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Terrible things can be beautiful in their own way. It doesn't necessarily mean it's something they are glad happened (though that "pleasing" admittedly doesn't look great). Have you never found the visual of something horrible captivating? Where you just can't look away?
Why go with a fictional event when 9/11 is right there? Of which I'm sure much more insensitive things the have been said about as well.
Je vais cramer ta mère on va voir si c'est captivant
I certainly understand the sentiment, but I am also sensible enough to not proclaim that to the whole world in such an emotional situation. Naturally affected people are gonna be pissed and will interpret the statement in the worst possible way.
For the fictional event, I actually hadn't considered that because it would mean a center of commerce is the american equivalent of a national icon.
Yep, thats americans for you. The white house has been burned down before, and id pay to watch someone fly a plane into the statue of liberty. I bet it'd fuck the plane up way worse than the statue, but the statue isnt going to be undamaged. The spectacle would be cool, and the only people here that would be really pissed are the super patriotic ones, and those financially invested in the statue. For the first group, to be patriotic currently means you are completely brain dead, as there is nothing in americas past or present to be proud of. As for the second group, unless they are working a tourist stall, then that would really only effect the bigwigs, and everyone else would rejoice at their bottom line being effected.
Now if you were to blow up a school or the wtc, that would actually effect people more than it would effect the rich, and therefore most americans would be rightfully pretty pissed.
The "thousands of lives lost" part tends to hike up the level of tragedy over the "center of commerce" aspect for most people...
Don't worry Merica got even for it...
At least we all know that Saudi Arabia was thoroughly punished for it!
All the dead Iraqis and Afghans, we are even now 🤡
Lost Our hegemony over it too!
Bin Laden tatally didn't get what he wanted out of it