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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:The months following 911 were the most surreal thing I've experienced. The local news had to warn people about jogging while wearing gas masks. My middle school had a detailed plan of how to respond to a chemical weapons attack. The national guard had troops stationed in the airports to make people feel "safe". The nearest mall to me closed down on 9/11, despite being thousands of miles from ground zero and in a town of under 50,000 people. It reopened after it became clear that there was not a Gladio-style network executing terror attacks across the Midwest. Looking back on that time is absolutely surreal.
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I suddenly remembered how in the 04 election people would say Bush "kept us safe". My dad would say this and when I reminded him of 911 (never forget lol) he would say it "didn't count"
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I'll always remember how 911 was both this really sensitive thing you had to tiptow around and ban Dio songs over, but you'd turn on Modern Marvels: Concrete or whatever and they'd find a way to make it about 911. gently caress better memory: also towards the end of Bush's presidency there was a coordinated effort among rightwing media to get people to think 911 happened under Clinton. Carl Von Awesomwitz has issued a correction as of 23:39 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Well I'm glad all that craziness is done and definitely won't happen again!
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Jan 8, 2019 23:42
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:You shouldn't have to hide your hairline when you're that young. It's hard to live your life as twenty toddlers in a suit
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chaleski posted:My mostly white preppy high school would have Muslim students go from class to class and do a little speech thing just to let everyone know they weren't all violent extremists, I think the girl being really nice and widely liked helped a bit in baton rouge they evacuated the state capitol building (it's one of the tallest that makes it a target!!!!1) and blocked off the interstate around downtown
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I suddenly remembered how in the 04 election people would say Bush "kept us safe". My dad would say this and when I reminded him of 911 (never forget lol) he would say it "didn't count" that poo poo was fuckin eeeeeeverywhere "no terrorist attacks on american soil since 9/11" is like "this convicted murderer hasn't killed a single person since that first one" and it wasn't even true - those anthrax mail attacks started up like later that month
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Jan 9, 2019 01:16
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poo poo was, in fact, nuts.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:that poo poo was fuckin eeeeeeverywhere also the DC beltway sniper(s) in 2002
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its a real shame there werent any other major attacks after 9/11 the us would have deffo destroyed itself after that
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those anthrax attacks happened to senators
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HobbitGrease posted:Dio - Holy Diver System Metternich posted:The days and weeks immediately following 9/11 were weird enough over here in Germany, I can’t imagine how they must have been in the US. I’m imagining flags and awkwardly shoehorned-in patriotism (and xenophobia) everywhere, am I right?  Single Car My mom's coworker's husband is Lebanese and was stopped and patted down on the afternoon of 9/11 while jogging on a sidewalk in suburban CT. I can't even try to guess guess how many times I heard people say "towel head" over the next few weeks in high school. Spergin Morlock posted:and it would always magically go to orange right before every election
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I suddenly remembered how in the 04 election people would say Bush "kept us safe". My dad would say this and when I reminded him of 911 (never forget lol) he would say it "didn't count" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQmpg2IBcM
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for every crazy thing we can remember about post 9/11 there are like five crazy things that became normal and are still going on
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i saw one of those see-thru decals of a giant rippling flag across a truck's rear window the other day
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Didn't the UK probably assassanate some spy who didn't want to play ball with the fake WMD evidence?
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Didn't the UK probably assassanate some spy who didn't want to play ball with the fake WMD evidence? David Kelly. He was a scientist, not a spy
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the onion was so good back then: https://local.theonion.com/security-beefed-up-at-cedar-rapids-public-library-1819566183
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Are there any books or articles detailing the collective paranoia and jingoism gripping the US after the attacks? As a culture historian, this sounds like a super interesting (and also depressing) topic.
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Trump saying wrt to the various DNC hacks that it could be "Some 400 pound goon laying on a mattress" ....And hillarys email server being setup by a goon who when it was found out purged his reddit and forums account
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Claire McCaskill writing op-eds about how to win elections in red states in the middle of packing her poo poo and going home because she lost
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zegermans posted:Claire McCaskill writing op-eds about how to win elections in red states in the middle of packing her poo poo and going home because she lost Her rambling about how she's not "one of those crazy democrats" who yells at republicans and then getting trounced a few days later was some exquisite schadenfreude.
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lol at me circa 2012 thinking John Huntsman would have any kind of political capital in the future presidential elections my  moment
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the endless stream of “here’s how Bernie is gonna win” articles even when Hillary has clinched the nomination
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:the endless stream of “here’s how Bernie is gonna win” articles even when Hillary has clinched the nomination the endless stream of “here’s how Hillary can still win” articles even after Trump won.
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:the endless stream of “here’s how Bernie is gonna win” articles even when Hillary has clinched the nomination and then here comes 2020 and Bernie is the only loving chance of beating Trump, lol
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Fellbat posted:the endless stream of “here’s how Hillary can still win” articles even after Trump won. jill stein walking away with millions from libs and using them to pay her staff a lot of money
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zegermans posted:Claire McCaskill writing op-eds about how to win elections in red states in the middle of packing her poo poo and going home because she lost mccaskill melting down about people having the audacity to question her voting record, telling them to STFU and blaming them for her loss
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hillary going on tv the day after the election like "please help me, the illuminati have denied me further youth injections, I don't have much time left"
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Javid posted:hillary going on tv the day after the election like as terrible as Trump is and has been for the world over the past couple of years, it is a consolation prize to think about her venal, sociopathic ego being shattered into teeny, tiny bits. just imagine being a fly on her wall on election night.
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people would go looking for hilldog in the woods like Sasquatch
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System Metternich posted:Are there any books or articles detailing the collective paranoia and jingoism gripping the US after the attacks? As a culture historian, this sounds like a super interesting (and also depressing) topic. Fiasco by Thomas Ricks is about Iraq specifically but the first part covers how the Bush administration used the hysteria to push their fabricated case for war Speaking of Iraq, Paul Bremer firing the entire Iraqi army overnight lol
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Remember when Howard Dean made that weird yell and it effectively ended his presidential candidacy
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Comrayn posted:people would go looking for hilldog in the woods like Sasquatch 
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shyduck posted:Remember when Howard Dean made that weird yell and it effectively ended his presidential candidacy perhaps for the best, if his future career in lobbying for the health insurance industry is any indication. to think the Dem establishment considered him a threat at the time...
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:the endless stream of “here’s how Bernie is gonna win” articles even when Hillary has clinched the nomination
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Mr. Lobe posted:as terrible as Trump is and has been for the world over the past couple of years, it is a consolation prize to think about her venal, sociopathic ego being shattered into teeny, tiny bits. just imagine being a fly on her wall on election night. she'll have to cry herself to sleep in her pile of money
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