EPT"I don't care about 9/11, oh, but I care enough to make a thread declaring that I don't care. That is all."
I don't care that much about 9/11 - Page 2
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Charger
United States2405 Posts
"I don't care about 9/11, oh, but I care enough to make a thread declaring that I don't care. That is all." | ||
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aebriol
Norway2066 Posts
On September 11 2011 23:55 Kukaracha wrote: I heard once George Bush say that we were all Americans, in regards to the tragedy that occurred that day. I can understand Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner", but this message left me speechless. ... so. You are left speechless because an american president used big words to describe an extremely important moment in american history ... so speechless you had to make a thread about it. I think you are the weird one. | ||
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DorF
Sweden961 Posts
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Cel.erity
United States4890 Posts
On September 12 2011 00:03 Kukaracha wrote: It's a necessary controversy, IMO. There are nearly 7 billion people in the world and it's important to look at the big picture. My point though is not that I don't care, it's that as a person who doesn't care that much for the tragedy, the interest resides in the symbolic side of the event. I don't really see how to change to title to fit better though. If you have any suggestions and/or feel the title is too provocative, feel free to express yourself, I don't mind changing it. For Americans, I think the most important thing about the anniversary is the reminder that we are not invincible. Prior to 9/11, nobody would ever think of such a thing occurring in America, and well...it hasn't been repeated since, but that doesn't mean it can't be. Speaking as someone who wasn't personally affected by the tragedy, I choose to use this day as a reminder to live my life to the fullest, because you never know what may happen tomorrow. | ||
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Kukaracha
France1954 Posts
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ziggurat
Canada847 Posts
On September 11 2011 23:55 Kukaracha wrote: I heard once George Bush say that we were all Americans, in regards to the tragedy that occurred that day. I can understand Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner", but this message left me speechless. It wasn't George Bush who said this, it was a headline in Le Monde. | ||
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Derez
Netherlands6068 Posts
Are there more terrible events, yea sure. But people can't relate to africans in the same way that they can to the people dying in terrorist attacks in the west, neither can people relate in the same way to soldiers as they do to their equals. However harsh this might sound: Nobody is shocked when africans die of hunger or slaughter eachother over the meagre available resources, it has become a sad fact of life that they do. Nobody is surprised when soldiers die, that's what they signed up for after all. However, the realization that any one of us are a target of terrorists simply by virtue of taking the bus to school, the subway to work or because you're a cleaning lady in a skyscraper, that is a big deal. For the same reason the terrorist attack in Norway was such a big deal. The kids that got shot there could have been your neighbours, your own or your average classmate. Oh and you could have made a way better post without the raging on 'interventionism'. I think pretty much every agrees by now that unilateral (US) interventionism over the last decade has been a disaster, but that's no reason to write off the system as a whole. The question why 9/11 is considered so important is interesting, but the explanation you're giving for it makes absolutely no sense. | ||
micronesia
United States24775 Posts
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
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Eps
Canada240 Posts
I don't understand the objective of people like this. | ||
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gereth86
United States26 Posts
On September 11 2011 23:55 Kukaracha wrote: 9/11 is comparable, to me, to Katrina, Fukushima, Pakistan's earthquake... a tragedy but nothing of international and absolute concern. The difference is everything you put in your list is a natural disaster, and 9/11 is something that humans did to other humans. For you to put a terrorist act on the same level as an earthquake blows my mind. I'm sorry that you are so desensitized to not feel sorry about a terrorist act that killed thousands (regardless of where it happened). | ||
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UndercoverNerd
88 Posts
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qosu.tQ
United States32 Posts
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cscarfo1
United States307 Posts
On September 11 2011 23:57 Torte de Lini wrote: If you don't care, keep it to yourself. No one wants to hear why someone doesn't care because it shouldn't be something you care enough to talk about. Agree with you 100% man. Trolls need to get out today. Not a good day to say stupid stuff like that. Please keep it t yourself | ||
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Orpheos
United States1663 Posts
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3Form
United Kingdom389 Posts
But ofc everyone should care when it happens to America. Weren't there a lot of Americans involved in funding the IRA? | ||
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ArnaudF
France993 Posts
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MandoRelease
France374 Posts
It's fine to not care about 9/11, why should it be closed or the OP banned ? I don't get this. Looks like the only opinion you should be able to express on 9/11 is sympathy, RIP and so forth. Why should it be like that ? The OP was in no way disrespectful to anyone, if you disagree with the OP that's fine, but let the OP express disagreement with you as well. No need to be angry because someone stated that they're not interested in the same things as you are. | ||
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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