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Well that's one way to ruin my day (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To me 911 signified a change in the world. My awareness of global politics got supercharged, and the world seemed to turn into shit all of the sudden

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Yeah because before then, Americans were still very isolated. The only “bad stuff” going on was across an ocean one way, or an ocean the other way. Suddenly most Americans actually realized they live in a big world that holds more than just America.