• DominusOfMegadeus
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    5 hours ago

    These are crazy high body counts for knife attacks. The car ramming too; 35 dead? WTAF?

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      Conveniently no more than 35 again.

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        Sounds conspiratorial, but is serious: is there some legal category for events with more than 35 dead?

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      I remember when London was having Isis van attacks. One attack was on an almost empty street at like 2 o’clock on a Tuesday.

      I said at the time we’re lucky they’re fucking idiots. If they’d done that at lunch time or rush hour could have been 100s injured or killed easy

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        That’s almost always the case.

        Just think about airports. The planes themselves are highly protected, but everything before security is essentially public area. You could quite literally put a ton of explosives on one of those baggage carts, rolled it into a packed airport during holiday saison and blow up hundreds of people.

        It seems like very few terrorists are reasonably intelligent.

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        or maybe they’re not idiots, maybe they were forced to do it but wanted to minimize damage.

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          That seems charitable.