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ChikitaWolf — 9 11 is not AMUSING
Published: 2011-10-10 19:03:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 8765; Favourites: 407; Downloads: 29
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I find nothing amusing whatsoever about that horrible event. I can understand people'll joke about it and most don't mean harm necessarily; but lately, I've noticed the joking has gone overboard to the extent that people will call it amusing [and believe it].
What the Hell is so amusing about that event? About all the people who died? About all the destruction? About the suffering that still occurs today because of it?
I just don't understand.
To those of you who literally, and I mean literally, think 9/11 is AMUSING, I think you need to take a trip on Youtube and see the news reports of 9/11, or look up "9 11" on Google images. Perhaps even check up on this site as well-> [link]
If you think people jumping out of the twin towers because they had nowhere to go, the firefighters who were killed upon entering to attempt to save those in the towers, and all the other lives that were lost tragically is amusing, I think you need your head checked, IMHO.
Because that's just sick.
//end rant
Edit: There will be trolls on this. It would probably be better just to ignore them...Unless you have a funny comeback comment >w> *reading those in amusement*
Edit2: I must say, I never expected someone to get POed by me giving my opinion on this subject. If you feel that I need to "pull the stick out of my ass" and "GTFO the internet" for "not accepting other people's opinions", please take a look at your own advice.
Edit3: Thank you for all the favs and views!
Feel free to check out my other stamps as well ;3Edit4: 2nd page for 8 hours? Awesome xD Thanks again!
Edit5: Gotta love dem edits. Ahem. Anyway! I came home to find 100 comments. I can't reply to them all D: So, yeah. If I don't reply, I apologize, but I really am reading all of your comments. And, on a side note; yes, I understand people have dark humour and other opinions. But ya know, this is mine. I believe that there's a boundary that ought not be crossed when it comes to joking around about tragedy [and then believing the actual event is amusing].
. My opinion. No need to get your panties in a bunch ;3Edit6: Just to get this out there, I'm not going to throw a which tragedy is worse pity party comparison. Tragedy is tragedy. And I'm talking about 9/11 in this stamp, not Japan. If you want to see something for the tragedy of Japan, do look up a stamp for that. And please, people, I realize people die everyday. But that doesn't make 9/11 any less horrible, imo. Whenever I get a comment throwing out statistics about how many people die per day I do this -> . Please stay on the subject of the stamp. Thanks ahead of time for understanding~! :3
Edit7: Here we go~! For those who are ranting about other tragedies like Japan not getting attention and not being funny either -> [link] Enjoy :3
Edit8: Please read through comments before making your own... it's beginning to get rather repetitive ^^"
And honestly, I don't mind hearing other's opinions. I like to try and understand a view from another person's point of view. It'd just be nice if it could pertain to the actual subject of this stamp and not throw my words out of context... because the rash assumptions are beginning to get tiresome.
Anyway, I think this'll be the last edit I make. On a side note, if you'd like an earlier comment you made hidden due to excessive replies (or the like), just note me and I'll hide it for you. No problem~ ^^
*If there are any other edits on this (like to my original argument or to former edits), I'll put them in brackets
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I agree with you to. People are Sick.
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The kind of people who make comments like that are merely attention seekers. They have no other means of feeling special so they have to resort to stirring up controversy wherever and whenever they can, just so they can say "I did this lolz."
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Some of the jokes are funny (if a little "too soon"), but the event itself isn't funny. 
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The amount of people that die in the US from preventable causes equals up to THREE 9/11's a year...
It's pretentious to give a shit about whether or not someone finds it amusing because in the end nobody (unless they are directly affected by the event) gives a single fuck about 9/11 because they are NOT directly affected. How many people have donated money to the families that lost their loved ones that day? How many people wrote letters of support to the families? How many people lifted a finger aside from watching the news report on the TV and maybe felt sorry somewhere deep in their tiny little hearts?
*crickets*
Exactly.
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Oh? I "give a fuck", and I wasn't directly affected. o.O
I'm not making a comparison of tragedies here either. Yeah, people die every day. What's that got to do with not supporting 9/11 being amusing?
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9/11 is not amusing, in itself, but it's high time that our country moves on. 9/11 has been used and abused by our leaders as propaganda to wage war and destroy our own liberties, and the media won't drop it because it gets them ratings. It will always be a painful memory for everyone involved, and those who lost family or friends, which is all the more reason that we don't take advantage of the emotions attached to it.
As a society, we have to drop it, and stop acting like it's some pivotal moment in our nations history. If the things surrounding it were handled correctly, not only would it likely not have happened, but we could have avoided greater tragedies after it happened by not engaging in two wars that have lead to over three thousand deaths of US military, alone, and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. That's not counting injuries, whether physical or mental, which total much higher. The only thing pivotal about the tragic day of 9/11 is that our government used it as an excuse to invade two countries that had nothing to do with it - that "pearl harbor" that PNAC members felt they needed to bring about revolutionary change in US military dominance, an organization of which Bush and a number of the people in his administration were a part of. (citation: [link] pg. 51)
The death of 3000 people is certainly tragic, but nobody points out how many people die every day due to everything from car accidents to starvation and disease, things that we have the power to prevent. That's truly tragic.
So I say bring on the 9/11 jokes, especially if they point out all of the absurdities surrounding it. Comedy is a valuable thing in our society, because we laugh at what is absurd. It is even more valuable when that laughter makes us feel uncomfortable, because then we're forced to analyze our preconceptions.
There ends my rant.
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I don't know. I don't the terrorists would have stopped after 9/11. The fact that we acted upon it and "waged war" was to stop terrorism before it could get worse.
I don't compare tragedies :/ I know people die every day. It is tragic. And 9/11 is as well.
And I agree-- comedy is a way to lessen the pain. To get over it. But there's a boundary that ought not be crossed, in my opinion.
((probably one of the better "rants" I've read, honestly :'3))
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We "waged war" under false pretenses - that is, that Sadam Hussein was in line with the terrorists that attacked the USA, and that the Iraqis had weapons of mass destruction. There was no plausible evidence indicative of either case, and that was confirmed to the masses only after we began our invasion. In the end, it's been seen that the anger caused by our killing of civilians may have actually rallied more extremists to the cause. So it was based on incredibly faulty intelligence, but I think it's more likely that they were flat out lies.
Boundaries are meant to be broken. ; )
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To clarify, I didn't say that we did not respond to a terrorist attack. I suggested that we used that terrorist attack as an excuse to invade Iraq, which evidently had nothing to do with 9/11.
As for why make boundaries, ask the people that make them. ; )
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Oops, replied to the wrong post.
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Do you have sources for this information?
What I've seen and looked up is that we responded to a terrorist attack. And the terrorists admitted to it. I studied this with my World History class last year, which is why I'm confused as to where you've gotten this information..
If they're meant to be broken, what's the point of making them at all?
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To clarify, I didn't say that we did not respond to a terrorist attack. I suggested that we used that terrorist attack as an excuse to invade Iraq, which evidently had nothing to do with 9/11.
As for why make boundaries, ask the people that make them. ; )
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Again! Responded to the wrong flippen comment
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Oh, I see now :'3
Pffff, if only xD
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It's good to see an american saying this!
I have talked with many americans who act like USA is the most AMAZING COUNTRY in the world and make it sound like USA can do whatever they want, but when someone does something to the USA it's so terrible that they have to cry about it and revenge it even 1000 years later and that it's so much worse than if it happened outside the USA...
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There are tons of Americans here disgusted with how our country has been managed, and the way our image has been tarnished through criminal foreign policy. We're the majority, just not the vocal majority. The people you're thinking of, I believe, are the ones with the media backing (Fox "News", etc.) to get their opinions out there. That's slowly changing, however.
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You are probably right, and I am glad to hear so.
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I agree with you. There are some things that should never be joked about. Nobody jokes about the holocaust, and nobody ever should. 9/11 isn't funny, and it never will be. Most tragedies can, to an extent, be associated with some humor, but for the sake of decency, some things shouldn't be. Ever.
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9/11 is truly fearful. Makes me scared to go on planes sometimes. But I mean what happened happened. And I choose to believe what the media said was true. I don't see why they would lie about a thing that happened. And its easy to blame the terrorists because they have always hated America. But i see no true reason why America would attack its own country. I know our country is filled with greed but why would we want to start war? What could we gain? I think some people are confusing the bombs in the basement from the last terrorist attack that we had which didn't go as they planned. I have the right to believe this and you have the right to believe that but I mean who truly understands what has truly happened it was something that happened pretty quickly. So much chaos. I mean in all honesty I am strongly against the idea that our own country would attack and kill our own people. Its like me going over to your country and saying this didn't happen but this did. Its hard for us to find the truth about what truly happened. I'm sure that even the people who experienced it and lived are hazy about this whole ordeal. But we learned from our mistakes no? The media is something you can only trust on certain things. But this is just my opinion.
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Well, your opinion is most definately well-said
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Well why thank you. ;D
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Why is there no like button!?
I agree with you so much! Even though up til now it never occured to me someone would find this event amusing O_O;;
I'm not usually a crier in my life, but every time I watch something about 9/11, I can't help it. D: If I ever go to NY, I'll stop by then memorial. V-V
I still remember watching it on TV as a kid, D: it wasn't funny then and its certainly not funny now. I still pray for those surviving families, and all those affected.
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People get hurt... people die. It's not funny. It's not amusing. But people joke about it anyways.
I guess things just happen. Thats just how it goes.
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When i was 7-8 we made a trip to US and visit New York, i bought a wallet from WTC as souvenir. After almost exactly year ago WTC blowed up. Now i am 19 and i still have that wallet with me.
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We passed the towers coming home from vacation a month before they were destroyed :C
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I almost lost family members because of that. Thank goodness they missed the plane. I am probably one of the lucky few that had their family back intact after all of this. I feel back for the families that lost members and especially the young kids who don't have parents because of it. I just find it so wrong that people find it humorous or that it was no big deal. Thousands died because of terrorists. That is a big deal especially the buildings that the planes were aiming for. Pentagon and potentially the White House among the Twin Towers is a major blow to the United States.
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Thank goodness you didn't indeed. There were a lot of scares that day..
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There were comedians to joke about 9/11 right after it happened. Days or weeks after. Some people just have strange ways of coping with tragedy. Most people don't laugh at things like this, but people that do aren't that uncommon. They're just dealing how they know how. And it would be different if they had family in there. A lot of people that would joke about it might also be a lot younger. 10 years after it... It was probably different for me as a 20 yr old to live through the army war planes flying over my house than an 8-10 yr old seeing all the neat planes in the sky.
Anyway, originally wanted to comment because of your second edit. In my experience, the people that get the most pissed at what you say are the people it's talking to. If they're really mad, they've probably made jokes about it.
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Yeah. I often hear how people'll joke to lessen the pain. But as has been said, there are limits :/
That's what I was thinking :'3 But they don't appear to be preaching to me about 9/11. Something about opinions. I think they've taken my words out of context or something :S
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There are limits. I personally thought it was horrible making jokes about it, especially that soon after it. 10 years later seems like a long time, but it's almost like yesterday to me. I remember where I was, what I was sketching, the exact CD I left playing in my room, the movie I was watching, that the front door was open, and the sky was especially gorgeous that day. Then while I was changing my DVD out, every station is the same thing, and suddenly half of Louisiana's armed forces are flying over my house. Scary stuff.
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My mom still tells me about that day. Since we live near a base, it was pretty much chaos. All the forces in the city were rushing back to base-- and the traffic was so bad, they ended up getting out of their cars and running there on foot. And she said all the news channels were focused on the buildings and the like, and how she watched the event live. Just talking about it makes her tear up :S
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Hey guys did you hear about people joking about 9/11?
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Dear APH Fans,
This means you.
Sincerely, Everyone.
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Lol :'3
My BFF is an APH fan :'D
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I find the aftermath unamusing; those 9-11 responders got duped out of their health benefits from the damn government when they were still suffering chronic respiratory illness 'caused' by their involvement at Ground Zero. There's nothing funny about it at all.
Hurrah to Jon Stewart for bringing their plight into light and putting the higer-ups in to shame for being, well, idiots.
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This was still ten years ago.. 3,000 people may have died, but there were a lot more that died BECAUSE of us when we sent a freakin atomic bomb to Japan.
Yes, people will be sad that they lost loved ones, and that's fine, but the only way we'll ever get past something like this is to use some kind of humor.
Of course saying out right "HAHA YOUR DADDY'S DEAD!" Or something like that is a bit over the edge...
Meh, that's my opinion anyways. Kthnxbai
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I'm not comparing tragedies here. It's still a tragedy. To say "one is worse and it deserves more attentiont!1!" is rather silly to me.
Exactly. Humour is a way to get over things. But there are boundaries that ought not be crossed.
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Ok so my rant went a little off there. But still. It's not like someone's pointing right at someone and saying "HAHA YOUR LOVED ONE IS DEAD!" Ya know?
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I've actually seen that before :C
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Now THAT is going too far
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My stepdad talked about how the A-bomb was like a 'lesser of two evils' kind of deal. The A-bomb was like something to startle the Japanese into surrender with a smaller loss of lives and deaths that ended quicker. Otherwise, the war would have caused more slow-deaths, poverty, and a longer war that would cause more lives to be lost. I don't have the insight to judge whether that's true or not, but it's something to think about?
They both sound horrible and tragic... a light joke, maybe, but...with both 9/11, AND the A-bomb, and every other tragic event in history, I wouldn't be okay with a joke that implied that people dying was funny x_x
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