Recently did some research on 9/11. As a non-American, I didn't understand how bad it truly was. Hundred thousands of people watching TV while the first building was on fire saw the second plane fly into the tower. At that point nobody knew what was going on for sure, but that confirmed it was definitely a terror attack. All that smoke, apparently it took days to clear up. And the dust from the collapse too, seen pictures of mfs covered in dust

That's like some real life Avengers 1 s***. Actually watched the live broadcast of Regis and Kelly on YouTube, someone who was trapped in the building called in and said they're fine, they just can't get out. The families of employees in the tower shouldn't be worried. He passed away that day, it's eery hearing someone's last moments on TV

shout out to Winco for keeping the tradition alive

All I know is listening to the greatest hip hop album of all time (the blueprint) on the same day the towers fell musta been insane

911 sweeps 4-0

your avy is giving me crazy seymour flashbacks, im playing final fantasy X rn

All major cities were on huge lockdown too in case of other attacks

San Francisco, LA, Miami, Chicago, DC and a few others

Major coastal towns/areas and then major places within that are either world tourist famous or have a lot of military/political things there

There was also a lot of false decoy and false threats too to add more to the confusion which iirc is one of the things that led to them almost hitting the pentagon getting so far with it

Reviewing social dysfunction so the worse the better

Time just flew by after the pandemic, I hate it

9/11 started a war so ima go with that one

worse

covid would be jynxzi era of seige

idk the adjacent to when seige first came out

i’m pretty much asking which new normal in america seems worse

personally post covid bc I was too young to even know what the world was like before 9/11.

post 9/11
the patriot act
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i feel the same even though ik if you research post 9/11 america you will see how things changed within the public consciousness of america, like it reignited nationalism is certain folks and made propaganda more potent again, in a way both catastrophes have intersected once covid hit which is a double whammy for those who stay aware

i hate how the patriot act feels like the biggest preparation for the age of information, which follows directly into todays activities

All of that is crazy, absolutely, and having lived through it, the aftershocks were extensive. Everyone has a 9/11 story. My aunt was on a flight to NYC the morning it happened that got delayed.

But you know what else is crazy that gets overlooked?

More than 1 million Americans dying of covid and millions of other Americans pretending it didn't happen because it flew in the face of their lifestyles and ideology.

That's f***ing wild.

Post-9/11 America was a tough place to be, I was 10 years old at the time and remember it well, but the fallout from 9/11 just made me look at my government differently. It actually brought a lot of citizens together at the time, binding them together with common anxieties. The response to covid made me look at everyone around me differently, and I was already pretty cynical. 2020 was as divided as we've been in a long time.

So yeah, I would say post-covid America is worse.

What on earth does that have to do w covid

Being able to actually go to the gate and see your family off is def a time we need to get back.

Op your comparisons are so off base. I don’t think sports and those events can be synonymous like that. But the discussion you’re trying to start is interesting though lol

Was only 1 when the towers fell. Games were only $60 before covid. My answer is obvious

Fax, adults too

At first I thought OP was using Kobe and Shaq as examples of military propaganda

Can't imagine the panic the whole country was facing. And the next day, how do you just go on like everything is normal after that