9/11: Forbidden Thoughts

9/12 and Sept 2001 = glued to tv news in anticipation of the next devastating major news event to be announced on the hour every hour

My rhyme: 'when Saudis attack, lash out at Iraq'

A forbidden thought from the UK in the form of a (rubbish) date format joke...

"Remember, Remember the 9th of November"

Deflatormouse OTM

on the day I saw this kid getting told off by a Canadian video shop clerk for expressing his forbidden thought: "oh no .. it's just going be the news on telly all night now"

My TV blew up on Thursday and a new one won't be delivered until Monday, so I'm going to completely miss 9/11 weekend. Imagine my sorrow.

Man sorry to hear the terrorists got your TV

I feel like one of the biggest things 9/11 did was allow conservatives to show their asses for 20+ years. the Republican party was already full of pieces of shit and had been for decades, but now they had carte blanche to advance their Islamophobic platforms in the name of "terrorism", and got to finally enact some of the more Orwellian legislation they'd always wanted to.

It really began the end of my optimistic phase of life, and was when I first realized what a dumpster fire our country was. prior to that, I was 20 years old and had led a charmed life and had these naive beliefs about our country and people in general.

I still know people who talk about the kindness they saw after 9/11. idk what country they lived in. oh, ok, a few people were nice to each other at a potluck? a few friends buried their grudge because of 9/11?

I saw Sikh men being murdered and beat up because they "looked like Muslims", I saw friends and family screaming "NUKE 'EM" at the television and demanding we drop a huge bomb on Iraq/Afghanistan. people were dog shit after 9/11.

and agree with everybody upthread, I was pretty terrified in the weeks after. for a variety of reasons. 9/12 wasn't bliss.

I finally dug into the Wayback Machine and found the comment I submitted to the Village Voice critics' poll, which ran in February 2002:

I didn't like thick-necked arena-rockin' yahoos on 9/10, and I didn't like 'em any better on 9/12. I don't give a shit about Springsteen or U2 or Paul McCartney, and watching the Twin Towers fall didn't make me like their music any better. Rock as expression of nationalism: no thanks. The larger idea of "pop community" is bullshit, too. Music at its best is a one-on-one pleasure. You and the record. That's why the Walkman was and is the greatest thing ever to happen to music.

remember last weekend when 3000 people died of covid again, just like every other weekend

A tweet sent on the @AP_Planner account about Saturday, Sept. 11, being the anniversary of a Nickelback album was deleted. The tweet was in poor taste.

— AP Planner (@AP_Planner) September 11, 2021

Happy anniversary to the absolute best 9/11 tweet of all time pic.twitter.com/sqGjXYpVz6

— Guy Freire (@guy_freire) September 11, 2021

14yrs ago terrorists attacked killing 3000 of us Like 12/7/41"lives in infamy" so will 9/11 2dayJapanese friendly Jihadists want kill us

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 11, 2015

if it had been about 'the blueprint' it would have been fine

xxp

is the "Come From Away" musical very famous? The forbidden thought in Newfoundland is being sick of how nice we were to diverted passengers, as though other places would've had them starve in the streets.

sick of *media retellings of how nice we were

20 years ago, then 12-yr old daughter asked me in fear, “will they do to Muslim people what they did to the Japanese?” #911Remembered

— lisa lowe (@driftinghouse) September 11, 2021

She really asked that, did she? On that very day?

Smart kid

my son also had some very astute insights at the time, but I told the late period embryo/borderline foetus to stfu. btw in the 9.11 race at the Yarmouth track tonight there is a greyhound running called Greencraft Jet @ 5/1

Blackrose Oily won the 9.11 at Yarmouth... makes u think!

as though other places would've had them starve in the streets

tbf I had the same reaction to the immediate post-9/11 "New Yorkers are the best people" / "New York is the greatest city etc.," because, like, those pansies in Baltimore or Berlin or Buffalo would have simply crumpled

i'm mad that Giuliani got cultural manna for simply doing his job as fucking mayor during a crisis.

if only 9/11 had managed to interrupt his kill all underclass black people agenda for more than five minutes and a day ...then this cunt would have been a truly great mayor.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9696ee544061a02f73b932e55945028b/23fb1c8453ed0584-18/s1280x1920/6ad4f33101beb3768d132c476a112fb12b2334ec.png

That's why the Walkman was and is the greatest thing ever to happen to music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWR1h-5EzUo

this is the thread to share about how when they showed the second tower fall during class in my sophomore year, one girl was like "i saw more people get sad when aaliyah died" and i feel like enough time has passed that i can share this with the internet

we need a resolution!

are you that somebody (who planted and detonated the explosives that took down tower 7)?

i'm mad that Giuliani got cultural manna for simply doing his job as fucking mayor during a crisis.

― Duke Detain (Neanderthal),

Yeah that pissed me off at the time. What did he even do, shoutout first responders in press conferences?

And he used that manna to help get Bloomberg elected which was the fucking worst.

All I can think of: he spoke in sentences; George W. Bush didn't? And he loved the camera?

It gave him a redemption arc at the end of his administration.

Idk what's worse between Giuliani's vision of NYC as a fascist Disneyland or Bloomberg's vision of NYC as Dubai-esque playground for wealthy foreign investors. Bloomberg was more successful in executing his vision so prob him.

Cuomo can FOAD too

What, you people complaining about a giant Olive Garden in Times Square?

There is absolutely nothing in Times Square that would appeal to a NYC resident so yeah, nice job Mr. Mayor

On the 20th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the @nytimes ran only two stories, both on page 22. pic.twitter.com/brhD2y7uY9

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) September 12, 2021

tbf, I wonder what kind of 20th anniversary coverage they got in Honolulu.

Florida c'mon man pic.twitter.com/HU4y2rxgFG

— Boston Leggings (@online_shawn) September 6, 2016

Amazing the amount of people in the replies who think that's a perfectly fine tribute and are aggrieved anyone would think otherwise.

Epic Bad Taste

https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/09/NINTCHDBPICT000607674796.jpg

bigger version of the painting

I mean it IS fine in that it is not extraordinary

9/11 is performative sorrow for white people pretending that they have been harmed

Atty general for Texas tweeted that out today.

I don't know what the context of white dudes drinking out of red cups before 9 o'clock on a Tuesday morning, but it was a weird tweet nonetheless.

Their last kegger

1) i’m definitely over random ppl just posting tourist photos of themselves visiting the WTC ~whenever~

2) i’m at the point where i want every rando to stfu & leave space for ppl directly affected to talk or post photos if they need it. rest of world, just fuckin can it for ONE DAY.

Oh my, speaking of randos who might need to stfu

I’m not sure I have ever seen someone give a speech at a formal occasion as drunk as Rudy Giuliani is right now at the 9/11 dinner. pic.twitter.com/54G5oCuBe3

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 12, 2021

And another thought about @EmmaRaducanu and #leylahfernandez: neither had been born when 9/11 happened - underlines why memorials, like today’s are so important. #USOpen2021 #911NeverForget

— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) September 11, 2021

There was a 10-minute "a point of view" from David Cannadine on Radio 4 once called "anniversary cornucopia" and it was just a series of "observations" of exactly this sort, honestly one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

A new challenger enters the ring

Tulsi Gabbard- I posted the most fucked up 9/11 post

Marjorie Taylor Greene- hold my beer pic.twitter.com/FRXhi83Wur

— TulsiGabbardIsABigot (@NThis81) September 11, 2021

On this anniversary of the release of The Two Towers I did the My Freedoms Donut Challenge where I gorged on a dozen Krispy Kremes in remembrance of all the martyrs being forced to vaccinate by Senile Joe. Never forget, 7-11.