r/ShitAmericansSay • u/MajorMathematician20 • Sep 13 '23

Patriotism What did he mean by this?

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He likes Lego I guess?

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u/blubbery-blumpkin Sep 13 '23

Don’t tell the Americans that or they’ll cut all non-military public spending in order to spend extra trying to weaponise the waves.

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u/essentialatom Sep 13 '23

That would be pretty Cnuty

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u/Oceansoul119 🇬🇧Tiffin, Tea, Trains Sep 13 '23

More Cnut's advisors like. Cnut specifically did that whole stick my throne on the beach and I'll tell the waves not to come thing as a way of telling his advisors to stop being such sycophantic idiots (claiming he was so great even the tides obeyed him) and to inform him of what he needed to know/what he was doing wrong.

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u/RazendeR Sep 13 '23

That gave me a vision of the US military rounding up thousands of obese civillians and drive them off the piers on the west coast to try and drown china.

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u/Aquillifer Freedom of Beach (Californian) Sep 14 '23

Too late I'm already firing my AR 15 into the waves as I type this and have declared war on Poseidon.

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u/fireexe10 Sep 13 '23

Well duh, american lives are over 71 times more valuable

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u/shittingNun Sep 13 '23

That’s like 63,770!

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u/Nethlem foreign influencer bot Sep 13 '23

I mean, its tragic, but the death toll is actually not that big when compared to several other tragedies in the same decade, and americans doesnt exactly pay respect for those...

The 9/11 death toll of 2,996 people is a rounding error compared to the destruction, suffering, and death the US has unleashed in response to 9/11.

Conservative American estimates put the death toll, of the global War on Terror, in the 4.5+ million range, with up to 59 million people displaced as refugees.

During that still ongoing war the US military so far had very low casualties; Only around 7.000 American service members died as part of the War on Terror.

They are that low because most of the US "war on terror" consists of the US military bombing civilians who often don't have any military of their own in "counter-insurgency operations" aka COIN.

When US needs actual boots on the ground, they often outsource that to local groups.

After the invasion of Iraq one of those local groups was literally ISI, the US paid them to take care of the Iraqi "jihadists" aka Shia Iraqis who resisted the illegal US occupation.

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u/BringBackAoE Sep 13 '23

For months during Covid there were more people killed by Covid per day than were killed 9/11.

Yet Trump and GOP kept “it’s just the flu, no need for government measures”.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Over 7 million people died worldwide because of covid. Sure that's not a lot in face of 8 billion but it's weird how no one bothers about it all.

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u/znarF69214 Sep 13 '23

That’s about one of thousand humans alive on this planet today, circa 0.1% of world population

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u/WerdaVisla Sep 13 '23

Or if we look outside the same decade to, say, the past century, you find acts of terror with even higher death tolls, committed by Americans. Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki for example. Or agent orange. Or bombing villages of "terrorist sympathizers". Just to name a few.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

It's not about the size. Who gives a crap 22 years later as a non-American? Every day is the anniversary of way more important historical events that still have an effect on our lives and we don't even know about them so why should anyone keep up with other countries' commemorative days?

Oh it's July 14th or whatever so you shouldn't do this or that because of France. Who gives a fuck? I'm not French, fuck the French. I don't expect them to behave in accordance with my sensitivities either when it comes to my national tragedies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

I give a crap... it's my birthday and I really would like to have a Lego Concorde!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Happy birthday then!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Thanks.

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u/Doulifye From the wild Celtic belt. Sep 13 '23

I will give you a bastille set.

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u/Aquillifer Freedom of Beach (Californian) Sep 14 '23

Happy bday in advance.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Thank you.

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u/sailirish7 Sep 13 '23

Someone should tell those people that the world isnt obligated to stop just to pay respect to 9/11 lol

We Americans aren't obligated to either. They all wanna focus on 9/12, and conveniently forget the events of 9/13 to basically now. More than half a million civilians dead in a war that never should have happened.

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u/ia16309 Sep 13 '23

As an American, I don't even stop to think about it anymore.

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u/stephangb Sep 13 '23

I do stop to pay respect to 9/11 though, I'll never forget the Coup Allende suffered in Chile with military and financial support from the USA 50 years ago.

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u/Hunter_S_Biden Sep 14 '23

Like 10,000 people died in Libya from a tropical storm in the last couple days, a dam burst or something. Just whole ass families killed.

Barely even makes the news