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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    He is either not a US American, or the “Never Forget” nation forgot to properly teach him.

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    • Asetru@feddit.org ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      I live in one of those “never forget” nations that promised to never forget something
 but it seems that we, too, managed to forget.

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      • rotkehle@feddit.org ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        I feel you so much right now.

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      • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Germany with AfD becoming the largest individual party?

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      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Psssssst


        Damit besagte Personengruppen es vergessen könnten, mĂŒssten die es erstmal verstehen. Das wĂŒrde Bildung erfordern und da wird dann schwierig


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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Hallöchen.

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    • Carl@anarchist.nexus ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesn’t help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught

        see: forgot to properly teach him.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        He doesn’t look that young. I can’t imagine somehow missing the post 9/11 fallout and the war in the Middle East. The 20 year anniversary of it wasn’t as extravagant as the 10 year. But as an American it was kinda hard to ignore.

        If he’s from outside the us and like just turned 18 maybe. But like how does one even miss all of the memes about it? I guess even those have died down too.

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      • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        History teachers in grade school seem to be either great or terrible. Nothing in between.

        I can see someone born around then or after not understanding the scope of the event. I can think of things that happened when I was born or just a kid where even knowing about it later it just seems like something in a book. You can't know what a world was like before an event if you weren't aware of it.

        How he escaped ever seeing more about it online is another thing, but then again I see lots of reaction videos, many that are probably legit, of people who never heard or saw things, even if they've heard references to it. It's yet another XKCD Ten Thousand moment.

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      • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Ooh can confirm: Our coach taught us that nazi germany was communists and north korea killed more people than any civilization in history.

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      • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        When I was in school all the coaches taught physical education

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      • Klear@piefed.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught.

        Fuck you, I’m not old!

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      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        What the hell is this coach thing?! No wonder some American schools have a teaching problem đŸ˜±, it’s already hard to get good teachers but letting mr run after the ball teach history


        Baffled.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      When I was in schools, American history was Pilgrims, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, The Great Depression, and WWI. Then it was summer. We might have a school assembly in February to talk about MLK.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        If you were to ask my teachers, American history goes revolutionary war, then nothing happens for awhile, then the civil war, then nothing happens for awhile, then WW1 had to happen so that we could have ourselves a WORLD WAR TWO! The four years that make up 9/10ths of American history. And then the Japanese signed the surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri and then stuff I-the boomer history teacher-personally remember so it legally can’t be history.

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      • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Did you finish school prior to 2001? Cuz, I mean, that’s everything I learned in school too at that time.

        But my daughter is 13 now, and I can confirm that she has been formerly told about 9/11. I don’t think with as much detail as she will learn in her during her high school tenure, but she at least knows about it.

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Yep. And with each successively later era in history being more and more rushed because the history teacher was always behind schedule and the big standardized tests at the end of the year ate up a lot of time.

        And then next year, in the next history class, you start over at Pilgrims again!

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Homeschooled


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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      o no I 💀 forgor 🗿

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago
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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Across the yard is a shed with “WAKE UP!” spraypainted on it.

        But I thought they didn’t like “woke” stuff?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Well, the number of people talking about the 3 planes getting hijacked on another thread makes me think we’ve forgotten at least a little bit.

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    • greenbit@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Many people are just alien tourists

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    I quit my first real job on 9/11. I watched the buildings go down, walked into the deli I hated working at and said, “life is too short.” Which for an 18 year old me was a pretty big move.

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    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      I had a job in Colorado at a small 20-30 person company, including two devout muslim immigrant men from Afghanistan. OMG, they were freaking the fuck out, thinking people were going to come drag them out of the office and murder them in the parking lot. Everybody had their back and tried to calm them down, but boy, they were so stressed out.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Americans went nuts after 9/11. It was weird how all of a sudden, it was ok to be openly racist. Up to then, I knew older people were racist, but were being shamed into keeping quiet and it was fading from younger generations, but 9/11 set all that back. They were right to be scared.

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      • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, if they were in Texas they probably have a reason to worry

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    • Kennystillalive@feddit.org ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      May I ask, did you manage to find something that made you happy?

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      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Oh hell yeah. I walked over to the pizza shop, got a job, and I’ve been doing pizza ever since (well, almost, I did repo for a while, too). It’s the best gig in the world. Thanks for asking, friend :)

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  • Seimhe@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    I only know Seven Eleven. Had no idea they had competitors.

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    • BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Wait till you hear about Seven Twelve.

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      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        But what about 6 7

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      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Well, at least I made a lot of money on OT with that one


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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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


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      • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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    • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      racism i think. that time the “supreme race” got attacked

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    • 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

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      • 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?

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      • 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

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      • 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.

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    • dismay3915@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      *One terrorost attack from your own government

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  • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    “Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”

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    • amorangi@lemmy.nz ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      It’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.

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      • lauha@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        No, there used to be 9/11 buildings there. Don’t know about the two missing ones. Two buildings were attackes. No there’s 7/11

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit

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      • iocase@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        That’s quite the euphemism for what many would call a hand-to-hand edged metal disagreement (in my experience at least. Also metric vs US customary metric)

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Because it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.

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    • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Why, what happened on the 9th of November?

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    • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      I dunno, but remember, remember the fifth of November.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Plenty of things in Germany: en.wikipedia.org/
/9_November_in_German_history

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      • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Ah yes, I remember the wall in 1989

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Should we double check, and make sure he knows what Pearl Harbor was? And Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? And the Holocaust?

    What? It’s not unreasonable to say he may have missed some key moments in history.

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Bhopal disaster

      I only learned of this one from Behind the Bastards

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      • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        Since I’ve come back from India I’ve sort of just been waiting to hear about an environmental disaster there. This makes sense.

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      • Nomad@infosec.pub ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        We studied that in university from a industrial and aviation safety expert. Its really worth reading how that shit came about. The human stupidity on this was recklessness on steroids.

        One example: the siren that should be used to evacuate all personnel was used daily to call employees to lunch.

        You can imagine how that ended.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair 9/11 is probably going to be forgotten about way sooner

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not too relevant for a school history lesson because it didn’t have too many consequences except for the Iraq war

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    • eltacopeludo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Naninjing, dresden, tokio bombing, pol pot
 there is no shortage of atrocicites.

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      The first 3 are American, I could see a foreigner not knowing. My sister is a teacher in Europe and she says none of her students knew about the Holocaust. These are teenagers. I think maybe we might be fucked as a species.

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    • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

      Like lots of muricans forget about minsk and go neanerthal about russia. Happens a lot

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    I would like to offer some perspective to the Americans upset the world doesn’t revolve around them. And share a terrorist act from my country, that I know you lot won’t know about.

    But most of you lot celebrate the party that did it so, maybe it won’t land well.

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  • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Never forget 1973/9/11!

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  • AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Did he go to a Waldorf school? I heard that’s a thing. Like they just collectively tried to keep kids from knowing about it.

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  • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Remember remember the 11th of September
 wait that doesn’t sound right

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  • jaygray91@piefed.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Disclaimer: am not American nor Western

    I remember this day. Was a wee lad. We were on vacation. The TV was on and apparently it was the news. I don’t remember if it’s breaking news but it might not be, since we’re 12 ish hours different time zones, and I remember seeing it at day time.

    Well, back then I thought it was a movie


    And the eerie part was that my dad had just gotten back home from a business trip there just a few days before.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    The equivalent today would be someone in 2001 not knowing something that happened in 1976.

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  • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Well, I was in the third grade when 9/11 happened, and there was never any kind of formal education about it, because we had all experienced. Kids a just a few years younger than me would t remember it at all, but likely still wouldn’t have learned about it in school yet. That’s probably where this guy falls

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  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Did ya tell him how much people went in circles trying to explain who did it but it was really territorial control and we kept switching who did it and then killed Osama bin Laden as a world distraction.

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  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    If you want to tell our response to it through comedy, I suggest the Seanbaby article The Nation that Freaked Out www.seanbaby.com/news/terrorism.htm

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  • Kennystillalive@feddit.org ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    2001 or 1973?

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    It’s why, out of habit, I call them the 9/11 attacks since that’s a websearch-able term that will yield informative results. I am often caught flat footed, not knowing things that are assumed to be common knowledge.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Is that a hotel front desk?

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    Are we sure even happened?

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  • Beeen132@feddit.org ⁚2⁩ ⁚weeks⁩ ago

    What happened?

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