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Screaming Idiot posted:If you were literally in New York when it happened, sure, freak out about it, it's a big event. But if you're in Bumfuck, Kentucky or Goatballs, Arkansas then there is no reason not to get on with your day after the shock wears off. Every day something horrible happens around the world, sometimes stuff worse than 9/11, but for some reason most Americans don't give a crap about any of it. People didn't know it was over or what else was planned. The years after sure, but day of, come on man. First foreign attack on American soil since Attu during WWII is worthy of more than a shrug.
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Stuff that happens outside America is almost by definition not worse than 9/11
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Aug 22, 2017 13:25
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JesustheDarkLord posted:Stuff that happens outside America is almost by definition not worse than 9/11 What the gently caress is this
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Aug 22, 2017 13:30
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A joke. They're everywhere these days.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:36
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Beeswax posted:A joke. They're everywhere these days. Ugh, I keep seeing these things popping up on here lately. Mods are really loving up their jobs.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:37
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ugh, I keep seeing these things popping up on here lately. Mods are really loving up their jobs.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:38
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EmmyOk posted:I think we can all just agree comics are terrible  Except for all the good comics that I also happen to like.
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Aug 22, 2017 13:40
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Listen here bud, america deserved 9/11
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Aug 22, 2017 13:41
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oldpainless posted:Listen here bud, america deserved 9/11 *insert hilarious "oldpainless" joke here
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Aug 22, 2017 13:43
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Anyone remember that Kids In The Hall sketch about the lonely sarcastic guy. Everything he says sounds sarcastic and he can't stop, naturally he gets really lonely and depressed at driving everyone away. It predicted the internet.
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wyntyr posted:What the gently caress is this An accurate statement from an american perspective. It's the same basically anywhere: people don't give a poo poo about stuff that doesn't affect them directly. The DPRK could reduce South Korea to a glowing hole in the earth and upon seeing the headline "Everyone in South Korea is loving Dead" most people in America, Canada, Australia, or anywhere in Europe would think "oh no that's terrible" but would only read enough of the article to find out that their country, specifically, was not planning to go to war over it before their eyes glazed over and rolled off of the page and onto pornography or something.
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Don't forget, where America is concerned, the trip to the comment section to see what the ratio of people demanding we intervene, demanding we not intervene, bitching us out for not having done something (what, exactly? Anything!) sooner, and bitching us out for no doubt being at fault for it happening is. 
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EmmyOk posted:I think we can all just agree comics are terrible Comics are just like watching other people play with your favorite toy in weirder and weirder scenarios. It's so stupid that you guys 1) like them and 2) are completely okay with a Joker getting raped by a whale comic but no its not part of the real universe it's a different one. Like 75% of the industry is covered by the "thankfully, it was just a dream" clause. Also they're a gateway drug to anime.
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American History class, 2087 "Test marks were pretty good, everybody, nice job. Though everyone got question #9 wrong. We went over it several times so that was a little... *sigh* ...surprising. I know it's confusing that most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi Arabian but we did not go to war with them, no. Some of you said Russia but that was a couple decades later. A worrisome number of you said France? Was that just a pure guess? I have no idea where that came from. There were even a few "Canada" answers. I know Canada doesn't exist anymore but that wasn't because of us."
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the something awful forums: I don't have empathy so I don't understand why people feel sad when others die
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Nanomashoes posted:the something awful forums: I don't have empathy so I don't understand why people feel sad when others die Everyone dies
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Nanomashoes posted:the something awful forums: I don't have empathy so I don't understand why people feel sad when others die If America doesn't care when people around the world are murdered or tortured or oppressed, why should we care any more when it happens here? It seems hypocritical to gnash our teeth and wail when something happens here when the exact same thing happens everywhere else -- and sometimes it's our people doing it. I'm not saying we shouldn't feel empathy. I'm saying we should feel every bit as shocked and horrified when tragedy strikes regardless of the location.
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Aug 22, 2017 14:48
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We Know Catheters posted:Everyone dies Everything that lives dies.
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Screaming Idiot posted:I'm not saying we shouldn't feel empathy. I'm saying we should feel every bit as shocked and horrified when tragedy strikes regardless of the location. There's a difference between being outraged and feeling horrified, though. More people should be outraged at what's going on around the world every day, but they're never going to feel the way they feel about stuff that happens closer to home. And to some extent probably can't. It'd be paralyzing.
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Oh good, is this the thread where we tell people how enlightened we are because we've transcended the arbitrary bounds of nationalism? Would have found this thread sooner but the title was off. *in a very freshman_poli_sci_major voice* how can you act like you care when people in your country die when people in other countries are also dying? Hypocritical eurocentric pig 
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9/11 was on TV all day and I exclusively care about stuff I see on television.
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Oh good, is this the thread where we tell people how enlightened we are because we've transcended the arbitrary bounds of nationalism? Would have found this thread sooner but the title was off. did i hurt your fee fees by saying people should care about tragedies beyond their border and if i did are you american because it is the only way i can bring myself to care
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Hey you keep your loving tragedies to yourself man I got enough on my plate
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Are there any funny quotes about 9/11 or some other tragedy to get us back on track?
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Watch Bush start a loving war
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SpacePig posted:Are there any funny quotes about 9/11 or some other tragedy to get us back on track? Tribute.wmv
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PYF lovely forums arguments. Can't find any? Make new ones.
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Screaming Idiot posted:did i hurt your fee fees by saying people should care about tragedies beyond their border I am a white hot ball of activist rage that shines on all parts of the world equally at all times, unlike the slacker sun. I am also the guy who writes all those articles with headlines that start with "why isn't anyone talking about [thing that plenty of people are talking about]" Sent from my iPhone Dross has a new favorite as of 16:00 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Dross posted:I am a white hot ball of activist rage that shines on all parts of the world equally at all times, unlike the slacker sun. Apart from the word "activist" I thought you were Trump for a minute there
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EmmyOk posted:This is such a stupid conversation even for the funny quotes thread Let me see if I can help: SpacePig posted:e: That article, and every one linked from it, says it's a felony possession of a lead pipe. Is that a thing? Is it illegal to have a lead pipe in some states? Karate Bastard posted:ah, the classic "ceci n'est pas une pipe" defense.
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Screaming Idiot posted:did i hurt your fee fees by saying people should care about tragedies beyond their border people don't, and won't ever care all that much about what happens to people far away that they haven't met and know little about people currently spend most of their days looking at a screen that can and does provide them with up to the minute information about the horrible things happening to people that are far away, often in video form, and they still don't care the only reason they care about things that happen in their country is because they're worried it might affect them or people they actually know and have met, if you erected a giant everything-proof shield around Ohio that made them perfectly safe forever I'm certain that you could have nazis lining people up against the outside of the shield and shooting them and the most emotional response you'd get out of the people in Ohio would be "oh dear, someone ought to put a stop to that"
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I feel like DC's cannon should not be located in Area 51, but in Area 52. 
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Screaming Idiot posted:If you were literally in New York when it happened, sure, freak out about it, it's a big event. But if you're in Bumfuck, Kentucky or Goatballs, Arkansas then there is no reason not to get on with your day after the shock wears off. Every day something horrible happens around the world, sometimes stuff worse than 9/11, but for some reason most Americans don't give a crap about any of it. I feel like you may be downplaying what has so far been the biggest most world changing event of the 21st century on a global scale to try to make a really dumb point. It's not like the towers fell and everyone went "gently caress!! Well that sucked" and then nothing happened there's been uh 16 years of fallout worldwide from that one event that isn't showing any signs of stopping you weird moron "Who cares that someone murdered the arch-Duke? People get murdered all the time I don't see why this is more important. What is the significance or Pearl Harbor? I have no grasp of history or cause and effect"
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Aesop Poprock posted:I feel like you may be downplaying what has so far been the biggest most world changing event of the 21st century on a global scale to try to make a really dumb point. It's not like the towers fell and everyone went "gently caress!! Well that sucked" and then nothing happened there's been uh 16 years of fallout worldwide from that one event that isn't showing any signs of stopping you weird moron The Great War was cooking a lot earlier than Franz Ferdinand. You're right in that they're symbolic events. Like the Maine. Remember the Maine? Remember the Alamo? Just symbolic events that let the pressure off so we could kill each other in a civilized fashion, with a pretext.
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syscall girl posted:Remember the Alamo? the what?
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syscall girl posted:The Great War was cooking a lot earlier than Franz Ferdinand. I never said it was the main cause but it was literally the trigger for WW1, just like 9/11 was the trigger for everything that's been happening around the world since then. It was obviously building for decades but it doesn't make it some insignificant act everyone should have brushed off and ignored
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Aesop Poprock posted:I never said it was the main cause but it was literally the trigger for WW1, just like 9/11 was the trigger for everything that's been happening around the world since then. It was obviously building for decades but it doesn't make it some insignificant act everyone should have brushed off and ignored Yeah, sorry my reading comprehension was compromised. e: the world would be a better place if we brushed off and ignored those events though Especially 9/11 because the whole motive of terrorism is asymmetrical warfare, scaring you into doing something loving stupid to keep the forever war going syscall girl has a new favorite as of 18:19 on Aug 22, 2017 |
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Screaming Idiot is, well, an idiot but there is a germ of a point in there. I lived in the Tri-State during 9/11 and had classmates who lost their parents at the WTC. I could smell the bodies on the wind for a week. Another friend did a Nick News roundtable because he lived near the WTC at the time. It was a "Big Deal." Even then no one was afraid of some imminent second strike or anything like that--we had this collective sense it was a fluke tragedy that was going to have massive fallout. When Bush and all the media immediately started pushing the "Hey don't kill brown people you think might be Muslims you backwater dumbasses" PSAs we were relieved because it indicated a sense of sanity. So seeing people out in the heartland acting like there were there, or literally crying 16 years later despite knowing no one from the East Coast let alone NYC.... yeah that's insane and those people need to take a big heaping cup of "Get the gently caress over it" with a chaser of "basic human history." loving panicky Baby Boomer Red Dawn-obsessed clownshits.
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