…and not once has 7/7 even been mentioned.
Well, indeed. The week after, there was a scare here in Birmingham when they closed off the entire city centre. I had just come out of a screening of War of The Worlds so it was a pretty surreal experience.
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… Then what are you saying? Because from your bias standpoint I’d say you’re soiling the name of those who died in that attack.
First of all; do you know anything about patriotism? At all?
Second of all; The reason that 9/11 is such a big fucking deal is because it’s the worst terror attack to date ANYWHERE in the whole wide world. Before that the worst attack on US SOIL was the Oklahoma City Bombing. (I will advert detail)
Third of all; I lost some very good family friends in the collapse of the Pentagon. Screw off soiling their name with bias BS.
You seem to think all Americans are the same dumbass temperamental fat moron. I’m here to say they aren’t. Most of the US Work force is extremely intelligent and if it wasn’t for this country, we as a species wouldn’t be as advanced as we are now.
I will say that the government of this country is run by morons, but that’s another topic all together.
Most of them are recognized and as Omega said some of the funds are spent to relief efforts in those countries.
Why 9/11 is such a big deal is that I haven’t seen any other terror attack that has had such a big impact on political and international policy world wide than 9/11. That’s why it’s a big deal and why it’s as bad as not just Americans say.
Who has tainted your perception of the new ones? Certainly not your own kids…?
Isn’t that the very ironic act of loving a country that was founded by the very thing it opposes today?
I would like to point you towards iconic figures in history such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, King Leopold II (for us Belgians at least), and many many more. Should I point you in the direction of the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Oh wait, those weren’t “terrorist” attacks, right?
“The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes”, that’s what the dictionary says about terrorism. How was this any different to the genocides (millions of people) of the past, how was this any different to the killing of 90,000 Japanese civilians (as well as American POW’s, btw)?
My heart bleeds. My grandfather’s brother died in WW2, yet here people are, making games about WW2, grrr! Rage!
Yet here you are, providing proof that the stereotype is correct. Especially that last part shows why pretty much the entire world either hates or shuns the American people.
You finally have an intelligent president after 8 years. By the sound of it, you don’t support his presidency, but ah well.
That’s where you are wrong (what am I saying? Your entire post is wrong). It’s only a big deal to the Americans. You took casualties in a war your former presidents have started on the other side of the planet, while foolishly thinking you’re safe on your big ass country of awesome. Yes, a lot of people remember that day, but mainly because they were in awe when seeing two of the biggest buildings in the world drop like a wet card house. It may have not been the worst terrorist attack in history of mankind, but it most certainly was the most spectacular.
well guys let’s mock some americans on an internet forum for being overly attached to a particular historical event when you’ve created threads before proving you’re unable to reasonably form socially adequate emotional responses to what’s happening around
The great thing about apathy, is that it allows for reason.
Were so used to deaths these days, its a wonder no one has any emotion for not known beings, whilst i agree its awful, no one i know was in the buildings, apart from my dad on holiday a week before it happened, but i never dwell on, “what if he was there that week?” he wasnt soo.
I agree with what Fancy Pants has said in her posts here.
It doesn’t take a genius to realise she’s referring to the posts in this thread.
Bolteh is right. It affected the world so much because you americans were all like: “OMFG WEE OLL GONNA DEI!11 DON’T KILL US WERE AWSOM. WE GO BOMB IRAQ”
We are currently in a war with the PKK terorist organization. We have lost count of the civilian casualties. Everyday they find bombs in the big cities. But now we have trained bomb disposal units. They can’t explode shit for 3 years.
My point is America had just one single attack and it is making big deal out of it. If other countries cried after every terorist attack. Nearly everyone in the world would be crying everyday except USA. We feel your pain that’s normal that you feel sad but don’t act like you lost your nearly entire nation (jews). or got atomic bombed (japan).
Also America is the biggest terorist in the world because of the Atomic bomb attacks. But no one can say anything about it because he’s the boss.
I am sorry to hear about that Omega. I really am. Hopefully you are able to ignore the insensitive baboons that are unable to empathize with you.
Nope. My kids are not afraid to feel sensitive to those that have experienced a tragedy.
It makes them feel superior.
Regardless of the posturing going on in this thread, I am not afraid to say that this attack really affected me. Yes there were other tragedies, but this one still hurts.
I challenge anyone here to read John Pilger’s Heroes and then come back and say that 9/11 was the worst tragedy in the past fifty years, or that the US itself has never been responsible for tragedies a thousand times worse.
And whoever posted that crap about the US spending billions of dollars on aid every year obviously doesn’t realize that in most of the cases it’s just a political ploy used to exercise power over so-called third world countries.
I do sympathize with people that lost loved ones on that day though, and I realize it was a big shock to Americans. I remember being at home watching television when they broadcast the planes crashing into the towers. My dad said something along the lines of “This is history in the making.”
I remember the news folks saying that young children watching the footage may not realize that it is simply a replay, but that they may interpret as it happening over and over and over.
This thread brought back so much. I remember to this day exactly where I was and what I was doing. The reason we remember it so vividly is that it’s analogous to the trauma of people finding out about the assassination of JFK- a national event that touches the lives of everyone living in it. Say what you will about the fallout from the event on international politics but this thread is about where we were and remembering what happened.
I for one am depressed that this thread, much like the conflicts started as a result of this heinous act of terrorism, have been unconscionably politicized by ignorant peons too sucked in by their own sense of righteousness. Every extraneous pollitical comment in this thread is an insult to those who died on 9/11.
As for where I was, my mom woke me up to watch the news. The second tower came down when I was eating waffles. I saw the towers fall when I got to school later in the day. Suddenly my world felt less safe. I guess that’s when I actually started paying attention to the world and what was going on. Being as I was in sixth grade at the time of the attacks though, it was a lot to take in at once. I had trouble sleeping that night.
@ CatzEyes- you are not alone in your sadness at this thread being taken over by politics and ignorance. It’s insensitive and cruel to do so in a thread like this. Those discussions are for another thread. So let’s just leave the politics out here, okay?
thnx for the support k3nny1550. My children were aged 14 and 4 and “sparkle in my eye”. The 4 year old is now 13, and he specifically dvr’d a 9/11 special. He watched it, but he didn’t talk much about it. He was just quiet. Which actually surprized me a lot that he not only recorded it but went out of his way to watch it, cuz normally he is the kind of person that avoids ‘death’ topics.
It’s funny when you realize that 9/11 was caused by extraneous political comments by the US.
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Once again, Bolteh is going for that prestigious Troll Of The Year award. Good luck!
But anyway, Fancy, and whoever else claims that the US and all it’s inhabitants are dicks for mourning 9/11 more than other attacks/disasters around the world…we care about your shitty countries and all their problems just about as much as you care about ours. I find it ironic, Fancy, that you accused the US of being inconsiderate of the tragedies in other nations than went on to say you basically don’t give a rat’s ass about what happened on 9/11. You are being a hypocrite.
Yes, we care more about what happened here more than an earthquake in some random European city. It’s tragic that people died in whatever tragedy you bring up, but the fact of the matter is I will never care as much about what happens in your nation as I care about what happens in mine. Because no matter how many people die in some other nation, sure it will be a tragic loss of life, but my daily routine remains unchanged and I barely give it a thought because, quite frankly, it doesn’t affect my life. 9/11 resulted in the loss of thousands of fellow Americans, hell most of which were fellow New Yorkers. So yeah, we care more about what happens on our soil, and we barely give two shits about what happens to you. Just being brutally honest here.
If you’re upset that we made a thread about 9/11 but no other tragedy received such recognition, I suggest you make use of your ability to type and make a thread about your respective disaster. It’s an open forum. The person who made this thread cared enough about what happened to want to discuss it. It wasn’t a call to everyone who doesn’t care. So how about you leave this thread alone and make a thread devoted to some other shitty worthless disaster so I can do my part and ignore it.
And that whole “The US doesn’t give a shit about anyone else” is bullshit. Our news stations were absolutely devoted to Haiti for a month after it occurred. There was nothing to gain by centering on it, we just happened to care about the amount of suffering going on there. People I know actually went down to help, so do some research before making a conclusion.
Just out of curiosity, how long did they focus on 9/11 for? A month or two?