Can mods do something about this thread? Everyone is engaging in friendly speculation that it was terrorism, because their lizard brains are remembering the Toronto attack. This was a mental health problem. The suspect was not a white supremacist. Go back to America please.
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In this case I have too little insight. But it's quite clear how biased these reports are in Germany. Anyone not absolutely German is immediately a terrorist and every white, German dude is a confused loner. Media never suspects that mental issues based on trauma from war and refugee journeys might be a good reason or that guys voting for right wing extremists and killing "woke" people might have anything to do with their political views.
Well there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest this was a mental health issue.
Report the comments.
While yes, ideally it would've been nice if it didn't happen, but there's not enough mods to police this place. It's still better than news... That place is a complete shitshow.
They're preemtively calling him radicalised, not realising how radicalised they're themselves.
No motive has been given, although police have said they are “confident” it was not an act of terrorism.
I wonder what makes them confident of that. It certainly resembles a terrorist attack.
It means they double checked and the driver was definitely white
He wasn't. I'm not going to post his name or race here, but he has been charged and his name made public.
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Dude might have been drunk. If it isn't intentional, it's usually a case of too drunk or too old.
Severe, severe mental illness. He wasn't drunk or old.
Or plain old mental illness
What are you talking about, the victims weren't white?
/s
It's not terrorism just because the victims are white.
They also need to be billionaires.
I know it's a slim chance and I'm going out on a limb here, but something tells me the driver was a white conservative.
Apparently it was mental health related, and he was apologizing when he came out of the car
I prefer to call them "Poilievre voters"
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No motive has been given, although police have said they are “confident” it was not an act of terrorism.
Let me guess? The suspect is white! I jest, but at this point it's probably likely the driver is a radicalized "conservative" than any other group.
Why would you guess? You can literally just look it up. It's all over the news.
No. East Asian looking male with a history of mental illness.
Most likely the political component of this tragedy is how the Socreds closed regional mental health institutions in the late 20th C, and subsequent governments just swept the whole thing under the rug while homelessness spread through the province and mentally disturbed and unsupported people lashed out in random ways.
Now you have dorks and bootlickers like Mayor Sims turning a health system failure into an opportunity for cruelty and repression. Punishment will be the talking point. They will roll with that, watch.
Cars are a terrorist threat! We should remove them from our streets.
Only a good guy with a car can stop a bad guy with a car though. Also if everyone in a crowd had a car, stuff like this wouldn't be possible.
/s for the people in the back
Actually, I agree. Put them underground, in a tunnel, where people aren't walking.
Walking > Bikes > Trains > Buses > fuck cars.
Don't put them in the city at all, even in a tunnel. If you're going into the city, park and take transit. (Edit: my complaint here is personal; Boston had an interstate running through it, which they buried, and then put a four-to-six-lane road on top of it where there was supposed to be green space.)
Yeah, I know some people can't do that because they're working and need tools, e.g. plumbers, but if we get all the casual drivers on transit it's good enough.
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Conservatives are a terrorist threat
FTFY
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"car plows"
So we only call it a murder or a terrorist attack if guns are involved?
We are brainwashed and numb to car violence. Super sad that nothing is done to stop this from happening.
Cars need to go. Away forever.
Is it a terrorist attack if it's a mental health issue?
Where are you "mental health issues" people coming from? I know you people are brainwashed by the car corporations but come on now half my inbox is full of you.
Cars need to go, streets need to pedestrianize, and bollards need to go up to make sure cars stay the hell out.
To your point, imagine if this were a mass-shooting and the title were: "Nine people killed after gun shoots into crowd at Vancouver Filipino Festival". "Nine people killed after knife stabs into crowd at Vancouver Filipino Festival." It's so fucking passive as to be sickening. It reminds me of the "Man dies in officer-involved shooting" trope we see in US media because extrajudicial murder by the police is so routine and heavily whitewashed.
The AP gives it the same treatment. The only equivalent I could think of is "Nine people killed after bomb explodes into crowd", and you know why that might be written that way? Because it's not immediately obvious who placed the bomb. This mass-murdering psychopath is in custody; we can say "Nine people killed after man drives into crowd at Vancouver Filipino festival."
Edit: the death toll is now eleven, not nine.
"gun-involved incident"
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Are you in the regular habit of bringing up your political agenda at funerals and vigils?
Where's the funeral?
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Maybe it's time to revisit our car-centric lifestyle.
Do you normally bring up your political agenda at funerals and vigils?
Tbf that's what everyone else does after a mass shooting, why wouldn't c/fuckcars do the exact same thing? I expected it myself, especially considering how fanatical that comm is.
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