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Fear and loathing in the US of A.

"chosen by fate and the global oil industry" what a real one. HST absolutely nailing every bit of this. it was clear as day. i couldn't have put it into words anywhere near like that but it was 100% yes, so certain: this will make us erode and undermine ourselves. weakling reactionaries.

H.S.T. is the Absolute Master of selective capitalization for a specific kind of emphasis.

Nailed it. I agree. Up to that point, I naively believed the late 90s economic boom was the "peace dividend" after the Cold War. I continue to believe we could have kept it in some form with a rational reaction to what was a massive but containable act of terrorism. Our most powerful preferred war.

Tbf a lot of folks tried with Obama, but electing a black man was unforgivable to a lot and electing a black WOMAN was unforgivable to 49.8%

Trump has essentially lost WWIII without starting it. We have no allies other than Netanyahu who led Trump into the Iran war which has now morphed into America alone vs the BRICS coalition. When Xi comes to DC it will be to dictate the new world order. Game Xi.

I have always said that 9/11 broke our brains as a nation. It was batshit to live through. It was a lonely time to be able to see the lies as they were being told. The music was pretty bad during that era too.

Countries are not collective minds, though they are treated as such rhetorically. Not everyone went insane. Many individuals in politics and media "went insane" or maybe just fell back on their worst instincts. They did their best to spread the insanity and are still working hard at it.

The other thing was, so many ppl were still "missing." That held up any feelings of finality for the remainder of the year, at least. There were homemade"MISSING" signs all over downtown. Picture of, usually, a young person having fun in better days, the tower, floor & co they worked, and contact #.

Democrats have been too worried about looking unpatriotic, and republicans have been too busy raving about “freedom fries”. That’s all Hegseth’s ranting about sending terrorists to hell amounts to: today’s version of freedom fries

This PBS Frontline episode explains it best.

*kept the tv on through Not sure how i mistyped that 🤦‍♂️

Countries would rather slide into fascism than go to therapy

I remember seeing reports of attacks on random immigrants as early as the day after for "looking Muslim"

I’ll go even further and say it likes what it has become so it doesn’t want to.

Now if there was an attack in New York City 25% of the country would cheer because they view NYC as filled with violent immigrants led by a Jihadist. Bin Laden’s goal of getting the USA to overextend itself in the ME, depleting itself seems to have been achieved. Trump would call him a winner.

The ongoing legacy of 9/11 is that we got the so-called "Patriot Act", a cynical wish list of the most Un-American and Un-Constitutional bullshit imaginable, that they had ready and waiting for the next available disaster.

they originally pushed "Total Information Awareness" with a freaking eye in a pyramid logo! then they dropped the logo and did it anyway.

A year later, 2/3 of Americans believed Saddam Hussein had something to do it so yeah, it's been twenty-five years of angry drunk uncle

And perhaps it never will

A link to the piece: share.google/g8yl1mrqcu0W...

prescient. though we've always been in eternal war against some country/enemy for our history. In the history of the U.S since missiles were developed, Jimmy Carter is the only one not to use one.

This fucking coulmn should be taught in 7th grade. Mandatory for Gov't class. He was prescient in ways I cannot fathom to this day.

Released NINE DAYS after the start of Operation Enduring Freedom!

DFW's contemporaneous writing on the day holds up better by the year: www.rollingstone.com/feature/davi...

Israel is about the only part he missed or left out.

“All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel” jfc

Our entire media landscape was altered and has not recovered

Rather understated Bush's active role in causing the thing, though I wouldn't expect him to have known that yet.

I do miss HST

Amazing that ESPN printed that and that it remains published by ESPN. They would not do the same today if "9/11" happened again

ESPN.com

Shoutout Page 2

While he complained about the ravages of age when he killed himself...I honestly believe part of his reasoning for checking out was that he saw all of this coming and wanted absolutely no part of it. He knew. He was done.