Bomb at Boston Marathon



scottspfd82 said:
Not because that's who actually did it, but because that's the picture they need to paint for America's new terrorists.
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If trying to make a group look bad, from a psychological propaganda standpoint, it is most effective for those doing the framing to get a suspect's face on tv as soon as possible after the event, when the public's anger is at its highest.

With 9/11, even if the government had nothing to do with it, they sure wasted no time in getting photos of the suspected hijackers out to the press.
 
Moxie said:
If trying to make a group look bad, from a psychological propaganda standpoint, it is most effective for those doing the framing to get a suspect's face on tv as soon as possible after the event, when the public's anger is at its highest.

With 9/11, even if the government had nothing to do with it, they sure wasted no time in getting photos of the suspected hijackers out to the press.
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Is it that hard to phantom that there are crazy people out there wanting to harm others and not everything is a government conspiracy.
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwBTDU-jrfE]Family Guy Predicts Boston Marathon Bombing - YouTube[/ame]

apparently Family Guy predicted this last month (S11E15)


Edit: that or this is where some sick fuck got the idea from
 
ShadowCaster said:
My bad, it's the same episode.
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Do you have the context of the clip I posted in the restaurant?

Edit: The restaurant scene is when he finds out he is part of a sleeper cell. They didn't show what he actually blew up. There is no dispute this is pretty fucked up
 
dchuk - as far as I can tell - also understands that we are conditioned to see patterns that aren't really there, since we have evolved to be excellent with pattern recognition (too good) but terrible with biases and statistics. When you see something like a family guy video and its link to a bombing, you are unaware of the millions of other events which are not related, and therefore you don't understand that it is likely that out of all the variables in a given situation, there will be one or two which 'stand out' to your mind. In reality, they are almost inevitable.

As a simple example, imagine you play pool regularly. You're not bad and you play a few rounds a day. One day you go to the pool hall and you play a shot where you pot half the balls in one go. This seems incredible. Except it's not - it's a very probable result after playing a few rounds a day for a year. Basically it's a bell curve - given enough input, you will see outputs at each extreme at a certain frequency.

The truly weird thing, would be if you didn't see those extremes every x times. That is what could indicate something is not right!

Christ I'm not explaining myself well. Maybe dchuck can do better.
 
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maybenot said:
dchuk - as far as I can tell - also understands that we are conditioned to see patterns that aren't really there, since we have evolved to be excellent with pattern recognition (too good) but terrible with biases and statistics. When you see something like a family guy video and its link to a bombing, you are unaware of the millions of other events which are not related, and therefore you don't understand that it is likely that out of all the variables in a given situation, there will be one or two which 'stand out' to your mind. In reality, they are almost inevitable.

As a simple example, imagine you play pool regularly. You're not bad and you play a few rounds a day. One day you go to the pool hall and you play a shot where you pot half the balls in one go. This seems incredible. Except it's not - it's a very probable result after playing a few rounds a day for a year. Basically it's a bell curve - given enough input, you will see outputs at each extreme at a certain frequency.

The truly weird thing, would be if you didn't see those extremes every x times. That is what could indicate something is not right!

Christ I'm not explaining myself well. Maybe dchuck can do better.
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We don't know what happened there and who did it. That is why it is the best to stay in the place of "I don't know" and just observe the evidence as it becomes available. Rather than choosing a position from the beginning: "Oh this is just a coincidence" and posting some pseudo-science explanation.

Let's just stay in a position of no position, a position of unbiased observer and see what happens.
 
TeeBird said:
Reminds me of London in the 80's... Or Spain in the 30's and 40's. This shit has been going on for a very long time.
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Spot on. When I heard about the bombs being placed in litter bins, I thought "IRA". There are ex-IRA people in Boston. Just saying. And they're left-wing not right-wing. As for "patriots" - I suppose it depends on which country.
 
I kind of enjoy the fact that the government is immediately thought to be involved when these kind of things happen, makes people trust the government less

And anyways, aren't bombs and murder illegal, I don't understand how something like this could happen if they are
 
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