• starryoccultist@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    You aren’t crazy. This must have been what it was like being a sane, thinking person right after 9/11 and during the run up to the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions and seeing everyone around you descend into psychotic, genocidal bloodlust. That’s par for the course for conservatives but it is genuinely horrifying to see it coming from liberals and people on the left.

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      1 year ago

      I remember that sinking feeling and realizing that our culture was going to use 9/11 as an excuse to act really terrible. I’m from the western US and had no cultural or personal ties with anyone east of the Mississippi, so I had less of an emotional connection to the actual terrible events. Nothing has been quite the same since in our culture.