UGH

I wish facebook had an DO NOT LIKE button you can press over and over again next to stuff that comes up in your feed. Namely, because every idiot I went to highschool with is posting shit about the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks and parroting the Bush administration propaganda line “NEVER FORGET”

In my opinion that is not what we need to “never forget”. We, as Americans, should never forget that our government used those innocent peoples’ deaths as a political weapon for YEARS in order to destroy this country in a way no terrorist ever could. We should NEVER FORGET that republicans acted as far worse terrorists by scaring the public into accepting the P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act, racist profiling of innocent muslims, 2 illegal wars, wire tapping, and torture. If anything, we should never forget that as evil as some people are abroad, we have MUCH more evil people trying to get their agenda done in Washington.

We should NEVER FORGET that if you have a catchy enough political slogan to chant, people won’t think about what they’re approving of or dissenting against.

We should never forget that the christian right’s leader was an utter and abject failure who we actually re-elected because of party obedience and “never forgetting”.

The term 9/11 is emotionally empty to me, and I resent anyone who uses it in a serious way. It is a tragedy that those people were murdered, but their bodies have been raped mercilessly and endlessly since, by politicians who paraded the tragedy around any piece of unconstitutional legislation in order to get a majority of Americans to accept or even defend it.

Don’t worry, the world will never forget what we did to ourselves, and how we betrayed everything we believed in. How we let the terrorists win by taking measures “not to let the terrorists win”. I’m so mad at the legislators who did this to our country, and the legislators who didn’t call them out about it. That’s the only emotion I feel about this day.

Happy fucking 9/11.