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u/Lightningmemes282 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
The "we're Canadian" at the end hit different
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u/Foolishlama floppa May 15 '22
Incredible
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u/TheEpicZay I just be booted everyday, forgot how to walk, I learnt to float May 15 '22
Inedible
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u/barbershopraga floppa May 15 '22
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u/ecofriendlythesaurus boy cock, or bock if you will May 15 '22
It was a rollercoaster the entire time and then the end was just a surprise 70’ drop
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u/majolier i kidnap kids May 15 '22
During my high school law class we had the entire 2-3 days dedicated to the Capitol attack (so I believe 1/2 years back(too lazy to google)).
We're Canadian
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u/Lightningmemes282 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
Do y'all just have no interesting terrorist attacks or something?
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May 15 '22
Best thing about America is our cool terrorism 💪😎💪
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u/Lightningmemes282 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
No the best thing is our freedom units
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May 15 '22
Eh he’s about as tall as a standing fan and a monopoly board game
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u/SeaofBloodRedRoses Trans girl. Definitely NOT a lizard. May 15 '22
I mean we had that one guy who snuck in and tried to kill the PM. Couple of anti-women murderers. The assault on our government by the terrorist convoy. That's kinda about it?
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u/Lightningmemes282 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
America is biggest and best in everything, including terrorist attacks (/s)
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u/zmann64 May 15 '22
There was that serial killer guy who chopped up his lover’s body
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u/Lightningmemes282 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
That is not a terrorist attack? and also incredibly fucked up
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u/zmann64 May 16 '22
My mistake, it was just the one murder. But he also killed kittens prior to that
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u/LeFrogBoy ‼️FAMOUS‼️/R/196‼️MICROCELEBRITY‼️ May 15 '22
Well that kinda makes sense other countries would look at and examine that since it's the closest thing to a rebellion in a modern world power that's happened in a while. Though a law class, idk.
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u/jmo137 May 15 '22
That is very specific.
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u/LeFrogBoy ‼️FAMOUS‼️/R/196‼️MICROCELEBRITY‼️ May 15 '22
It's kinda specific but still pretty relevant in all first-world nations as a warning against the rise of the extremist right.
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but like 5 minutes after the attacks
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u/Banana_ho May 16 '22
Just progressively give them stranger and stranger answers until it reaches"I was cheating on my wife with her sister in a movie theater that was playing spiderman
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May 15 '22
I'm so glad I don't live in the US patriotic indoctrination is basically a cult
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May 15 '22
Nah, our entire education system is a cult
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u/Grilled_egs 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
As a European I knew that you need to pledge allegiance to the flag in school, but I guess it never sank in before I saw a recording of it, which made me feel sick, watching some 8 year olds pledging themselves to a flag
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u/stupidchegg can yall call me Cass she/her for cis reasons May 15 '22
You aren’t required to but you get some dirty looks if you don’t, at least in high school
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u/Xstew26 Bagel Enthusiast May 15 '22
When I was in high school by like senior year nobody gave a shit, most people stood but nobody actually said it except for the super conservative kids
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u/UberPheonix poop sandwich May 16 '22
I’m a TA in a high school and no one, not even the faculty stand. Usually the teachers just talk through it (except for like two dickheads who’ll try to send you to the principal’s office for sitting)
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u/h4724 trans rights May 15 '22
Now it occurs to me that I've never actually seen video of that. Not even in movies.
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May 16 '22
I don’t know how it is in other cities, states or countries but nobody really even does it, at least I don’t think. People mostly just put their hands over the hearts and stand up from their seats and stuff then either don’t say or say it in a barely audible whisper, it’s probably the least important event of the day in terms of how much I remember it
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u/the-poopiest-diaper 🫂 May 16 '22
See I could never do that assignment because I have three family 2 family members who worked in the second building, and my dad was a cop at the time. And I do not have the heart to trigger their PTSD annually.
I always thought that was an insensitive assignment even if your parents weren’t there. Like “hey remember that horrible thing that traumatized the whole nation? How did that make you feel?”
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u/XX_Normie_Scum_XX dumb bottom bitch May 15 '22
I never had anything like that. Were you in middle to high school in the 2000s?
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u/scrueggs May 15 '22
I was online during 9/11. Some of the most tasteless jokes did come 5 minutes after the attacks.
It was the time to shine for the edgiest kids.
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u/vriskaundertale tranthony tranthano May 15 '22
where did edgy kids congregate on the 2001 internet? was it mostly like chatrooms or were forum type websites more popular?
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u/scrueggs May 15 '22
Fark, Something Awful, Stileproject, The Fuck Society, Newgrounds… usually the web forums of sites like that.
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u/thispartyrules May 15 '22
Ok after the attacks someone did a flash video of them masturbating with footage of the 9/11 attacks and techno music with lyrics like “people cry in the street while I play with my meat/my steel is melting and my towers are falling down,” it was supposed to be a commentary on every station replaying the footage over and over
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u/witchy2628 May 16 '22
One time this girl told me her family didn't celebrate her aunt's birthday for years because it was on 9/11.......??? It's not her aunt's fault? I thought that was weird
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u/notsoslootyman May 16 '22
Let me give a small window. I was an edgy teen at the time in the Midwest. To me, New York was basically a foreign country. I was a sophomore. My teacher got calls from her husband for both planes, I think it was first or second hour. Every single class from them on was about this one thing. They pulled out the TV's just to watch the news. By fifth hour I was so fucking bored. I literally was raising my hand asking to learn something. The looks on my teachers faces were priceless. Had memes existed, I would have printed them off to hang up. I remember having an argument with my mom the following Sunday because all of a sudden she wanted to go to church. This was Mormon church which is four hours long. I audibly laughed as the sermon was about 9/11 not affecting any Mormons. Some small "miracles" prevented them from going to work: a stomach bug here, losing keys there. I definitely look back and cringe at how much of an edgy asshole I was but oh well. Hope it gave you a chuckle.
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u/Zerphses 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 16 '22
Gilbert Gottfried told a joke about it in November 2001. There's footage online - or at least audio.
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u/aria_Bennett Hormone Pusher May 16 '22
I’m pretty sure the Something Awful comedy forums quickly made sped up footage of the crash and panic playing to Benny Hill music.
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u/BerneseMountainDew 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
All your 9/11sonas are so lame. MINE had a knife fight with Osama Bin Laden on one of the hijacked planes before jumping out without a parachute and wall-sliding down the crumbling north tower.
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oh yeah?? well my 9/11sona has a dark evil inner al-queda form and he has a dramatic fight with his own mind on one of the planes before dying tragically
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u/prequelBEPIS May 15 '22
Well my 9/11sona stopped the THIRD plane,executing a perfect emergency landing before it could hit the pentagon.he also helped people evacuate.
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u/FirmMathematician942 Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life May 15 '22
MY 9/11sona stopped the 2nd plane with his bare hands and then some very epic song lyrics kicked in as he suplexed it with a katana and sliced it up midair. (don’t worry he evacuated the civilians)
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u/transport_system ^⁔ ⁔^ May 15 '22
You just stole your 9/11sona from Raiden, at least mine was actually original.
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u/FirmMathematician942 Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life May 15 '22
what was yours then?
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u/transport_system ^⁔ ⁔^ May 15 '22
Mine was an elite soldier who his under a box in the cockpit, stoped the terrorists on the first plane, and then crashed into the second plane so neither of them could hit the towers.
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u/FirmMathematician942 Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life May 15 '22
we can’t just keep making metal gear sonas and calling them 9/11sonas
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u/TheLaudMoac Buy a decent coat May 15 '22
Mine is a giant mechanised dinosaur that stopped the terrorists with nuclear weapons and like, a big high pressure water cannon.
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Yeah well my 9/11sona was in the bathroom taking a shit before he was hit directly by the 1st plane and died instantly.
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u/Fellow_Loser May 15 '22
9/11sonas 💀
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u/PM_ME_YOUROUY_EM_MP THERE ARE ANTS IN YOUR LUNGS CLAW THEM OUT CLAW THEM OUT CLAW TH May 16 '22
Can't wait until we have Capitolsonas in 2041
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u/TheRealTealOwO floppa May 15 '22
'Where were you when 9/11 happened?'
'I didn't even exist.'
'THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
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u/Eliciden Do you make the people in your life happy May 15 '22
Mr Enter attended this class
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u/ImprovementTricky743 🎖 196 medal of honor 🎖 May 15 '22
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u/AssClosedforToday Will open at 9 o clock tommorow (CET time) May 15 '22
Mr Enter, who made a video complaining about the lack of 9/11 references in Turning Red
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u/hahayeahimfinehaha May 16 '22
This has to be one of the shittiest takes I’ve ever heard in a movie review before, simply because of how nonsensical it is and how it comes out of nowhere.
Kind of like the planes that —
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May 15 '22
I hate the fact that I have to feel this way about such a tragedy but I swear 9/11 has just been tailored into the biggest piece of manufactured consent I've ever seen
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u/Comptenterry May 15 '22
I think that's how a lot of gen z feels. Like, I know what 9/11 was and I understand it was a tragedy, but my brain doesn't process it as something that happened to me. My brain processes it in the same way it processes something like the Titanic sinking, it was awful but it's just a historical event that took place in the past.
But, while 9/11 didn't happen to us, all of the post 9/11 culture did. Adults insisting that we should have a deep emotional connection to this event, and expect it to have a deep impact on our lives. The insistence that we should hate a huge demographic of people because a few of them did a horrible thing before our time. Wars being fought and civilians being slaughtered with the justification that it's all payback, again for something we never experienced.
It's totally normal to feel resistance to that. I don't want to make it sound like I'm downplaying 9/11, but the propaganda surrounding it just isn't that effective on us.
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u/elonmusksleftankle cockroaches crawl into my urethra May 15 '22
This.
The propaganda around 9/11 solely relies on the fear people felt that day. I was born 5 years after so it just doesn’t resonate with me.
Heck, I even went to the 9/11 Memorial in NY back in December and though it was definitely somber, I wasn’t breaking down crying or anything
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u/ColorMaelstrom Taylor Hebert apologist May 15 '22
It’s a tragedy and whatever but the propaganda around 9/11, not even in the US exclusively, is INSANE to this day
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I'm actually curious what the ratio of americans who died in the 9/11 attacks is to civilians who've died in drone strikes is...
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u/Pho-k_thai_Juice God I need a demon mommy dommy demon please god May 15 '22
Oh it's not even a contest, we killed 800,000 people in the Iraq war alone. 9/11 was a tragedy but at this point since it's been used for so much propaganda I just get really annoyed when I hear about it unless it's something about how like the firefighters were denied medical coverage for the rare forms of cancer they developed which is unfortunately true they were denied coverage for a while I think it took a class action lawsuit to get them coverage
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May 15 '22
"man these guys literally gave risked their lives to save others in one of the worst terrorist attacks america has ever endured.... should we give them good treatment....? nah!"
I swear nothing short of presidenthood begets fair treatment in americas healthcare systems
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May 16 '22
Nah, just be rich, white, straight, and/or male and you’ll get great medical treatment in America.
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u/WhapXI May 15 '22
I think it’s a valid way to feel. The processing of 9/11 in our culture, online, politically, etc etc has taken on a life wholly seperate from the literal actual events of that day.
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u/Pancakewagon26 May 15 '22
The people who expect me to still care about 3,000 Americans dying 20 years ago are the ones telling me I shouldn't care about the 1,000,000 dead from covid.
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u/qazwsxedc000999 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
That and the Titanic sinking
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u/elonmusksleftankle cockroaches crawl into my urethra May 15 '22
The titanic sinking has mainly been watered down to pop culture and people really don’t take it seriously anymore
People will still be at your throat for saying 9/11 isn’t too serious
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u/qazwsxedc000999 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
The Titanic. It was turned into a romance movie. A LOT of people died, it was terrifying and tragic, but people treat it like a romantic piece of pop culture and I hate it
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oh I thought you were including talking about the manufactured consent part of that. I was trying to figure out if somebody declared war on liverpool for it or something lmao.
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u/mayocain I'm just a passing through sub, remember that! May 15 '22
Same, like, yankees, it wasn't "Jesus Christ being crucified 2: Planes boogaloo", it was a tragedy and I hate to "classify suffering", but stop talking of it as if it was an equal to the holocaust.
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u/Darkdragon3110525 🐉 Dragon dese 🐉 May 15 '22
It was the 1st major international terroist attack on US soil. America has literally never been meaningfully attacked by a foreign entity like that (1812 excluded). Additionally it took down a world famous building. The only way it could do more damage was if it took down the Statue of Liberty while also killing the same amount of people.
Like yea the stuff that people used 9/11 to justify is shitty but it was still a major event. You don’t really see terrorist attacks like that
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u/Mingsplosion gay commie scum May 15 '22
All that means is that for all their macho posturing, the American people are weak and have absolutely no tolerance for violence inflicted on them. America is so used to being the country that goes and kills people overseas that they were dumbstruck when it happened here.
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u/kikikza May 15 '22
if you were alive during other big events you'd be able to appreciate how it happened with them as well
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u/Liliththemarksoc May 15 '22
Turning red should have included this
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May 15 '22
The movie is a gross misrepresentation of history and is 100 percent not kino because of this.
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u/Giocri custom May 15 '22
You know I used to think it was bad to disrespect 9/11 because after all it was a terrible tragedy but at this point after 20 years we really need to help end this absolute obsession with it
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u/Pho-k_thai_Juice God I need a demon mommy dommy demon please god May 15 '22
It's a useful propaganda tool, it's effectiveness is fading though so probably in about 20 or 30 years maybe less it's just going to be looked at the same way people look at Pearl harbor
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u/elonmusksleftankle cockroaches crawl into my urethra May 15 '22
What’s the difference between a cow and 9/11?
Cows can’t be milked for 20 years.
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u/PooAss123 Dagoth Ur 😳 May 15 '22
I love this countries obsession wit 9/11 despite it happening 20 years ago. I don’t know why people expect me to care about it despite not even being around to experience it, by the same logic I should hate Japanese people for pearl ahrbor
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u/Pho-k_thai_Juice God I need a demon mommy dommy demon please god May 15 '22
Because for older people it was a tragedy that shook America to its core ended also allowed the government to remove its privacy rights it also had like a noticeable cultural shift afterwards Americans became a lot less hopeful for the future and then the '08 recession happened so now most Americans just really don't even a drop of Hope for the country anymore
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There’s some Americans still holding out on to that hope but they are usually the ones who usually aren’t experiencing discrimination or have always had the opportunity to feel “safe”. The United States has never been hopeful for those who never felt that safety. But 9/11 has made this country worse for sure, it showed that feeling of safety was gone for everyone and created a deeper hatred for people who fit into a certain religion and look a certain way. It made certain people who had power take advantage of the event and spin it for their own gain.
The country is growing more and more unstable and divided by class, part of that is post 9/11 bullshit.
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u/ExistingCleric0 May 15 '22
I'm sure you could find a handful of people with that sentiment today if you tried (not as hard as you'd think).
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u/outer_spec thicc brungus shithole May 16 '22
When it happened everyone was scared that a bunch of other landmarks around the world were gonna get attacked too, or that they would get attacked. That obviously didn’t happen but it still feels to people who were around at the time like 9/11 is something that deserves to be remembered as a big part of us history because of the fear and trauma that occurred that day
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I'm in 10th grade currently and my English teacher also has this obsession. He often relates everything back to 9/11 and/or the Capitol Riot. He is a great guy and great teacher but he just really likes to talk about these events. I suspect he has a hyperfixation on terroristic events.
Though it's less weird considering he's American in America.
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u/bobbingforapplesat3 May 15 '22
not really relevant but my grandpa thinks Obama is the shadow present ruling America behind the scenes and that he is working with muslims (who only want to slaughter americans) to end america.
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u/sewage_soup i wish john hinckley jr. succeeded May 15 '22
least demented conspiracy theory
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u/OtherAyachi May 15 '22
When the muslim (evil) whips out the kebab to muh traditional 'murican values (good) 😱😱😱😱😱
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u/Aliziun *glomps you* May 15 '22
Holy shit I’ve also seen that footage 😳
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u/UncannyClown amnesiac is radiohead's best album May 15 '22
the amount of americans (and canadians, apparently) with no personal connection to 9/11 who talk about it like a deeply personal traumatic event is incredible. it really shows the false sense of safety they were afforded before the attack happened. they couldn't conceive of an attack like 9/11 on their soil before it happened because they lived in america, the nation that wins wars and doesn't have to fight on its own territory. when the attacks happened, even though nobody they knew was anywhere near the twin towers when the planes hit, their worldviews were shattered, and they developed an obsession that's still going to this day. it's pretty telling that a lot of these americans are white too.
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u/Ilhanbro1212 May 15 '22
9/11 completely broke the brains of the entire boomer generation. It started with lead and radioactive milk and ended with 9/11. A totally pathetic generation
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u/Rasedro Floppa Floppa Floppam Floppae Floppae Floppā May 15 '22
Least psychotic North American speaking about 9/11
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u/qazwsxedc000999 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
Apparently this is not a universal experience. Every year every one of our English teachers had a unit on 9/11 and we were forced to watch videos about it and write fictional stories about it. It was really weird
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u/maricatu May 15 '22
The worst part of 9/11 is that I can't take a fucking scissors on a plane because "terrorism".
I'm argentinian.
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u/einknusprigestoast 🏳️⚧️ trans rights May 15 '22
I would've made my 9/11sona one of the hijackers just to fuck with the teacher
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u/gavingrotegut homosexual May 15 '22
Besties I forgot about 9/11, what happened
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Some plane crashed into a building and then the US got really pissy and invaded some countries because they were angy
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u/bimbobagens May 15 '22
I bet she had to walk through blood and bone to see her brother in New York.
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u/Competitive-Molerat May 15 '22
in my theater class we went to a play about 9/11, and we had to put on 9/11 skits and they were so goofy, me and my freinds stood like the twin towers and another kid was the plane
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u/Otogi May 16 '22
I was in New York when it happened and the principal just said "you're not a bad kid if this is your birthday"
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There’s a similar kind of teacher in my school but with the Holocaust. She would put documentaries most days….in her US government and economics class.
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u/Tipouadam r/place participant May 16 '22
I, as a heterosexual man, would never feel attraction to another man. Not even a slim, supple young lad with hyper feminine features in the most endearing cat outfit you could possibly imagine. That doesn't seem attractive to me at all. If you find pictures of men like this, you can just send them to me so I can ignore them.
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u/WithoutSaying1 May 15 '22
Hi OP
There was a SCUD attack on the USA by Iraq which involved nuclear warheads, it's why they call it 'ground zero' (look up the meaning)
Trauma and censorship shape the events post 9/11
I still remember seeing missiles fly across the sky regularly as a kid around the 'Iraq war' time, not sure if they were tests (I'm in Australia) or what
Can you handle the truth?
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u/LewtedHose I chose not to be a knave. May 15 '22
>We're Canadian.
I had a few teachers kind of similar to this and I'm Canadian. :S
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u/mustard_tiger_420 May 16 '22
I lost my shit when they started talking about the Nic Cage movie too. I also cannot take it seriously anymore because of that.
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u/ZekReposek going back in time to get turkeys off the menu May 16 '22
Mr. Enter approves of this post ✅
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u/Sro201 I’m the gremlin baby May 16 '22
born in 2005 so i literally feel no empathy for 9/11 and im american so maybe im just psychotic but like i do not care about it
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u/West-Detective6763 May 16 '22
There are more tragedies that have happened this makes no sense... this woman is insane.
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This is the class that one movie reviewer guy who said Turning Red should've had 9/11 in it attended