Actually it was for something we did. Hence the "America deserved 9/11" comments. Yeah those forever wars we launched in response to the international blowback from our earlier wars in the region were totally unifying, bro!

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d

I came here to rolly eyes at exactly the same line.

In the 2004 Osama bin Laden video, he vividly and explicitly describes where he got his primary motivation for the attack. This was his vengeance for the carnage he saw in the media coverage of the Israeli siege of Beirut, in the 1982 Lebanon War, where Israel was helped by the United States. Other motivations were published in the 2002 Letter to the American People, in which he said that al-Qaeda's motives for the attacks included American support for attacking Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supporting the Indian oppression against Muslims in Kashmir, condoning the 1982 massacres in Lebanon, the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, US support of Israel, and sanctions against Iraq. Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri asserted that Israeli repression of Palestinians during the Second Intifada was the immediate cause that forced Al-Qaeda to launch the September 11 attacks.

postcapitalism@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 2d

I mean this already trash political smear tactics (which of course is widely supported by APAC / billionaires) - for a historical example see the Southern Strategy.

But I don’t think this will carry the same purchase as disenfranchising blacks in the South in 1950s (turning a blue-collar white working base from Dem to Republican).

Michigan is different. There are wide areas with Muslim middle/upperclass semi integrated communities - so very interesting how this going to resonate across an intermingled population.

I wonder how much the white population in Michigan will “look at their feet” when this airs versus silently nod. I suspect more the former, but the US doesn’t cease to disappoint either.

Yew@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d (2 replies)

I can't believe that 9-11 racism is still going so strong after 25 years.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 2d

Black Americans: "Yeah, that's a long time to still be active."

daychilde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

In fairness, it was there long before and the flames were merely fanned like a fucking hurricane by the Republicans.

areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 4 pts · 2d

Should I throw up here or, uh...

sartalon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Mike Rogers was a cop too.

This guy is 110% a fucking fascist/racist/pedo piece of shit.

Probably even calls himself a Christian.

That ad was like the chef's kiss of why these fuck nuggets are terrible fucking people.

"I did NOT fucking die for this shit." - Jesus (probably)

blackshirt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

How is this legal?

the_q@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

Wow.

Sims@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2d

Jeebus.. It's super easy hating Merika, but.. Mericans are mind-raped by Oligarchs on a daily basis from they are born - until they either die in a war for their Oligarchs, or on the streets as homeless ! In between, they aggressively support the Oligarchs pet ideology that keep them all trapped, and allow US elite to fck up the rest of the world.. Ultimate mind-fck..