Thread title change to The New Zealand terrorist attack please.
And due to all of this, the gun laws in NZ are going to change. Something about this whole story feels like it's missing a piece, like, there was an internet outage, NZ revising their gun laws and he announced he was going to carry out an attack and livestreamed it like a friggin' game. Maybe it's just coincidence, who knows.
The gun used was legal. When 70+ people get shot with a legally registered firearm in a terrorist attack, reevaluating gun laws is an absolutely basic requirement from a responsible government. Fortunately, New Zealand has a responsible leader in Jacinda Ardern.
He mentioned "subscribe to PewDiePie" and now PDP is in trouble because of this scumbag despite that Pewds isn't responsible what strangers do or say, in his or someone else's name. He did in fact say he wanted to cause chaos and that's what's occurring.
PewDiePie is trash and has happily engaged in some appaling shit (see anti-semitism) and in his toxic fanbase. I'm not proclaiming he's a white supremacist who wants violence against ethnic minorities but I will say the guy is a piece of shit.
For sure this guy didn't work alone, there are many racist people in the world but they didn't even hurt a fly, and this guy become racist and full of hate suddenly and suddenly he owns many weapons and start shooting people for something it didn't even hurt him?
Now who's the real people behind this attack? For sure we won't know, because no matter how much I hate this guy and wish him dead in a very horrible way for what he did, I still cannot remove the idea from my mind that he is just another victim or a puppet for someone else, no one can do that without a good reason, and all reasons they mentioned are just silly.
Do not describe him as a victim, he's a terrorist. At least 49 people were killed by him, they were victims. Explain what you mean by 'without a good reason?' Everything about the guy is screaming far right and sadly we live in a toxic environment where hate and division is being encouraged by those in positions of authority. This guy is no different than someone who joins IS. Different skin colour, same irrational hatred.
I'm not surprised at this and I fully expect more of these attacks. There have been the Mosque attacks in Montreal and London, the Church shootings in Charlestown and the Synagogue shooting in Pittsburg, not even looking into the rates of hate crime. We're living in an age of hate where appaling cunts are getting into positions of power by politicising and taking advantage of insecurity and this is the result. And the result of this is the emboldening of the Far Right to engage in terrorism. It's made me sick seeing people engage in this divisionary bollocks and inflaming the fire and then after people are killed, they pull out the hate is wrong bollocks. The Aussie PM, Scott Morrison is a great example of this, he and his party have been happy to engage in inflammatory bullshit for votes and now he's standing up against it. Or alternatively the Far Right fuckos like Milo who and Tommy Robinson, purveyors of hate speech who portray themselves as defenders of free speech. And we have the media who seem to love giving these people a voice which in turn in indoctrinates more people. Newsnight ( a 'respected' current affairs program) invited on Generation Identity, a group of Far Right extremists, onto their broadcast to talk about the shooting which is not appropriate.
Fortunately, there is good out there, I've always liked Jacinda Arden but she's come across as amazing in the aftermath of this. She's shown compassion, she's called out for what it is, a terrorist attack and she's doing something about it by tightening the gun laws.
I'm a brown twentysomething guy with a clear Muslim name and I've grown up in the post 9/11 world and the older I get, the more I realise how tragic the consequences 9/11 was and the moronic actions after that. I'm actually getting sick of this hate and extremist sympathy bollocks.