9/11 Jokes
 

I had this, jotted down, as an idea for a thread... but I can't remember what the angle was.

If you were going to start a really clever, really insightful thread called "9/11 Jokes" what would it be about?

You bastard! I lost my sense of humor in a field in Pennsylvania.

I don't think there were any. It was such a massively overwhelming event there was nothing funny about it, even in retrospect.

I guess, I still don't see why folks think 9/11 is different from other tragedies. How many kids die of starvation every day? How many people die in government sanctioned bombings? How many die from storms or disease... It just seems to me that media and government worked very hard to make our reactions to it disproportionate, to keep our eyes on the screens and our bombs in the air.

that's what I say...

Guys, why not just go the extra step and become Truthers?

First attack on American soil? The alteration of the skyline of New York Fuckin' City? People leaping from the 100th floor? No, that isn't tragic at all! Because it was all faked!



Media and government acting in unison? From whose workbench? Give me the number of the fax machine that gave them their daily talking points, and then tell me who used it.

The reason the response was what it was, is because that was and is the character of the people. When media and government are in unison, it's because the people are in unison. But 7 short years later, nobody can recall that time; we have wiped it from our memories. When W. had a 91% approval rating. When people flew a flag proudly and haters didn't feel ironic about it. It's a period of history that simply we do not acknowledge because we were not ready for a post-9/11 world.

And that is why it'll happen again.

Why does it have to be conspiracy? Why can't the media drive for the big story and the government drive to "solve" big problems both push in the same direction? Over-reaction is why terrorists do what they do. bin Laden types get big press and new recruits. That is why it will happen again.

First attack on American soil? Leave Pancho Villa out of this.

The alteration of the skyline of New York Fuckin' City? We have fires every day.

People leaping from the 100th floor? No, that isn't tragic at all! It was tragic, nobody here is denying that. Unfortunately, bad things happen every day, this time it happened to Americans instead of Japanese, Germans, or Iraqis.

And if the fourth plane managed hit the White House, it would be "just another building", right? Why all the tragedy?

Well it wasn't just Pancho Villa, and it wasn't just a fire, it was an extremely major loss that had massive repercussions for all Westerners' ways of lives.

It also shattered the feeling of invincibility that most American's had prior to that day.

So, in the context of this discussion, you're saying that people's reaction to 9/11 was a self-fulfilling prophecy?

So far these jokes suck.

ya know what goes without saying?

mimes.

that's what

Okay, I'll go first.

"It's a bird!"
"It's a plane!"
"It's.... Oh shit, it IS a plane!"

Yes, I am a horrible American.

9/11 jokes are like Holocaust jokes - they're in really, really bad taste.