So, did the truck act alone? When did the truck become radicalized? Is there something we, as a society, could have done to reach out to the truck and prevent this tragedy?
Alternately, was the truck perhaps hacked by Vladimir Putin?
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No, we’re in “Maximum Overdrive,” where vehicles and machines are rising up in rebellion against us for… no discernible reason.
I just knew self-driving trucks would turn against us.
I’d love to hear someone ask Frau Merkel WTF laying flowers is about? At the rate they’re going, they’re going to need a lot of flowers.
I am always amazed by the human characteristics liberals give to inanimate objects
Of course, anyone with a three-digit IQ can understand that no one gets killed “by” a truck. Or “by” a car, a gun, or a knife. People get killed WITH objects. They get killed BY other people. Terrorists, criminals, reckless drivers.
But if you blame crime on criminals, or terrorism on terrorists, then you are a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, deplorable, gun-clinging, religion-clinging, Fox News-watching, Trump-voting bigot.
Ah, this brings back memories when the left was waging their war on #suvs! “News” article after article would underline what a menace to society and the planet gas guzzling, murdering SUV’s were. “SUV hits car and kills family of4”, “Out of control SUV kills motorist”, etc., etc. Ah, those were the good old days. This tweet makes me nostalgic for those halcyon days…
It was clearly transgendered truck distraught that German uses the wrong gender articles.
Well it was a Dutch truck, perhaps it fell victim to cargo-xenophobia.
Hrrm, apparently the driver of the truck escaped and is still at large — so there’s zero possibility of a “heart attack behind the wheel” scenario. (“Jihadist attack” vs. “neo-Nazi attack” is still up in the air, but it was clearly an ATTACK.)
That’s twice in a year. When are we going to enact common sense truck control legislation to eliminate these assault trucks?
Exactly! We need to enact common sense truck laws, including an outright ban on assault trucks and closing the truck show loophole.
I did not know that! And don’t even get me started on those semi-automatic trucks. Did you know that with just minimal alterations, they can be made fully automatic?
Who needs an automatic truck? Learn to drive a stickshift, like I had to!
FIFY. You’re welcome.
Apparently Mon’sewer Jihidist hijacked the truck, killed it’s driver, drive to Berlin then evaded capture in the confusion. With a 12-16 hour head-start, he could be anywhere…
Meanwhile the Polizei thought they had their man — a Pakistani bystander — so they didn’t start looking for the escaped driver for nearly half-a-day.
Btw, the CIA just confirmed the drone-truck was indeed piloted by Putin, from the plane he was flying over Germany, just after he was done with the US election (round #2).
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Hitler must be spinning in his grave (if any) at quantum physics speed by now.
Imagine, he thought he and his national SOCIALIST “volk” were of the clay that makes an eternal superior race, only to discover today they have simply morphed into the same breed of social justice retards made in amerika who need teddy bears, pacifiers, play doh, and cluster hug sessions to overcome the despondence out of not getting their way vs the world that is our lot — we, poor foolishly unimaginative bigots who insist on living in reality.
“President-elect Donald Trump characterized the gruesome truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin as part of a systematic campaign by Muslim extremists against Christians, fueling speculation that he views the war on terrorism as a clash of civilizations and not a conflict against extremists.”
Note what the writer singles out as the truly important piece of news here: we now have additional evidence that Trump views the war on terrorism as a clash of civilizations (and is therefore a racist bigot). And these people still can’t figure out why they and Hillary lost the election.
We’ve got to reckon the innovative ways of Germany these days, thanks to the thorough cultural-enrichment she’s been offering herself (but, granted, thank Brussels, too) with delightful refugee-sorta-“folks” kind enough to bring her the “bumper sticker voter” metaphor to a *whole new* level…
The news media is mixed on if this was an assault truck or a high capacity truck that needs to be banned.
Update on the Berlin’s Bumper Sticker Voter:
http://www.thejournal.ie/cctv-anis-amri-france-3160864-Dec2016
“[…] SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE CONFIRMS that Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned down by Italian police, transited through the French city of Lyon by train, a source close to the investigation said.
“A man corresponding to the killer was spotted on the afternoon of Thursday, December 22, on a platform at the (Lyon-Part-Dieu) station wearing a cap and backpack,” the source said, confirming media reports.
He appears alone in these images.
The source said investigators are still trying to determine how 24-year-old Amri, suspected of using a hijacked truck to mow down 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin a week ago, was able to leave the German capital to reach France and then Italy.
[…]”