I interpreted this as a poorly written reference to accidental overdoses from laced drugs deterring consumption (and most rave-like events ultimately suck if sober). It’s sort of the elephant in the room.
It’s fear-mongering, broad and unfounded generalization. It’s a edgelord comment that serves no useful discussion. It’s not what HN is for, and downvoting is the way to show this.
Ahhh, I interpreted this as an oblique reference to accidental overdoses from impure/laced drugs which is a huge problem in the US and probably a real deterrent.
I realize now from the other responses this was maybe a reference to exploding pagers, which is dependent on (I suppose) the view that raves in Europe are heavily attended by people of middle eastern descent?
That’s not really the “known-as-ravers” crowd here in the US so that reference may have just flown way over my head and I injected the top-of-mind US issue which is drug contamination.
On second thought I think it was meant to be a reference to October 7, 2023. I've seen similar stickers at some, back in summer, with messages like "What if terrorists blew up YOUR music festival? #supportisrael"
Took a while to work it out though. Why can't people just say what they mean?
I find it kind of despicable that someone would spend the effort to highlight a terrorist attack against a rave, but ignore the background of terrorist attacks against important stuff like schools, hospitals and residences.
