Boston Marathon Bombing

[WaterSlinky]

OK, anyone, go off about this. I want to hear how you feel.

[mbergeron]

OK, anyone, go off about this. I want to hear how you feel.

Yeah, not the right place. Lets keep it about the game.

[babytears]

It's an unfortunate tragedy, what do you expect people to say?

[WaterSlinky]

This is under Off Topic...so yah id say it is the right place.

Yeah, not the right place. Lets keep it about the game.

[WaterSlinky]

apparently not much

It's an unfortunate tragedy, what do you expect people to say?

[firetiger2k]

Not a big deal. Just americans being butthurt
An earthquake just killed 100 people in Sichuan, China 2000 others injured

Every week multiple times I hear about a suicide bomb going off in a busy market area and killing 50+ people and injuring countless others.

The only thing that makes this tragedy worth reporting on was it happened in america. Will there be a memorial every year? yep. will I have to listen to yanks complaining a year from now about the anniversary of a "minor" terrorism event. yep.

Honestly, I'm disgusted with the amount of interest this story got comparatively to the worlds tragedies and I'm sure there will be charities set up and americans will give money to these causes instead of the incredible famine and sex slave children rings around the world.

I don't really know why I'm posting here... noone will agree. Just get over yourselves america. It's not a big deal.
5 people are dead today. Just remember the fallen and move on

[ShiMoShinkenFry]

Not a big deal. Just americans being butthurt
An earthquake just killed 46 people in Sichuan, China 400 others injured

Every week multiple times I hear about a suicide bomb going off in a busy market area and killing 50+ people and injuring countless others.

The only thing that makes this tragedy worth reporting on was it happened in america. Will there be a memorial every year? yep. will I have to listen to yanks complaining a year from now about the anniversary of a "minor" terrorism event. yep.

Honestly, I'm disgusted with the amount of interest this story got comparatively to the worlds tragedies and I'm sure there will be charities set up and americans will give money to these causes instead of the incredible famine and sex slave children rings around the world.

I don't really know why I'm posting here... noone will agree. Just get over yourselves america. It's not a big deal.
5 people are dead today. Just remember the fallen and move on

Pretty much how the media works. Focus on places that you can see as potentially being where you are so it is more interesting to you personally. And since America is a country like england in ways goings on there seem to have more appeal to our media over other places in the world.

[Befallen]

I am an american and I can definitely say we make to much of a deal about nothing. I was just saying to my father that for a terrorist act 3 isn't that much and i'd get every american going crazy if I said that in public. I live in massachusetts and it struck me as crazy when I heard it but I should know better than to make a huge deal over something that happens everywhere in the world. America needs to stop hiding in the corner and pretending to be the world police. We're in crazy debt thanks to reagan and only now do people see that carter wasn't a joke. Truthfully it's just another act of terror and to fight terrorism is like fighting an emotion. All it takes is one brainwashed psycho to change the schedule of others or even end it and it becomes the only thing people talk about. I hate the news here in america because it's mostly idiocy until they talk about world news and then something of interest starts.

[firetiger2k]

Pretty much how the media works. Focus on places that you can see as potentially being where you are so it is more interesting to you personally. And since America is a country like england in ways goings on there seem to have more appeal to our media over other places in the world.

I am no yank and I find even living in the UK that USA might as well be Syria to me. I watch cnn during this story and I follow the events and just find america's values, patriotism and religious connotations entirely isolating. Then you have the bare faced cheek to question why anyone who grew up in america would want to terrorise.

You country and its values are the very reason you're targeted because it's SO EASY to radicalise anyone with a school level education.

[ShiMoShinkenFry]

I already knew you were not American since it says you are from the north west and the point I was trying to make is the media tries to focus on stuff we can relate to much easier.