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Can we stop making fun of 9/11 here? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GottiGoFast@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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That was one of the biggest tragedies in recorded history. Do you even know what it did to the economy? It was like Black Monday on a 5x multiplier.

The World Trade Center, keyword TRADE. This isn't pokemon shit, this is real-world stocks and dollars. The portfolios were ruined.

The next time you laugh at that, think about the human beings that had their vacation bonuses decimated that day. Think about how the economic blow made countries like China catch up to us. Just think about that.

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

I still love how these were made within hours of the first plane hitting

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

It was worth every second of dial up months later discovering these

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Logging in to something awful, typing in "9/11" and seeing what posts showed up was always a treat.

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[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago

I'll never make fun of the reactionary counter-revolution that brought down the Allende government on 9/11/1973 allende-rhetoric

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 71 points 1 year ago

I would never joke about 9/11 to someone who actually lost friends or family during the event. On an individual level, it really was an unspeakable tragedy and immensely traumatizing for thousands of people.

But meanwhile the US government will still not apologize for nuking Japan twice, pulverizing primary schools and killing 30x as many people in the blink of an eye. So yeah, on that scale 9/11 is a hilarious joke indeed.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

Just the amount of cancer that spiked over the years following the attack was horrible. : p

It's a consequence of war that I don't see discussed very much - Burning buildings, collapsing buildings, the chemicals left over from explosives, various fuels and other chemicals, all take a toll on the survivors of modern armed conflict and I rarely if ever see that accounted for. Like Fallujah, with the spike in birth defects after the battle in 2004. It doesn't have to just be from DU. There are many other toxic materials that are released in to the air when a building is destroyed.

[-] RadicalCandour@startrek.website 27 points 1 year ago

As someone who’s lost people during 9/11 and saw the towers fall from New Jersey… you can make fun of me for all of the above.

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[-] goatmeal@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

3,000 innocents vs 5,000 American soldiers KIA vs 500k--2mil dead Afghanis and Iraqis...

I stand with Flava Flav--911 is still a joke

[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 1 year ago

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[-] artificialset@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago

sorry the second you said 9/11 i started laughing uncontrollably

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

The worst thing about 9/11 is people want to make it into some kind of conspiracy or terrorist attack. The universe can't just be a chaotic place where things randomly and arbitrarily happen. Planes can't crash and it be a totally normal mechanical/atmospheric thing, even though these same people acknowledge that happens multiple times per year. It has to be some Scooby Doo mystery where 19 people "hijacked" planes or the bad guy of the week did it to be evil.

[-] crime@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

It wasn't random or arbitrary, it was a direct consequence of amerikkka's foreign policy

[-] GottiGoFast@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

You're right, but the comment above was something of an absurdist joke.

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[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago

ironically, 9/11 is Airplane! for millennials. People born after us will forever be confused as to why we find it so funny

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

Comedy = tragedy x time speedrun

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[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I love how the most unanimously evil person in the world to every American was a gamer weeb with a laptop full of hentai

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

It's a pretty decent refutation of Great Man Theory. bin Laden was just a guy who had the right connections to get the attack plan rolling. The hijackers were just 19 random dudes, not commandos or spec ops. Their plan worked because it was a vector of attack that hadn't been seriously considered and no one was really trying to defend against.

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[-] a_talking_is2@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

America didn't deserve 9/11. Here, i said it.

My reasoning:

It deserved much, much, MUCH worse for all the shit it did and keeps doing.

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[-] Finger@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

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[-] booty@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

But it was very funny kitty-cri-texas

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

My favorite part about 9/11 was how liberals kept practically quoting Osama bin Laden's justification for 9/11 to invoke collective punishment against the Russians over Ukraine.

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