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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by GottiGoFast@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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.

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[-] blottica@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

stonks-down is no joke.

[-] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

I died on 9/11

[-] ComradeCmdrPiggy@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago
[-] newmou@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Oh I’m thinking about it

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can we? Sure. Were definitely able to do it.

spoilerbiden-fall national-mourning-period

[-] NotErisma@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Sir, a second plane has hit-

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Perhaps I haven’t steeped in the irony here long enough, maybe no one here is serious and I’m missing the point. If the joke is civilian deaths, that’s fucked up. Otherwise if it’s about the subsequent hysteria and propaganda, then that makes sense. Just having trouble parsing some of the comments.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago
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[-] finickydesert@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Everyone should make arasaka tower bombing jokes instead

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thinking about it with this thread, I think this song ironically did the most to make me think about 9/11 as a concept. As a child, I saw the smoke for a week waiting for the bus. I knew folks who had to walk 10 miles home because the bridges were closed. My younger siblings were with a babysitter in Queens and my parent's were thoroughly freaked out.

Yet I grew up with a war on TV that was obviously lopsided. How can you see the permanent image of a super-soldier with crumbling ruins behind him and not thing "hey this war doesn't seem to be doing much".

The yearly song and dance with 1000s of little flags to remember always struck me as absurd and Jeff Rosenstock put it to some great words.

"We can’t forget 3,000 lives

We got the flag to prove it

We got the sticker and the bracelet

We got a list of specials and we set the DVR so we won’t miss it

We waste no time

I got the fever for a feature

A new target for a campaign speech

And a couple cents off at the pump tonight

You want the action hit of the summer

Where Nick Cage really learns something

Or the made-for-TV suspense-thriller

Where the pimp from Taxi Driver is attacking Clinton’s credibility?

Or how about some amateur footage of southern Virginians crying to the camera

And shopping at Rite-Aid, buying flags to translate what they gotta prove on this year’s anniversary

We’re mourning the loss, oh what can you do

But make the evening news logo red white and blue?

I got the fever for a feature

A new target for a campaign speech

And another moot point on the floor tonight

I got the fever for a feature

A holiday for a high school teacher

And a couple cents off at the pump tonight"

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

But.. anotha kkkraker down…?

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[-] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

You know I did forget about the Alamo

[-] Treefox@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Dark humor to cope is funneee

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Dick Cheney worked really hard on it, why can’t y’all respect his effort :(((

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