So, like even genuinely crazy shit like Columbine (which fucked me up as a kid) didn't hit like a single average day in the Trump administration because there was no sense of normality waiting to be restored
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Nah. For me 9/11 just changed what normal was.
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What I remember is how battle hardened I had to get and how quickly. I was a freshman for 9/11 in just weeks following I was protesting the war publicly while living in a very 'murrica region of the world.
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I commend you for seeing the truth so early on. I didn’t see the truth until a classmate knocked me out of my “shock and awe” defense the same day it happened. I never looked at things the same way. I was in 10th grade...what’s was/is excuse for politicians these days?
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DC sniper was another one
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Yeah, 9/11 really brought the Xenophobia, paranoia, and hatred to the forefront and it never went away. That's why they built the original wall. That's why they called Obama a Muslim. That's why they surged and won in 2016, and now all that culminated with the insurrection.
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And all those past things were far apart. And the news provided was usually unbiased and not opinion based. I think that's why all this started to change in the 90s, when opinion based news took over and the news started devising our sides.
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Important to note that opinion based news didn’t just “take over”; Fox News was created to appeal to conservatives and Fox, in turn, cast all other networks as liberal. (MSNBC has liberal voices, but also plenty of conservative ones).
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I expected the world to be different after Columbine, but things were so oddly normal the rest of Spring and Summer. By September every adult seemed to be crazy. This is also when I knew they were full of shit and their judgement couldn’t be trusted. Events after confirmed this.
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I was in my first week of high school when 9/11 happened and still remember the shock waves that rippled through where everyone immediately knew things would never be the same. I knew of and felt gut punches of the others you mentioned but for me nothing else hit as hard as 9/11.
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I remember Columbine being scary as shit (especially since the year later my sister’s high school went through a similar situation), the Monica affair exposing the hypocrisy of the Republican Party to me, the anger over the 2000 recount. But I really felt the earth stop on 9/11.
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