pillow [she/her]

the wokes are destroying america

a point they bring up on the trueanon episode about this is that the official story isn’t that believable. the guy who supposedly flew the plane that day (hani hanjour) kept failing exams for flight school and his instructors reported him to the FAA multiple times later recalling that “he could not fly at all.”

but on 9/11 he gets in an unfamiliar plane, flies it to arlington, and then executes a tight 330 degree corkscrew down thousands of feet to smash exactly into the target face of the building at 850kph

idk, something seems fishy about that

the most plausible explanation I’ve heard is that the dod office of the inspector general was conducting a huge multi-year audit effort to untangle literally trillions of dollars of unaudited defense spending, and that the computer systems holding the data were located in that part of the building

ofc the fact checkers are out in force giving ten pinocchios to all of the conspiracy theorists who don’t have enough common sense to tell the difference between “we don’t know where this money is” and “this money is missing,” lol

the “janitors in the building” - all salt-of-the-earth anti-imperialists I’m sure - are such a patsoc chestnut. if america deserved 9/11 then americans deserved 9/11, period.

imo it seems like a lot of american leftists are just nervous about them and their lib friends being held to account by the rest of the world starting to sharpen its pitchforks

I prefer james connolly’s vibe

Let us say that we are sick of the canting talk of those who tell us that we must not blame the British people for the crimes of their rulers against Ireland. We do blame them.

did this bit with lee harvey oswald, saying that he was a communist hero and it’s tragic that nobody actually believes the government about that

no lib actually thinks that people dying is a bad thing in all cases. if it were 3000 war criminals, or 3000 syrian “militants,” or 3000 iraqi republican guard, etc they’d be fine with it. this purely a case of generic americans not being on their list of groups they’re bloodthirsty about.

I’m surprised and happy to report that queer bluesky is full of wall-to-wall 9/11 memes with nobody being weird about it

I’m much less happy to report that they’re “not minimizing the tragedy or loved ones who died, only mocking our national response”

it’s fine I guess. at least now we know that the secret to getting libs to stop taking state department propaganda seriously is to just wait long enough for half of them to not even have been born yet. probably generation epsilon or whatever will be making post-meta-ironic memes about the ukraine war

the congressman going on and on about “our IP” and “our technology” in the source article reminds me of a naomi wu tweet:

“Knowledge is property” is as counterintuitive to some as “the grass and trees and land that feeds and nurtures you is property” was to others.

When Westerners visited places that didn’t understand the wisdom of one person owning a piece of land and others paying simply to exist on “their” land, the inhabitants were at a disadvantage, but quickly educated at gunpoint, that land taken from them and every “rule” they had been told to follow, broken by those that made the rules.

Likewise, Chinese, with our foolish traditions of scholarship, didn’t understand at first that learning and sharing knowledge was dishonest. That we were wrong not to follow arbitrary rules of learning unilaterally imposed. As studious as we are, it took us quite a while to learn ideas should be owned and rented out, and that “learning wrong” is cheating.

But we’re getting there and have learned to play by those new rules- I even have Chinese patents myself, perhaps I am too Westernized? Imagine that- I “own” ideas? Should I rent my simple ideas out like a slum lord and sit back while others toil? So much to learn.