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yo where can i get a Tang Bomb
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Feb 11, 2021 22:14
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lmao i came to this thread to see the hulkster doing 9/11, but this is even better
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Feb 12, 2021 04:07
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https://twitter.com/RealSteveCox/status/1360239814260314114?s=20
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Feb 12, 2021 19:21
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this is a contender for my all-time favorite 9/11 joke: (from 2019) 
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Feb 12, 2021 20:36
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Main Paineframe posted:this is why 9/11 was a Big Deal for America in the way that COVID never seemed to be. it was never about the death count, it was about who died and where. it was a knife aimed right at the heart of the banking class. even if OBL wasn't a socialist and didn't give a gently caress about the plight of the American lower classes, he knew exactly which groups the American system really cared about and aimed right for them. the US response to 9/11 made a big point of erasing the class dimension and pretending it was solely about the number of dead, right from the start, but if bin Laden had killed 3,000 black food service workers it wouldn't have been treated as a national tragedy the same way. in fact, I'd argue that it's precisely because ordinary Americans weren't the real target that the US response went to such lengths to play up the idea that everywhere in the country was a potential terrorist target Everybody forgets that the Pentagon got hit because the only people working in the wing of it that the plane crashed into were custodial staff
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Feb 22, 2021 08:11
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Fluoride Jones posted:Everybody forgets that the Pentagon got hit because the only people working in the wing of it that the plane crashed into were custodial staff hey, that's not true! that's also where the accounting staff were who were doing the pentagon audit fun fact: the only backup site for the audit? building 7
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Feb 22, 2021 08:16
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RaySmuckles posted:hey, that's not true! lmao that this was Rumsfeld's BIG PROJECT after Bush got in
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Feb 22, 2021 08:21
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Fluoride Jones posted:lmao that this was Rumsfeld's BIG PROJECT after Bush got in well i guess you could say rumsfeld's "big project" turned out to be quite the "big deal"
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Feb 22, 2021 08:24
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RaySmuckles posted:hey, that's not true! Is this real or a joke?
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Feb 22, 2021 09:16
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Is this real or a joke? 
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Feb 22, 2021 10:26
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never forget rumsfelds conference on 9/10 declaring he’d get to the bottom of $2.3T missing from the pentagon I assume that money funded classified projects or was outright stolen
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Feb 22, 2021 17:59
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nothing like a good heist to start off a new american century ocean’s 9/11
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Feb 22, 2021 21:51
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I'll never forget the great deal I got at Subway once
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Feb 22, 2021 22:09
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9/11 was so bad that everyone sane had to go "well, maybe..." The people already given over to insanity now believe in all conspiracies of all time periods. Simultaneously. Yes, let that sink in.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:20
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I was born in 1982 and nothing really "major" happened in the world between then and 9/11. It was the defining event of my generation, and things were absolutely chill as gently caress prior to that. gently caress in 1999 the economy was absolutely flying. I remember getting my first car in 1998 and paying 59 cents a gallon for gas.
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Feb 24, 2021 05:59
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actionjackson posted:I was born in 1982 and nothing really "major" happened in the world between then and 9/11. It was the defining event of my generation, and things were absolutely chill as gently caress prior to that. gently caress in 1999 the economy was absolutely flying. I remember getting my first car in 1998 and paying 59 cents a gallon for gas. i get that you were like 9 but the destruction of the last hope of humanity for salvation from america, and the start of americas 30 year orgy of murder in Iraq were kinda big deals
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HAMAS HATE BOAT posted:i get that you were like 9 but the destruction of the last hope of humanity for salvation from america, and the start of americas 30 year orgy of murder in Iraq were kinda big deals actually america was bad way before that yes we had the gulf war, but that was nowhere near the scale of other previous wars. and it had nowhere near the impact on people as those other wars did, or 9/11.
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Feb 24, 2021 06:15
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A Time To Chill posted:this is a contender for my all-time favorite 9/11 joke: two twins get DESTROYED by 8 men
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Feb 24, 2021 06:19
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actionjackson posted:I was born in 1982 and nothing really "major" happened in the world between then and 9/11. It was the defining event of my generation, and things were absolutely chill as gently caress prior to that. gently caress in 1999 the economy was absolutely flying. I remember getting my first car in 1998 and paying 59 cents a gallon for gas. uhhhhh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz-EN3K-gP4
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Feb 24, 2021 06:53
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let me put it this way, nothing on the scale of 9/11
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Feb 24, 2021 07:24
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actionjackson posted:I was born in 1982 and nothing really "major" happened in the world between then and 9/11. It was the defining event of my generation, and things were absolutely chill as gently caress prior to that. gently caress in 1999 the economy was absolutely flying. I remember getting my first car in 1998 and paying 59 cents a gallon for gas. lol
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Feb 24, 2021 08:27
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actionjackson posted:let me put it this way, nothing on the scale of 9/11 Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century.
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Feb 24, 2021 08:36
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actionjackson posted:I was born in 1982 and nothing really "major" happened in the world between then and 9/11. It was the defining event of my generation, and things were absolutely chill as gently caress prior to that. gently caress in 1999 the economy was absolutely flying. I remember getting my first car in 1998 and paying 59 cents a gallon for gas. a legitimate lol but unfortunately all too common. most people this age you ask them what was the biggest thing to happen in their lives pre 9/11 they’ll say the OJ trial (and will speak of it in almost the same tones) I don’t think the ussr collapse fazed anyone in the states because it was just a validation of all our own propaganda saying we’d win anyway. because it didn’t end with war people thought we were somehow even more victorious and that things would be good for russia too moving forward so no need to put any further thought into it ever again the first gulf war is not even the biggest military intervention of that period so I’m not surprised it’s forgotten especially compared to gulf 2
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Also born in 1982 and maybe it's because I'm German and further amplified by living up near the German-German border, but the collapse of the Eastern Bloc definitely was a big deal.
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Feb 24, 2021 13:19
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American egocentrism is showing again. The 80s and 90s were comparatively mild compared here and yeah if you're a US citizen that has not seen much of the country let alone the world, it could easily feel like nothing near the scale of 9/11 happened in the lead-up. The collapse of the Soviet bloc was, by the measure of most Americans, a moment to go, "Oh. huh. America #1" and go back to mortgaging a house on 30k/year
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Feb 24, 2021 13:28
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Feldegast42 posted:But then again, covid came far closer to outright collapsing the United States govt than Bin Laden ever did. What? Feldegast42 posted:I do think that the Iranian hostage crisis is one of the root causes that caused boomers to go so batshit insane. This, speaking as someone who was there, is simply wrong. Vietnam certainly figured into it but more as just a general loss of faith in America as a whole. For boomers the 70s were one war they were forced to fight in for absolutely no reason and they got their asses kicked, stagflation in which money became essentially worthless year-on-year, and two gas crises. Stuff like the hostage crisis was just another sign that America didn't work but honestly gas lines were far more offensive to Americans than Iran. Feldegast42 posted:The day it became clear that the GOP would try to overthrow the government if they lost was nothing and should be regarded as nothing? This is just lunacy. 1/6 was nothing and won't even be remembered by anyone outside of weirdos like us who remember political history to laugh at it. It's just another blip on the decline and fall of an empire.
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people talk about 1/6 as if it was a bigger event in history than the Iran Iraq war, the Congolese civil war, or the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. lol
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okay you guys are right to poo poo on me for that, I suppose I was talking more from the perspective of someone in America, where the collapse of the Soviet Union had virtually no effect on their lives. 9/11 was the first thing that really impacted me in my life. Also my father could have been very easily killed as he worked in one of the smaller WTC buildings, but was able to evacuate before the south building fell on top of it. Globally yes the collapse of the Soviet Union was definitely a big deal.
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:people talk about 1/6 as if it was a bigger event in history than the Iran Iraq war, the Congolese civil war, or the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. lol the chud who killed himself by tasing his balls is the American Patrice Lumumba
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