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71 points

just quietly slipping in four 9/11s

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Four 9/11’s can’t even buy you what one used to be worth two decades ago. Back in my day you could buy two wars in the middle east with just one 9/11.

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cremation inflation :kelly:

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Don’t worry, the multiple “9/11s” we’ve talked up with Covid are just like a piggy bank. We’re saving up for a big-time land war in Asia.

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No, that’s one of the classic blunders!

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People were warning about this ever since the government first started printing 9/11s.

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We need to go back to the Gulf of Tonkin standard

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I swear, I don’t want to ever hear anyone say the words 9/11 again unless the context is “the US deserved 9/11” or “9/11 wasn’t that bad.” We went into two wars directly because of 9/11 because 3,000 people were killed. The US government has killed probably over a million people now, or roughly 333 9/11s. Unless you’re 333 times as mad at every US politician as you were about 9/11, shut the fuck up.

And yes I know we didn’t really go into two wars because of 9/11, we used 9/11 as a pretext to get into two wars we already wanted to get into but the point stands.

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have you forgotten

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:deeper-sadness:

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The US government has killed probably over a million people now

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/19/the-staggering-death-toll-in-iraq_partner/

March 19 marks 15 years since the U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the American people have no idea of the enormity of the calamity the invasion unleashed. The U.S. military has refused to keep a tally of Iraqi deaths. General Tommy Franks, the man in charge of the initial invasion, bluntly told reporters, “We don’t do body counts.” One survey found that most Americans thought Iraqi deaths were in the tens of thousands. But our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion.

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Four 9/11s more like four loko :marx-goth:

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