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        They did. They didn’t deserve it. USA, however, armed, trained and killed people who commited that attack, and did nothing to prevent this kind of retailation. If you kill someone’s family, hand them a loaded gun and turn around, you deserve to get shot.

        Not that “deserve” is the best word to explain blowback, but I’m sure you can bridge this gap in semantics, and understand that victims aren’t the people blamed in that context.

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          Yeah, you can’t explain it because it’s obvious. Only a psychopath thinks it’s fine to kill some office workers and fire fighters out of some fucked up perversion of “justice” because some other group of people getting killed by some other psychopaths at some other time.

          Your way of thinking isn’t any different from the people you hate.

          • your_dead_pet_goldfish@lemmy.world
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            They are saying that the actual victims, the folks in the towers, did not deserve to die. Everyone agrees that the attacks on 9/11 were horrendous. But the US had engaged in activities where this was the inevitable outcome. America as an entity deserved the attacks because of decades of wars, conflict, and instability it caused in the middle east, often leading to similar if not greater acts of violence in those countries. This isn’t a fucked up sense of justice, but an acknowledgement that at some point the roosters were going to come home to roost.

  • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip
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    20 hours ago

    What we learn here is that Mike Rogers thinks America may have deserved the 9/11 attacks. It’s an open, debatable question in his mind.