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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

"We became complacent and underestimated the military capabilities of the inmates of our concentration camp and it's the worst thing since the holocaust" is a hell of a thing to say.

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're losing the audience here. An average American will not believe that anything is worse than a single 9/11 with the honorable exceptions of Pearl Harbor and Alamo.

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

this For Americans who still give a shit about 9/11 they don't like the idea of being one-uped in terms of the victim complex

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is with the Muricans and the battle for Alamo? it's probably the most overblown battle in the history of humanity.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't view it in the larger historical context of American settlers fucking over an existing nation so that they (the settlers) could own slaves, they only view it as "smol bean resistance fighters against big army"

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think they desperatly yearn for some really bloody loss to fuel their messianism, but alas they've been mostly winning all the time and even when they loss it's not really huge manpower losses.

President Xi pretty please.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I think they desperatly yearn for some really bloody loss to fuel their messianism

Depending on how old you are, if you were old enough to remember 9/11, you wouldn't just think that

You'd know it

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

It’s a good old boy lost cause that racists can reminisce about publicly to dogwhistle their racism

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[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

To be fair to those people, 9/11 involved no military casualties while the Israelis are including soldiers deaths in their count.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

No you don’t understand! Israel is 15, no 20 times more important per capita than you Americans - things Americans love to hear

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The 20+ year brainrot to think that one of the only act of wars on US soil was was the worst act of war ever

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Slaps roof of Israel

You can fit so many national-mourning-period in here!

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, how many 9/11's have the Palestinians (or Gazans specifically) suffered in the last two weeks? Let's play this game Israel.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Did the math:

For Palestine (~5,200 deaths since Oct 7th), it's about 105 9/11s so far. On average that's about 6 9/11s daily.

For the Gaza Strip (~5,100 deaths), it's about 230 9/11s so far. Or 14 new 9/11s every day

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Btw I calculated the Israeli 1,400 death toll in proportionate 9/11s and got the same "fifteen 9/11s" figure as Biden. No fucking clue how Netanyahu got 20, maybe he included abducted and missing people in deaths?

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

turning a big dial taht says "9/11" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

[–] MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

listen you're really twisting my arm here, i can't go any higher than forty-five 9/11s

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its insanely absurd that this is thrown around so easily.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Shows how little world leaders actually give a fuck about 9/11 or terrorism, it’s just a frivolous and silly football for them to kick around and make jokes with

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[–] nurjahreszeiten@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hiroshima was about 44 9/11s

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come on we can get the projections on what we are doing to Palestine even higher!

Israel will be a fucking laughing stock, half the world will boycott them and their citizens. The blowback for this shit will be far worst than what they ever thought the Palestinian resistance to their occupation ever was.

An Israeli passport will be persona non grata. I wish the UN would just expel them.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bullshit. A 9/11 is not a unit of lives lost. It's a word meaning "Any collision between any two objects".

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any collision between any two objects

That’s just football

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet when I tried to enter the stadium with an AR15, security stopped me angery

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[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It wasn't even one nine eleven jfc

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

they always meant per-capita. 0.00001% of the population or whatever

if you have 100 people in some group and one of them dies that's like 100 9/11s to that group.

or something. i'm tired and high so maybe don't take those numbers literally.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My grandma died, so i basically suffered 450,000 grandparent 9/11s

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

who are you starting a nine million year war with?

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I've declared that cancer, dementia, heart disease, and stroke are the new axis of evil!

She actually died in a car crash but since our family owns a series of car dealerships I didn't want to get into all that.

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Come on Hamas. Do better.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's incredibly funny that 9/11 has become the international SI unit of mass casualties. I want to encourage using the standard prefixes with it also. This attack was 3 deca9/11s.

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[–] ComradeLove@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine 800K Americans, 400K American children, dead in 10 days. That's what the bombing of Gaza is equivalent to.

*oops, had an extra zero

this is why we need 1 billion Americans

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

a-little-trolling the 9/11s just got ten feet taller!

[–] GorbinOutOverHere@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uhh you're going to need a fuckload of people moving to israel to have 100! 9/11s there

[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

hohohohoho factorial joke

[–] wolf6152@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2995 people died on 9/11 Somewhere around 1400 died on October 7th. So it’s barely half of one 9/11.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their argument is based on per capita casualties. It's still stupid.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, so that makes the casualties in Gaza even MORE important, right? With a population of 2 million, that makes the Israeli bombing campaign like 150 9/11s

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[–] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

this would be 50 9/11's in 1990

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Wow, have they been watching Team America recently or something?

[–] gearheart@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's like when I see people compare being called a Boomer the same as the N word.

Or comparing slavery and segregation to something else they want to justify. I'm like da fuq?...

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago
[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I mean sure. For israel it was like 30 9/11s (from the perspective of Bin Laden)

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

We are going to run out of airplanes before the end of the year

[–] Pili@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How many 9/11 are caused by the lack of healthcare in the US every year?

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