The topic of today’s discussion is the explosion in Lebanon that killed over 100 (so far) people and was larger than the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. However, we aren’t here to talk about the event itself, but more of the reactions around it.
I would have figured after two decades of war in the sandbox that people would have learned that anything that gets you dragged in is bad news, but apparently all that has been forgotten. Already the conspiracies are mounting, but to what end? Stop and think for a minute, who cares? Or, more specifically, why should we care? I know this may seem callous, especially to those with bleeding hearts. However, can we put that aside and look at this like rational sane adults for a minute?
What does some random explosion half-way on the other side of the planet have anything to do with us and our current situation?
Poof!
In one giant toxic smoke cloud suddenly no one is talking about riots, antifa, masks, or anything else that we were, quite literally, just talking about minutes ago. It’s ridiculous coming from people who claim to not be influenced by the 24-hour news cycle. Where have we seen this playbook before in action?
Right now, we are in the midst of an upcoming election, a communist power grab, pedophile elites, churches being burned to the ground, bibles being burned, a political virus that is destroying what’s left of the middle class, Southern states being destroyed, and so much more important things than some explosion in Lebanon.
Has anyone stopped to consider the absurdity of it all?
It seems once again people have fallen hook, line, and sinker for the obvious bait meant to distract you as more and more of the Far Left continues its power grab right under our noses, while we are distracted with big explosions. It’s simply more sensationalist reporting meant to grab your attention, while their wallets grow fatter and their power becomes more cemented.
I’m sorry if innocent people died in the explosion, but let’s stay focused on what really matters and not get distracted.
God bless you and God bless Dixie.
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
Feel the same way, it’s pretty disheartening how fast people in the modern age jump from one supposed humanitarian crisis to the next in some sort of competition to espouse sympathy towards people they don’t even know in real life or on social media, happens nearly every month now.
Surprised people don’t find it hard to sympathize with leaving fertilizer in a hot warehouse for years then putting fireworks inside. Every government seems to be scrambling to be the first to send foreign aid.
Happened in 47 in Texas City, killed nearly 600, ship full off amonian nitrate at dock blew up and set off more explosions.
i just don’t even get all the conspiracies. there is pictures of all the AN in that warehouse. some retard decided to weld something and it blew up. what a shocker.
The Beirut explosion is estimated to have been approximately 1.1-1.5 kilotons.
The atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki was far bigger at about 20 KT.
You are correct. Initially when I wrote this piece information about the even was still coming out and I heard mention of that. Thinking it did a good job of describing the scope of the blast I chose to include it having not verified the authenticity of the claim. That was my mistake for not researching it or waiting for more facts to come out. I hereby retract that part. The point of the article does still stand however.
I adopted the motto some years back, “Distrust but Verify” (whatever you read or hear). Obviously a play on words, and I have to remind myself of it from time to time, but it has mostly served me well in any case. Another is, “Never Judge an Article by its Headline, and Don’t Overreact.” The idea there is of course that ‘mainstream’ headlines often contain inaccuracies or half-truths, and are therefore often misleading, to say the least. Also, mainstream ‘news items,’ for lack of a better term, tend to skewer the facts in the first few lines or paragraphs, and in the ‘grand finale’ (the final paragraphs). This is a pet theory of mine, so make of it no more than what it is, but, I believe this is purposely done by the writers and/or the editors of a certain bent because they know the average reader of their rag has the attention span of a gnat, and is therefore just reading the headline and the opening lines, then scrolling to the final lines in the majority of cases. Comments to mainstream articles tend to confirm this is the case to my mind. It’s either that, or (“and/or” would be more accurate, I guess), the average reader of mainstream articles is stupid beyond belief. Which of course is a distinct possibility, but I like to think the majority are just lazy, not stupid per se.
Anyway, and to the main gist of your article, I agree wholeheartedly – none of my concern; I have, with you, more immediate and pressing issues to concern myself with. E.g., what does the (near, and long term) future hold for my children and grandchildren, and my people.
the Christians in Lebanon affected could use some aid.
but no more than that. even if it was a weapons cache blown up by Hezbollah or Mossad (the shockwave does seem bigger than ammonium nitrate and fireworks, in Texas City there were more explosions), those tribes on those far away sands are not our problem.