US Politics on Sidechat | I was technically a pre-9/11 baby (yeah yeah, I know I’m old but I’m in grad school and this place is better for my mental health than Twitter) and reading this shit hurts. I had 10 days before the towers fell and the country lost its mind. 10 days.

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I was technically a pre-9/11 baby (yeah yeah, I know I’m old but I’m in grad school and this place is better for my mental health than Twitter) and reading this shit hurts. I had 10 days before the towers fell and the country lost its mind. 10 days.

US Politics 7w

The world you grew up in no longer exists

Anonymous 7w

its really interesting to see that like the 50s to 80s really is the reason why things are the way they are now. fear of the ussr caused so many foreign interventions that made the us get involved in so many messes, then greed and literal conspiracies fucked up domestic economics. the interventions led to 9/11, and 9/11 to insane politics and trumpisn

Anonymous 7w

I got you beat. Had exactly a half day before the towers fell

Anonymous

#1 7w

“Fear of the ussr” when you really mean greed

Anonymous

#2 7w

not even, i wouldnt say fear of the ussr was greed so much as it was just instilled fear of russia and communism during those days. there were definitely people (at least assisting in) manufacturing that fear, most probably for greed, but a lot of americans just feared it (as i understand it)

Anonymous

#1 7w

Fear of communism… costing American corporations money

Anonymous

#2 7w

a lot of it was fear of authoritarianism? dont get me wrong there was a lot about it being about money and capitalism, but just as much people had fears of being trapped or subject to an extremely powerful government