Political Memes

Kinda hinted toward it in another post but its more about my own personal perspective. At a young age my life was mostly devoid of politics and america seemed like an ok place. Since the attack on the twin towers, for me personally, america has only gotten worse. To me, 911 marks the end of america, as an idea.

I disagree with the last sentence. I think we made an attempt. But everything after WWII has been headed this direction without much checking.

9/11 was a catalyst for forces that were already in play.

Casus belli* 😅

That was but a symptom, a healthy society wouldn't have let that happen to our boi Harambe in the first place

That's exactly where the timeline jumped the tracks. if Gore's election is properly counted, there's potentially no 9/11, but certainly no Iraq and probably no Afghanistan as we know it. And without Bush and the whiplash against him and those events, there's no Obama. And without the mouth breather whiplash to Obama, there's no Trump.

So yeah, I would say that the republicans fucking around in south Florida is what caused the rift.

Florida? Yeah I heard a podcast about this, eerily similar to all that's been happening around the last 2 elections.

Let's throw some wild cards to keep your world entertaining

Who is the Phoenix?

Trump is the fallout making us sick.

Or Nixon.

9/11, horrible as it was, just gave them a good reason to put into law some truly undemocratic shit they probably already had waiting in a drawer for a while.

It was the stagflation in the seventies. That's when the rich managed to switch the economy ~~back to exploitation mode~~ to neoliberalism, and Reagan was their tool.

if it wasn't regan, it was the great depression. if it wasn't the great depression it was the civil war.

we didn't start the fire. it was always burning since the world's been turning.

An era of oil abuse.

The day Earth ended: The day when the first Eukaryotic Organism was evolved

This is more of a political commentary on that fact that when I was politically activated, preteen, its been nothing but down hill.

I think it delayed the inevitable. By the 90s, right wing American extremism was on the rise. 9/11 put up a facade of unity (as long as you didn't look middle eastern). The right wing movements went quiet for 15 years. America returned to trajectory in 2016.

I'd argue neoconservativism started with WW2, but neoliberalism is probably better tied to Nixon. So I agree, 9/11 was just a continuation of neocon power grabs, but invoking post-WW2 "capitalism" doesn't make much sense to me; the New Deal was comparatively great for workers. Neoconservativism isn't really an economic movement like neoliberalism is.

Is it a change of trajectory If instead of going down a long slope you turn down a road leading toward the edge of a cliff? Because while I agree about capitalism leading to inevitable horrific consequences there's really no way to argue against 9/11 ushering in an age of utter Horrors when it came to civil rights.

Of course you could also make the argument that the turn towards that Cliff was actually caused by the Supreme Court picking George W bush to be our president.

It didn't change the trajectory, but those attacks were much more effective than even Al Qaeda thought they would be. They provided the excuse the American fascists were looking for to further their own plans without much push back.