With the sole exception of those mourning their friends and family members who died on that day, and don't politicize it, it all is so hollow and performative.

The US government, and by extension the US voting population who supported the government's actions, have committed orders of magnitudes of 9/11s before and after 9/11.

In Afghanistan the US killed tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians.

In Iraq, at least 1 million people died in that conflict, and that estimate doesn't even include the rise of ISIS which was a result of the Iraq War.

Even Iran's death toll can be attributed to the US's 9/11 response. Not only did Trump use it to justify the Iran War just yesterday, but the Islamophobia that lead to the Iran war was exacerbated by the colossal surge in Islamophobia post 9/11. Even Bush claimed Iran was in an "axis of evil", and the Pentagon plotted a war with Iran to take place after the war with Iraq, just months after 9/11.

Furthermore, it seems the only people still bringing up 9/11 as a matter of discussion, are those who want to use it to justify far-right talking points and policies. Even the GOP's and many Dem's support for Israel and the genocide against Palestine is constantly followed with talks about US victimhood during 9/11.

I so look forward to the day when Boomers and Gen X lose their stranglehold on US politics and media so we can finally shut this performative bullshit down. 9/11 shouldn't simply be seen as a great US tragedy, it should be seen as the beginning of the collapse of the US empire and the reign of terror the US brought in it's dying days as a global power.

I've noticed an uptick in the number of pro-AI posts on this platform.

Various posts with titles similar to "When will people stop being afraid of AI" or "Can we please acknowledge AI was very needed for X"

Can't tell if its the propaganda machine invading, or annoying teenage tech-bros who are detached from reality.

I was watching this video on Idubbbz's rise and fall and it got me thinking about the Content Cop he made against H3H3.

As far as I could see, the Content Cop and Content Deputy generally hammered home accurately how much of a royal piece of shit Ethan Klein and his former IDF wife have become. It really should have been an easy slam dunk as H3H3 is so easily provably wrong on so many issues regarding Israel and the genocide in Palestine, as well as the countless controversies Ethan Kelin and Hila Klein have publicly gone through.

However, it appears that Idubbbz totally lost this fued, not because of his arguments against H3H3, but because those were totally overshadowed by his own extraordinary controversies and greed, as well as seemingly using the genocide in Palestine as a backdrop to his fued with H3H3, which feels very exploitative.

It got me wondering, what are some other instances of public figures who were totally in the right on an issue, but lost due to other, tangentially or totally unrelated issues?

I often see a lot of praise of Tito for successfully keeping the various ethnic groups of Yugoslavia at peace throughout his tenure, and thus keeping Yugoslavia together.

However, isn't one's success greatly determined by their legacy, and what they left behind when they died?

The country blew up, fractured into genocidal conflict and lost some the best parts of their socialism.

It seems more that Tito didn't actually fix Yugoslavia's underlying ethnic conflicts, but rather successfully swept them under the rug during his tenor.