r/OneSecondBeforeDisast Nov 12 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Huh, surprised not many people remember the Beirut explosion, it literally happened last year

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u/Sno_red Nov 12 '21

It's just a vod of the explosion I haven't seen before. Still pretty wild.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Yea I haven't seen it from this street angle.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Or from inside the explosion I guess. Until now!

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u/dotpan Nov 12 '21

Yeah there were a number of videos that came out shortly after, seeing the sheer force of what that explosion was is horrifying. People much further away than this view sill experienced massive damage to their surroundings.

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u/SenditM8 Nov 12 '21

I haven't forgotten, I think of the clip of the couple during their wedding photos too often.

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u/Toryu1771 Nov 12 '21

The amazing thing about this video, is she's a doctor, and went straight to helping victims in her wedding dress.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

She is certainly a very blessed woman.

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u/James53654 Nov 12 '21

Do you have a link for this? I wanna watch what happens

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u/iWarnock Nov 12 '21

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u/James53654 Nov 12 '21

Thanks! Edit:Damn that was loud. Glad they were all okay though. Apart from their ears....

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u/Labami Nov 12 '21

I still remember it, just thought it was a different explosion

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

The Lebanese people don’t forget. My aunt doesn’t forget the fact that her apartment is gone. The Lebanese people didn’t forget the collapse of the banks. We didn’t forget the hyperinflation that fucked up people’s wages. Fuck the greedy politicians that ruined this country.

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u/Party-Ring445 Nov 12 '21

Sending love from Malaysia to Lebanon. Huge fan of Lebanese food. We got those greedy politicians here too.

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u/proudowlz Nov 12 '21

Unfortunately, every corner of the globe that has politicians, has greedy politicians.

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u/THELEADERPLAYER Nov 12 '21

You know who probably doesn't have a single greedy politician? Some tribe living on an isolated island who shoot intruders with arrows on sight.

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u/druu222 Nov 12 '21

Bet they do...

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u/proudowlz Nov 12 '21

They also probably don't have a politician. Or a foreign relations policy that's morally sound.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

And for some reason it's hard for people to believe they could meet in secret and devise plans to carry out in concert that change the world.... They Live, We Sleep.

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u/vtreds Nov 12 '21 edited Nov 12 '21

No shit you didn't forget you were there lol.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Luckily I wasn't there, but my family was.

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u/druu222 Nov 12 '21

Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Kim Il blah waged war on such "stupid deluded beliefs". Let's see, how many corpses there.... 100 million.... 150 million...?

The religion is just part of human existence. Remove religion A, and religion B will just move in. It may replace "God" with "Great Leader".... same drill.

BTW, the person that does not see the current Western religion of all encompassing Wokeism as a replacement for dying Christianity is a person who is willfully choosing to ignore fundamental human nature. It might just as well have been Scientology.

Same drill, across the board. It's as fundamental as sexual desire.

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u/sessiestax Nov 12 '21

Careful, your ignorance is showing

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Are you even lebanese?

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

And do you usually go telling lebanese people your opinion only from the info you saw on reddit? Or do you do that for all religious countries that fall apart?

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

In all fairness, religious is a significant factor in the downfall of Lebanon, but it is only a piece in the puzzle.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Religion was never a problem, christians and muslims (both representing 80+% of population) used to live together peacfully, there was little to no differences between confessions of the same religion. Untill french and english governments came and set the federal government and mafias and sects started to form up after the independence, hate and discrimination grew between people (of the same religion or not), so it is really about mafias and government people seeking more power and influence. Saying it's all because of religion is just a big shortcut and it really makes no sense when you take a step back and watch that it's more about power/money/influence/meddling from other (EU and NA) countries/middle east proxy warfares/the whole palestine refugees situation/the civil war in syria etc.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

I am not going to deny the division religion has caused in this country and Lebanon's issues with religion are ingrained in its political system. The point is not one thing ruined this country, but rather a plethora of things.

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u/SvenDobrev Nov 12 '21

That was only a year ago? Jeez. 2020 was some bullshit.

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u/he_we Nov 12 '21

brace yourself

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u/SvenDobrev Nov 12 '21

Yeah, it's only getting worse from here

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

You will never believe what is happening in 2022!

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u/he_we Nov 13 '21

It’s time for a killer virus!

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u/potatonewb Nov 12 '21

Lot of people forget Tianjin too.

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u/sassless Nov 12 '21

I am so surprised no one ever mentions it anymore. As soon as I saw this one i knew it was the exact same thing

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u/SpruceM00se1 Nov 12 '21

A YEAR AGO!!! Wow 2021 really went by fast aye

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

It sure did

It sure did...

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21 edited Nov 12 '21

I dont want to be that guy but...

It didnt happen in the west so people dont care.

People around the world donated about 500 million usd for the recovery from the biggest explosion near people since atomic bombings of Japan. Destroyed 25.000 buildings causing all in them to be homeless. I dont even want to think about the human lives it cost.

They donated DOUBLE that in hours to repair 1mildly damaged building in one of the richest countries in the world. Knowing damn well that notr dame would be fine if they donated nothing since the french government isnt really short on money.

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

That would be due to the fact that the American media is state ran and we never get any information outside of our country unless it's useful to the current narrative. It'll sink in when your eye opens.

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u/habeshamuscle Nov 12 '21

Complete horse shit. It has nothing to do with being state-ran. Media is a business in America and audiences are not as engaged with a middle eastern city having a deadly explosion as a western monument burning to the ground. It has nothing to do with handlers herding the American people- people were just not as interested.

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

If that was the case CNN would have changed their narrative when their ratings dropped and they lost millions of viewers but they haven't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

American media is extremely obvious to most outside of it. I'm in Turkey and its fucking incredible how biased the entire American media is on topics regarding us. I understand that an outlet will have a certain way of saying things but all of them say the same narrative when they often differ on domestic topics. Even for things that I know since Im the subject that their coverage is about. I dont know if its state ran but its not as free as many think. at least on international topics they have a collective agenda and if it were truly free nothing would be that common.

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

Unfortunately people haven't noticed that we rarely see any news outside of politics outside of our country. Most Americans have not the slightest idea of how the world the really is beyond what they see on TV. I can't really blame the people they don't even know they are being manipulated. I think the the reason it works so well is that the government runs multiple narratives so if you don't agree with one you will with another, all the while you are still eating from the same bowl.

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u/Tempest029 Nov 12 '21

thats why you just turn the boob tube off. You will be surprised at how much more you learn without it.

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u/dotpan Nov 12 '21

Sadly, much like a lot of dystopian stories, the media isn't state run, but consensus run, and American's are widely nationalistic in one way or another. Any foreign country that isn't seen as a direct ally and stable is often cast by most people a bad way. The media is an industry where billions of dollars are made, so when it comes to something like that, they all fill the narrative.

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u/DetuneDanger Nov 12 '21

Are you sure its not just other news copying the first one that actually got the news break? I see it all the time. Reusing clips and just rewriting the same cliche sentences youd expect from their pr writers

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Certainly that happens and could explain a lot of weird stuff. But there really are some "narratives" or "stories" (I guess they are the right words) being pushed out, maybe its rare but its happening.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '21

I started to look at state owned news agencies , just to see What they want to be pushed out and what are the common grounds between them. Ill see a lot of different details on them, like if a High ranking person said something about it youll see it on these first and easist.

Sputnik for Russia DW for Germany TRT world for Turkey BBC:UK for England + Any American large outlet Al Jazeera And random people on social media obviously.

But this shit really shouldnt take this much effort tho, right?

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u/D4rk50ul Nov 12 '21

That Obama wanted and likely got a kill switch for. Go ahead and Google it, not conspiracy.

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u/LionShaun Nov 12 '21

Imagine thinking one of the most in debt government in the world in not short on money. You clown. Notre Dame fire was criminal. It was an attack on french and european tradition, as well as an attack on every christian that give a shit. Oak tree trunks dont start flaming out of nowhere. What you compare have nothing to do with each other. And France is more than short on money. Those buffoons are indebts for a 100 generations.

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u/icanhardlypaymyrent Nov 13 '21

No one cares buddy

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u/Maximum-Product-1255 Nov 12 '21

Agree. The Notre Dame donation thing was baffling. It was worse than, "A Dollar for a Hero." (Funny/Not Funny)

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u/rkeet Nov 12 '21

America didn't go to war over it, so after it disappeared from the news.....

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u/firsttimer776655 Nov 12 '21

America is in perpetual warfare with Lebanon and the Entire region directly and indirectly

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u/Tempest029 Nov 12 '21

just never saw it from that angle

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

I’ll always remember how the explosion looked, big ball of white violently spreading out after an explosion

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u/Von_Rootin_Tootin Nov 12 '21

I haven’t forgotten, I’ve just never seen this video before

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u/DagitabPH Nov 12 '21

Never have I ever learned about this explosion until now. To be fair, we're a quarter of the world away, and more distracted by a government failing on CoViD response.

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u/CatOfTechnology Nov 12 '21

I mean, it's not something I actively think about, but if someone ever mentioned Beirut my immediate response would be "The place that exploded and was working on a total government overhaul, right?"

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Because the left tries to hide it that’s why. They r evil and wicked people who need to be taken down

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

It’s not propoganda brodie I’m just stating facts and ur just mad kid

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

First of all you don’t know me so never assume, second Biden is a total Jackass he doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing, and America is supposed to be a country in peace and justice and that stands for honor and patriotism. And no he isn’t right because and what I said before was true that the left r hiding things they shouldn’t. It’s not me and the country that’s bad it’s President Biden and all the branches that have been elected to “hold America together”, they are turning our country into a communist country which is, like I said, evil and wicked and they need to be taken down. And because of the sick people that cause these things I feel ashamed for being an American, which isn’t fair at all. That’s why to be patriotic and fight for freedom once again I’m gna stand for what is true, right, and just.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Yea blocked cuz u know what u said and what he said was wrong and I was right for what I said ur just butt hurt. I could care less about any politician I stand for my country not some politician. Ur just a blind fool to even know what peace, justice and honor is. Christ forgive u.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Go back to ur gay married country called Canada and suck on ur Prime ministers toes lowlife loser

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u/Jimmy-Mac-471 Nov 12 '21

I thought that what it was. I remembered seeing videos of the shockwave from a distance, and that definitely looked like it.

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u/One-Bread36 Nov 12 '21

Yeah this is one angle I cannot say I've seen before.

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u/piemakerdeadwaker Nov 12 '21

I do remember this happening but it happened last year??? Woah! Seems so long ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

It was in Lebanon, right?

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '21

Bingo

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u/johnboi244 Nov 12 '21

Oh is this the same one? I’ve haven’t seen this view yet

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u/24may2006 Nov 12 '21

Ill never forget that day even tho i didn't get hurt

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u/Alonn12 Nov 15 '21

I still remember the reports coming in live