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  2. Not exactly news or a sighting, but fun fact: since yesterday brazilians have been flooding U2 social media with requests for the band to say something about Jair Bolsonaro, the openly fascist candidate who's the frontrunner in the upcoming presidential elections. There's a campaign (#EleNão, #NotHim in english) and all. The fun part is that Bolsonaro fans apparently heard of it and are now commenting as well and it's a shitshow tbh. Of course this is much bigger than U2 and we are actually on the brink of a new dictatorship and people are really desperate, but this is such a brazilian thing that I can't help but laugh.
    Ps: more about Bolsonaro, if anyone's interested - https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/09/20/jair-bolsonaro-latin-americas-latest-menace
  3. What about knife deaths in London ?
  5. Well we’re not exactly going to ban knives but the difference is a kitchen knife isn’t sold in a store with its intended purpose being to stab someone, it doesn’t encourage violent behaviour. The purchase of a gun absolutely encourages violent behaviour it is a violent weapon. It seems quite sad to me that we would use an example of one sort of crime to defend people’s right to own an item that is used for another.
  6. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    Well we’re not exactly going to ban knives but the difference is a kitchen knife isn’t sold in a store with its intended purpose being to stab someone, it doesn’t encourage violent behaviour. The purchase of a gun absolutely encourages violent behaviour it is a violent weapon. It seems quite sad to me that we would use an example of one sort of crime to defend people’s right to own an item that is used for another.
    Bingo. That hits the nail on the head.
  7. Plenty of knives are sold for violent purposes. Either way, I sorta get the knife argument.
    But I can see why others would disagree, and we all know where this is gonna go
  9. Let's not digress to guns and knives. I think a lot more of these videos will pop-up in the build-up to the UK shows.

    But, actually, and given the recent developments in the UK-EU negotiations, I find it hard to imagine that the EU flag will feature
    that prominently in the shows. And neither can I picture them pulling out the Union Jack.

    The whole point of the flag - as well as in Europe, as in the States - is to illustrate the idea that in unity everybody is stronger.
    This idea again is repeated in the encore where Bono says that he would be nothing but a quarter of the man he is with U2.
    To show either the EU's, or the British flag will promote division instead of unity. Even the white flag ("surrender") is not an option.

    No, the only flag I expect to see in the UK is the Irish flag. I mean, for them, for Ireland, a reinstatement of the hard border
    between Northern Ireland (U.K.) and the Republic as a result of a "hard Brexit" is the real horror scenario. No-one wants to go
    back there and break up the Good Friday agreement.

    I predict the Irish flag + The Unforgettable Fire for London and Manchester - and perhaps even for Belfast & Dublin...
  10. Not a chance will the Irish flag be shown in Belfast.
  11. And most certainly not the Union Jack. I suggest no flag as a statement of unity!
  12. I think they will stick with the EU flag for all shows .
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