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Spotify Executive Chris Bevington Dies In Stockholm Attack (variety.com)
"On Friday, four people were killed and about 15 more were injured when a truck plowed through a shopping area in the heart of Sweden's capital," reports Variety. One of the four victims was Chris Bevington, an executive at Spotify. An anonymous reader writes:
"The British 41-year-old had served as Spotify's director of global partnerships/business development, working from Stockholm," reports Variety. The streaming service's founder, Daniel Ek, confirmed the news with a Facebook post on Sunday. "Chris has been a member of our band for over five years. He has had a great impact on not just the business but on everyone who had the privilege to know and work with him. There are no words for how missed he will be or for how sad we all are to have lost him like this."
His death can be directly attributed to our leftish governments politics. Letting hoards of violent persons into our country under the demise "refugees welcome". Its making me sick. Our police force lacks 10.000 men. Our socialist government is letting this happen. They have blood on their hands
Like anyone gives a flying fuck about your magic moderation skills. Let me put it in perspective for you. I care about you, your life, and the lives of your family far LESS than I care about the dead wasps I sprayed on my porch today.
How much you care about it is irrelevant.
We need more Muslim immigrants. Seriously. The only way we can stop these sorts of attacks is to flood our countries with the sorts of people perpetrating them, and maybe killing ourselves too. Don't you know your grampa was a NAZI that owned SLAVES. FEEL GUILTY YOU NON-JEWISH FUCKS.
Great, another excuse for you white nerds to be racist.
People are claiming this to justify their anti-Islam positions. Talking about this is racist.
No, it's not. Liberals need to stop name calling and get a clue:
RACISM IS NOT DEFINED AS "SOMETHING THAT DISAGREES WITH THE LEFT!"
We CAN talk about issues without being racist, holding racist beliefs, or being prejudiced.
Grow the fuck up and have adult conversations.
It seems that many terrorist attacks in recent years have come from Muslims. This might be a false perception because of media bias, so
1) Does anyone have strong statistical evidence that the problem is Islam, and not a different common feature?
2) Would it make sense to bar entry to the US from certain world areas?
3) Would it make sense to put Muslims under enhanced scrutiny domestically?
As an anecdote to #3, I heard news articles saying that the local Imam in Florida was calling for death to gays before the nightclub attack. Are such overt calls for violence protected as free speech or freedom of religion, or should we make certain exceptions?
Discuss. None of these questions is racist, or indicate inherent racism to an intelligent person. (But it might to liberals.)
Islam is not a race.
Do care more for this guy than the others because he worked for a tech company? The other three had hobbies, relationships, careers (except the eleven year-old).
I get that this is a tech news site, but the fact that he worked for a company we've heard of (or that he made a lot of money) does not seem like sufficient cause to care about his death so much more than the other victims.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
You are fucking insane.
It is an invasion. They will never go. Why the hell would they give up welfare, free phones, free homes, and immunity from prosecution for sex crimes? It's paradise, and the 72 virgins are blonde and speak German, Swedish, and English.
There will be another genocide in Europe, and it will be conducted under the banner of diversity, and sanctioned through the implementation of political Islam.
It's not just an attack. It is an Islamic terrorist attack. Get your story straight and stop being assholes, goddamnit!
I'm neither for nor against the concept of the private ownership of portable weapons, but I think this is further proof that the question of relatively easy access to such devices has become irrelevant, at least, in cases where a determined would-be killer, whether ideologically motivated or just plain nuts, is involved. Military-style weapons such as bombs and rapid-fire guns have been used, as well as more cumbersome tools as hand guns and knives, and even implements that you won't normally think of as weapons, such as trucks and, yes, cookware (Boston marathon bombing).
The debate over guns is another matter, but in a discussion about terrorism and other forms of mass murder, it only clouds the issue. We are really better off discussing whether we should ban globalized social media, where individuals from different cultures are exposed to a dangerous fusion of ideas.
What I mean about such dangerous ideas is that some ideas, while relatively harmless on their own might produce dangerous consequences when combined. Conservative Islam, uprooted from its roots, could produce an inner conflict in a potential terrorist who sees "immoral" women wearing miniskirts and men drinking and doing drugs in broad daylight, actions that would be improper at worst to a culturally acclimatized member of a liberal society. Now if such ideas are restricted to the region of their origin, where such ideas are deemed conventional rather than radical, then maybe we can reduce incidents of ideological schizophrenia that lead to the random acts of violence that we call terrorism.
Deja vu: In the 80s we had a 70ish actor as POTUS, a woman PM in the UK, and a bald leader of that other nuke superpower
Presumably, they did not work for companies fighting tooth and nail to keep the borders open.
It sucks that he died, sucks that they all died. It was, however, predictable (and predicted) and preventable. The last one was too, and the next one will be, and the next, etc.
So, the red pills will flow. And when one of the victims was not spared despite working for a company that thinks that "diversity is our strength", well, like it or not, but that sort of thing makes the red pills flow that much faster.
See that "Preview" button?
You either have to log out or use a different browser. You can't just click the anonymous button.
Some people here are sick of the far right shit
By "far right shit", you mean what, people saying that Trump was a better choice than Clinton? Or that taking in boatloads of Syrian refugees is a bad idea? Nowadays that's what pass as "far right" because the leftist activists have moved the axis with their constant SJW crap.
lucm, indeed.
Don't see how this counts as an Assange apology. I consider him an asswipe but not much of a rapist.
It's not a simple case of "condom disappearance".
He insisted a lot (apparently it's a thing with him) but the girl said she didn't want sex without a condom. A couple hours later she wakes up with him inside her, fucking her and not wearing a condom. Of course the Assange apologists focus on the condom thing to spin it as some kind of pathetic argument. But can you please explain how someone can give consent in their sleep?
When it comes to determining if something is rape or not, here's a simple test: ask yourself how you'd feel about it if it was your daughter or sister. If your daughter had woken up with that guy's dick inside her, would you chalk it off as skewed statistics and give her a stern talk about making wild accusations?
We're not talking about switch rape, or mental rape, or some other bullshit rape. We're talking about non-consensual sex with a sleeping partner, and going at it without a condom to add insult to injury.
lucm, indeed.
Suddenly you seem well versed in the details of swedish rape cases, yet only a few posts ago you were parroting the well-trodden shit about the "rape capital" of the world. If all countries had sweden's level of reporting and definition of multiple offences then it is unlikely they would continue to have the highest stats. Either you suffer from "selective understanding" or you really need to troll harder.
Slashdot: where don knuth is an idiot because he cant grasp the awesome power of php
to find any link between "news for nerds" and "Your daily news of terror".
It didn't happen when the caliphate had vast standing armies because we had vast standing armies of our own. It's not called the Battle of Vienna because everyone got together and talked about their feelings and sang kumbaya.
What you're saying about asylum is how it's SUPPOSED to work, not how it's working NOW. Which wouldn't be a problem if the EU was actually trying to fix the situation, but they seem to be as dangerously naieve as you are being.
[sarcasm] - how DARE you notice what's going on! Your job is to close your eyes, close your ears, and especially, shut your mouths, while these "poor, innocents" invade your country, and turn it into the exact same kind of shit-hole that they turned their homelands into. Don't you understand that the pattern of their actions can't possibly be the problem?!? The problem is that YOU noticed it, and don't want your nice country going down the same path that theirs all did!
It is well known that most misery in the world is caused by muslims.
No, it isn't.
I'd say that "men" and "corporations" go much higher on that list. And I see no indication that Islam causes more misery than other Abrahamic religions; i.e. plenty of misery for all of them.
Seen from an outside perspective, they're all just minor variations on a theme.
Can a muslim change its barbarism? Can a leopard change its spots? It's in the genes, stupid!
Faith is genetic?
The propensity for faith might be genetic. There might have been benefits in humanity's distant path, where subjecting to authority and taking what they said at face value no matter what increased survival. It may be linked to how children for the first few years believe their parents, even when they say strange things like that a tiny little insect can cause you lots of harm, or that you shouldn't touch the beautiful red sparkles.
There are a significant number of people who either never get to the point where they question what their parents taught them, or don't stop being gullible. That may be genetic.
But which superstitions people are afflicted with is not written in the genes. Whether you go postal at an abortion clinic, shoot kids who throw rocks at your tank, strap on a suicide belt, or mutilate newborns appears to be more a result of geography.
"diversity is our strength"
I hate this saying. It is such a clear and obvious lie. Diversity is not, at all, a strength, but an exploitable weakness. At best, it is a challenge that requires enormous effort to overcome. If your neighborhood goes from having one culture to having ten, it is not stronger. Your neighborhood that used to agree on lots of things now has hundreds of potential conflicts, and it becomes very easy to exploit these differences to pit people against each other. The only reason to tell people that "diversity is a strength" is because you're trying to divide and conquer.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.