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A Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, killing five people, including a child, and injuring over 200.

The 50-year-old suspect, who had lived in Germany for nearly two decades, expressed anti-Islam views and supported far-right politics. Authorities believe he acted alone.

The attack shocked Germany, prompting other towns to cancel Christmas markets and increasing security measures nationwide.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz mourned the victims, and a memorial service is planned. Saudi Arabia condemned the attack, calling it a tragedy.

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The afd are terrorists and nazis. This murderer praises Musk and the far right and then does this. I’m in tears for Magdeburg. 🖤

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Yet still they will run with the aspect of him being an Arab

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“Brown people scary!”

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The 50-year-old suspect, who had lived in Germany for nearly two decades, expressed anti-Islam views and supported far-right politics. Authorities believe he acted alone.

He acted because he fell for rightwing propaganda…

It doesn’t matter if he “acted alone” when thousand (millions?) of other people are listening to the same people spread the same propaganda. There’s gonna be the same result, it’s a matter of “when” not “if”.

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“Acted alone” pretty much always means stochastic terrorism. Very few people radicalize themselves.

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Note that this was after Musk praised the AfD.

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I’m sure that if this happened before Musk’s endorsement it totally would have impacted his (Edit for clarity: Musk’s) decision.

Absolutely certain.

Pardon me, I’m choking on all this sarcasm.

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Considering he retweeted Musk more than once, I don’t think suggesting that Musk had an effect on his thinking is as far-fetched as you seem to.

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Oh let me clarify - I’m sure this terrorist act wouldn’t impact Musk’s endorsement of the AfD one bit.

Lemmy needs user tags so I could have “has ADHD and frequently miswords things” floating by my name.

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Unfortunately, things like this will continue to happen. Events like Pride here have been proactive whenever there’s street events, and they have deployed crash barriers that people can walk between quite easily, but will immediately stop vehicles. They kinda look like portable construction equipment, but they have little wheels on them so they can be wheeled around, and have teeth that bite into the concrete when a car crashes into it. It will stop or potentially flip the car, depending on the speed.

Seeing deterrent measurements is disheartening, but it also makes it much more reassuring to see police and crash barriers protecting large (300k+) events like parades and street festivals. I hope Germany and other countries start to deploy barriers like this for big events.

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Apparently a right-wing nut bag who had turned against Islam and immigrants.

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Yup, I checked the comments on some posts and they were blaming islam. Once they knew that he was also anti-islam, they went mask off and started blaming Arabs and promoting deportation.

We can’t make these clowns happy, they’ll always just blame us.

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Right wingers suddenly start using the word Taqqiyah and claim this guy was hiding his religion. Which makes no sense considering this man was not only an atheist but campaigned against Islam and Muslims for more than ten years.

But really it goes to show the pretense of “we do not hate brown people, we hate Islam which is an ideology so we are not racist.” was nothing but a sham as they will call any brown person a Muslim.

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Quick note that right-wingers invent their own definition of what Taqiyyah is. What actually exists in Islam is people being allowed to hide their beliefs if it would put them in danger. Not just for whatever purpose suits them.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

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Taqqiyah… in germany.

The saddest part is, there are a lot of real things to criticize islam about, i live in saudi arabia and i fear someone will discover that i am an atheist and be beheaded. But these guys don’t care about that.

They don’t hate islam, they hate arabs. But all of a sudden, when their own logic is used against them, all of a sudden it’s different.

Their think their own discomfort with immigrants is more important than those immigrants escaping persecution. It happened just after the Syrian revolution where i saw a lot of europeans say “they’ll leave europe now, right?”.

It pisses me off more that these guys are probably german, too; they say shit like “never again” then they say bs like this. They act like they’re more civilized than us, that we’re savages, despite not even 100 years ago they committed one of the worst genocides in history, but they’re not savages, WE are. My point isn’t that they should be considered savages, But the hypocrisy is unreal to me.

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