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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 157 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

The ultimate cause was US “national interests,” which have only ever been the interests of the the oligarchs who run the country. They have always run the country. “National security” does not secure anyone’s safety; it secures the profits of imperialists. The Department of Homeland Security isn’t protecting us, it is cranking up the police state to protect the capitalist class from the working class revolting against grinding neoliberalism.

[–] Darohan@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 year ago

The boomerangs subtly implying the real truth of the matter - that the Australians were behind it all along! No wonder "the Bush" was involved!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, that pic goes fucking HARD! 😘👌✊

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most based @lemmy.world user

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tbf, I had no idea it was going to be Neoliberalism Central when I made the account 😄

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Hop on over to a better instance, comrade!

[–] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I can’t like this post or the pic enough. Hard af. I’ve been shouting this from the rooftops since 2001.

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 149 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never forget this terrible 9/11 with 3000 victims..... in Chile 1973 U.S.-backed coup against leftist President Salvador Allende, democratic elected, to create an bloody dictatorship with the US friendly Pinochet. Never forget.

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real hero's are the terrorists we made along the way?

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heroes. It has a plural form.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

I'm aware. It's part of the ridiculousness just like the OP.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm more offended by the shit spelling of "heroes".

And I was nearby NYC on that day and watched the second tower fall (largely as a shape in the smoke and particulate cloud).

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Online discourse in a nutshell.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago

I think he meant Bush for saying that Christmas shopping was a patriotic duty

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the real heroes that day; the first responders who are still dealing with the consequences of helping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_arising_from_the_September_11_attacks

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

They're heroes until they ask for help on their medical bills. After that they're just freeloading degenerates.

[–] horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Killing innocent people === HERO

Because the best way to stop US imperialism is to drag them into and/or start a war that only prospered US imperialism.

I am not even anti US imperialism but this is retard logic

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the best way to stop US imperialism is to drag them into and/or start a war

Citations Needed podcast: Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire “Stumbling”, “sliding”, “drawn into” war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in “good faith” is taken for granted for most of the American press while war is always portrayed as something that happens to the US, not something it seeks out.

I am not even anti US imperialism

Well see, there’s your problem.

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