

[Morris Schæffer]

I'm heading from Cologne train station to Munich station next tuesday, and from Munich down to Italy. I don't feel comfortable at all. And I picked trains because I'm no fan of flying.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm heading from Cologne train station to Munich station next tuesday, and from Munich down to Italy. I don't feel comfortable at all. And I picked trains because I'm no fan of flying.

I wouldn't be either.

[MadMan]

Terrible. All terrible.

[kuehnepips]

When I saw the notification that there was a new post in the News Thread, my first thought was: Where, how, and how many?

Ansbach, bomb, 1 dead, 12 injured

[number8]

Kabul, 80 dead, 230 injured.

[Irish]

Long read, but this opened up my eyes in a big way.

RD: A friend who moved to West Virginia a couple of years ago tells me that she’s never seen poverty and hopelessness like what’s common there. And she says you can drive through the poorest parts of the state, and see nothing but TRUMP signs. Reading Hillbilly Elegy tells me why. Explain it to people who haven’t yet read your book.

J.D. VANCE: The simple answer is that these people–my people–are really struggling, and there hasn’t been a single political candidate who speaks to those struggles in a long time. Donald Trump at least tries.

http://www.theamericanconservative.c...s-poor-whites/

Edited to add:

But I remain incredibly optimistic about the future. Maybe that’s the hillbilly resilience in me. Or maybe I’m just an idiot. But if writing this book, and talking with friends and strangers about its message, has taught me anything, it’s that most people are trying incredibly hard to make it, even in this more complicated and scary world. The short view of our country is that we’re doomed. The long view, inherited from my grandparents’ 1930s upbringing in coal country, is that all of us can still control some part of our fate. Even if we are doomed, there’s reason to pretend otherwise.

There's that weird strain of American optimism again!

[amberlita]

This is also a really good piece by him: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...masses/489911/

[Morris Schæffer]

Seine Maritime, France. 2 men stormed a church and held several people hostage. A priest's throat was slit, both hostage takers were killed.

Uncertain if they are terrorists, but if they are this is become even more terrifying because it seems like they are now targeting smaller, obscure communities. Now truly no one is safe.

[Irish]

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Psychotic man slaughters 19 disabled people with a knife in a home in Japan...

[Morris Schæffer]

They like to get the Russians!

[Dukefrukem]

Cool short.

[Ezee E]

Cool short.

I wanted more.

[slqrick]

well?

[Skitch]

This is a fake thread.

[Sycophant]

Jeez. Where the fuck to start.

[Skitch]

I assumed most of us were on the same page, and decided it wasn't worth paragraphs of dissection.

Trump bad.