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.
What do you call 2000 dead businessmen? A good start.
So you want all businessmen, firemen, EMTs/Paramedics, secretaries, receptionists, janitors to be executed because of their complicit support of capitalism and NATO imperialism?
No, Just the bourgeoisie.
Not sure where you got the idea that we’d wish harm to our fellow proletariat simply for providing indiscriminate aid in a crisis.
What do you call 2000 dead businessmen? A good start.
I just find this very reductive. Just because someone was working in the WTC doesn’t make them the bourgeoisie. Maybe I don’t understand class distinction well (actually I know I don’t), but I find takes like these wild and dehumanizing.
There is a slight difference in quality between a working class person who took a job to help people, or do what they can to survive. Compared to a rich person who works in the world trade center doing marketing to make sure children get as much extra sugar in their diets as possible. Or someone who’s job it is to make sure bread costs slightly more so everyonecan suffer and a rich man can get a better yacht. Or any of countless other godawful things that makes the world worse. In an objective moral sense stopping them makes the world better. Each of those people will cause more harm any misery than they could ever justify. Maybe not in as dramatic a way as blowing up a building, but making billions of peoples lives worse and harder for decades will add up to far more harm done than than 9/11 caused. It does hurt to think about because in the west we have been denied any systematic moral or ethical education. A grumble in our tumbles when we think about huge things isn’t a sign of ethical understanding however.
Now, add to the fact that all those 2k who died had a genocide done in their memory and the situation become starkly clear.
The worst thing about 9/11 is people want to make it into some kind of conspiracy or terrorist attack. The universe can’t just be a chaotic place where things randomly and arbitrarily happen. Planes can’t crash and it be a totally normal mechanical/atmospheric thing, even though these same people acknowledge that happens multiple times per year. It has to be some Scooby Doo mystery where 19 people “hijacked” planes or the bad guy of the week did it to be evil.
It wasn’t random or arbitrary, it was a direct consequence of amerikkka’s foreign policy
(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:
(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.
-Osama bin Laden
Anybody could say that. I could say it right now. Does that mean I did 9/11? He just made up his involvement for clout, to get more clicks, people do stuff like that all the time.
I get how it might be psychologically comforting to find some bad actor you can point fingers at, but sometimes accidents happen. You can’t just blame Al Qaida or some other boogeyman every time you stub your toe.
When people pin the accidents on Osama bin Laden, that’s just sad to me. Boeing is to blame for whatever fault caused the accidents. Maybe the FAA.
3,000 innocents vs 5,000 American soldiers KIA vs 500k–2mil dead Afghanis and Iraqis…
I stand with Flava Flav–911 is still a joke
