It’s okay. I think much of humanity is hurting pretty badly today.

They don’t especially like the term Daesh, that’s the point.

I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting that. The guy who took the video is a reporter for Le Monde so I checked out the link and google translated his account. It’s worse than the video. I’m crying :(

1) It is messed up. This is victim blaming. 2) The majority of these domestic French terrorists came from the middle class. They weren’t dirt poor, living in the slums. They were bored kids who thought the world owed them something for simply existing. They had a chip on their shoulder and wanted to show Europe who…

I thought this couldn't get any worse. I was wrong. If anyone needs me, I'm going back under my blanket and crying.

One of the scary consequences is that it divides and polarizes people even more. Here in Europe, there have been many riots in protest of the deluge of Syrianand Iraqi refugees and lots of people are saying now: I told you so! They all are all terrorists! Not realizing that the refugees are fleeing for the very same…

Secular, anti-clerical France the “leading bearer of the cross in Europe”? No. Try Italy, Poland and Ireland.

Sorry but I can’t handle people like that. These terrorists are killing their fellow Muslims as well (see Beirut and elsewhere in the Middle East) - they don’t discriminate with who they kill.

Yes. Also, Colorado Springs is home to some of the most rabidly conservative Christian fundamentalists in the U.S.

And so many more will be torn apart in response. Syrian refugees are going to get fucked.

I am trying to hold out hope that cooler heads prevail in the aftermath of all of this. The last thing we need is to get involved in another war. I have a distinct feeling I will be disappointed...

To me, what upsets me about most of the reactions are how conveniently and quickly people are forgetting that Muslims are also victims of Islamic terrorism, just to propagate their xenophobic propaganda.

Ugh. I have a feeling you're going to end up very drunk and very broke.

toxic masculinity, with wider PR.

My Syrian friend calls them the Middle East’s rednecks — bigoted, closed-minded, racist and proudly ignorant, willing to follow any asshole who taps into their feelings of being disenfranchised guys who are owed something by the world. Imagine, he says, if our rednecks were mobilized and armed by zealots, and our…

Worth noting that, after filming this video, Psenny was shot in the arm while helping victims get to safety in the lobby of his building.

Call me cynical, but the only thing surprising about that (it’s shocking, yes, but not surprising) is that the teenager share of the terrorist population isn’t well over 50%. Add testosterone poisoning to underlying conditions of youthful disaffection and anomie (in alienated social groups, no less) and you basically…

“folks” = Me, all by myself. I’m doing my best to keep up with today’s constantly updating news.

Seriously. That was soul crushing to watch.

Oh my god that video. That video. There are no words.