#post 9/11

[kindsoulbuddy]

At the World Trade Center Plaza there was actually a music festival happening the week of September 11th 2001; that’s what the colorful banners were and the stage.

Nobody saw this coming. I can’t stress enough.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

That art by Alex Ross of George W. Bush sucking the Statue of Liberty like a vampire goes hard. I didn't know he was capable of creating such cool political art.

[hopeworth]

everything is a transgender allegory except being transgender which is about being alive

[maccamania]

Has anyone done this yet?

[sexygaywizard]

[victusinveritas]

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this a week after 9/11

[4x01]

you don’t like country/folk/americana? you don’t like the soulful lamenting and colorful storytelling of poor workers and immigrants of the past? banjo banjo🪕?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[krowtesque]

you already know what day it is

[usauthoritarianism]

[punkitt-is-here]

happy 1 year anniversary to the time i did this to my buds

[kindsoulbuddy]

If you were too little to remember 9/11 or you weren’t even born yet, you need to know something:

late 90s/very early 2000s commercial compilations on YouTube are like a time capsule from the pre-9/11 days, especially something like this one from January 2001:

I was 14 at this time and I remember a lot of these.

Take note of diet culture and landlines and the computers and even the “hanging chad” jokes. Also the corniness and light-heartedness.

Take note of how unsuspecting we were.

Now look at commercials from later that year, after 9/11:

Take note of how somber and traumatized everyone is, yet there’s intense patriotism. It was America the Beautiful 24/7 there for a while.

Yet life goes on and ads don’t stop for long.

But for a time channels that didn’t show the news went off air basically. And there was lot of this on most every channel:

[amisonist]

[pitch-and-moan]

Not At All Loud & Mostly At a Distance

An AI-penned remake of the adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. The film is cobbled together using existing interviews with an autistic child, and footage of post-9/11 New York City, as well as convenient interviews with people named "Black."

[formulanni]

The Safety Car as The Tower:

The Tower is commonly interpreted as meaning danger, crisis, destruction, and liberation. It is associated with sudden unforseen change.

@st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls

[victusinveritas]