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RE: I know I'm in the minority with this one-but this is a slippery slope in my opinion
September 11, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(September 11, 2019 at 8:40 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Like how we took over the craft beer scene with everybody aping our brews, you mean? 
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Makes sense. Miller's about the same as water, which you can use when you're out of milk.
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September 11, 2019 at 7:02 pm
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(September 11, 2019 at 8:51 am)Atomic Monster Wrote: I just find it hard when the government is mandating this sort of thing whether it is state level or federal level. And you are so right about that last part. 9/11 was exploited in so many ways it is sickening.
We need some smart students to start a movement changing the meaning of the symbolism.
"We hold this moment of silence as a protest against the silencing of dissent imposed in the wake of 9-11. Solidarity with all those silenced and harmed through the excuse of terrorism."
Once they had changed the meaning, enforcement would slack off probably.
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RE: I know I'm in the minority with this one-but this is a slippery slope in my opinion
September 11, 2019 at 7:28 pm
(September 11, 2019 at 8:40 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Like how we took over the craft beer scene with everybody aping our brews, you mean?
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I think Boru meant REAL beer, not piss water.
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September 11, 2019 at 8:11 pm
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RE: I know I'm in the minority with this one-but this is a slippery slope in my opinion
September 12, 2019 at 2:37 am
(September 10, 2019 at 11:25 pm)Atomic Monster Wrote: 9/11 was an awful day. However for some reason I find it dangerous when government forces mandatory respects for something no matter how tragic it was. Yes-I know I probably come off as a major asshole here. But this-this just isn't a good idea. It may seem innocent, but it isn't. It could bring about unwanted consequences. I know I'm probably just being a snowflake, but whatever you can think that.
https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/a-mo...sAARa7qh2g
EDIT: Ah shit I mean to post this in News!
I don't think you're being a snowflake. We have a similar thing for remembrance day in England but there's no law enforcing the silence.
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September 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm
A few thousand people die and it's a national tragedy and we can't ever forget it. Ok, I'm not going to argue we deserved 9/11 but we kinda did. We bomb other nations all the time, killing thousands of people in the process. I wish Americans had the insight to realize that what we consider a horrible tragedy is exactly what we routinely do to other people. Our foreign policy used to be "Speak softly and carry a big stick," but now we've decided to beat everyone into submission with our stick and play nice with the people who are too scared to say anything about it.
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September 21, 2019 at 10:52 pm
I wonder if future generations will impose a moment of silence on the date Trump was elected President. IMHO, that's a far greater national tragedy than 9-11.
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September 22, 2019 at 5:49 am
(September 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm)TaraJo Wrote: A few thousand people die and it's a national tragedy and we can't ever forget it. Ok, I'm not going to argue we deserved 9/11 but we kinda did. We bomb other nations all the time, killing thousands of people in the process. I wish Americans had the insight to realize that what we consider a horrible tragedy is exactly what we routinely do to other people. Our foreign policy used to be "Speak softly and carry a big stick," but now we've decided to beat everyone into submission with our stick and play nice with the people who are too scared to say anything about it.
74 people a day are still killed in Afghanistan by the conflict the US started and walked away from.
https://www.albawaba.com/news/74-people-...th-1309433.
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September 30, 2019 at 12:05 pm
(September 22, 2019 at 5:49 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (September 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm)TaraJo Wrote: A few thousand people die and it's a national tragedy and we can't ever forget it. Ok, I'm not going to argue we deserved 9/11 but we kinda did. We bomb other nations all the time, killing thousands of people in the process. I wish Americans had the insight to realize that what we consider a horrible tragedy is exactly what we routinely do to other people. Our foreign policy used to be "Speak softly and carry a big stick," but now we've decided to beat everyone into submission with our stick and play nice with the people who are too scared to say anything about it.
74 people a day are still killed in Afghanistan by the conflict the US started and walked away from.
https://www.albawaba.com/news/74-people-...th-1309433.
Dang that's 27,000 people a year
How many nukes do you have?
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September 30, 2019 at 1:14 pm
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(September 22, 2019 at 5:49 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (September 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm)TaraJo Wrote: A few thousand people die and it's a national tragedy and we can't ever forget it. Ok, I'm not going to argue we deserved 9/11 but we kinda did. We bomb other nations all the time, killing thousands of people in the process. I wish Americans had the insight to realize that what we consider a horrible tragedy is exactly what we routinely do to other people. Our foreign policy used to be "Speak softly and carry a big stick," but now we've decided to beat everyone into submission with our stick and play nice with the people who are too scared to say anything about it.
74 people a day are still killed in Afghanistan by the conflict the US started and walked away from.
https://www.albawaba.com/news/74-people-...th-1309433.
In fairness, the US merely re-ignited what had been a on-going civil war that dated to before the Soviet withdrawal, and only held in abeyance by the temporary ascendency of the Taliban. The temporary suspension was extremely unlikely to last even if the US never intervened. The parties in the civil war had deep entanglements with 2 regional nuclear powers. How uncontrolled flare up of the civil war in Afghanistan would affect Pakistan and India, to say nothing of the other central Asian states on the periphery of former Soviet Union, is hard to say, but unlikely to be less unpleasant than what had transpired there in the last 18 years.
It wasn't the intervention in Afghanistan that was the massive strategic blunder. It was the invasion of Iraq that followed.
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