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   Angela Glansbury 🚽 (floppyplopper@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:29:38 JST Angela Glansbury 🚽

   one of my colleagues at work had quite a lot of disquiet about the ersatz barvarian market in liverpool, 3 years after the attempted spree killing at liverpool's armistice celebrations he was still worried. rightly so imo considering the successful bombing of manchester arena in 2017 and liverpool's near miss in 2021.

   i didn't realise just how rightly so.

   i have a professional and personal interest in how, if at all, the magdeburg christmas market was defended. and which of these defenses were evaded or failed.

   i want to be able to walk around vulnerable sites where i'm working or at leisure and know what is relatively safe or unsafe.

   I know tipping barriers are unsafe and can simply be rammed through if you don't care about damage to your vehicle. these "protect" two entrances to the market in liverpool so you can see this event is unsafe.

   does anyone know if any other defences failed at magdeburg.

   most of the reporting on the spree killing has reported on has focussed on the killer's motivations: sympathy for AfD, anti islam hate, zionism, belief in the eurabia conspiracy, etc. very little is public safety guidance.

   anyone?

   #Terrorism #Magdeburg #ChristmasMarket

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     Angela Glansbury 🚽 (floppyplopper@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:29:37 JST Angela Glansbury 🚽

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     I've avoided describing this as a terror attack. the paradigm states and state media operate from is terror is an attack on the state. this isn't how it's defined in law but that doesn't matter (see for example the persecution of Luigi Mangione). if political violence is defined as terror you can be sure it's an attack on the state, if not you can be sure it's not an attack on the state.

     as such it's more useful describe the magdeburg attack as a spree killing. how do we the public protect ourselves against spree killers in schools, workplaces, places of leisure, etc.

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     Angela Glansbury 🚽 (floppyplopper@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 23-Dec-2024 01:30:56 JST Angela Glansbury 🚽

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     one of the lessons* of this spree killing is people who traffic in eurabist fantasy consider eu states to be "fallen" and their white populations "lost". they have no qualms about murdering white people in furtherance of their political aims. begging people still complacent about eurabism to get a fucking clue, especially white people thinking it doesn't affect them. it does.

     (*not much of a lesson, this is far from the first far-right political mass killing primarily targeting white people in the last 20 years and definitely won't be the last. some people will point out a paradox. there is no paradox. white people murdered by falangists cease to be white on the point of death, do yourself a favour and read some Eco)