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[Anonymous No.11215528]

>post-9/11

[Anonymous No.11215535]

>>11215528
>after midnight
It is always both before and after midnight

[Anonymous No.11215538]

>>11215528
>pre 9/11

[Anonymous No.11215551]

>9/11

[Anonymous No.11215556]

>Baudrillardian

[Anonymous No.11215569]

>>11215528
>t. too young to remember 9/11

[Anonymous No.11216808]

>Humean Bean

[Anonymous No.11216810]

>>11216808
kek

[Anonymous No.11216838]

>be 10 years old on 9/11
>for some reason no one tells us anything, the teacher didnt tell us anything
>be walking to bus after school, some kid yells "hey we're going to war".
>think about all the cool ww2 and vietnam war movies ive seen
>alright alright alright
>get home
>its on every channel
>wanted to watch pokemon
>get angry
>wanted to watch pokemon

[Anonymous No.11216865]

I'm so fucking glad the 9/11 mania has finally started to die down. It was fucking annoying having to pretend to be all somber and shit on a random September day each year.

[Anonymous No.11216867]

>>11216838
Relatable

[Anonymous No.11216876]

>post-truth

[Anonymous No.11216901]

>>11216876
This one annoys me the most, do the liberals not realize they're glorifying the mango muskrat when they do this?

[Anonymous No.11218128]

>>11216838
Similar story:
>9/11
>first grade
>everyone at school upset
>come home
>mom upset
>nobody telling me what's going on
>mom won't explain just wants to watch Looney Tunes to take her mind off it
>finally learn what's going on the next day
>don't even care
>few weeks later learn that the first ISS is going to be crashed into the Earth
>freak the fuck out because I think the space station was going to fucking destroy an entire continent on impact

[Anonymous No.11218699]

Can someone explain what 9/11 actually changed

[Anonymous No.11218713]

>>11218699
the entire social, cultural and political consciousness shifted dude. same w/ y2k, 2007, and the 2008 crash

[Anonymous No.11218719]

>>11218699
the gov brainwashed the population into being ok with killing journalists and constant totally inexplicable warfare in MENA/AFrica, also they passed a ton of legislation that makes it perfectly legal to spy on and indefinitely detain civilians, and allowed themselves incredible powers for emergency "terror or natural disaster" situations where the military and agencies like FEMA or the DHS take over all policing and LEO duties. So, that's what changed, and it traumatized all the boomers and gen x fags addicted to the news media. We grew up in the miasmic haze of a pernicious atmosphere of perdition and self-aggrandizing programmed outrage. Bigger deal now is Trump, the second 9/11 for the Boomerfaggot race.
>>11216838
>>11218128
you're both faggots I watched the second plane hit live on ABC

[Anonymous No.11218720]

>>11218699
It made America feel unsafe like we haven't in recent memory. To this day people are terrified of terrorism, despite the risk of dying in a terror incident being far far far far lower than say, being run over by your own car.

[Anonymous No.11218724]

>>11218699
Burgers got what they deserved

[Anonymous No.11218740]

>>11215528
We're post post 9/11 now

[Anonymous No.11218746]

>>11218699
It started insecurity in america which previously only existed in the crazy.

[Anonymous No.11218755]

>>11218699
Also it was immediately used as a huge source of propaganda. Like the government shooting down the third plane but then claiming it was some heroic passengers that saved the day and crashed the plane in the middle of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.11218762]

>not recognising that we're in the golden age of post-7/7 literature

[Anonymous No.11218767]

>scared of heights and live on 7th floor apartment building
>hear about 9/11 when I got home
>Scared plane will crash into our building
>Stay up all night because I don't want to die while Im sleep
>I'm not even in the United states

[Anonymous No.11218775]

>>11218699
Postmodernism collapsed along with the Twin Towers.

[Anonymous No.11218813]

>>11218699
in the US, the entire five estates kicked the cultural programming into maximum fearmongering overdrive. fear culture has always been a part of american society (well, anglo society really) with the red scare and whatnot, but things really took a turn for the absolute worse with the nonstop national security propaganda mixed with mass surveillance and invasion of individual privacy. terrorism became a serious perceived threat and every US citizen, as codified by the patriot act, became classified as a potential terrorist. this completely eroded trust between americans. you can really see the reverberating effects today, where people just seem to be a bit more on edge, less trusting, more paranoid. odd cultural phenomena, like the whole sexual #MeToo fiasco (which is an entirely reciprocal situation) i believe can be traced to the erosion of trust post-9/11. it was just such a severe change to the collective conscience.

[Anonymous No.11219214]

>>11216838
i remember on 9/11 all the kids got out of school early and were staring at the huge cloud of debris and smoke coming up from where the wtc used to be

[Anonymous No.11219223]

>>11218699
it made it so anyone who is opposed to mass surveillance by the government is an unpatriotic terrorist sympathizer who might not support israel in their life or death struggle to survive against the occasional onslaught of teens chucking rocks at a wall

[Anonymous No.11219353]

>>11218699

[Anonymous No.11219355]

>>11219353
JET

[Anonymous No.11219452]

>>11215528
>post-post office

[Anonymous No.11220059]

>when twice as many yanks have died in Iraq and Afghanistan as were killed in muh twin towers
>when ten times as many yanks are killed by muh guns every year than in 9/11
>ywn have such freedom

[Anonymous No.11220067]

>>11219355
FUEL

[Anonymous No.11221508]

>>11218767
How are you doing now anon?

[Anonymous No.11222191]

>>11216838
>tfw can still remember teacher's face when she got the phone call

[Anonymous No.11222243]

>>11218713
what happened in y2k beyond overplayed fears of coding mishaps? was five, but as far as I can tell from pop culture January 2000 to September 2001 was basically the same as the 90's culturally.

[Anonymous No.11222268]

>>11218699
It reminded americans that [current year] is not necessarily the end of history and the beginning of a hedonist era of conspicuous consumption free from larger trials and tribulations like they assumed the post cold war era would be.

[Anonymous No.11222338]

>>11215528
>>11215538
>>11215551
I guess it's all just fucked then