I know we’re talking about a time before a lot of young adults were born, but comparing the closure of a federated instance to what happened to a lot of people and families on 9/11 is actually pretty fucked up.

Edit: Alright. Apparently some atrocities are okay because other atrocities happen, too. Love you guys.

[–] muse@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago

What's the difference between 9/11 and a cow?

You stop milking the cow after a decade.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago

During the COVID pandemic we decided a 9/11 every day was fine, that has consequences.

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

I did not think I needed an /s but I guess I did

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Americans have no sense of perspective. I have friends who were affected by the tower collapse in NY. We sent more service members to die looking for Bin Laden than were killed that day. And more than 10 times a many people die from gun violence in the US every God damned year than died in all four plane strikes. And every one of those other tragedies destroys families and communities.

It’s so overblown it’s practically a meme to everyone but the boomers and Christian “patriots” who need a way to make people angry about foreigners so they can ignore our home grown violent tendencies.

[–] thoughtorgan@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, we were literally attacked by a group of organized terrorists. Trying to minimize or downplay that to be anything less scary than it is, is stupid.

I think you're lacking a little bit of perspective.

[–] Overzeetop@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

You know what’s funny - before I clicked through to see the context, I thought you were replying to a comment I made about the Houthis attacking it ships in the Middle East. We get attacked by terrorists all the time. Lots of people around the world hate Americans because, like most of the colonial powers, we’ve been reading assholes to lot of people. They also hate us because the rules of life that were made up in the name of our imaginary deity conflicts with the version of rules that they made up in the name of their imaginary deity. And we hate them back.

People are kidnapped and/or killed on a regular basis by “terrorists”. That’s a tragedy to everyone who hold them close. The lack of perspective is thinking that one particular tragedy is somehow larger because of the news coverage afforded.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml -2 points 9 months ago

There's also the fact the event reference happened in 'murica. People don't really take 'murica seriously.

[–] SattaRIP@kbin.social -4 points 9 months ago

9/11 has been so overblown. Literally, with the bombing of middle eastern people when the US government used it as an excuse to attack an uninvolved country... such that most people think of it as a joke now.

Also with what the other person said regarding COVID. I personally cannot take that event seriously anymore. In fact, I see anyone who complains about it having to be taken seriously as overprivelaged... Yes, really.