• StellarTabi [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      The world was a different place back then. Back then, your parents, your church, your local friends, the mainstream media were basically all your sources of truth for local events. If you had any contacts that countered the main narrative and ideology of the US, they might have been silent out of fear or perceived as cranks.

      Now we’re in a post-truth era. If 911 happened in 2020, we’d still invade the middle east soon after. Our naked emperors would just be a lot more shameless about it.

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      Liberals will face cognitive dissonance that can largely be redirected by the suite of genocide apologetics developed for Israel/the rest of empire over the last several decades. It will be interesting to see how much it can excuse. Obviously it can already excuse a “slow” genocide and apartheid. I’d love to see liberals worn down over the period of a week but I think the path ahead will be escalations and liberals finding new excuses for “defending” the Zionist occupiers.

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      9/11 was an attack from another country, far away, who believe in a religion people weren’t taught about in schools.

      Hamas’ attack was from within Israel. Two very different things on a surface level. To some degree I understand why Americans largely felt the way they did after 9/11. The was Zionists feel is very different, and genuinely evil

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        I’m flipflopping between crackerdom and crackerverse.

        I like crackerdom because it hearkens back to Christendom as its secular counterpart.

        I like crackerverse because it hearkens back to popculture Marvel garbage which exemplifies cracker culture.