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Idk how old you are, but if it weren't for Reddit americans' posts coming up yesterday I would have gone the entire day without noticing it was 9/11. Sure the airline flyer is a bit weird design-wise, but I'm not sure I would have linked it to 9/11 by myself. Made a joke to a friend like "it looks like it's gonna crash on the Eiffel Tower lol", but that's all. So yeah, it certainly had some impact here but I wouldn't say it's an "important memory" for french people either
I wouldn't have noticed it either yesterday, but I certainly wouldn't say it's "not fucking interesting." It was a watershed moment in modern world history, especially western history.
I feel like you are trying way too hard to prove that the US isnt the center of the world, which it isnt, but its to the point where you just seem sort of ignorant to the global effect 9/11 had.
Idk where you're from, maybe Sentinel Island if it didn't affect you.
9/11 was the catalyst for the global war on terror, was the only time article 5 of NATO was invoked which pulled the entire west into a long war that destabilised the Middle East - and impacted the way Islam was seen on a global scale.
It started the US on a downward spiral to where they are today, which effectively opened the door to China's ability to rival US hegemony.
It's an event of significance similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall but obviously where the wall falling brought optimism, the WTC falling was the harbinger of a darker age.
...if it weren't for Reddit americans' posts coming up yesterday I would have gone the entire day without noticing it was 9/11.
I'm an American, and me too. Like, I remember being a live witness of 9/11, watching it on TV as it happened, but it's also not something I build my life around.
But as long as I know in general that someone ran a plane into a skyscraper once to kill people for political points, then when I see a picture of a plane flying low and pointed at a tower, I can connect those things together without having to feel, like, personally connected to this specific skyscraper.
It's not really about identity, it's just about seeing what you're looking at.
You're responding to me on an American founded platform headquartered in America in which about half of all users are Americans on a post being shared in response to an American event.
I don't think this has anything to do with "obsession", but you'd think anyone in the advertising industry with an airline client would be perhaps a little bit aware of it.
Most Europeans are, but we don’t expect the rest of the of world to care. I lived in the Republic of Ireland during the height of the troubles, I’m very aware of what sectarian violence looks like.
No, and why would I be? The image is not about me, the image is instead about several entities that exist in an international context.
As an internationally-known landmark that symbolizes the French state, the Eiffel Tower is routinely threatened by terrorists, and there was also a famous plane-bomber who lived in Pakistan for many decades.
And even the image details seem to fit; this plane is clearly depicted flying weirdly close to the ground, planes don't usually fly that low, and if a plane really was flying that low, it might hit the Eiffel Tower.
So can you see how the odd visuals in the image have a natural tendency to combine with the politicized nature of the Eiffel Tower, to bring the idea of a terrorist threat to mind, regardless of whether the viewers are subtle enough to understand the imagery as accidental?
What I find interesting as duck here is that you can go from South Asia to Western Europe in a direct fight now when it used to take months 250 years ago.
Sa fait référence à une prise d'otages du vol Air France 8969 (AF8969, AFR8969), un vol d'Air France reliant Alger (Algérie) à Paris par quatre membres du Groupe islamique armé (GIA), se déroule du 24 au 26 décembre 1994. Une action du GIGN fut filmé lors de l'assaut à Marseille pour la libération de l'avion. Le GIA voulait envoyer l'avion s'écraser sur Paris voire même sur la Tour Eiffel.
Brothers I am a Pakistani.
When this image surfaced on the web we Pakistanis shared lots of laughters, we are not terrorists we laughed alot at this.
On a serious note, Pakistan is a victim of terrorism and Pakistanis are peace loving people come to Pakistan and see for yourself.
I read a quote today, dont remember that in full but it said something like "the cure for racism is travelling and the cure for fascism is reading"
Long live peace, come to Lahore have some food then tell for yourself. Peace🕊
Considering he was found in a neighbouring country is a not an odd scenario , idk why people have their tits in the bag with him being found in PK.The point still stands no one of Pakistani heritage was involved in the actual attack.
And who gives a shit , the US retaliation caused much more destruction and death than 9/11 ever did and nobody bats an eye on their war crimes
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Rule 1 - All content must show something that is objectively interesting as fuck. Just because you find something IAF doesn't mean anyone else will. It's impossible to define everything that could be considered IAF, but for a general idea browse the top posts of all time from this subreddit.
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can't be interesting just because of text
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