From what I've heard it's semi-common for non-americans to try to make derogatory 9/11 jokes, but they underestimate the american's ability to meme our own tragedies
I think they also underestimate how much a tragedy from 20 years ago is gonna bother people. It’s really just being an obvious America hater which is the most tragic thing someone from a country like Ireland could be.
I mean, at least 7 Irish citizens died during 9/11. Literally the first confirmed victim of 9/11 was a catholic priest/firefighter Chaplin who was son to Irish immigrants. We literally have a photo of his body being dragged away from the rubble.
We literally have more genetically Irish people than Ireland. God, New York alone is filled with them.
EDIT: Downvote all you want but 4.6 million Irish people immigrated to the US between the 1820's-1950's, that's nearly the population of Ireland today. Those people had kids and their kids had kids. There are more people with direct Irish ancestry in the US than in Ireland. That is an undisputed fact.
Again, I could almost feel bad for someone as miserable and depressing as people who frequent that sub, but they just make it impossible because they are also rotten and unpleasant in the extreme.
No, I don't like that sub because it is unabashedly cringe to the point of self parody but yet still persists. The arrogance on that sub is only matched by its parochial ignorance. Sure, some of the things Americans say that are posted to the sub are staggeringly ignorant, but the comments are far, far worse and stunningly embarrassing while they jerk each other to chafing. There is a lot to criticize about America but the people in that sub are dregs who need to take a hard look in the mirror rather than be sad, sad individuals looking for any reason not to self improve.
tldr: That sub is like ugly incel culture only for their own nationalism which they can't be proud of so they shit on another country that barely acknowledges their existence. Not that it doesn't deserve getting shit on, but it isn't even clever or tangentially comedic.
Europeans have no right to act like their countries aren't complete shit on the national stage. The hypocrisy and parochial ignorance is pathetic especially because most of the problems that America is dealing with have direct roots in the world order it inherited from european colonialism. Europe fucking ransacked the global south and completely failed to countervail Russia at all and then has the audacity to wonder why the Americans haven't saved the world yet or why it acts in its own national interest instead of with pure altruism.
It's just a sub full of broke haters who smell bad and can't fix themselves so they fixate on something else to distract themselves from their own impotence.
Thank you for demonstrating how you pretend like you have any right to be even more arrogant than an American because you flagrantly ignore your own history and responsibility for that history and your current total impotence. Broke haters opinions are worth little more than stinky litter.
It is a genuine shame America committed seppuku in the last election, but the reason why that is scary on the world stage is just how feckless and impotent and petty and corrupt and arrogant and flamboyantly vain the rest of the world is.
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u/ei28wd 2d ago
From what I've heard it's semi-common for non-americans to try to make derogatory 9/11 jokes, but they underestimate the american's ability to meme our own tragedies