• someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    The bloodlust was crazy. You couldn't get through to anyone. I know this is about 9/11 but, like the whole Iraq thing in the aftermath felt so much like Gaza today where you're just trying to scream and no one cares.

    I was barely an adult when it happened. This is spot-on. Even outside the US, here in Canada, the bloodlust was very real. I was starting to become aware of PNAC in the US, and worried about what war insanity they were about to drag the whole world into.

    • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, the knock on effect it had on Canada was real. People I knew who were Proud To Be Canadian were all of sudden Real American Patriots. It was fairly muted where i grew up due to its isolation, but visiting family in bigger towns you might as well have been flying Old Glory and singing the star spangled banner. Some of my cousins signed up for the army within the next month.