9/11: Forbidden Thoughts

as a non-american the idea of businesses flying flags at all is just as weird and upsetting as not half-masting them tbh

Stay Puft

How do you know where to buy cars in your land?

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Or buy delicious food?

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"i don't mind hearing these stories from ppl who were actually in new york or d.c."

Oh, man, I got in an argument on FB last year about something to do with profiling Muslims or somesuch with a right-wing aunt of mine, and one of her comments was, "Well, you'll feel differently when the bodies are on your doorstep." I rpelied, "On Sept. 11 my office was one Metro stop from the Pentagon. A co-worker of mine watched Flight 77 crash into it from the freeway. You live in Painesville fucking Ohio. I've been closer to the bodies than you will ever be."

The sanctimony about 9/11 from the jingoists is a never-ending source of disgust to me.

An Aunt making shitty comments on Facebook you don't say!

For real what is with Aunts, those cartoon minions and social media? Move over, daytime television.

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jesus fucking got to be kidding me christ.

Despicable Me was released in 2010 -- how old was Bob when it was filmed?

Phil D -- call me curious but what exactly did said right-wing aunt say in response to that, anyway.

Never Forget The Six Minions

Ned, she said absolutely bupkis. Even my right-wing relatives know when they've been checkmated. Not that it changed her politics any, but she at least knows not to treat me like some naif.

Van Gogh's 9/11 is oddly beautiful
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deepart to honor the departed

omg

a girl i used to date is like 2 ft away from sincere affirmation that jet fuel can't melt steel beams in one of her fb friends' comments

When all this first happened there was a lot of unedited audio and video floating around the net that's probably since been heavily redacted.

My friend N made a cool electronic/noise piece of music, that had a sample in it of a guy screaming "OH GOD NO". I got him to play the full audio he'd sampled it from and it was this obnoxious, angry trader from one of the stockmarket firms up on the top floors, who had called 911 and was abuseively demanding people come rescue them.

... until the building started to collapse, while he was still on the call, and he screamed that out, til the call cut out.

The forbidden thought here being I couldnt stop thinking about it and wanted to keep listening to it. It made me feel weird.

(its possible I misremember some of the content btw, I couldn't bring myself to listen to something like that anymore but for months after all this happened I became obsessed with rewatching footage and reading survivor stories).

oh god, i know what you're talking about. it's horrific. i saw it paired with video of the tower collapsing. easily piece of 9/11 documentation i've ever come across.

i just remembered that i learned the word "debris" on 9/11

Sanders-supporting dude in my feed who is all "I'd rather Trump win than Hillary" dropped some heavy tower 7 conspiracy science over the weekend

Makes me kind of glad everyone I know pays zero attention to politics.

every once in a while i drive myself a little crazy thinking of the alternate history where after 9/11 the U.S. military is speedily sent to the Middle East to help build hospitals, schools, dams, and water treatment plants. it is, perhaps, the most forbidden thought of all...

'Where were you on 9/11' stories are a lot like dream accounts, or stories about kids; everyone wants to tell them, but nobody wants to listen to them.

t-bomb

Was scrolling thru fb and one of my distant cousins posted this super eye catching pic of towers on fire taken from Brooklyn Bridge, all iconic an shit, and it was SO jarring and unnecessary. Followed by 50 "I was on my way to work in Muskegon, Michigan, when I heard the news on the radio" posts, and I succumbed to a fit of pique and wrote an irate follow up like "I was in New York Fucking City." What IS it with people halfway across the country?? Nm I know what it is but ffs

My 9/11 story is almost so banal that I could probably write it as a sort of deadpan humorous short story. I was in New Brunswick, NJ and my housemates and I actually sort of hesitantly drove to a supermarket to buy some water and food (I think at the urging of one of my housemates' parents?) while feeling completely ridiculous and not actually afraid, and later after a bar trip I wound up in bed with my ex. I also watched the TV news in a lebanese cafe because I didn't have a TV.

I do have one embarrassing 9/11-related memory though, which is that I wrote a very earnest, hand-wringy op-ed for a student newspaper about how maybe there was too much doubting of the government going on at such an urgent time. Yeeeuch!

hardly anyone was in dallas when kennedy was shot by aliens. same sorta thing really. i was definitely devastated in philly and remember every emotionally excruciating inch of that day pretty clearly.

i had to work all day. it sucked. i felt so sick. and i remember glaring at people coming in to buy cigarettes or whatever if they were laughing with a friend. or if they were just acting normal in any way. it reminded me of when i was working and my mom called me to say that my sister had died and i still had to work all day after talking to her on the phone. i was too fucked up to call my boss and tell him i had to go home.

that's my anecdote! i shared it here instead of facebook. you are very welcome.

(i also broke the news to tons of people who came in the store that day who somehow hadn't heard about it and none of them could really believe me...)

This thread is always a heavy read, then and now.

What were you doing when you found out about the WTC?

this is crazy from one of those ILX threads:

NEW YORK, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Two planes crashed into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday morning, causing huge explosions and killing at least six people, television said.
CNBC television said there were at least a thousand injured.

https://www.depop.com/en-us/bigmatt300/phat-pharm-twin-towers-short

Seems as good a place as any to post this from Chris Korda, the transgendered founder of the Church of Euthanasia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vorisrBfdTs

The forbidden thought here being I couldnt stop thinking about it and wanted to keep listening to it. It made me feel weird.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, September 13, 2016 12:03 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I listened to this audio just now out of curiosity and it positively terrified me....

Theres something visceral in his screams that are just ... I cant.

i almost got into a fight at a cuban restaurant on the night of 9/11 when some kids were laughing at the falling man and saying "who's so stupid they jump out of a building"
fwiw, i was downtown and watched the second tower go down from west 4th and 7th ave. i have some stories but so does everyone.

In a few centuries, give or take, this is going to be the beloved holiday figure who gives children gifts. pic.twitter.com/cTwHbAzRTr

— Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) September 11, 2017

Saw this on LinkedIn and thought it was a parody.

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Lol amazing revive and follow

O_o

holy shit at that linkedin post

It never occurred to me before that some people's idea of heaven would still have capitalism in it

Angels gotta eat

Jesus

It never occurred to me before that some people's idea of heaven would still have capitalism in it

Have you been to New York?

I gotta admit i get sucked into it in NYC.

i was a Gold member on Marriott due to work trips and my Times Square hotel gave me a key card to the Executive Lounge and I came a little

I sorry I shared that

you and Ted Cruz commemorating 9/11 in the same way

ha hahaa uughgh ew.

Lol sic

Never forget

hell yeah

it never occurred to me before that some people's idea of heaven would still have capitalism in it

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 11:04 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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