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turns out milking 9/11 for 25 years to justify insane bigotry doesn’t really work anymore

ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

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As I recall, Rudy used to focus that rage pretty squarely at Saudi Arabia, yet ironically he now seems unbothered that Trump is swimming in Saudi money like Scrooge McDuck, and instead blames a guy was himself a kid in New York on 9/11.

I would trust Mamdani to do more to prevent this sort of thing than Giuliani ever did. 9/11 wasn't just a terrorist attack. It was also a security failure. The Republicans largely responded with more of the "security" that failed and more of the provocative foreign policy.

Whether we did or didn't need to invade Iraq and Afghanistan we failed more or less completely at establishing the kind of institutions that will allow them (particularly Afghanistan) to flourish. Iraq fared better only because they had them pre-Saddam, and he didn't completely destroy them.

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ℳatt@matttomic.bsky.social

Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated. It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is. music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...

And I'm on at least year 15 of telling people that if their takeaway was "all muslims are our enemies in perpetuity," they're reacting exactly the way the hijackers wanted them to.

I think it is because a lot of Gen Z doesn't remember it so its harder to exploit. And as a Millennial I found the exploitation harmful and offensive even back then. I stopped watching TV news, I questioned TV in general bc it was on television and so lurid like all the time.

It is horrible. I don't even live in New York and because of the exploitation of the suffering at the time I started having nightmares about people being crushed in a collapsing building. That I still remember today. Then the demonization of Muslims happened, and all of the Patriot Act bullshit.