Yet another terror attack in Paris

Unfortunately Asian tourists are seen as easy targets in many cities, not being used to the petty larceny and thugs that abound.

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Depends on what Asian country they come from. China is swarming with pickpockets. Some of them are pretty good too. It’s the only place I’ve been successfully pickpocketed. :angry:

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True, but they won’t target you if you seem attentive enough.

What I was explaining wasn’t pickpocketing. It was an issue of crime of a more violent nature, like robbery, and apparently uncontrolled immigration.

Even so, what was the atmosphere like in France and Europe before the EU threw open its borders, how many of these pickpocketers and robbers, etc., are originally French or an overflow of recent Muslim immigrants, or in France before Hollande became president and Sarkozy was more vigilant on crime (not sure about borders)?

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Regardless of pickpocketing, prior to the visionary german leader Merkel opening the borders* to millions of people who are looking for free $$$ while hiding behind a fake refugee status, terrorist attacks in Europe were an extremely rare event.

During the last few years, not so much.

  • = lol @ the fact that in the beginning she opened the borders of Germany, then when she realized she don goofed she pushed the EU to force other countries to welcome migrants and give them free stuff.

Dislaimer:“NOT ALL MUSLISMS” of course, it just so happens that it’s never a Taoist, a Buddhist, an Hamish etc etc

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That terror attack is giving Le Pen a boost in the polls. Looks like ISIS just may get its wish.

I wonder how much of an impact the constant:“SHE’S A NAZI !!11!!one” nonsense from all leftist media in France will have.

I’m rooting for her, it would be nice to finally have a female President* in “mainland Europe” and anyone who doesn’t think so is a sexist homophobic arachnophobic.

  • = I specified FEMALE, so Merkel doesn’t count

Le Pen and Macron are heading into a runoff. I love how how everyone calls Le Pen the “far right” candidate. By American standards, she’s a socialist. In Europe, I guess being a nationalist automatically put you on the far right.

It’s more like:“Being CALLED far right puts you in the far right”. Idelogy, political programs, social/economical plans mean less and less as time goes by.

Far right or not, she’s a radical.

Sorry, I’m just not seeing it. Which of her political views or proposed policies would you consider radical? I guess the fact that she’d be France’s first female president is kinda radical. :slight_smile:

Leaving the EU?

You can agree or disagree with that position, but it’s hardly radical… Brexit got the majority of the vote in the UK, and it’s hard to see how you could call most of those voters “radical.”

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It’s hard to see how support for leaving the EU is not, in one way or another, radical.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/radical#Adjective

  1. Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
    His beliefs are radical.
  1. (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
  1. Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something. Burke: The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
  1. Thoroughgoing; far-reaching. 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, page 70: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
    The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
  1. (linguistics, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
  1. (linguistics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
  1. (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
  2. (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root. a radical quantity; a radical sign
  1. (slang, 1980s & 1990s) Excellent; awesome. That was a radical jump!

I assume you’re referring to definition 9. :sunglasses:

Ah, the 80’s and 90’s, those were the days. :wink:

They were, like, totally rad!

The claws really came out in the last debate before the French presidential election. As things stand, Macron is ahead of Le Pen in the polls, and just received an endorsement from Obama. Getting a really strong sense of déjà vu here. I wonder if Obama’s endorsement will help Macron like it did Hillary. :sunglasses:

Before this debate, Macron had announced he wanted sanctions on Poland because they weren’t taking refugees, which gave a sharp rise to Le Pen in polls. Poland is the only country in Europe to not suffer a terrorist attack, and Macron thinks it’s unfair. France has plenty of terrorist attacks because of their loose migrant policies, and if he were elected, he would make sure Poland pays their fair share too.

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