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I always argue that bin Laden succeeded in his goals in the 9/11 attack, just the effects were delayed. This country changed overnight for the worse. I was 12, I didn’t believe the official story at the time and still don’t. Bush had the shadiest ties to the saudis and he wanted a war. I’m 100% convinced that at minimum his admin let it happen so they had an excuse to start a forever war and clamp down at home against anyone that threatened their interests. It’s interesting that environmental and animal rights protesters get hit with terrorism charges and life long jail sentences, it’s interesting that’s happening to Luigi too, and it’s really interesting that not a single school shooter has been charged with the same. Is shooting up a school not terrorism or do you need to shout allah akbar first?

I think it was the crashing of our economy that allowed the holding companies and hedge funds to buy up more stock, then Alan Greenspan deciding to set interest rates at 0 to boost the economy, which was a huge factor in creating the housing bubble, that really fucked us.

Mass surveillance certainly didn’t help, but 9/11 also brought out the beginnings of the “America First, fuck you I got my big diesel truck with flags all over it” crowd too. Wait I mean patriots.

I think there’s no direct connection between the surveillance state and authoritarianism in this context, but certainly an indirect one.

It’s the xenophobia, racism, us vs them, and all that type of rhetoric seized on by the republicans that expanded well beyond just the external forces and took over. Now they paint everything they can with that brush. That drove the surveillance state and the constant harping on border control. Everyone outside the border is a drug dealer, rapist, freeloader, socialist, or terrorist. Beating the drum of fear over and over again. The authoritarianism is them doing unto others before the others even thought about doing anything at all, the republicans just assume everyone is like them and want to beat them to the punch. The control they’re asserting is so they can keep doing unto others while stuffing their own pockets as fast as possible. Because everyone’s greedy like them, too.

We're about to enter a rerun season from 10 years ago, but with more evil writers.

Two more weeks energy

Congratulations to terror for winning the war on terror once again

As U.S. diplomats arrived in Damascus on Friday, Syria's de facto new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa will likely have greeted them with a clear message: Under his rule, there will be no threat to the West. ... He has also attempted to move away from his past as a jihadist leader with links to both the Islamic State terrorist group and Al Qaeda.

Been arguing for over 20 years that al queda won. It’s so obvious to anyone paying attention.

Capitalists have always been winning.

Most of the Democrats were just as much into Surveillance Society and Creeping Authoritarianism post 9/11 and their subsequent use to serve the interest of the 1%, as the Republicans.

For example, the "patriot" fervor around Bush's lies that justified the Invasion of Iraq was just as big from the Democrat-linked Press as from the Republican-linked one and from the Snowden revelations we know that the NSA expanded their operations just as much under Democrat presidents as under Republicans.

Trying to pass the creeping authoritarianism and surveillance society as a partisan "it was the other tribe that did it" thing is being a bit of an usefull idiot, IMHO.

You had me until the trump bullshit. That’s the problem with liberals, they think their precious democrats are angels. They’re just as much party of the security state as the republicans.

I'm pretty sure he stated something in one of those videos didn't he?

I don't think he specified conservatives explicitly, but something to the effect of causing Americans to destroy themselves.

Y'all-Qaeda

Panama is next

Guam will be invaded, and be forced to America. like it or not!