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Why, what happened on the 9th of November?
I dunno, but remember, remember the fifth of November.
Plenty of things in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history
Ah yes, I remember the wall in 1989
“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
It’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.
what i kinda don’t get about this whole thing … is that kinda, in other countries (look at the middle east), they get bombed daily and none of you bats an eye (well, some do, but still, this has been going on for 50 years and i hardly ever hear anyone talking about it). meanwhile you get one terrorist attack and everyone’s supposed to lose their minds over this.
I mean, it’s a terrorist attack involving multiple simultaneous plane hijacks crashing into the center of one of the most populated cities in the world. Not that we should rank terrorism, but…
yeah and i find it weird how little attention is given to the symbolic targets … the World Trade Center was largely involved in establishing cross-country businesses … in other words, meddling within other country’s internal economics (often to the dismay of the local population). by far not all people in the world wanted free trade. so they attacked the free trade center … and that was a symbol against free trade, free trade being an unwanted thing by many other people around the globe because it meant the disruption of native economic systems, etc.
and yet that fact that free trade is not globally understood as something universally good, and that maybe there should be less of it, … i don’t think that i’ve ever heard any newspaper talk about that.
It’s just so blown up because it hurt american pride.
racism i think. that time the “supreme race” got attacked
America has been punching and kicking countless countries since WWII, causing thousands if not millions of deaths (Iraqi “freedom” alone caused like 300.000 Iraqi deaths IIRC) and the second that somebody punches back and gives them a bloody nose its all crying and needing to make 50 movies about the heroes of that day, and of course it was immediately used to implement the “patriot” act (hint, it has shit to do with patriotism and everything with making the IS an autocratic state)
I get it, of course. For the individuals that died or were injured that day, it’s a tragedy, but as a country? They completely deserved it and much, much more
You’re spot on, and that said tragedy was exploited to do even more cruelty makes it even worse
Never forget 1973/9/11!
Poor Chile! They didnt deserve that one. Cant say the same about to the U.S though.
Well, I was in the third grade when 9/11 happened, and there was never any kind of formal education about it, because we had all just experienced it. Kids just a few years younger than me wouldn’t remember it at all, but likely still wouldn’t have learned about it in school yet. That’s probably where this guy falls
I had to do a bunch of my own learning about the gulf war. Similarly, it happened before I was born but recent enough that history teachers didn’t consider it history. I now think it set the stage for a lot of the US geopolitically and I really should’ve learned about it in school.
It’s why, out of habit, I call them the 9/11 attacks since that’s a websearch-able term that will yield informative results. I am often caught flat footed, not knowing things that are assumed to be common knowledge.
Disclaimer: am not American nor Western
I remember this day. Was a wee lad. We were on vacation. The TV was on and apparently it was the news. I don’t remember if it’s breaking news but it might not be, since we’re 12 ish hours different time zones, and I remember seeing it at day time.
Well, back then I thought it was a movie…
And the eerie part was that my dad had just gotten back home from a business trip there just a few days before.
Are we sure even happened?
Can jet fuel melt steel? 🤔/s
no, but a fucking impact with 700 km/h can fucking tear it apart.
Bruh.
2001 or 1973?
Is that a hotel front desk?
What happened?
Some American heros crashed a plane
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