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[–] [email protected] 107 points 10 months ago (3 children)

If anyone's curious he's talking in terms of 9/11s per capita. Americans will use anything but metric.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are those constant 9/11s though? Based on COVID policy I'm estimating that one human life in 2001 is worth several dozen in 2023

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turns out the 2020 economy is worth more than a daily number of 9/11 deaths.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, gotta account for inflation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

By that math Israel has killed 4.125 million Gazans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

How much is that in bus lenghts?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Actually it’s roughly half of one 9/11, by the numbers.

By the numbers in Palestine, though, these estimates get a bit closer

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They justified these headlines by comparing it as a proportion of population, because we all know that murder is graded based on general statistics instead of real lives. For example, The Vietnam War was America committing over 12,000 9/11's...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Also, inflation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seems kind of low, honestly.

I assume the Cambodian bombing campaign wasn't included?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

More like 800 9/11s (from both sides) if its not per capita.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

And then Israel did like 6 morbillion 9/11s in response

[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Inflation isn't even halting before 9/11 anymore. THIS is Biden's America!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

How many football fields is a 9/11?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Does anyone have a solid understanding of calculus and access to the Scales of Anubis? I need to compute a Fractional 9/11s per Mooch ratio

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

That's right, ninety one thousand one hundred

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like something Trump might have said. A double 911, it was a 1822

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

No fucking way he'd know that 2 times 911 is 1822

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

10•9/11 = 18.18

15•9/11=12.27

20•9/11=16.36

9/11 is a strange unit, but I guess it’s not weird by American standards.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

if it was that bad then why does nobody call out netanyahu for funding hamas for years in order to destroy the pro peace left in gaza?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Like, shitloads of people ARE calling him out for that. 75% of Israelis want him to resign. Yet here we are.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1211767117/israel-netanyahu-growing-opposition-hamas-war-gaza

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read the new daily and this is the first I've heard of this. I thought the country was firmly behind Bibi. I will say that America media hasnt really been as forthright as they should be on this subject.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

The corporate media misrepresented something? I'm shocked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

oh i know i meant the politicians defending him and doubling the amount of 9/11s each day :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Mods, can we kill this guy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It is concerning when a IRL political figure uses a term that was a joke in a marrionette movie (Team America World Police).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Satire is dead & some guy is doing something unmentionable to its corpse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where are these screen shots from?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So 9/11 bad but holocaust ok? What a piece of shit to keep funding the genocide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you seriously think that what's going on in Palestine is equivalent to the literal fucking holocaust?

The one where the entire Jewish population of a major city was massacred in a single day, with industrialized extermination camps, that killed ~2/3rds of all European Jews?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Obviously not but if biden can make stupid comparisons so can I. No one here actually thinks that so calm down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How many 9/11's was the holocaust?

Also: Can we come up with a name better than "9/11?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I guess "world trade center attack" or "wtc attack"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Now I use, "9/11 times 1000!"