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aunt_zelda So, Bin Laden's dead. I know because 1) someone turned on the radio, heard, and started yelling/screaming that at SIX AM THIS MORNING MY GOD 2) someone made a Kink Meme post about it and 3) the NPR Morning Show.
I ... really don't know how to feel about this. I mean, it's good that we found him, I'm not disputing that, but I'm kinda disturbed by how the American public is reacting. Cheering and celebrations? Um ... 'hurray! We shot a guy in the head!' ... is anyone else uncomfortable about that? Remember after 9/11 when they showed footage of kids in the Middle East dancing in the streets as news footage of the Towers falling was shown? Yeah, I remember that. I remember and I'm squicked.
I don't feel bad that he's gone, obviously, but I'm not going to punch the air and cheer or anything. I just sort of thought "oh, that's good ... now, back to my project." It's not like we're withdrawing the troops from ourtwo wars war and illegal invasion.
Wow. Almost ten years of my life, I've know that this boogeyman was out there inspiring terrorists and making creepy videos that ended up on youtube, and now he's dead. Dumped in the ocean. How anticlimactic.
I ... really don't know how to feel about this. I mean, it's good that we found him, I'm not disputing that, but I'm kinda disturbed by how the American public is reacting. Cheering and celebrations? Um ... 'hurray! We shot a guy in the head!' ... is anyone else uncomfortable about that? Remember after 9/11 when they showed footage of kids in the Middle East dancing in the streets as news footage of the Towers falling was shown? Yeah, I remember that. I remember and I'm squicked.
I don't feel bad that he's gone, obviously, but I'm not going to punch the air and cheer or anything. I just sort of thought "oh, that's good ... now, back to my project." It's not like we're withdrawing the troops from our
Wow. Almost ten years of my life, I've know that this boogeyman was out there inspiring terrorists and making creepy videos that ended up on youtube, and now he's dead. Dumped in the ocean. How anticlimactic.
