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I tried turning on the news for the first time in eight days and learned that Bruxelles is ~~preparing for war~~ on a very serious watch in case of terror attacks. I know we have at least one Belgian user here so... please stay safe?

~~Seriously, though. Belgium. Land of waffles and delicious pralines and unfortunate language wars. How menacing can you really be to stupid Daesh? Does not compute.~~

As they say in the Congo, fuck you Belgian assholes! About time you got yours.

Really? What did Belgium ever do to you?

Seriously!?

The really bad stuff was King Leopold and a private company, right?

Oh sure. The really bad stuff. The regular bad stuff was done by regular Belgians. The good stuff was done by, ahahahaha, I'm just fucking with you. There was no good stuff.

What didn't they do?

King Leopold II was known as the Butcher of Congo, and his single-handed rule over the Belgian colony in Congo is remembered today as perhaps the single worst example of the excesses of the colonial period. Slavery and genocide, with estimates of up to 15 million people killed, in the name of a lucrative rubber trade wwere the order of the day as late as 1908 when the Belgian senate forced Leopold to cede control of the colony.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocong.htm

Nobody came out of the colonial period smelling like roses, but Belgium was especially egregious.

Doesn't mean present - day Belgians should be attacked by ISIS.

Oh, no, I agree with you on that. I'm just saying that asking "what did Belgium ever do to [the Congo]" is distressingly ignorant.

I guess that proves Isis means business. When they attacked France, they also dragged Belgium into it.

This may be incomprehensible to you, OP, but the world is not full of stereotypes running around eating baguettes, waffles, and whatever else and living pinterest-perfect lives.

With it being the HQ of the EU, there is always a fair load of waffling done though.

I just worry that Isis is obviously targeting a Brexit by focusing all the attention on the EU and borders policy. Classic divide and rule, and the English middle class is falling for it hook, line, and plonker.

The Tories don't need the help. They're stirring the pot by themselves.

The Tories are terrified. The big donors don't want it and neither do the more moderate ones, but now they are trapped by their own rhetoric that they never thought they'd have to make good on this referendum bullshit. They have no game plan, and UKIP and BF keep riling up the mob with ISIS and the Irish Republican parties helping, so we are going to lurch into a Brexit that screws us all. All because people in middle England were terrified that Scottish people might get some actual say in how the supposedly United Kingdom would be run for once.

What the hell are you talking about? What the hell has Scotland got to do with it? Seriously, take your xenophobic bullshit and fuck off.

DA

You need to re-read that post before you go off half-cocked and offended and spouting the X word.

The Tories, like the GOP in the US, have built a platform on thinly-veiled xenophobia (as opposed to the open xenophobia of UKIP and especially Britain First.) Their biggest supporters are those in the middle part of England who typically oppose Scottish enfranchisement. The Tories' xenophobic rhetoric, which they are now expected to cash in on and are wholly unprepared to go the distance for (because they're not UKIP/BF and have some small tattered shreds of a soul within them) has been a dog-whistle for keeping the Scots out alongside the brown people.

To be specific, the week running up to the last general election when it looked like it would be a Labour/SNP coalition, the Tories released a campaign poster in England saying that voting Conservative would ensure Scots were kept out of government. Not the SNP, although that would be bad enough since at the time the SNP looked like it would be only two seats shy of a totality of the Scottish seats instead of a feeble three seat shy, but the Scots themselves. Now, they probably did mean just the SNP and were cackhanded about it, but the way they framed it made it seem like Scotland was a colony of England and not an equal partner in a union as is the constitutional case (note: although it is widely said that the UK has an "unwritten" constitution, it would be more accurate to say that it has multiple constitutional documents which are applicable at different times in varying circumstances. The Act of Union is the bedrock of them though).

Their subsequent actions in power have not dispelled this notion though. I suspect that the next referendum in Scotland (which many political commentators put as close as only ten years away, and no more than thirty at most) will be a lot closer than the last and mostly because of this government's political tone deafness.

*guiltily puts down baguette and takes off beret*

Regarding the strike-out part, you do know Belgium is a founding part of BeNeLux and thus of European Union, and Brussels holds the EU head office, right? Also, the fact that they manage to stick together depiste their "unfortunate language wars" makes them even an even stronger symbol of union, and as such, yes, a very good target.

They once went a year and half without a government in power, and nobody noticed except political reporters too.

I'm a Belgian user, so I think you mean me? Thanks for the concern, I'm fine though. For one thing, I'm very much an indoor person. Secondly, I live more near Antwerp. It is kind of freaky though. A few days ago I went into the city and there was definitely more police, and the Jewish neighborhood(s) have had military protection for months. As for Brussels, everything was shut down today. All football matches, concerts, public transportation. Personally, I understand this reaction, but I'm not sure if it's not giving them what they want.

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