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Tonight's attacks show the same uncanny sense of symbolism as the January massacres. They targeted neighborhoods where people are more inclined to be tolerant, liberal and progressive.

In other words, they went after SOFT TARGETS you dummy ...

1 posted on 11/14/2015 6:40:10 PM PST by 11th_VA
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And unarmed.....gun-free zones anyone?


2 posted on 11/14/2015 6:41:50 PM PST by matginzac
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I imagine that the soft targets will feel tremendous guilt (they always do) and demand that more terrorists be imported ASAP.


3 posted on 11/14/2015 6:42:22 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I support anything which diminishes the Muslim population.)
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Youthful idealism took a big hit in lives. Live and let live doesnt work with murderous islamic savages.


4 posted on 11/14/2015 6:42:39 PM PST by Sasparilla
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Is it just me or is the author naively surprised that they hit “progressive targets”?

Note to the author - They hate you. You can love them, hold hands and sing, celebrate diversity, and invite more of them into your country and it won’t change this absolute fact.

Unless you swear allegiance to their God you will have your head sawed off. They don’t care how “hip” you are.


5 posted on 11/14/2015 6:45:37 PM PST by volunbeer
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In other words, France’s hipster socialists and multiculturalists took the brunt of the attacks.

Islamic terrorists don’t like their leftist fan base and killed them.

Not that it will make a lasting impression on the idiots in Paris’ young, progressive core.


6 posted on 11/14/2015 6:46:00 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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“This is the land of hipster socialists. These neighborhoods recently elected a female socialist mayor, as well as a slew of Green Party candidates, even as the rest of the country voted for the more conservative and anti-immigration parties on the Right.”

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple hipsters. These are people of the universities... The common clay of the nouveau riche. You know... morons.


8 posted on 11/14/2015 6:49:56 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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“Spanish Republican immigrants” = communists.
She’s a red diaper baby. Mass murder never seems to phase them.


9 posted on 11/14/2015 6:51:32 PM PST by Varda
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This is the land of hipster socialists.

Hipster socialists meet methodical Mohammedans.

Paging Bernie Sanders and Hillaryous Rotten Criminal

R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods

10 posted on 11/14/2015 6:58:27 PM PST by PGalt
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“This is the land of hipster socialists. These neighborhoods recently elected a female socialist mayor, as well as a slew of Green Party candidates, even as the rest of the country voted for the more conservative and anti-immigration parties on the Right. “

And the stupid little hipster socialists are crying because they thought that the animals they invited in their zoo only kill right wing extremist Christians .


12 posted on 11/14/2015 7:06:36 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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its so ironic. France elected Socialist Holland and bends over backward showing sympathy towards muslims and what do muslims do...kill them!


16 posted on 11/14/2015 7:10:00 PM PST by RginTN
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Do the islami terrorists only killed leftist Marxist globalists?


17 posted on 11/14/2015 7:11:30 PM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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“progressive core” ??

In a nation that excelled in leftism before WWII?

If these puppies are “progressives” in a super maximum progressive land, they must be more commie than Stalin or Mao.


18 posted on 11/14/2015 7:18:21 PM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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If I am reading this right he is saying the terrorists (MACRO)aggressed their safe space.

The socialist hipsters in government, and at rock shows on a Friday night, have welcomed in a 1400 year old unreformed ideology fundamentally incompatible with any ideology that built the freedoms they enjoy, and deliberately ignored a consistent pattern of destructive, very UN-progressive behavior that follows that ideology everywhere. Those Muslims in the neighborhoods a few blocks over are the Trojan Horse for the people that will kill you.


19 posted on 11/14/2015 7:20:25 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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Yup.


21 posted on 11/14/2015 7:32:03 PM PST by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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Hipsters? How would you like to be referred as a “hipster” in death?


23 posted on 11/14/2015 7:34:54 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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Of course the psychopaths went after the young adults. They’re the ones most likely to have kids.

The muzzies are very aware of the demographic aspects of their long term jihad.


25 posted on 11/14/2015 7:45:12 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
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The attackers, whomever they may be and whatever their motives, went after the heart of progressive Paris. They did not attack the more touristy Champs-Elysees or Notre Dame, or the more bourgeois and conservative left bank, where most of the government ministries are located.

They attacked targets that symbolize what France is all about. An effective attack on the U.S. requires a strike on the Pentagon and on two massive office buildings where tens of thousands of people go to work every day. An effective attack on France involves entertainment venues. That says everything you need to know about the two countries.

26 posted on 11/14/2015 7:51:38 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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What an interesting insight - thanks for posting. The author appears a bit cynical about the hipster culture aspect of this and I can't say I disagree. Nevertheless, I have to wonder if he isn't over-thinking the thing.

We're talking about target selection, and how far symbolism ranks over the more prosaic aims of finding the optimal target based on casualty rates and the like. I quite agree with you that a soft target is a criterion. And although I think the author's case is intriguing, I suspect that the symbology here is likely to focus more on Paris as an avatar of Western culture than any subcultural component such as he details. Still, it's an interesting case.

The terrorists at the theater did proclaim that the purpose was punishment for France's involvement in Syria, and it may be that their planners felt that an attack on this demographic was likely to bear fruit in French politics, i.e. that the young, affluent, comfortable class might sway their leadership away from involvement given that they now were targeted. There are a couple of problems with this point of view, though. For one thing, tourist areas definitely were targeted - the Metro station, for example, with its exit to the Louvre, is not the demesne of the young and hip, but of the foreign tourist. But the employment of half the attackers on a concert auditorium appears to me to buttress the author's case.

We may never know. For the overall strategy of infiltrating European countries with a young, male, military-age class, this is probably a setback. You don't want to spotlight that until it's a done deal. For the objective of French disengagement in Syria, it may be better suited. How effective that will turn out will be a function of the terrorist command's assessment of Hollande and his administration's willingness to fight, and whether the latter is more or less likely to disengage after the attacks. That we will learn in the coming days but I'm not getting a lot of accommodationist vibes from the existing administration, faced with an obvious threat in Le Pen. Could be they feel their jobs are on the line. Back a rat into a corner and sometimes he comes out fighting because he doesn't have any other choice. Just a thought.

33 posted on 11/15/2015 12:52:34 AM PST by Billthedrill
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soooo,
What are you French going to do?
Plant trees so the mooselimbs can march in the shade as they enter Paris?
Or are you going to grow a set and take up the fight against islam?
We here in America will have to wait til our current mooselimb president is gone.


36 posted on 11/15/2015 2:33:47 AM PST by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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France and the rest of the EU hung up thier “gun free zones” signs


37 posted on 11/15/2015 4:00:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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