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To be fair this is much more than just a church, it is a national icon and cultural heritage. Imagine the ungodly things americans would reply in a tweet saying this about the burning statue of liberty
Terrible things can be beautiful in their own way. It doesn't necessarily mean it's something they are glad happened (though that "pleasing" admittedly doesn't look great). Have you never found the visual of something horrible captivating? Where you just can't look away?
Why go with a fictional event when 9/11 is right there? Of which I'm sure much more insensitive things the have been said about as well.
I certainly understand the sentiment, but I am also sensible enough to not proclaim that to the whole world in such an emotional situation. Naturally affected people are gonna be pissed and will interpret the statement in the worst possible way.
For the fictional event, I actually hadn't considered that because it would mean a center of commerce is the american equivalent of a national icon.
The "thousands of lives lost" part tends to hike up the level of tragedy over the "center of commerce" aspect for most people...
Don't worry Merica got even for it...
At least we all know that Saudi Arabia was thoroughly punished for it!
All the dead Iraqis and Afghans, we are even now 🤡
Lost Our hegemony over it too!
Bin Laden tatally didn't get what he wanted out of it