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[–] omnislayer88@kbin.social 96 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They really are using 9/11 as a meme template now...

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japanese people and nuke memes: First time?

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Demon Core memes too

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The sad truth is every year less and less people will care. Do you feel the same intensity of emotions about pearl harbor? I know I don't.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I care more about the million Iraqis we murdered or at least enabled the death of in a global temper tantrum as we set the stage for a headlong descent into fascism.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People don't think much about Afghanistan already, yet that's the country that got invaded first after 9/11

[–] neocamel@lemmy.studio 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved...

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Funny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Turns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's really sad is that no one cares about Ashurbanipal's destruction of Elam anymore

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why does that sound like a Morrowind daedric temple?

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Memes beyond measure, outlander.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finally I would say. Americans have been extremely emotional about anything concerning the 11th of September for way too long. It's 22 years ago. Let the memery commence!

[–] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cooopl@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

22.3 years according to South Park (for 9/11 it’s actually later this year)

[–] ghoscht@feddit.de 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dann, you can count those pixels

[–] McNasty@sh.itjust.works 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know it's supposed to be a signature, but it sort of looks like it's saying "hans_the_shitposter" is responsible for 2008. Or 9/11.

[–] giantofthenorth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe they are

[–] ColonelPanic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I knew it! Hans did 9/11

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KrayZeeOne@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

At least then we'll be closer to first contact...oh but WW3.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not like they’re going to go broke. They’ll just lose some millions over the vast gains made with bad behavior, get bailed out with tax money from the little people, and do it again in 10-20 years after regulators retire or get replaced with ones sympathetic to business.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol you think they're gonna lose money? They'll take full advantage of a recession to buy stocks and properties at a discount and sell it in 2035ish for a fortune.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They will lose some money, with the consequences of a recession, only to gain it back through corporate welfare and a return to business as usual as the recession ends.

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Guys, 9/11 won't be funny until the 29th of December. I know you're excited but until that moment you have to continue treating it as the sombre event that it is /s

[–] drdalek13@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

And it will be another case of "Capitalize the profits, and socialize the losses"

[–] PvtGetSum@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don't care about making memes about 9/11, jokes about anything can be funny, but if you're gonna do it at least make sure it's a good one. This is both offensive and unfunny, which is the ultimate sin lmfao

[–] LeadSoldier@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I hear you. I was in the army when 9/11 happened so I didn't have a choice but to be involved in the response. I was ready to show how I had trained against the Saudis who attacked us so when all of the units plans changed to Iraq, my opinion about 9/11 and all of the ongoing US propaganda for it kind of changed.

Now it's over 20 years later and after having deployed three times I have lost more of my friends to poverty and health related suicide (thank you, department of veterans affairs) I would say that the poor suffered more in 2008 then we did as a nation from that attack. America needs us to remember that small attack so that we can maintain endless wars in countries which are proxy, fights and training grounds for our soldiers. We shouldn't be killing people. We should be focused on making sure the billionaires aren't crashing the economy in cycles in order to profit from our endless labor.

9/11 should be remembered for the horrific act that it was, but the cult following that it turned into is wrong. How many people died in terrorist attacks in American history and how many people have had their liberties deprived by police, especially if they are the wrong color? Worse things are happening every day. We need to be distracted though.