An oldie but a goodie. Makes me laugh every time I see this article.
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Timeless, it just gets more and more relevant.
That picture tho is iconic. I know the article just by that picture. I should get it framed.
That dude is totally just chillin, he might crack a beer any moment!
This is the funniest headline I have seen from The Onion since I found out about them. Well done!
It’s a classic but it was also one of my favorites
9/11 definitely sped things up, but it was more that profits come before everything else, and it's profitable to sew division.
I'd argue that 9/11 was successful in destabilizing the US and the precipitating event in the rise of US fascism. Capitalist greed was the accelerant
We were already well on our way to a fascist capitalistic hellhole after Nixon and Regan. 9/11 just allowed the mask to come off of parts of the fascism and solidified the cycle of economic downturn every few years.
Everyone forgets the rise of domestic right wing terrorists through the 90s. If 9/11 did anything it was to delay it by a decade.
All their crazies got shipped off to Afghanistan and Iraq to commit war crimes there. America wasn't actively engaged in war since withdrawing from Iraq in 2011. Afghanistan was scaled back. It's no coincidence domestic issues came to the forefront over the ensuing decade.
Perhaps even the wars in the middle east trained a generation of extremists to be more violent.
We never solved the Civil War, which was caused because it was founded by rich, racist assholes.
We were fucked from the jump. Especially because we inherited Roman judicial process.
Personally, I think it is the other way around. The Heritage Foundation existed long before 9/11. They just needed a way to offer centrists plausible deniability for handing over the reins of power.
let america cook
Yeah… last time we left a country to suffer thru its nazi leadership we got a full blown hitler. Maybe we shouldn’t let them burn.
Does the writing make any sense?
It's not connected and going LTR instead of RTL, but it seems to say: "We are waiting now to allow the west to destroy itself under the burden of it's extreme special gluttony (greed)"
Original, but connected & RTL: "ننتظر الآن والسماح الغرب بتدمير نفسها تحت وطأة الشراهة الخاصة" Better phrasing & grammar: "**ننتظر الآن للسماح للغرب بتدمير نفسه تحت وطأة الشراهة المفرطة"
According to Google Lens:
. ة ص اخ ل ا ة ه ارش لا ة أطو تحت اه سفن ري مدت ل برغ ل ا ح ام سل او ن آلا رتنن
The ship is located in the south of the country. It is located in the south of the country. It is located in the south of the country.
Yes, but where is the ship?
The Cold Dead Corpse of Stalin: Pull up chair friends!
(yes I am aware the Soviets were not that keen on the Afghans).
Well, to be honest, they would be foolish to do anything else. As Sun Tzu wrote, "Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake."
The US are still completely unassailable militarily and economically. But a few spicy memes did the trick.
still regurgitating the same tired old nationalist propaganda. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq: are these evidences of "unassailable" military might? just looking at one indicator, how is the dollar doing these days, comparatively speaking?
Unassailable as in "nobody can realistically attack them on their own territory".
9/11 was what then? A friendly hello?
A friendly hello from Mossad maybe.
Fair enough. At least, nobody seems willing to try.
Geography alone makes an invasion of the US mainland practically impossible. No army in the world has the means to even try. I mean the Canadians and Mexicans could, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Incorrect. The U.S. Army has the means to try.
That would be tough because many or most people living close to the borders tend to see the people on the immediate other side of the border as friends, relations, allies.
America has lost most of the wars it was involved in since world war 2. Operation Desert Storm is the only thing I can think that was a success from it's intended goals.
We can't even win a war against drugs, a non-sapient set of objects.
I meant an invasion of the US mainland.