Get in here chapos! Any memes, rants, quips, jokes you have, let’s fuckin hear them! That shit is funny.

  • How many of you are actually happy that people died? I think the memes are funny and I also agree with everything about the US and what it does to people around the world, but my outlook on the world isn’t such that I’m glad when someone “evens the score”.

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        Also if you were going to pick a target with the highest percentage of people I don’t feel bad about a skyscraper full of finance ghouls is a pretty good starting point.

        Obviously feel bad about all the working class people required for those assholes to have cocaine and gin lunches bit I would say it is, on average, less tragic than most ways 3000 people could die.

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          Also worth remembering the plane that hit the pentagon and the one that was trying for the white house, both of which are fair game imo.

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      How many of you are actually happy that people died?

      I think it’s worth correcting this. The people of the WTC were not just random innocent people. The tenants list of the towers was:

      WTC1(North)

      Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - Randos

      Marsh & McLennan Companies - Huge finance capitalist firm

      Bank of America

      Cantor Fitzgerald - Huge finance capitalist firm

      Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group - A japanese Keiretsu (monopoly group) (more bastards)

      Sidley Austin Brown & Wood - Law firm, primarily serving finance capitalists

      Restaurant “Windows on the World” - Randos

      WTC2(South)

      Verizon - Randos

      New York Stock Exchange - Finance capitalists

      Morgan Stanley - Finance capitalists

      Xerox Corporation - Randos

      Keefe, Bruyette & Woods - Finance capitalists

      Aon Corporation - Finance capitalist advisory firm

      Fiduciary Trust Company International - Finance capitalists

      WTC7

      Salomon Smith Barney - Finance capitalists

      U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Finance capitalist regulator

      Standard Chartered Bank - Finance capitalists

      U.S. Secret Service - Ghouls


      My point here is that these were not random innocents that were attacked. This was a direct and targeted attack on the bourgeoisie. This was targeted directly at the ruling class of america and the response that occurred posing it as an “attack on america” was because the bourgeoisie consider themselves to be america and that any attack on them is an attack on the nation. Had this been a bombing against randos it would have been largely ignored, as you see with most bombings of random shopping centres etc. It was because it was an attack on the ruling class that it created such an extensive response from them.

      • A direct and targeted attack? It terrified millions of working class NYCers what are you talking about? The majority of the people who actually made up the workforce of those firms wouldn’t be bourgeois - someone who’s job it was to copy data or answer the phone for the head honcho.

        The ash cloud and debris field was damaging to a hell of a lot more than just a handful of rich people who you think deserved it (even if you support lining them up against a wall, I feel like that’s different because it would come as part of a broader revolution and not be the outcome of an isolated terrorist attack).

        Most attacks on malls don’t kill upwards of 3000 people at once. Heck, some malls can’t even hold that many inside them.

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          I’m not saying it was anticapitalist. I’m saying that failing to realise the target was chosen for what was in the buildings and not just because they’re tall buildings is pure liberalism, and a view that liberals would love you to have because they absolutely don’t want anyone questioning why finance capital would be the target when attacking america with the intent to provoke the reaction they achieved. Because any questioning of what finance capital actually does would lead people to realising the vast majority of these people weren’t innocents and that would harm the entire propaganda party that ensued immediately afterwards about all those “poor innocent people who didn’t deserve it” as part of the immediate consent manufacturing for the war on terror and axis of evil efforts.

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            I’m saying that failing to realise the target was chosen for what was in the buildings and not just because they’re tall buildings is pure liberalism,

            You know that that’s what every tall building is right? There’s literally a whole thing about how skyscrapers basically exist for capitalism. They chose the WTC because that tall building in particular would be particularly terrifying to watch blow up and collapse for the rest ofnthe city (which you know, is mostly working class people, like everywhere else).

            any questioning of what finance capital actually does would lead people to realising the vast majority of these people weren’t innocents

            Even if every single person of the 3k who died in the WTC was a CEO or high-level management in finance capital, they still wouldn’t deserve to die how they did. Even if I personally support lining them up against a wall, I don’t cease caring about 9/11 because I want them dead anyways.

            Now, in the real world, for every finance capitalist, there is a team of employees, paid hourly, who are not capitalists but are selling their ability to work for a wage like most of us. They were the majority of the people who died in 9/11.

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              You know that that’s what every tall building is right? There’s literally a whole thing about how skyscrapers basically exist for capitalism. They chose the WTC because that tall building in particular would be particularly terrifying to watch blow up and collapse for the rest ofnthe city (which you know, is mostly working class people, like everywhere else).

              No they fucking didn’t. The “rest of the city” has absolutely no impact on decision-making, they are proles with zero power and zero impact on what direction the ruling class takes in foreign or domestic policy. This is nonsense idealism derived from having a sincere belief in liberal democracy.

              I physically watched Grenfell burn, in front of my eyes, the whole city of London did. What came of that? Absolutely fuck all. Because it was a building full of proles. Literally nothing has happened over it, not even regulation changes. Zero. Because the ruling class doesn’t want it. The notion you have that the average people of the city matter in decision making is fucking absurd.

              Even if every single person of the 3k who died in the WTC was a CEO or high-level management in finance capital, they still wouldn’t deserve to die how they did.

              I agree. They would deserve considerably worse.

              Now, in the real world, for every finance capitalist, there is a team of employees, paid hourly, who are not capitalists but are selling their ability to work for a wage like most of us. They were the majority of the people who died in 9/11.

              Big time “soldiers are just selling their labour” and shouldn’t be judged or wished death upon energy.