• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    "We became complacent and underestimated the military capabilities of the inmates of our concentration camp and it's the worst thing since the holocaust" is a hell of a thing to say.

  • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    They're losing the audience here. An average American will not believe that anything is worse than a single 9/11 with the honorable exceptions of Pearl Harbor and Alamo.

    • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      this For Americans who still give a shit about 9/11 they don't like the idea of being one-uped in terms of the victim complex

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          They don't view it in the larger historical context of American settlers fucking over an existing nation so that they (the settlers) could own slaves, they only view it as "smol bean resistance fighters against big army"

          • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            I think they desperatly yearn for some really bloody loss to fuel their messianism, but alas they've been mostly winning all the time and even when they loss it's not really huge manpower losses.

            President Xi pretty please.

            • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I think they desperatly yearn for some really bloody loss to fuel their messianism

              Depending on how old you are, if you were old enough to remember 9/11, you wouldn't just think that

              You'd know it

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It’s a good old boy lost cause that racists can reminisce about publicly to dogwhistle their racism

    • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      To be fair to those people, 9/11 involved no military casualties while the Israelis are including soldiers deaths in their count.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No you don’t understand! Israel is 15, no 20 times more important per capita than you Americans - things Americans love to hear

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      The 20+ year brainrot to think that one of the only act of wars on US soil was was the worst act of war ever

  • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Okay, how many 9/11's have the Palestinians (or Gazans specifically) suffered in the last two weeks? Let's play this game Israel.

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Did the math:

      For Palestine (~5,200 deaths since Oct 7th), it's about 105 9/11s so far. On average that's about 6 9/11s daily.

      For the Gaza Strip (~5,100 deaths), it's about 230 9/11s so far. Or 14 new 9/11s every day

      • mar_k [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Btw I calculated the Israeli 1,400 death toll in proportionate 9/11s and got the same "fifteen 9/11s" figure as Biden. No fucking clue how Netanyahu got 20, maybe he included abducted and missing people in deaths?

      • iie [they/them, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        if we use the current population of Iraq, ~44 million, and we estimate that the invasion cased 1 million deaths, then that works out to around 23,000 proportionate 9/11s in Iraq

  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    turning a big dial taht says "9/11" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Come on we can get the projections on what we are doing to Palestine even higher!

    Israel will be a fucking laughing stock, half the world will boycott them and their citizens. The blowback for this shit will be far worst than what they ever thought the Palestinian resistance to their occupation ever was.

    An Israeli passport will be persona non grata. I wish the UN would just expel them.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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      1 year ago

      they always meant per-capita. 0.00001% of the population or whatever

      if you have 100 people in some group and one of them dies that's like 100 9/11s to that group.

      or something. i'm tired and high so maybe don't take those numbers literally.

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My grandma died, so i basically suffered 450,000 grandparent 9/11s

          • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I've declared that cancer, dementia, heart disease, and stroke are the new axis of evil!

            She actually died in a car crash but since our family owns a series of car dealerships I didn't want to get into all that.

        • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          By the way, checked the math, and even if that was your last grandparent, 100% of the population would be 94,882 9/11s.

          Liberals would still use that 450,000 number anyways though

      • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        The actual numbers are worse than you thought:

        2,996 deaths out of approx. 284,267,319 Americans = 0.00105%

        1 death out of 100 people = 1%

        This comes out to 948.8 9/11s

  • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It's incredibly funny that 9/11 has become the international SI unit of mass casualties. I want to encourage using the standard prefixes with it also. This attack was 3 deca9/11s.

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        We keep the original 9/11 under glass in an NYC vault. You can go and look at it if you want, but it's losing two or three people every decade so we're currently trying to figure out a way to express 9/11 in terms of the speed of light and the charge of an electron.

  • ComradeLove [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Imagine 800K Americans, 400K American children, dead in 10 days. That's what the bombing of Gaza is equivalent to.

    *oops, had an extra zero