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MikeCrotch posted:I think this sums up my feelings from the day perfectly. Like, I saw the attacks in the afternoon on the news, thought 'that's really terrible', but didn't feel scared or anything or think the world was going to change overnight, which seems very different to a lot of Americans i've spoken to who felt that this was the end of the optimism of the 90's. I guess the 90's wasn't a great time for the UK, at least compared to the US - there certainly isn't the same kind of nostalgia for the 'bright future of the 90's' as some people have put it. Well, in the case of the Oklahoma City bombing, it was kind of an out of the way place, and it didn't really challenge American power in the way that trying to destroy the Pentagon was. It was a bombing of an American government building by Americans, so when it came time to look for people to blame for the Oklahoma city bombings, you could only blame Americans. With that said, I had a coworker who thought blowing up federal government buildings was a good start, and cheered at someone finally giving the federal government what for. I also had another coworker who used to work for the Oklahoma City government, and knew several people who died in the Oklahoma City bombing. There was a rather nasty bloody beat down fight in the middle of the office. We managed to pull the Oklahoman aside, and convinced him to take it outside. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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