That was one of the biggest tragedies in recorded history. Do you even know what it did to the economy? It was like Black Monday on a 5x multiplier.
The World Trade Center, keyword TRADE. This isn't pokemon shit, this is real-world stocks and dollars. The portfolios were ruined.
The next time you laugh at that, think about the human beings that had their vacation bonuses decimated that day. Think about how the economic blow made countries like China catch up to us. Just think about that.
America didn't deserve 9/11. Here, i said it.
My reasoning:
It deserved much, much, MUCH worse for all the shit it did and keeps doing.
9/11 didn't really happen to america it happened to a bunch of random people. It was bad not even close to the worst thing that has ever happened and in no way justified killing a bunch of random iraqis
Were the people working in the building that could be described as the financial capital of the world really RANDOM?
Pretty sure there might be some severe statistical fuckery at play that makes this crowd significantly different than "random people"
it was an office block numerous companies rented space in it and had their workers do office work there. I don't think we should be saying office workers deserve to be murdered
I don't think they deserved it
But if I had to choose a building in the center of one of the world's top 10 largest cities, I'd probably also have picked the twin towers. Obviously it would be better for no planes to explode no buildings, but thats not the world we live in
they didn't have to attack a building in the center of one of the worlds top ten largest cities they could have not done that. It's not like that helped anyone
Yeah I said that, I think you're big misunderstanding me.
ok what do you mean then
I meant if god snapped his fingers and I appeared in heaven holding a remote control then God said to me "fly that plane into a building in the middle of one of the top 10 cities in the world"
I'd beg him not to make me do it, and then aim for the world trade centers when he said I had to or he'd delete the universe
weird and inappropriate analogy
Weird, yes
you aren't the appropriateness police tho, we are literally in a thread about mocking 9/11 on !chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
I meant asside from the bad taste of the joke the analogy doesn't match the situation being described or discussion well
No, they have a valid point. If you had to pick a building that probably had a bunch of random evil stuff going on that would be it. They could have blown up Disneyland. That would have been a bigger propaganda hit. Instead they ment to strike at the heart of the worst people doing the worst things on earth. It was an okay pick.
ok
Idunno what to tell you comrade
I mean let's be honest a state is made up of its people
There's no attack on USA that also wouldn't affect it's people
The people are always hit much worse than the ruling class because they own almost everything
this is true which is why I am against adventurist violence
was the 9/11 attacks adventurism? Serious question. It would be if I did 9/11. but was it adventurism for Al Qaeda?
I would say it was adventurism it certainly wasn't part of an organised military campaign
was it not? It certainly wasn't a traditional military campaign, but it seems to me it was planned and carried out more in that fashion than, say, the UNIbomber
an explanation of adventurism