To all the people in my school, and all the regulars on my favorite MBs, who keep telling me that “we had this coming for a long time.”
No shit we had this coming. But how convenient that you would make that pronunciation AFTER it’s happened.
and to the wannabe anarchists who keep telling me that “the capitalist system provoked this attack.”
Fuck you. There is absolutely NOTHING that any country could ever do to another that would justify what happened today. Not collapsing their economy, not bombing the shit out of their cities, not starving their people, nothing. Do you honestly want to suggest that turning passenger planes into guided missiles and killing tens of thousands of people is a valid way to deliver CRITICISM!?? On an ECONOMIC SYSTEM!?!?! You unworthy fucks.
I’ll dispense with the profanity and empty threats, because I know we’re all under a lot of stress right now and we’re lashing out in weird, weird ways. Hey, I’m guilty too. I’m over in IMHO trying to convince myself that someone, somewhere, will track down and nail the bastards that did this.
I’ll second that shutup. I no longer give a shit what actual or perceived wrong the US has ever done to you. Backed Israel? I don’t care. Took a stance on some environmental issue you didn’t like? Fuck off. Supported an economic system you disapprove of? Go ream yourself with a piece of barb wire.
There is no justification for what happened today. I am not interested in even discussing it. I’m going off on the next person that gives me condolences in one sentence and then follows it up with "But you know the US shouldn’t have been involved with [insert stupid fucking topic here.] Let me make it perfectly clear. I don’t care what the US has done to you anymore. I might have cared at one point. But no longer. Fuck the world and fuck its stupid causes.
Speaking of shutting up, I just KNEW this would happen, that Fred Phelps IS already using this tragedy. He’s already got a fax out about it on his website, talking about how “God Hates America” and that this is the proof. What a jerk.
Naturally, it’s not just Americans doing this. In case you haven’t heard, in the same breath as denying any involvement in the attacks, Osama bin Laden expressed support for them, basically remarking, “none of you Americans cried out when tens of thousands of Palestinians were being killed, so why should we give a crap? You reap what you sow.”
Whether that says anything about his guilt, I don’t know, but it sure doesn’t make him look innocent, does it?
While flipping channels just now I saw the Rev. Pat Robertson basically saying that due to America’s lax attitudes toward ‘pornography’ and ‘abortion’, God has lifted his protection for our country.
Huh?
I never get this part. Doesn’t Osama Bin Whatever have more money than Yahwey? Aren’t the extravegances of those who control the oil in that region legendary? If their economy is squeezing the masses over there, WTF does that have to do with us?
Does anyone mind if I add a “shut up” to my coworker B. We’re all upset. That’s fine. But this guy’s outrage as trivial things is starting to get on my nerves. I mean, get a grip, asshole. You’ve got your family and friends all safe and fine here. You act as if this attack and its attendant details is a personal affront to you and the rest of us just don’t feel your pain.
This is what I posted on another MB in response to yet another “America caused this to happen through its blah blah blah” thread:
Please don’t take this the wrong way, as I mean nothing against you or your opinion, but I think we don’t need any more experts and opinions on the situation. I think we’ve all been overburdened with everyone’s take on the situation. I hear “facts” and “statistics” being bandied around and I hear all sorts of analyses of the political situation and fallout of this tragedy. I hear all kinds of people reading CNN’s website or catching a sound bite and then formulating all these theories and opinions on who caused this and the genesis of this incident and so forth and I just want to scream.
Again, I don’t intend this personally. But please let’s attend to the wounded, the trapped, let’s let the investigation go on. We don’t need to add any more hate and anger and fingerpointing than necessary at the moment. Don’t get me wrong, I want those responsible to pay, and I have my own theories on things, but honestly I don’t know shit and neither do most people and we simply don’t need to have any more people standing on soapboxes, conservative or liberal, decrying something or other.
I understand the combined anger, sadness, and frustration, and I share in it, but I think right now we all need to either be part of the solution or, at the very least, not be part of the problem.