• john89
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    16 hours ago

    Hopefully this should open some eyes, but 9/11 was literally America’s version of the recent invasion in Israel.

    If anyone reads Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto, he explicitly states that Western support for Israel is one of the main reasons for the attack.

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      13 hours ago

      Yeah. I remember as a kid wondering why they would attack the states like that and my parents and every other adult I asked have different versions of “they hate our freedom” or “they’re Muslim extremists and want everyone who isn’t Muslim to die.” I live in Canada so I can only imagine how much worse it was in the US. To me, even as a child of 11 years old, that sounded far fetched and didn’t make much sense. Once the internet became popular I looked it up and realized it wasn’t as black and white, good vs evil as all that. Honestly that’s one of the things that made me start seeing the US as an evil country and start realizing what imperialism was and how horrific it was for the world.