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[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 107 points 1 year ago

If anyone's curious he's talking in terms of 9/11s per capita. Americans will use anything but metric.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

Are those constant 9/11s though? Based on COVID policy I'm estimating that one human life in 2001 is worth several dozen in 2023

[-] bamboo 14 points 1 year ago

Turns out the 2020 economy is worth more than a daily number of 9/11 deaths.

[-] popcap200@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, gotta account for inflation.

[-] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

By that math Israel has killed 4.125 million Gazans

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

How much is that in bus lenghts?

[-] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually it’s roughly half of one 9/11, by the numbers.

By the numbers in Palestine, though, these estimates get a bit closer

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

They justified these headlines by comparing it as a proportion of population, because we all know that murder is graded based on general statistics instead of real lives. For example, The Vietnam War was America committing over 12,000 9/11's...

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Also, inflation.

Seems kind of low, honestly.

I assume the Cambodian bombing campaign wasn't included?

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

More like 800 9/11s (from both sides) if its not per capita.

[-] Kena@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

And then Israel did like 6 morbillion 9/11s in response

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago
[-] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Inflation isn't even halting before 9/11 anymore. THIS is Biden's America!

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

How many football fields is a 9/11?

[-] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have a solid understanding of calculus and access to the Scales of Anubis? I need to compute a Fractional 9/11s per Mooch ratio

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

That's right, ninety one thousand one hundred

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

That sounds like something Trump might have said. A double 911, it was a 1822

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

No fucking way he'd know that 2 times 911 is 1822

[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

10•9/11 = 18.18

15•9/11=12.27

20•9/11=16.36

9/11 is a strange unit, but I guess it’s not weird by American standards.

[-] cupcakezealot 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if it was that bad then why does nobody call out netanyahu for funding hamas for years in order to destroy the pro peace left in gaza?

[-] Fitzsimmons 15 points 1 year ago

Like, shitloads of people ARE calling him out for that. 75% of Israelis want him to resign. Yet here we are.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1211767117/israel-netanyahu-growing-opposition-hamas-war-gaza

[-] AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I read the new daily and this is the first I've heard of this. I thought the country was firmly behind Bibi. I will say that America media hasnt really been as forthright as they should be on this subject.

[-] Ranger 6 points 1 year ago

The corporate media misrepresented something? I'm shocked.

[-] cupcakezealot 5 points 1 year ago

oh i know i meant the politicians defending him and doubling the amount of 9/11s each day :)

[-] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Mods, can we kill this guy?

[-] mobilehugh@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

It is concerning when a IRL political figure uses a term that was a joke in a marrionette movie (Team America World Police).

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[-] Ranger 2 points 1 year ago

Satire is dead & some guy is doing something unmentionable to its corpse.

[-] violetraven 7 points 1 year ago

Where are these screen shots from?

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

So 9/11 bad but holocaust ok? What a piece of shit to keep funding the genocide

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Do you seriously think that what's going on in Palestine is equivalent to the literal fucking holocaust?

The one where the entire Jewish population of a major city was massacred in a single day, with industrialized extermination camps, that killed ~2/3rds of all European Jews?

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Obviously not but if biden can make stupid comparisons so can I. No one here actually thinks that so calm down.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many 9/11's was the holocaust?

Also: Can we come up with a name better than "9/11?"

[-] countflacula@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I guess "world trade center attack" or "wtc attack"?

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Now I use, "9/11 times 1000!"

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