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I hate seeing a terrorist attack as a meme. Thousands of innocent civilians went to work that day (or even were just visiting the towers). Religious terrorists, radicalized by their religion, hijacked and flew airplanes into the towers and murdered them all. All in the name of "god". List of the three thousand innocent civilians murdered on September 11th.
If you think this is funny, you should hear the recorded phone calls on September 11th of all those innocent people saying goodbye to their loved ones because they knew they would not be able to get out of the burning buildings moments before the towers collapsed. Or watch the videos of people jumping out of the buildings because they're choking on acrid smoke. Some chose to die by impact since it was less painful than burning to death.
Here are a few quotes taken from the recorded phone calls/voicemails of a few victims:
Recorded transcript between a trapped person named Kevin and an Emergency Operator:
A recent example documentary that highlights these recorded phone calls. There are lots of them out there:
It's never funny when innocent persons die all over the world. Whether it's our elected elite rulers toying with our lives, or terrorists (or the extremely devout) deciding their god was better than someone else's god, and whispered in their ear that their killing was just.
What's up with Lemmy users getting completely and totally whooshed by dark humor lately?
You can be aware of the tragedy of 9/11 and still laugh at a stupid meme like this
To be fair, according to South Park it takes 22.3 years for a tragedy to become funny.
It hasn't been 22.3 years yet...
I feel your anguish and all, however as a nation, I don't really think we care. The same number of people died on December 9 2020 due to covid and we don't have a memorial to them, and that was just that days death toll, not counting the days before and after. It's a shame and all, plus a lot of other people died as a result of it. Pretty sure the US killed a lot more in response to the supposed 9/11 attacks in several wrong countries, so that makes the US worse than the 9/11 terrorists right?
"We can laugh about everything, but not with everyone."
Not that old of a quote but I wish more people knew and understood it.
This humor has its places. And dankmemes is one of them. Relax.