Get in here chapos! Any memes, rants, quips, jokes you have, let’s fuckin hear them! That shit is funny.
fuck he’s so good
It’s such a good tweet it makes me laugh every time
Genuinely astonishing how this hits every cord and beat perfectly correctly. Ending the tweet with the date is such a funny move, it just jumps out at the end to wrap up the hilarious context to such a sassy tweet. And the commas which are placed to give this tweet the feel of a poem:
I would like to extend my best wishes to all,
even the haters and losers,
on this special date,
September 11th.
Every line getting a bit shorter til the great punchline.
Thanks, i was looking forward to seeing this gem again
There’s a distinct lack of rants, so I’ll toss my annoyance out there.
There were days where covid in the US was killing a 9/11 amount of people every day and so many of the chuds who act like 9/11 was the worst thing ever did not give a fuck. And it pisses me off so bad. It’s the perfect “one death is a tragedy, a million a statistic” trap so many people fall into and that always pisses me off. One person dies because of weed - nation wide story. Tens of thousands die from alcohol - who gives a damn.
My interpretation of these people is that they actually don’t give a shit about anyone who died in the attacks. They pretend to, but what they’re really mad about is the fact that it was a successful attack on a widely recognized symbol of United States hegemony.
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IMO there are two reasons why the 9/11 attacks resonated. The first one is crucial for the second.
The first is that it was spectacle, literally. It is impossible to deny that the image of a large passenger aircraft flying straight into a building and exploding is simultaneously nauseating, enthralling, and “better than fiction” in the emotional response it can get out of anybody. The second reason is that once cable news had that spectacle to get their viewers, it was like
for them. Just play it back. Replay it. Play it again. Run that another time. Get the second angle. Get the third angle. Play it again. Play it another time. The ad money coming in at that time must’ve been tremendous. It was really time for the fourth estate to shine. Judith Miller can tell you all about that.COVID deaths? No spectacle. It doesn’t matter that well over a million Americans died from it, as well as millions more globally (and we still are dying, too). It’s undeniable that COVID had media coverage, but it wasn’t like CNN was sending in camera crews into hospitals to catch people’s last gasps of air before they perished. Abstract reasoning is too hard. We need to see the explosion and the building collapse, not reason about a number.
I was in college on 9/11. If you weren’t old enough to know what was going on, it’s impossible to communicate how much of a “spectacle” it was. The closest I can come would be to say imagine if you woke up and aliens landed on earth. It wasn’t just that everyone was glued to their TVs set. It was just this… thing that was happening. In my dorm, everyone just watched it on their TVs alone. Got lunch with my friends and no one spoke hardly at all. Just a completely surreal day that’s hard to describe to anyone who didn’t live it.
Edit: to further emphasize the “spectacle” part, later in the day I had to run an errand with a friend. On that drive he confided in me that “I kinda want to see the number [of dead] go a lot higher”. He wasn’t saying that because he wanted a reason to start a war. And he wasn’t some weirdo. He was a very thoughtful, empathetic person (but brutally honest about things, like Jan Maas in Ted Lasso). I think a TON of people felt that way but didn’t say it out loud. I don’t buy that people were traumatized that day or anything. I think they were captivated by the spectacle and were mad that our collective ego was bruised, and didn’t really care about actual dead people.
That event changed everyone I knew as well. Everything because about America. The nice Syrian family down the street became an object of suspicion, more than they already were.
9/11 wasn’t just that September either, I remember that general unease and media coverage lasting at least until September 2002.
There was also that odd time between the first plane and the second. You hear “a plane hit a building in New York” and you think it’s a tragic accident. Then a little later you hear about the second and you realize immediately it’s something else.
It is still wild to me that the port authority did not immediately order the evacuation of the south tower after an explosion in the north one.
Agreed. Lived it from a Nordic European perspective and we were similarly glued to our televisions.
But I do remember we were actually terrified of what the US will do to the world because of this. Will they start a world war over it. It wasn’t at all about the spectacle of it alone, but mostly the fear of what Bush will do (everyone saw him as unhinged). I remember how we sighed from relief after he did the speeches after it and did not bring about nuclear winter.
This was pretty much the most common reaction in my family and friends. Also the whole way in which the world police finally got to feel a bit of what it does all over sure was mentioned, nobody was honestly surprised.
Sympathy for the civilians of course, but I can’t claim there was any love for Murica the nation at the time or all the warmongering.
And those fears turned out to be completely justified, because the reaction from Bush and the American people was completely unhinged.
And that was over a little less than 3,000 deaths. What frightens me about the US trying to start shit with China is how Americans will respond to losing the entire Pacific Fleet in a matter of days; because all those fancy aircraft carriers that are the backbone the American military are just sitting ducks for hypersonic missles, et al. I worry that if that happens, Americans will demand that every city in China be nuked, even if that means nukes get fired back at them.
Very true. It is scary. It’s scary to think there is a country in this world that could pretty much annihilate anything over hurt pride and as a show of force, on a whim. That day re-revealed this. Not that it was ever really hidded.
I think the vibe from smaller countries at the time was very much “who needs enemies when this is what these gyus are like”. It also showed what people really think, my country tends to be very US friendly thanks to all sorts of propaganda, but on this day and after it the mood was mostly “what will the arrogant unhinged and self-assigned world cops do now”. It was perfectly clear to everyone that this insult on US hegemony was a huge deal, not the lives lost. Up until this point they thought they were untouchable, never any real skin in the game.
I’d like to add that the real scary part was all the people who thought Bush might do something unhinged, but that it’d be okay because the bad guys deserved it.
I was just a little kid when it happened, and in my house the TV was on all day every day. I saw it happen over and over and over and over again, before I could even spell my own name, drilled into my mind forever. :/
Looking back at the live news footage, it’s nauseating the way they show it, like a feeding frenzy of vultures on corpses. I think I know why I had so many violent nightmares as a kid now.
I think it contributed to my fear of flying. I have flown plenty of times, but I hate it.
This is bang on
I don’t think anything will ever match the spectacle of seeing that second plane hit. It was a total surprise and just AWESOME in the literal sense of that word.
Honestly I don’t think I saw a single commercial all day on 9/11, it was nonstop news coverage on every channel as I recall.
I believe that’s correct but I would not have been old enough to pay attention to that, specifically. But the coverage of 9/11 did not end on 9/11, of course.
The “one death is a tragedy” quote is often attributed to Stalin among many other Hollywood capeshit tier quotes. But the US continues to lead by example. 40,000 people each year from car accidents, no one cares. But a tragedy with hundreds of deaths involving a train of plane and it’s a matter of national debate for 6 months. Same with gun deaths.
Latuff don’t miss
In 2001?! The absolute mad lad lmao
latuff was photographed immediately after drawing that:
I’m sure this was well received
If we were still federated with the libs, this thread would be wild
If any libs come in here, I’ve got my sights set on them with deadly precision
so sorry for party rocking
wait are they corey worthington’s glassesnot quite
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Never forget but also wrap it up, we ain’t got all day.
Me bagging all the muffins: Thanks, Osama.
please make this a hexbear header
This is the first 911 since the reddit refugees oh geez this will get messy
I’ve had a shit fucking week so if I catch even a sniff of liberalism in here im just banning on site, nobody fucking test me. I’ll fucking wreck you.
This was a great meme back in 2011, kids.
right after 9/11, the FBI came to my uncle’s house to question him. he had no criminal history, no nothing, just because we’re from Iran (a country famously responsible for 9/11). I also had to listen to people talking about how we should nuke the middle east for like a decade, had to deal with kids in school calling me terrorist.
whatever, Malcolm X was right, America’s chickens came home to roost
Iran was the one of the first countries to offer condolences for 9/11 too wtf
CW
That is a good art installation highlighting the 40-ish 9/11s that happen every year due to alcohol consumption and its glorification in the USA. This doesn’t include the victims of drunk driving or domestic violence, neither.
That’s just soda and water.
Eh, then I have to change my numbers. Nearly 50 9/11s! Like one a week.
One 911 a week
Twin Towers op, pls ban
I remember when the towers fell, and people all over the word showed sympathy and solidarity, even from “enemy” countries like Iran. Then there was hate crimes, and the ubiquitous calls for us to “glass the middle east”, but those were outliars, right? Bush observed the rubble and vowed revenge and told us to not be afraid to go shopping, and then shamelessly exploited the tragedy to further US geopolitical goals and killed millions of people across the world who had nothing to do with it. No “serious” politician or pundit or average American gave a shit.
Little did I realize that the “killing millions” part was just standard operating procedure for the US, and the most important thing we can do, no matter what happens, is to uphold our duty as consumers and keep buying shit.
Crazy to think we used to not have to take off our shoes and empty our pockets and be body-scanned to get on a plane.
Little did I realize that the “killing millions” part was just standard operating procedure for the US, and the most important thing we can do, no matter what happens, is to uphold our duty as consumers and keep buying shit.
Aw crap, I forgot that Bush told us to “go shopping” and “go to Disney World” in order to fight terrorism.
Crazy to think we used to not have to take off our shoes and empty our pockets and be body-scanned to get on a plane.
wonder if we’ll ever return to times like that in my lifetime
Crazy to think we used to not have to take off our shoes and empty our pockets and be body-scanned to get on a plane.
you could greet people as they deplaned too
