Originally Posted by
harrybarracuda
Bhopal got worldwide coverage because it killed nearly 4,000 and is still considered the worst industrial accident of all time.
Ask ten people about Bhopal, and nine or ten of them will be clueless.
You cannot compare a single attack that killed thousands with something that has killed "twice that number" when you mean "twice that number over a period of decades" you fucking idiot.
Of course I can when the subject of my point is deaths It's you who introduced a time limit of one day, meaninglessly....and stupid reduction to meaningless insults.
Furthermore, even Bhopal has not had the global impact that 9/11 had.
That's part of my point!!! Who's the fucking idiot here? Deaths at 20 000 now, and growing, but who knows about it?
When it was happening (and I was in the Gulf), everyone, myself included, said "This is going to change things forever", mainly because we all travel and we knew that airlines and security were going to change drastically.
That's before what the US's response was going to be (and the fact Bush was in charge meant that it was not only disproportionate but misguided.
Ermm..so? What's that got to do with the price of fish?
Ask yourself this question:
Do bombs going off in Southern Thailand affect you in any way?
Do Israelis shooting Palestinians and vice versa affect you in any way?
Does any of the atroticies committed in Syria and Iraq affect you in any way?
Not at all.
I live in the Gulf and they have very little impact, other me staying out of anyone discussing Sunni/Shi'a issues, and I stay away from that anyway, much as I would if I heard someone debating Catholics v Protestants in Glasgow or Northern Ireland.
And what's that got to do with the price of condoms?
You are comparing apples and oranges, you twit.
No, YOU are comparing apples and oranges. I made a statement about how MSM covers deaths, US deaths being prioritised of raghead or brown deaths, and now you are going on about how clever you were predictng how 9/11 would change the rules on airlines. Again with unnecessary childish language.
Just give it up, Dad.