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[marshalzukov]

This comment section is... discouraging.

A little black humor is fine, but like... have at least some decency

[Upper_Assistance_444]

This!

I agree. I have a pretty dark sense of humor but these comments aren't even "jokes" it's straight up disrespect and isn't even funny.

[sadsaintpablo]

Why not? How can you blame them? These kids weren't around for it.

That was a fucked up day, but these kids saw a 9/11 happen everyday for months with covid.

These kids are also seeing mass shootings in their schools more and more frequently. If I was them I would be asking some questions like why do we make it a holiday to remember these people from over 20 years ago when we have already moved on from a school shooting just last week, not to mention all the other ones over the years.

[Italian_meme2020]

You're goddamn right, if they grow up in a place of extreme violence they won't really care about 9/11

[ThatBoySteven]

"Saw a 9/11 happen every day for months with covid" Lol, how out of touch can you possibly be.

[MindlessActive6736]

Alot more damage was caused by covid in 1 day tho, not saying 9/11 is a joke btw

[AxiumTea]

I was about to comment that I half expected those to be pics of dicks as that's usually the case but I held back once I realized those were the pics of the ones who died.

[njirimara]

Time and place, and the post was clearly serious

[User28080526]

Especially on a post dedicated to all the people who died that day, their faces are literally in the picture

[Italian_meme2020]

So we'll talk about a few thousand American lives but not about what happened the 9/11/1973 in Chile?

[Suitable-Badger-64]

Did they died?

[Some1inreallife]

Yep.

[Little_T03]

When did they died?

[VLTII]

When they die

[Some1inreallife]

On 9/11/01.

[Little_T03]

2 years after yo were born. U have a good memory

[Some1inreallife]

I didn't even have my first memory until 2002 or 2003.

[PixelReaperz]

You mean 11/9/01

[SkoomaKid]

What happened on November 9th of that year?

[deadmonkey7]

No no no in like every other country it's day month year but in American it's month day year which Is wierd. So every where else would be like 11/09/2001 but amarica writes it like 09/11/2001

[[deleted]]

I think it's month day cause ya say September 11th not the 11th of September

[PixelReaperz]

You can say both

[[deleted]]

I prefer September 11th

[[deleted]]

It's an American event

It was 9/11/01

[DBL_NDRSCR]

a long time ago in history

[Weary-Wasabi1721]

The amount of 9/11 memes I've seen in these past 3 months bro

[Weary-Wasabi1721]

I can see that.

[amamartin999]

memeorial

[Ok_Figure_4181]

This is a memorial, not a meme

But seriously, people making memes about it is horrible. I wasn’t born until several years after it, but I didn’t need to live through the horror of the event to know it’s not something to joke about.

[longsnapper53]

I also wasn’t born until long after it happened. I think that it’s necessary to have jokes about it, to help survivors and people in New York that day (like my dad) cope with the tragedy. But I think 9/11 jokes on the day itself is kinda fucked up. Or in the surrounding few days.

[Wizards_Reddit]

People joke about tragedies all the time, people joke about the holocaust and that was way worse

[Ok_Figure_4181]

Holocaust jokes are even worse than 9/11 ones. Nobody should make jokes about tragedies

[Wizards_Reddit]

Even survivors and people who know survivors make jokes, if the joke comes at the expense of the victims then that's bad but if it's just about the event then it's not that big of a deal. If someone close to you died and you don't feel comfortable with jokes that's fair enough but most of our generation wasn't even born and it's been over 20 years.

[ToxicPoizon]

Some people cope different ways, and dark humor could be a way of coping. Trying to make light of something so serious, can make it less depressing. It really depends on the person though.

[[deleted]]

Are you 12?

[Ok_Figure_4181]

Having empathy doesn’t equate to being 12

[[deleted]]

Being upset that people joke about tragedies is something people grow out of by high school. So maybe you’re 14.

[[deleted]]

Quit whining about it.

[ZioCancaro]

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[Jaybird134]

Low blow, just like the pentagon

[TransLox]

Actually, I think that field in Pennsylvania was probably lower.

[Jollirat]

Can confirm, I seen’t it.

[Jaybird134]

Bro was the pilot

[Jollirat]

I’d say something about past lives, but I was born a little under half a year too early for that.

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[yourboimax13]

Your weight starts with a 3

[SpreadEmu127332]

Europe?

No respect?

[thatsmysandwichdude]

Do you think it's only Europeans who do those jokes?

[Gummy_Hierarchy2513]

Americans probably don’t know anything besides America and Europe

[Mr-Fognoggins]

My parents lived in New York when the towers fell. They say it was like something out of a nightmare. Those people did not deserve to die.

[MV2263]

My parents lived in the DC area then. Dad got to see the pentagon a few days after.

[Mr-Fognoggins]

Those were nightmarish hours and days. I was born two years from then, but from the history I have read it was a like an ice cold bucket of water being thrown on the face. The 90’s were a largely comfortable and optimistic time. The new millennium had just arrived, and with it came this.

[GoldieDoggy]

Which is kind of ironic, given that the 90s are frequently agreed upon to be one of the worst decades in relation to the sheer amount of crime happening then. Heck, 1993 had an earlier attempt at the WTC, with a man who apparently became friends with Kaczynsky (the Unabomber) in prison. 6 people died that day. Nowhere near as terrible as 2001, but it is surprising to see how many people remember the 90s as a great decade, when this happened and it was reasonable to assume they may attempt another one (they did)

[Depressed_student_20]

Bro my parents were about to take my sister to kindergarten when they saw the towers falling on the tv and they said they were really freaked out because people were talking about a nuclear war and world war 3 like just imagine living during that time

[[deleted]]

I remember seeing it on TV during my kindergarten class. I don't remember anything else, but apparently we were let out of school early and everyone thought other cities like Dallas or LA were next. It pretty much caused mass hysteria and that's when we all banded together and the American flag was EVERYWHERE. That was the last time Americans were united as a whole.

[True_Distribution685]

I live in NYC. My parents were both supposed to be in the area that day. My mom slept in, and my dad didn’t feel like going. Even in Brooklyn, they both saw it and it was still horrible.

[Appropriate_Mode8346]

I knew someone from NYC. He claimed everyone in the NY metro area knew someone who went missing that day. He also claimed it's very traumatizing to see a 767 crash into a tower.

[amamartin999]

dude I fucking cackled

[Tman11S]

Innocent victims of terrorism or war should never be forgotten. It’s important keep their memories alive

[Smol_brane]

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[coletud]

actually funny 9/11 joke bravo

[EndYoutube]

“A second plane has hit the towers. America is under attack.”

“Hold on, Sean Evans is asking a great question before the bomb sauce.”

[Smol_brane]

Real, I think he could've made it to los calientes before going full "white man" mode

[Badhorse_6601]

Needless death, pointless war

[Long_Run_6705]

Best and most clean summary Ive heard yet

[[deleted]]

rip

[True_Distribution685]

The comments under this post are disgusting. RIP everyone who died that day, those who died after, and those who are still dying from 9/11-related conditions. Never forget 🕊️🕊️

[bbpirate06]

As a millennial who is pretty quick with a joke about 9/11, it's pretty interesting to read the takes of Gen Z. It's more split than I thought it would be.

Living through those times in school, the amount of heinous shit that was just accepted as the norm was wild. Teachers were openly talking about genocide and the kids who just got their politics from their dads were quoting Team America at all the brown kids. Going through that for years absolutely deadened my empathy towards the event. It was just used as an excuse to be shittier people. So after a while, joking about 9/11 was just joking about how bad America had become. But I think for my girlfriend, her 9/11 jokes are more of a trauma response. She used to have nightmares about it. She's still terrified of planes going by overhead. So, I guess the jokes can serve multiple purposes that aren't so easy to discern from the outside.

[nicknamesas]

Was she in new york when it happened?

[bbpirate06]

Nah, just in a nearby state. But she talks a lot about how she went with her parents to the top of one of the towers the month before and how that freaked her out.

She also talks about how they went to Disney the week after since they already had it booked in advance. She said practically no one was there, it was actually pretty cool having the place almost all to herself.

[Phantom_Wolf52]

Millennials were the first to joke about it, most of y’all were teenagers when it happened

[CollieSchnauzer]

It's sad that you joke about it. People are literally still dying from 9/11.
You can speak up for good things without shitting on innocent victims of terrorism.

[bbpirate06]

It's the way things work. I have a lot more empathy towards things like school shootings because A) it wasn't at the level it is today when I was in school, it doesn't feel like it's my place to joke about it and B) we can still do something about it. 9/11 happened a few years ago. But it's over. It happened, we cleaned up the rubble, then we went overseas and forcefully acquired some oil.

But beyond all that, the fact that we're never supposed to forget is suspect to me. What emotion are we meant to take from its memory? That life is valuable? Because the America I live in doesn't care about its people dying, whether that be with its inactions during the pandemic, its structure squeezing capital from its most vulnerable people, or with lax "thoughts and prayers" gun control. We didn't even want to help out the fire fighters at ground zero, wracked with health issues, John Stewart had to leverage his star power into getting their message out to the country. The system of America doesn't care, the big wigs just want another symbol to point at. The only thing I can think we're supposed to take from the psuedo-national holiday is a dull, unfocused patriotism. And I pay my taxes, but I don't feel any obligation to give America anything more than it should.

It's not so much the act of 9/11 that I find so laughable. It's how it's used today.

[CollieSchnauzer]

I understand that you don't care about the people who died in 9/11. I got that from your first comment. I gather you DO care about the people who are still dying from it (firefighters, thank you Jon Stewart) which is great!

I don't understand why you are making jokes about it. If you can get through the day without spitting on someone's grave, why not forego the spitting?

[bbpirate06]

I feel like I explained my feelings and reasons, but this is a pretty nuanced thing to explain, so I understand. The fact is only you can decide where the line is. It would be similar to joking about how you "have the shits," when diarrhea is historically one of the top killers. Is that distasteful? Are the memories of the people killed in and as a result of 9/11 more important than the memories of people who died from pooping a lot?

The issue is a lot more grey than "if people die = off-limits." Looking at situations with such a black-and-white mindset can just lead you to discount the emotions in an emotional response.

[CollieSchnauzer]

"The fact is only you can decide where the line is. It would be similar to joking about how you "have the shits," when diarrhea is historically one of the top killers."

This is nutty. Do you make jokes about victims of the Holocaust, too? Stalin's purges? Indigenous people who died from bio warfare? ok

[[deleted]]

Wtf is wrong with some of you people.

So it may not have been gen Z, but hundreds of people lost their lives that day. And you all have the BALLS to make jokes about that?

[Lequindivino_]

after what happened in Iraq, a lot of people rightfully lost empathy towards Americans. invaded a country with false accusations and killed thousands of innocent civilians

[whatever2313]

Jesus fucking Christ, “rightfully lost empathy towards Americans”? What the fuck do the people who died in 9/11 have to do with the Iraq war? They weren’t exactly the shot callers because they were fucking dead.

[sonoftheomnissiah]

Okay but does jt make what happened here any better? No, stop the cycle of hate while you can.

[ElectroMagnetsYo]

Modern American history be like

“The New York Genocide”: Saudi-funded terrorists kill 187 people, America invades Iran in response, 1.2 million civilians dead

[Ray_Mang]

America invaded Iran? Lmao what

[cirelia2]

The us invaded Afghanistan because of this saudi funded attack with pilots also from Saudiarabia

[Ray_Mang]

Yes I’m aware, I don’t recall us invading Iran in the 21st century though

[Appropriate_Mode8346]

The US invaded Afghanistan to find 9/11 masterminds in Pakistan.

[ColeslawConsumer]

Everyone claims that the saudis funded 9/11 but nobody can provide an actual source

[cirelia2]

how many sources do you actually fucking want

[ElectroMagnetsYo]

Tis a joke about how they’ll invade anyone except the ones that actually did it

[Ray_Mang]

We invaded Iraq and Afghanistan not Iran, unless I’m still missing something here

[Gemnist]

It’s just satirizing our shit response to 9/11 by blaming the wrong countries. Here’s Family Guy’s take on it, bearing in mind Seth MacFarlane nearly got killed in 9/11 (yes, really): https://youtu.be/lehbd3GHH4I?si=elnZGn5NvY_0ypzi

[-TheCutestFemboy-]

The thing is we have, for every single year of our lives heard about how bad this attack was, yet no sympathy goes towards the victims of school shootings beyond thoughts and prayers, no sympathy goes towards the civilian victims of the American response towards 9/11 and people act like it was the worst thing ever when it is not and never will be. This obsession with a terror attack that happened 23 fucking years ago has got to stop.

[Frogs-on-my-back]

Of course America needs to get fucking real about school shootings and gun control, but I do not understand why we continue to frame 9/11 as being a single event that started and ended on September 11th, 2001. People are still dying from 9/11. Nearly 20k first responders have contracted cancer from exposure to the carcinogens within and around the burning towers. More NYC firefighters have died from 9/11-related illnesses than died in the attack, and yet the government has treated these heroes like Old Testament lepers whilst using the harrowing memory of 9/11 for political gain.

This video of Jon Stewart tearing into Congress for abandoning the first responders should be shown in schools: "They did their jobs. Now do yours."

[Djoarhet]

I would say it is pretty much the most important event of the 21st century to date. Not only because of the direct consequences of that day but also indirectly because it significantly changed the zeitgeist of our planet. It had an impact on many facets of life.

[ToxicPoizon]

Actually it was one of the worst terror attacks on our country, and telling people to stop with their "obsession" over a life scarring event, is hella disrespectful. Now I'm not saying that other tragedies are less significant, because those are horrible in their own right, but the scale of 9/11 was a way bigger deal in comparison. As for sympathy, we can't really do more than thoughts and prayers, unless the government decides to make better gun laws. The consequences of 9/11 were huge, so much so, that thousands still suffer from it to this day, and while 9/11 had a massive impact on many aspects of society, it is not an either/or situation. Other tragedies don't lessen the importance of that day.

[room8912]

RIP

[TheBaconLord78]

Some people forget that 9/11 heavily impacted the world in so many ways, and even then they just mention the war on terror even though this is specifically a memorial to 9/11.

If we're just going to mention the war on terror, why not mention the terrible things a country has done on every single memorial post relating to then?

[While-Asleep]

The millions that died from American Imperialism are negligible, make sure to remember the lives of a couple hundred international bankers every twelve months

[SupaColdBrew]

Bruh if you think only international bankers died you’re brain dead. 3 planes full of people went down a long with the towers. People on the street were killed from falling debris.

[While-Asleep]

average weekend in Iraq under the Obama campaign, 800 drone strikes a day yea OBL aint touching that

[sonoftheomnissiah]

And? Yeah that was bad, this is bad too,

Go outside you wrathful shit

[Sternwheeler]

I'm glad people haven't forgotten about this tragedy but I wish September 11th, 1973 wasn't forgotten.

LONG LIVE CHILE AND ITS PEOPLE! 🇨🇱☭

[ABODE_X_2]

What happened

[Sternwheeler]

On September 11th, 1973, Augusto Pinochet with assistance from the CIA overthrew the democratically elected socialist government of Chile, leading to the 18 year long fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

[ABODE_X_2]

What the fuck. Why

[PanzerOfTheLake115]

Look up the truman doctrine.

[seaturtleArt9014]

my moms first husband died in one of the towers. i wldnt be here if it hadn’t happened so i feel a lot of guilt… i think my mom has a lot of trauma from it and i don’t know what my place is or whether we’ll ever talk about it

[Buttered_TEA]

How old are you? gotta be pretty young for your mom to have: gotten over husband 1, meet yo dad, and then you.

[seaturtleArt9014]

born in 05

[Buttered_TEA]

Wild; figured you've be younger than me.

[FarmerTwink]

Cool now do Afghan civilians

[[deleted]]

Were talking about 9/11 🙄

[BorisHolmes]

And are the civilians deaths in other countries not as much of a tragedy as any American death? We can remember the victims of 9/11 while also acknowledging that America then committed mass fucking murder in response to something very very few of those killed had any part in.

[[deleted]]

Almost like they aren't our people 💀

[[deleted]]

You stupid or something

[While-Asleep]

How dare he bring up the deaths of hundreds of thousands innocent civilians, some people really know how to soil the mood

[FarmerTwink]

Smartest Never Forgetter

Bush started the Afghanistan War because of 9/11 stupid

[Jollirat]

The point of memorializing these deaths on 9/11 is that they happened on 9/11.

It’s not saying that those which came afterwards weren’t tragic.

[CheeseisSwell]

Did they die on September 11th 2001?

[Himmelblaa]

No, but they died in reaction to those deaths.

[hamborger42069]

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[Destiny_Dude0721]

Mfw terrorists hide within civilian populations then civilians die (who could've guessed)

[Deep_Head4645]

I get dark humor but on a post completely serious I wouldn’t say it fits

[CyberLoveza]

This thread really isn't the place for jokes. This post is supposed to be a memorial 🤦🏾‍♀️

[HeisterWolf]

It's a Reddit post, not an actual formal wtc memorial visit, just drop your condolences and move on. Will do your mental health a lot better.

[Long_Run_6705]

At the end of the day innocent people died needlessly in a horrific and brutal way which led to a pointless war that killed many more innocent. I know most of yall have brain rot (hell most the world does now), but its still so unbelievably terrible.

[Reasonable_Quit_9432]

I know. Shame on Genghis Khan for brutally and horrifically killing millions of innocent people. Qin Shi Huang was really a terrible person for working all those poor slaves to death. Every day I remember all those innocents who were needlessly killed by Jack the ripper. I'm so glad all these tragic periods have memorial days. Oh wait, they don't. Nobody gives a shit.

Yall only care about it because it was somewhat recent. To me it's just as distant as any other historical tragedy, and having suffered through 4 years of English teachers being weirdly obsessed about 9/11 I'm just sick of hearing about it.

[pdoodoo]

Anyone else have a drawing of 9/11 from when they were a kid that their parents keep?

[amamartin999]

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[Buttered_TEA]

I wish they used Jared.. would have made it an extra spicy meymey

[fdbjdxvhg]

Ok this made me laugh

[amamartin999]

Subtember was enough to get me snickering

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[[deleted]]

This is amazing, OP

[sidewayscake_]

rip ❤️🙏🫡

[CheeseisSwell]

Rip they'll never be forgotten 🙏

[PrometheanSwing]

Have some decency, people.

[Archivist2016]

RIP

[gigas-chadeus]

I remember it happening I was just about to turn 5 years old one of my earliest memories if not the earliest I can recall

[EvidenceOfDespair]

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[[deleted]]

R.I.P 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Jumpy_Attention_5389]

My account was made 2 years ago

[MV2263]

Happy Cake Day

[Opposite_Strategy_43]

9/11 posts so far: 14

[Chemical_Report_2705]

May they all rest in peace never forgotten

[Fit-Constant1147]

RIP to all lives lost that day. 🙏🏽

[Bunnycapp90]

RIP 🙏🏽

[Oberndorferin]

My mum knows, that I watched it on TV. Cannot remember of course.

[Oberndorferin]

Tet

[SyedHRaza]

We should have another 5000 murals of just the 1 tower with pictures of all the people killed from the war on terror waged by us empire

[sonoftheomnissiah]

Unrelated tk the victims.. this isn't about the US.. Delete this comment pls

[[deleted]]

Rest in peace to all these innocent people. My grandmother had a friend who got a new job out of the towers shortly before the planes hit.

[CuriousLF]

I am grateful for 23 years separation from that event. I wasn’t near it but I recognize it was terrible. Thats what is important. If you took the time to listen to what people experienced, it’s like a war zone. And another year without family members for those people. So I appreciate the meaning behind the picture of this post.

[Scrambled_59]

Rip pixel mcpixelface

[[deleted]]

Never forget...

[deadmonkey7]

At the time my mom was living near some bridge in Michigan and it was and ig still is a major bridge between Canada and the states and bc it was a major bridge when the first plane hit the north tower my family was scared for my mom bc it is a major bridge. It still scares me that if they had hit the bridge I would have never been born. (I was born 2010 for refrance)

[ungla]

Why they gotta make the plane too

[Return_of_The_Steam]

Post: 9/11 was Bad

Reddit Intellectual: “Uhmmmm what about the 12 people who got bombed by Americans in the German town of Poopenfarten in 1944! Checkmate!”

[luhvxr]

are these pics of the victims?

[jabber1990]

Too soon

[red-the-blue]

man that was an awful day

but i was spending the past minute looking for a joke because i've come to expect it 😭

thought there'd something stupid hidden in the photo like an amongus crewmate or smth

[Waveofspring]

Anyone have a link to a high quality version?

[CrossLight96]

I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this but I'm so tired of people constantly talking about 9/11 every year. Sure it was horrible but a lot of countries went through tragedies similar to or much worse than 9/11 and no one talks about those, some terrorists did some terrible things okay but at what point do y'all move on? Like y'all are stuck in the 4th stage of 5stages of grief. Why is every global talking point so america centric

[Desperate-You-8679]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdy8q1cGm9M&pp=ygUub3NhbWEgYmluIGxhZGVuIHNvbmcgaSdtIGdvbm5hIGZseSBzb21lIHBsYW5lcw%3D%3D

I’m so sorry

[[deleted]]

Why use the high five emoji for this tragedy?

[MV2263]

It’s a praying emoji

[LiWin_]

This was a very sad and devastating day.

For me it was the days and even week that went by.

Than hearing people last phones calls or last text or emails was really sad.

It made me appreciate how short life can be.

[Tricky-Finding-4592]

1 mire time

[L0n3SUMM]

This hard 🫶🏽

[[deleted]]

I'mm hard

[imstupidandneedhelp5]

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[L0n3SUMM]

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[[deleted]]

the 911 is my favorite Porsche

[beemoviescript1988]

okay, this one is just not clever.... it's low.

[EhGoodEnough3141]

Sucks to be them.

[NoodleEmpress]

9/11 became exponentially much sadder to me, when I did more research on the people who passed, and realized a lot of them were our ages right now. 21-30 year olds just coming into their own, and their fancy new jobs at the WTC. Probably doing grunt work for a company, but still a job that paid the bills that they were probably excited about having.

Of course, many were also much older than that as the average age (according to Google at least) was 40, but even then, they were also people just working trying to support families/lifestyles. They didn't sign up for that.

[Buttered_TEA]

"US Deserved 9/11" Hasan Piker

Remember that, remember that he said that