I was young when it happened so I don’t remember what was the general feeling back then but when I read about it it really feels like the beginning of a new era and a monumental event in American’s history. I know how the geopolitics were shaped by it however, I’m not aware of the happenings in American life right after it. How long did the shock of the event last and the unity that followed? What was the feeling towards Muslims right after it happened?
What was America like right after 9/11?
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If you were a US citizen, muslim, black, white, you were a brother.
Everyone changed their college major to something related to the middle east.
And everyone silently agreed to systematically fuck that part of the world up so badly, it would be be remembered for generations.
Everyone was gung-ho about the war on terror and giving up their freedoms
NYC in the 80's smelled bad. Really really bad.
i was 8 when it happened. my parents put a little TV in the dining room and tje news would be on during dinner.
Back then you could behead Muslims in the streets and kill their goats and no one cared. Good times.
>If you were a US citizen, muslim, black, white, you were a brother.
So no hard feelings towards Muslims?
There was a lot of patriotism. Every car had a little American flag on the window. The unity lasted right up until the lead up to the Iraq war. Country music from this era is a pretty good window into the American psyche at this time
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Everyone was very patriotic, anti-Muslim and pro-New York. Rudy Giuliani was the best mayor NYC ever had and turned the city from total shithole to center of the world. Nowadays, if someone attacked NYC, lots of Americans would secretly cheer.
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>Rudy Giuliani was the best mayor NYC ever had and turned the city from total shithole to center of the world.
Wasn't Bloomberg the mayor like 2-3 months after?
I worked with 3 muslims who went into full war mode. 2 were born and raised in Canada and told me not to talk to them because they “may be at war with me”.
A week later one of them approached me and told me it was a joke. It wasnt. That’s when I realized muzzies were just sleepers waiting to go to war. My first real red pill and it led to me spending two years looking into the arabs and jews. My research brought me to places like this. The internet was much better back then.
I was a freshman in high school in nyc, and someone ran into the class room during first period to yell an airplane crashed into the wtc. We all ran to the math teachers class to get a view of the building only to see the second plane crash. Principal then forced everyone into the gymnasium to wait while our parents picked us up. The city had an incredibly tense energy everyone was afraid no one knew what was happening or why. There was dust everywhere in the lower east side and traffic came to a standstill. My mother picked me up eventually and we walked from my school in east village all the way to our apt 90+ blocks away. Buses were all packed, people were afraid to take the subways for fear of getting trapped underground and scumbag taxi drivers started charging people 30+ dollars just to get in the car. The next few days/weeks all of america was pro war and wanted blood for what happened. It sucked to be brown skin in america after that everyone took their frustration on any indian/muslim they saw.
Use your illusion I and II came out in September 1991.
Over here everybody was fearful or had an outright vitriolic hate for them, despite most people not even knowing ever seeing any Muslims in person. The mere idea of anything related to anything, Muslim, Arab, Persian, middle eastern in general or even Indian, (because most ameritards are tards) would get people salivating in fit of rage. Though not entirely sure if that was everywhere or just down in the South East where I lived at the time, also where many people had/have an incessant love for muh greatest ally.
>they're the only democracy in the middle east, the chosen people, we have to protect them from those dirty A-rabs.
Shit like that was common to hear and people wanting to outright kill any hajji or what not. In fact heard many innocent Hindus and Sikhs were beat up or killed over that. Hard to believe that was common up to 12 years ago and know everyone is all like
>refugees good, Muzzies good, immigrants good
I visited NYC in 2003, I remember a heavy police presence and even some military around but apart from that it seemed normal.
Uber patriotism was the flavor of the day. I went to my friends college to visit him that fall, and at parties EVERYONE was drinking and chanting USA! USA! USA! Now at colleges you just have a bunch of faggots protesting for nigger gibs. The USA is fucking gay nowadays.
There was a based period of time shortly after the attacks where everyone was proudly American, we respected law enforcement/first responders, and the news was trying to provide facts instead of so blatantly influence the minds of the general public.
I pity anyone that can’t recall like pre 9/11.
It was like an orange haze of happiness.
>The next few days/weeks all of america was pro war and wanted blood for what happened.
Nowadays most people are seeing the war as a big mistake for various reason but do you think it was the right thing to do at the time?
Oh God no, the President could have drafted a million people to form an army that would have happily laid waste to the Middle East. Instead we half-assed it and got ISIS instead. Then the FBI decided they needed to partner with CAIR to fight terrorism. Thank the Sauds for bribing Bush and half of Congress for that outcome.
It was cool to see an American flag on every house for the six months that lasted. It sucks now that we have the TSA. The Patriot Act was a big debate at the time, probably was the last time the Lefties and the Libertarians agreed on anything.
Twenty years later I'm still a bit numb from it. Just strange to think ten people could destroy two of the world's largest buildings like that.
>The USA is fucking gay nowadays.
Nationalism is desperately needed and not only in the US
Very exciting. The beginning of my glory days. Had a lot to think about. Tough decisions. Joined the military and went to war for 10 years. Now there's a terror attack every day somewhere and nothing matters. It's someone else's turn to care and do something about it. Hopefully I'll be dead soon.
At the time we didnt know better, we were naive enough to think we were fighting for freedom and retaliation. We slowly realized over the next year it was all bullshit and we were swindled real good. But for that short time, i truly felt proud to be an American. Almost the same feeling when Trump won back in 2016, until we were swindled again. Its almost like we never learn our lesson.
I was 30 when it happened. Everyone was super shell shocked, walking around like zombies. People were doing acts of kindness to each other and soft soothing songs were all over the radio. People tried to get along more. They cut all violent shows from TV and movies. Was a general hushed and mellow attitude for everyone for about a month.
That said, everyone and I mean EVERYONE was siege posting about muslims, glassing the entire ME, rounding up muslims and deporting them all etc etc. This was liberal college students, conservatives, grandmas, you name it.
Most people wanted blood. Since the end of the Cold War America didn't have a foil to counter their war mongering ways so they invented one in The Middle East.
I remember laughing at kid whose dad went to fight for Israel in Iraq and the kid kept saying he hated Iraqis and wanted them all to die. I laughed because the retard couldn't even find Iraq on a map.
That dumbass has 6 kids from 2 different women and works a dead end job barely scraping by and leeching money from the system like a jogger. This country is fucked since only the lowest IQ whites reproduce more than twice.
i was young too, but I can tell ya the sense of unity and pride in being american the last decade that followed. especially when we got the bastard. I miss this USA
It was the last time we were unified as a country. Bush even had like a 90% approval rating for a couple of months.
Ha. I watched the Vietnam was from a highchair on a 6" b/w Sony portable that my dad put on the end of the dining room table so only he and I could see it. Odd for a regimented family where everyone sat at the dining room table. AS for 9/11 , there was there difficulty in grasping the scale of WTC, Pentagon, and Flight 93 all at once. America was unified mostly for a little while, the only time I've seen it in my lifetime. So much rage against Muslims it was easy for the jews who planned it to go undetected. We are a lot smarter now with the 20/20 hindsight.
>Just strange to think ten people could destroy two of the world's largest buildings like that.
>just ten people
>world's largest buildings destroyed ny just 10 people
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I supported the Iraq invasion in 2003, but for geopolitical reasons. They are centrally located in the Middle East, so a US-friendly government there would give us a lot of influence in the region. We definitely needed to retool our Mid East policy after 9/11 to prevent more terror attacks, plus we couldn't (and still can't) depend on Israel or the Sauds.
Saddam was not popular in the US after Kuwait, so the PR work to convince us to support an invasion was already done, plus there wasn't any chance we could just bribe him into compliance. I had no illusions Saddam had anything to do with 9/11.
But we half-assed it, destabilized the region, and ended up with an Iraq that's at best indifferent to us. Then the second Gulf War played out like a Bush-Saddam grudge match. Good idea, terrible execution like always.
Strange how something like that needs to happen for people to feel patriotic and show kindness to their fellow citizens
Saddam was a fucking pain in the ass but was there a better execution? I think destabilizing the region is the obvious outcome because those people are not like us and can't live peacefully if there isn't a strongman to keep them together
I know about the conspiracy theories and spent years debating them on the Internet, but I don't believe them after watching it all play out on live television. I give conspiracy theories more thought after the Snowden thing, but the controlled demolition theory just doesn't pass muster for me.
The only 9/11 theory I believe is John Brennan signed the travel docs because he's a commie who wanted to see the US burn.
It felt like a rabbi giving a sermon in a synagogue. All the fucking dumb golems were whipped into a fit to 'protect' their beloved kikes from A-rabs that wanted to "tAkE mUh fReEdoMs". They decided they could protest culturally too by making their kids trannies, believing that 2 men fucking each other's ass was as good as marriage, and making women turbo whores.
They could also collapse their economy by stacking jewish interest rates sky high and paying billions in outright cash to kikes in addition to fighting their wars for them.
Wow! What a gracious tribe those jews are!
Rabbis tongue my anus