• shoulderoforion@fedia.io
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    2 hours ago

    For this news to have made it out of China, is a very big deal, but I wouldn’t believe the body count numbers, which are coming from official channels. If the CCP are saying 35 dead, it could be in the hundreds.

    • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
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      I remember when London was having Isis van attacks. One attack was on an almost empty street at like 2 o’clock on a Tuesday.

      I said at the time we’re lucky they’re fucking idiots. If they’d done that at lunch time or rush hour could have been 100s injured or killed easy

      • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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        That’s almost always the case.

        Just think about airports. The planes themselves are highly protected, but everything before security is essentially public area. You could quite literally put a ton of explosives on one of those baggage carts, rolled it into a packed airport during holiday saison and blow up hundreds of people.

        It seems like very few terrorists are reasonably intelligent.

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        or maybe they’re not idiots, maybe they were forced to do it but wanted to minimize damage.

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    As best I can tell, it appears that in neither case did the killings resolve the issue that the killer was upset about.