• @Root@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3011 months ago

    The real impact of the 9/11 attacks: There is direct line from shock and confusion to nationalistic rhetoric and “'OOORAH!”- patriotism to the rise of the Tea Party, the growing influence of the Evangelicals up to the emergence of Trumpism and Qanon.

    • @SilverFlame@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      Don’t forget that the CIA armed and trained the militias that would eventually become Al Qaeda. We were the architects of our own demise.