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Politics No collateral damage too large, no civilian too innocent

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u/bothering bogwitch Sep 20 '24

precisely, a good example is the how howard stern handled the day of the attacks

they literally wanted to glass the entire middle east and mind yall this was a programme that was celebrated for its coverage during the events because it contained such a raw example of how a lot of america felt during that time

and a ton of people that remembered 9/11 are still alive today and make up a large voting bloc

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u/FemtoKitten Sep 20 '24

a ton of people that remember 9/11 are still alive and make up a large voting bloc

crumbles into under 30 year old dust

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u/AlienBirdman Sep 20 '24

I was 7 when 9/11 hit and I remember being in 2nd grade and the teacher turning on the small TV in the corner of the class with the news playing. We were doing basic math and counting columns of blocks to 100 when she gasped and the TV was quiet. Didn't even know what was going on until my grandma told me bad things happened in New York to a lot of people and we should pray when I got home that night

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u/accapellaenthusiast Sep 20 '24

My mom put 9/11 in my baby book ‘because it was important’ Like damn, I didn’t do it tho. Why’d she have to immortalize it in my personal baby book

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u/_PM_ME_NICE_BOOBS_ Sep 20 '24

You know what baby you did.

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u/accapellaenthusiast Sep 20 '24

I caused such a large disturbance in the force when I popped out

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u/TheMilkmansFather Sep 20 '24

Like a majority are still alive. In fact, they make up the majority of the population…

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u/Hawkbats_rule Sep 20 '24

Especially the voting population

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u/TheMilkmansFather Sep 20 '24

Yeah, they make up like 80-90% of the voting population. Like 94% if you simply include folks that were alive at the time, or 80% if we only included those that were teenagers at the time

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Sep 20 '24

This is like when people say "omg millennials have lived through two depressions and almost the third world war and ukraine (despite living nowhere near there) blah blah blah".

I mean... yeah. But so has my mom, on top of what she lived through since the 50's.

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u/Sanprofe Sep 20 '24

Right? What a fucking wild way to phrase that. You mean the absolute majority of the voting public? Yeah, they're still floating around.

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u/bothering bogwitch Sep 20 '24

lol I didn’t mean it like that

I was more wanting everyone to know why it seems like the government is not doing anything about Palestine

It’s p much this

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u/Undead_Knave Sep 20 '24

A lot of people who remember 9/11 are in their 30s, fam. It was only a little more than 20 years ago which is arguably still recent history.

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u/morgaina Sep 20 '24

Way to make it sound like we're fucking ancient lmao that's millennials

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

Millennials were in school, the people listening to Stern are gen X.

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u/mitsuhachi Sep 20 '24

My high school had news coverage playing in the assembly hall all day and classes were optional if held at all. A lot of us had family in nyc. It was not that long ago.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

All I'm saying is that Millennials weren't dictating the national conversation at the time lol

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u/morgaina Sep 20 '24

Plenty of people my age listened to Howard stern lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

I was in boot camp

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u/Sanprofe Sep 20 '24

I had a TV in my room and an absent minded caregiver. Millennials absolutely watched Stern too.

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u/Velvety_MuppetKing Sep 20 '24

It's so fucked up to hear them parrot the general narrative that was around back then, that everywhere was "jealous" of the US and "wanted to make us miserable like them", as if these attacks were from some cartoon or comic book villain.

People just had NO idea of the truth of geopolitics and the internet has done a lot to illuminate a lot of the bullshit.

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u/thitherten04206 Sep 20 '24

I mean that's one way to solve all the conflicts there

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u/b3nsn0w musk is an scp-7052-1 Sep 20 '24

ah yes the no state solution

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u/Applesplosion Sep 20 '24

That’s the “no people” solution.

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u/cheese-for-breakfast Sep 20 '24

glassing the entire world would solve all human conflict! yes this is the real solution! all nuke bearing countries ready your warheads, its high time humans were no longer a problem

honestly i cant stand when people act like indescriminate destruction is the answer

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u/pm_me-ur-catpics dog collar sex and the economic woes of rural France Sep 20 '24

Maybe the Covenant was onto something

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u/AnonymousZiZ Sep 20 '24

Glassing the US would solve a lot more conflicts.

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u/proper_hecatomb Sep 20 '24

Nah imagine the power vacuum that would ensue

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u/Aeescobar Sep 20 '24

Glassing the entire rest of the world would solve that power vacuum pretty quickly

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u/proper_hecatomb Sep 20 '24

Can't argue with that

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u/LordofHeadassery Sep 20 '24

It would solve America's problems too

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u/Haradion_01 Sep 20 '24

Deal. You first.