Comment

gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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.

source

Sort:hotnew top

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

source
Napster153@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

source
Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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.

source
pipe01@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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…

source
- gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
  source
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s just so blown up because it hurt american pride; of the self-appointed ~~war lords~~ world police.

source
- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
  source
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
racism i think. that time the “supreme race” got attacked

source
phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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

source
- moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Do you think maybe there’s a way to phrase that where you’re not saying that 2,000 innocent people deserved to die?
  
  source
  - NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    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?”
    
    source
    bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was ~3.4k total body count but yeah essentially that
    
    source
  - phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was well over 3000 IIRC, and I did. It was a tragedy for the individuals but as a country it was more than well deserved
    
    source
- cmbabul@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You’re spot on, and that said tragedy was exploited to do even more cruelty makes it even worse
  
  source
- bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  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.
  
  source
  - phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Americans … protesting
    
    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
    
    source
    bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    “At the time” referring to Bush-era police state codification.
    
    “No kings” responds with some shot that happened like a year ago.
    
    K.
    
    source
dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
*One terrorost attack from your own government

source