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US Politics 14h
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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US Politics 14h
The world you grew up in no longer exists
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Anonymous 14h

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

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Anonymous 12m

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

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

“Fear of the ussr” when you really mean greed

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

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)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Fear of communism… costing American corporations money

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

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

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 13h

I mean in all fairness even if that’s the case, that fear was wholly misplaced (which just so happens to be one of the intended goals of the US’s comprehensive propaganda during that time) like our nation was inherently authoritarian during that time as well, and I’d argue even more so, but our nation is woefully skilled in redirecting guilt and responsibility where needed. tldr: it was mostly a manufactured fear of communism imo

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13h

this is not to say that the USSR was not authoritarian in its own light, just that the US was, and has been, one of the strongest authoritarian regimes in the modern era

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