9/11: Forbidden Thoughts

they retired the system? it was still in airports last time i've flown.

the TSA was crazy. this was a true corruption of national values, having your personal space violated, in the name of state security. this was the stationing of British guards in your house, but this is public and embarrassing and possibly even a violent or triggering experience. this was like something you learned about your country even in rural Georgia in the 80s, this was a fundamental freedom just pushed aside in the blink of an eye.

wiki says the program ended back in 2011. i can't remember hearing the "code yellow" etc stuff in an airport in a while.

I've never heard a Third Amendment argument against the TSA before tbh

they definitely don't have the color terror warnings in my airport anymore, because there used to be a really annoying message that the same voice repeated once every 5 minutes, indicating what terror level it was at, and I haven't heard that message in years (and I fly a lot)

DHS got rid of the color codes in 2011

https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system

xpost ya its usually the 4th amendment for TSA. the 3rd has something to say about privacy/surveillance rights, wiretapping, listening devices, leaks, etc.

i love the erotic thriller pitch vibe of this thread title

he gripped my member, now erect as those magnificent towers once were...

"what should i pull? tower 7, maybe?"

'Mmm, your jet fuel is just about hot enough to melt steel, lover.'

we're getting into jg ballard territory again

Honey you need to warn me if you're going to crash into Tower 2

Lads.

^ take to 'post lads itt' thread imo

Already posted my World Face Sitter puns there, have nowhere else to go.

lol

catch me and wifey snowballing, now THATS blowback

The fuuuck

boy that's reallly doing it wrong

how is that 9/11 related? were you doing it in the towers?

really not looking forward to a bunch of people who weren't even in NY at the time recall what cereal they were eating when they saw the plane hit tomorrow

My secret "forbidden" thought was that I was seeing a major, meaningful historical moment, and like someone in the Salon piece said, that finally something non-banal was happening.

― DUMPLINGS! (Jesse),

Would love a few banal decades right about now

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

avoiding reading everything for my own sanity but
the US cocaine supply is tainted with levamisole hydrochloride, which can cause immune system collapse

I misread this as hydroxychloroquine and I’ve got an eye twitch now

Honestly it’s pretty incredible how successful the 9/11 hijackers were, 19 of them made life permanently worse in about a million ways for everyone in America, led to the waste of trillions of dollars in warfare, and thereby radicalized who knows how many people in the Muslim world and permanently diminished America’s international reputation.

i was reading an article about first responders who now have early onset dementia and thinking that no event in history may have gone as well for the planners as 9/11. not only did they successfully hit the towers, the towers collapsed (unplanned), unleashing enormous, lingering toxic clouds that have essentially continued to kill people or, in these cases, rendered their brains unworkable, for 20 straight years.

Not liking all these online calls for a 'return to a 9/12 society' from those who: (A) weren't around yet; (B) were little kids at the time; or (C) were grown then but have selective memories blocking out how awful and depressing 9/12 was too.

I remember being annoyed later in September of 2001 that nobody seemed to be over it yet, I was 12 though

I guess when it comes down to it, it was all of us who did 9/11

The real 9/11 was all the 9/11s we made along the way.

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