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what i kinda don't get about this whole thing ... is that kinda, in other countries (look at the middle east), they get bombed daily and none of you bats an eye (well, some do, but still, this has been going on for 50 years and i hardly ever hear anyone talking about it). meanwhile you get one terrorist attack and everyone's supposed to lose their minds over this.
The US never gets attacked. There's an ally to the north, an ally to the south, and two big fucking oceans to the east and west. So, when it does happen, it's a pretty big deal.
I mean, it's a terrorist attack involving multiple simultaneous plane hijacks crashing into the center of one of the most populated cities in the world. Not that we should rank terrorism, but...
yeah and i find it weird how little attention is given to the symbolic targets ... the World Trade Center was largely involved in establishing cross-country businesses ... in other words, meddling within other country's internal economics (often to the dismay of the local population). by far not all people in the world wanted free trade. so they attacked the free trade center ... and that was a symbol against free trade, free trade being an unwanted thing by many other people around the globe because it meant the disruption of native economic systems, etc.
and yet that fact that free trade is not globally understood as something universally good, and that maybe there should be less of it, ... i don't think that i've ever heard any newspaper talk about that.
People outside the US dont care or aren't expected to care about 9/11. Americans are loud and own the platforms so it seems like the entire world but its really just them treating the entire internet like an American fourm.
People in NZ still schzio out about a French terrorist attack that happened to us 40 years ago. I still see news bring it up.
Control the media, control the mind.
It's not about the actual casualties and destruction, it's about how you can spin it into your favour.
American Democracy got suckered for over 20 years to put oligarchs in power.
It's just so blown up because it hurt american pride.
I lost 14 colleagues and none of them were American. Was the response overblown? Yes. But it's called the "World" Trade center for a reason.
racism i think. that time the "supreme race" got attacked
America has been punching and kicking countless countries since WWII, causing thousands if not millions of deaths (Iraqi "freedom" alone caused like 300.000 Iraqi deaths IIRC) and the second that somebody punches back and gives them a bloody nose its all crying and needing to make 50 movies about the heroes of that day, and of course it was immediately used to implement the "patriot" act (hint, it has shit to do with patriotism and everything with making the IS an autocratic state)
I get it, of course. For the individuals that died or were injured that day, it's a tragedy, but as a country? They completely deserved it and much, much more
Do you think maybe there's a way to phrase that where you're not saying that 2,000 innocent people deserved to die?
It was well over 3000 IIRC, and I did. It was a tragedy for the individuals and nobody deserved it but as a country it was more than well deserved.
You could say the same for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that have been massacred over the past 7 decades by Israel with financial and arms support from the USA.
You could say the same about the 500.000+ Iraqis that have perished by operation desert storm
You could, bit you don't
This is why I am saying that the individuals were innocent, but the nation is guilty as fuck. If the USA would be treated by it's own rules on how it treats murder, it would have to kill itself over and over for thousands of years
And just on case you think I'm a tankie who just hates the USA, I'll say the same for China, Russia, Israel, Iran, north Korea, and so on...
How about "The worlds most advanced military power allowed 2000 deaths to occur, all to further allow its parent state to tighten restrictions on free movement, increase surveillance on innocent civilians, and garner support for an invasion of an unrelated country?"
It was ~3.4k total body count but yeah essentially that
You’re spot on, and that said tragedy was exploited to do even more cruelty makes it even worse
What it was used to justify is unforgivable, but please remember that a population of ~350m people is not a monolith. Our government is garbage, but many of us were aware of what was being done in the name of "national security" and protesting /voting against it at the time.
You're kidding, right? If Americans are incapable of doing anything, its protesting. And don't tell me about the sad "no kings" protests, that was nothing.
I know that many Americans, maybe even most, don't agree with US policies, but that is the problem: you've allowed a tiny rich minority to abuse your and other countries for well over a century and you haven't done shit to stop that. Its gone on for so long that most left wing people in the USA are still having right wing ideas because you dont even know better
*One terrorost attack from your own government