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@Jdogg247 It's crazy how spoiled Americans were in the 1990s that they thought 9/11 was the worst that could happen. We later had the Afghanistan/Iraq wars, the housing bubble and economic crash, the de facto abolition of privacy due to a combination of the NSA and Big Tech corps, cultural Maoism, and now this shit. The ride never stops.
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The long lasting legacy of 9/11 is that the government saw how easy it was to use fear to put unconstitutional shit in place. The Patriot Act was one of the most un-American laws ever put into place and now we are here 20 years later with the government thinking it’s ok to force people a dangerous mystery shot.

“Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both”
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Do you want to go to #space? :blobcatspace:

@ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz Well the imperialist nature of Islam does explain why there were Muslims in India in the first place. It just so happened that the British were able to take that to their advantage, and made the situation much worse.

@lanodan Yeah that what I was talking about. I find returning negative integers to be weird, but most of my experience is OOP, but I understand why people hate it.

@ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz Not saying that they were murderous before the British colonization of India, but it helped shaped it. I wouldn't say it was a way to blame white people for it.

James Corbett recently published part 1 of a new documentary on the secret origins of Al-Qaeda and it goes into how British imperialists used radical Islam for their own gain back in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

corbettreport.com/episode-407-

Again, I'm not defending Islam, but we really need to realize how they got to where they are.

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I know some who want to go as far as to nuke Mecca.

Little known fact is that the modern rise of radical Islam and Islamic terrorism was most likely started by British imperialists as a divide and conquer strategy in places like India. (Dividing Muslims and Hindus for their advantage)

provakar.net/2020/08/09/lies-a

@ChristiJunior@neckbeard.xyz I still think Islam is a shit religion, but I don't think it is as big as a threat that the neocons say it is.

@lanodan OOP programmers generally don't have to deal with integers for errors.

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I can't believe 20 years have passed since that terrible disaster and somehow we still have to deal with its consequences. A terrible mark on history and a tragedy that will haunt us for years to come.

Obviously I'm talking about the release of Windows XP.
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@rasterman @matrix @ChristiJunior I really really hate how classical liberalism has been tainted by sargonism. Whether or not you agree with them, many of the og classical liberals would probably have cringed at him.
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