Current Events > Is 9/11 still a big deal to you?

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Damn_Underscore
09/06/21 2:04:56 PM
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SiO4
09/06/21 2:08:05 PM
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Well, it helped push us over the edge to being totally fucked up, so there is that.

Do I think the never forget kind of shit is stupid, yes.
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monkmith
09/06/21 2:08:20 PM
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it wasn't a big deal to me a month after it happened. i didn't know anyone who was directly effected by it after all. became a bigger deal after my friends and family got involved in the "war against terror ".

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FortuneCookie
09/06/21 2:10:35 PM
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monkmith posted...
it wasn't a big deal to me a month after it happened. i didn't know anyone who was directly effected by it after all. became a bigger deal after my friends and family got involved in the "war against terror ".

Ah, there it is. The terrorists aren't the bad guys for attacking America. America is the bad guy for going to war.
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Greekhand
09/06/21 2:11:18 PM
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FortuneCookie posted...
Ah, there it is. The terrorists aren't the bad guys for attacking America. America is the bad guy for going to war.
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Stewman_Magoo
09/06/21 2:17:41 PM
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Just a blip in history at this point. Who cares?

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Damn_Underscore
09/06/21 2:18:33 PM
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Stewman_Magoo posted...
Just a blip in history at this point. Who cares?

You and everything you know is a blip in history.

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Solid Snake07
09/06/21 2:26:13 PM
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Well, it's probably the most pivotal event of modern human history. So yeah, I guess so

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Joeydollaz
09/06/21 2:26:29 PM
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none of you are from nyc

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Solid Snake07
09/06/21 2:28:24 PM
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Stewman_Magoo posted...
Just a blip in history at this point. Who cares?


So was the holocaust.

What a dumb thing to say

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monkmith
09/06/21 2:29:20 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
So was the holocaust.

What a dumb thing to say
comparing 9/11 to the holocaust is an interesting argument...

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Cocytus
09/06/21 2:30:37 PM
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Yes.
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Criminalt
09/06/21 2:32:50 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
Well, it's probably the most pivotal event of modern human history.
It's definitely not that big a deal. Unless by "modern", you mean "the last 20 years".

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Trumble
09/06/21 2:33:17 PM
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It never really was. By the time I was old enough to understand the significance of it in any meaningful way, it was pretty old news (and of course, I live half way across the world from where it happened).

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Solid Snake07
09/06/21 2:36:17 PM
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monkmith posted...
comparing 9/11 to the holocaust is an interesting argument...


I'm not comparing anything. I'm saying you could literally say any human tragedy was a "blip in history". I'm using one of the more extreme example I could think of to illustrate what a dumb line of thinking that is

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monkmith
09/06/21 2:38:05 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
Well, it's probably the most pivotal event of modern human history. So yeah, I guess so
well in a way you are right, it got a bunch of middle eastern people killed for fairly shit reasons.

tbqh though i'd imagine most people in first world countries were far more effected by the 2007/08 economic crash. and of course right now we're going through covid. and hell, if you're willing to stretch it over decades then climate change is the most significant human caused event to fuck us over.

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Solid Snake07
09/06/21 2:39:01 PM
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Criminalt posted...
It's definitely not that big a deal. Unless by "modern", you mean "the last 20 years".


It's definitly one of them. Not just because of 9/11, but everything that came afterwards.

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Zikten
09/06/21 2:43:08 PM
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You mean the historical day 20 years ago? Yea. I'll always remember it as a big deal day

Do I treat every September 11th as some huge anniversary? No
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Criminalt
09/06/21 2:45:05 PM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
It's definitly one of them. Not just because of 9/11, but everything that came afterwards.
The "War on Terror" didn't polarize the planet between two deadlocked superpowers who fought proxy wars on every continent that killed millions, tearing dozens of countries apart and turning others into vast prison camps, and twice brought the human race to the brink of nuclear extinction. The Cold War did. By comparison, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were small change.

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Solid Snake07
09/06/21 4:39:25 PM
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Criminalt posted...
The "War on Terror" didn't polarize the planet between two deadlocked superpowers who fought proxy wars on every continent that killed millions, tearing dozens of countries apart and turning others into vast prison camps, and twice brought the human race to the brink of nuclear extinction. The Cold War did. By comparison, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were small change.


My meaning by modern history was post cold war era

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crowkillers
09/06/21 4:47:50 PM
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Being old enough to vividly remember watching that second plane crash into the 2nd building was the most surreal thing that I had ever watched.

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Hayame Zero
09/06/21 4:48:43 PM
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It's actually gotten harder to see the footage as I've gotten older as opposed to when I was watching it live

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RexBanner
09/06/21 4:49:10 PM
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It was a big deal but all white Americans got out of it is hating brown people. Shit was horrific to watch live but covid is killing just as many people on a weekly basis.
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Damn_Underscore
09/06/21 7:06:45 PM
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bump

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The Popo
09/06/21 7:10:38 PM
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I dont really know how to answer the question.

Is it a big deal to me at this very moment in 2021? Not particularly.

At the same time, its the single most captivating day of my life. I had to pry myself away from the TV at like 2am when Id realized that nothing new had been reported in a few hours. Watching replays of the planes hitting the towers will stop me in my tracks, and I occasionally find myself every few years watching the news footage of it again.

So it both is and is not a big deal to me, depending on the specific question being asked.

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Criminalt
09/07/21 3:54:34 AM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
My meaning by modern history was post cold war era
Ah, well, fair enough.

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GMAK2442
09/07/21 4:06:30 AM
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I think such craziness can happens again and we should not forget to fight against such things in our Towns.

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Arcanine2009
09/07/21 4:08:27 AM
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Lots of people died in a horrific way that way that day in the plane and the towers. As well as from the rescue efforts. I can't pretend it didn't affect me or others

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