So Why No Outrage Over 233 Dead in Brazil??

[boutons_deux]

But people care about the gun ban in Australia. Ok got it.

care about? only as evidence of how strict gun regulations would reduce US gun violence, injuries, death.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

When I have no rejoinder, I just babble on anyway.

I looked and it was still front page on all the major carriers. 'People' care about both.

Your premise is unfounded. Darrin is that you?

[DMC]

I looked and it was still front page on all the major carriers. 'People' care about both.

Your premise is unfounded. Darrin is that you?

Caught with your panties down again and you go to name dropping those who have rogered you?

[FuzzyLumpkins]

So then this is another call out thread for me?

You guys really need to find a date.

[johnsmith]

Except the club was 2x the max occupancy, no exit signs on doors and their fire inspection certification was expired. Then reports say guards wouldn't let people leave for whatever stupid reason.

Accident or intentional, a lot of people are dead and not one of you tree huggers even raised in eyebrow. I didn't even see a dead baby pic.

Lol, are you implying that I'm a tree hugger?

You've obviously never read one of my posts.

[Latarian Milton]

true tragedy but anyone ever wondered why it's often in a nightclub where massive people get killed in a fire? the gate keepers shut the door when people were trying to escape from the fire because they thought these people wanted to get out w/o paying. there was no explosion or so there should've been enough time to evacuate the crowd, but the mother ers left the door closed and the innocent people burnt. it's not the fire's fault and such tragedies could've been easily prevented tbh

[Latarian Milton]

Did this have anything to do with the fact that Rio is built on an older city. I haven't looked into this, but I was talking to my dad yesterday and apparently the old city underneath Rio is somehow causing fireballs that are following the path of least resistance and blowing manholes out with fiery bursts.

It is still weird to me the idea of building a city ON TOP of another city. I just don't see how that works.

u think there actually exists something like the future city in stallone's movie demolition man? weird logic tbh

[Brazil]

Purpose of that thread tbh?

[DMC]

Lol, are you implying that I'm a tree hugger?

You've obviously never read one of my posts.

You are what you hug.

[johnsmith]

You are what you hug.

So because I think your logic is ing stupid, I must automatically be a tree hugger......wow.

[DMC]

So because I think your logic is ing stupid, I must automatically be a tree hugger......wow.

Somewhere there's a tree in need of a hug.

[The Reckoning]

ban fire tbh

[Jacob1983]

No one cares about Brazilians. I mean really, Brazilians aren't really sympathy magnets. People outside of Brazil aren't going to give a .

[Wild Cobra]

No one cares about Brazilians. I mean really, Brazilians aren't really sympathy magnets. People outside of Brazil aren't going to give a .

I think you mean the media hasn't told you to care about them like victims of shooting.

[Jacob1983]

Yep that sums it up. The victims of that fire weren't little white kids from a school in Connecticut so the media hasn't told people to care about the victims.

[Soul_Patch]

If they were killed by a fire that was started by DRONES!!! then I would care.

[diego]

at this thread

hey DMC, do americans / US media get "outraged!" by school shootings outside of the US? maybe there is insufficient sample size to say definitively...
how about fires in the US? somehow i'm still "outraged!" enough to remember this old paper I read in college:
http://www.cafiresci.org/storage/papers/Davis1995.pdf

On the other hand, many of the 100-or-so recent fatalities
from tenement fires in the Westlake and Downtown areas might have
been prevented if slumlords had been held to minimal standards of
building safety. If enormous resources have been allocated-
quixotically-to fight irresistible forces of nature on the Malibu coast,
then scandalously little attention has been paid to the man-made and
remediable fire crisis of the inner city. As we shall see in some detail,
the political history of fire in Los Angeles is a faithful reflection of
larger class struggles.

do we need to confirm Mike Davis' outrage over the brazil fires before we can accept his outrage as valid?

[DMC]

at this thread

hey DMC, do americans / US media get "outraged!" by school shootings outside of the US? maybe there is insufficient sample size to say definitively...
how about fires in the US? somehow i'm still "outraged!" enough to remember this old paper I read in college:
http://www.cafiresci.org/storage/papers/Davis1995.pdf

do we need to confirm Mike Davis' outrage over the brazil fires before we can accept his outrage as valid?

So you agree.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

In other news, several Brazilian's associated with the fire have been arrested and the story has been a top story on every commercial news agency in the states ever since it happened. I am not sure what 'outraged' is supposed to mean but it certainly has been brought to the forefront of American consciousness as it should be.

[DMC]

In other news, several Brazilian's associated with the fire have been arrested and the story has been a top story on every commercial news agency in the states ever since it happened. I am not sure what 'outraged' is supposed to mean but it certainly has been brought to the forefront of American consciousness.

But not here. That was my point. I wasn't commenting on the national spotlight, lugnut.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

SA210 doesn't post about the things that I think he should care about.

So now you are the arbiter of what we care about? If you think its an important story then post it without trying to call out others on what you think we should care about or more specifically how we should act about things we care about.

These call out threads speak more about you then it does anyone else.

Oh and remember this?

But he could be any random person in the world. Funny how some people think they are changing the world, one mind at a time.

What a putz.

[Blake]

If they were killed with an evil gun it would be all you heard about or read about for months. They die in a fire, no big deal. Just people trying to get out and have a good time, and they are Brazilians anyhow.

Odd that no one really gives a about life, just about particular lives. SA210, where the are you? Why aren't you complaining about piss poor fire codes and enforcement?

Yeah, I'm not seeing the point of this thread either.

What exactly would we be hearing if it were guns instead of a fire?

[DMC]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the point of this thread either.

What exactly would we be hearing if it were guns instead of a fire?

It's more about what you'd be saying, not what you'd be hearing.

[DMC]

So now you are the arbiter of what we care about? If you think its an important story then post it without trying to call out others on what you think we should care about or more specifically how we should act about things we care about.

These call out threads speak more about you then it does anyone else.

Oh and remember this?



What a putz.

Explain.

[Oh, Gee!!]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the point of this thread either.

to express his outrage over our percieved lack of immediate outrage about an event over which we are in fact becoming increasingly outraged as details become known.