People are comparing the atmosphere rn to the time immediately after 9/11, but I can't imagine anything like this happening back then. There was no countervailing force to the drive toward war.
There was a large US protest movement in the US. Few people know it happened. The news mostly just didn't cover it.
You're thinking of the leadup to the Iraq war. There wasn't a large protest movement or anything like this story in the week after 9/11.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history".[1]
tbf this is more like driving out recruitment offices one week after 9/11
That's almost a year and a half after the invasion of Afghanistan. There was absolutely no antiwar protest on October 2001.
Absolutely. Some of the zoomers here might be taken back by the genocidal bloodlust, but right now is so much better than immediately after 9/11. We actually have opposition this time. If someone tried to pull some antiwar shit on October 2001, they would have 100% being lynched on the spot and the lynchers would've either be jury nullified or not even face trial period.
That was how bad it was in the first weeks after 9/11.
