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MasterChristopher
Wow. All these people died just to make Trump look bad. Wow.
goflyblind
floofnmeeps
The lack of fun in this fact is staggering
blumpk1npie
There was in fact only an f and no un
hunnycat
Thats not fun at ALL.
SkynetWithAPoopKnife
The 6 people who downvoted you... Are they suggesting it is fun?
heartybeefandpotato
97.537% of numbers and statistics on the net are arbitrarily made up.
TheEvenPrez
Sounds like we should declare war on Covid, and invest heavily into the societies it’s devastated to win their hearts and minds
TheS4ndm4n
Throw every poor or black man in jail for 10 years if they get caught having covid.
Elroydb
All Buildings Matter
HankScorpioCEOofGlobexCorporation
Ok yes, but I'm not sure today is the right day to make that point. Stats about COVID are tragic enough w/o lessening the tragedy of 9/11.
evilcarp
Both situations were created by our own arrogance and stupidity. Voting Republican leads to dead Americans.
TheElusiveEnchilada
"Fun"
AnythingMuchShorter
Yeah but covid doesn't provide an excuse to blow up brown people, that they've discovered yet anyway.
postman69
For the past 50 years 20× veterans died from suicide than from combat. Americans are killing more Americans. Maybe US should invade America.
ElBivo
quoting M.A. Lucanus - I sing of lawfulness given to villainy and a nation turning its victorious hand against its own vitals.
evilcarp
We do have oil.....
Attaroo
Depending on how fucked up the election gets...
gingerirl
My work is letting people eat in the break room as if there isn't an airborne pandemic that is transmissible without symptoms going on...1/2
gingerirl
1/2 don't mind me. Just rage eating at my desk in my cubicle more than 8 feet away from anyone....
dogwithoutabone
None of this information is needed. Can we just make imgur not political for one fucking day.
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
I don't think you understand what "political" means.
dogwithoutabone
If you say so
myeyesthegogglesdonothing
The post said nothing of politics. YOU did.
shawnmilo
There's nothing political about this post. It's a statement of fact.
NoWonderImStillAwake
There are plenty statements of facts that are political, what kind of logic is that? Everyone knows the political message behind this.
CMoeBaggins
Not today.
ukalliq
On the most political day of the year? I don't think so.
evilcarp
Maybe you are not needed if you don't care? You do not get to fence sit this time. You must pick a side or a side will pick you.
SouperScott
Imgur is for whatever gets the upvotes, if that means politics get the votes, then Imgur is for politics.
dogwithoutabone
I feel like all of imgur is political these days. Sad because I use it less. I really like it as an escape.
purdhapley
This is why conservatives hate facts.
idrinkcheapbeer
As an added bonus, racism is now encouraged and your personal freedoms and liberties have been eroded!
certainlynotaserialkiller
even more funny fact: trump does not care in the slightest.
IamNICE124
I accept how devastating COVID is, but let’s focus on 9/11, and leave the whole comparison thing for tomorrow. It’s getting tired.
Velisity
Yet no one cares! It’s fucking sick and twisted that people still refuse masks and go out to parties and shit. Fuck everyone and everything.
Tumpech
A Single Death Is a Tragedy; A Million Deaths Is a Statistic - Joseph Stalin
NoWonderImStillAwake
Hence why the whole plan of the Soviet Union was to eradicate individual freedoms...
Tumpech
Truer words have never been spoken!
QuantumReek
Just gonna say it and take the downvotes: Fuck those who make today political.
GoToTheZoo
9/11 is always political. They used 3,000 deaths to justify hundreds of thousands. If you don't want politics then go watch some birds.
QuantumReek
I get that, but let's not compare Trump to the atrocities of 9/11. I mean unless you're one of those 'he's literally Hitler' types.
GoToTheZoo
He isn't, but 9/11 isn't that big a deal so stop acting like it is. Americans are the biggest snowflakes about this.
QuantumReek
Jesus
NPaine
Yes! But Murica! 9/11! Patriotism! 9/11! Where were you! 9/11! The world stopped turning! 9/11! Invade! Invade! 9/11!Invade!Invade!Invade!
RandyRandalman
Look at all these downvotes. Pople don't like being reminded of how fake their illusion of this country is.
FabulousBadass
Stop making false equivalences.
jjsjosCreator
it's not really a false equivalence, it's inferred. saying projected deaths is more then the people who died 9/11 isn't wrong, it's math .
RobertZimmermanWasRight
No, they mostly had preconditions, like being alive and stuff.
Sinmiedo1931
Look at yourself. Posting stupid shit with such confidence. Bless your heart.
DavidAndrews
well i mean to be fair, the planes didn't kill most 9/11 victims. the building falling on them did. #trumplogic
TheSpeakerOfTheHouse
They were clearly killed by a simple flu, at home, surrounded by family, with no medical care.
noneweregiven
VikingZoidberg
The single most significant precondition to any disease and/or death is being alive and stuff.
Exileddude
Well, some of the people in the towers that died, probably had pre existing conditions... maybe they died of those, we need answers! /s
bravecatgaming
Everyone dying from it has been drinking dihydrogen monoxide too. Coincidence? Absolutely NOT
georgeforsythe6911
Sauce
Dondarian
Hopefully, those people are Trump supporters and Virus deniers, and our overall gene pool will get stronger.... I no longer have a heart.
FiendishDoctorWuTangClan
Large part of his base is older fat fucks so yeah hopefully it does a real number.
CaptainCaptObvious
At least your honest
Shmeadicus
What's so special about 9/11? More Americans die of the flu every year?
tj764
well as a child it was my first experience with true hate and what it could lead to. which left me traumatized with a deep seeded fear of...
tj764
both airplanes and those of Islamic faith. After some councilling and meditation im better but shit fucked me up as a kid.
jjsjosCreator
people suck regardless of color or religion. Christian's have a rediculous amount of terrorist's but they aren't looked at like that
tj764
thats true, but I was in first grade, shit was formative for me. as i got older i realised holding on to that will only cause pain
jjsjosCreator
fair enough, i was like 8ish and it was shock. i was raised by racist parents on top of it , lucky i get my morals from my grandparents
ZachariasWolfe
I think people missed the sarcasm.
UKMonkey
that's why s/ was coined. So that people didn't have to guess if someone was sarcastic, or stupid.
Captainfantastic00
This is a quality joke, unfortunately, people here are idiots
Dominator497
Yuppp. I would even go further. Unfortunately, people are idiots.
alfmeister6227
Goes without saying. How else would Trump have become president?
Groetgaffel
It was an excellent excuse to start bombing brown people
AmArschdieRaeuber
I agree that 9/11 wasn't that severe on a global scale, but it was an act of violence, not a force of nature. There's a difference.
AmArschdieRaeuber
The war on the middle east the US perpetrated was still way worse
CrazyCatLad
But won't anyone ever think of the oil and military tycoons?
uwuooowyooowhowuwuwu
Come on, really? Burning to death, suffocating, jumping to your death to avoid the previous two fates? Death toll is one thing, but 1/
uwuooowyooowhowuwuwu
A lot of people died in a horrifying way on a single day, not to mention the first responders who are still dying from the toxic smoke. 2/
uwuooowyooowhowuwuwu
Worst of all, though, the world watched it happen and it was spontaneous. Disease will happen, though we can reduce the toll. 3/
uwuooowyooowhowuwuwu
4/4 9/11 was shocking, disturbing violence and changed us forever. Corona will change us too, but why act like 9/11 was not that bad?
bubbazooka
I think the point is not that 9/11 was terrible and so is covid, but covid is constantly being downplayed, and here we are on the anniversar
bubbazooka
Of this terrible day while almost half the population refuses to mask up, yet likely has a "never forget 9/11" bumper sticker. It's ironic.
jerner15
I now know that lots of Americans would refuse to wear a mask even if it was dependent for them to stop an attack like 911 from happening
uwuooowyooowhowuwuwu
I agree completely, but asking "whats so special about 9/11" and then comparing it to the seasonal flu is the wrong message. All I'm saying.
GnomeDeGuerre
What's wrong about it?
HoneyBunchesOfStoats
The comparison between 9/11 and the flu is meant sarcastically to draw a parallel to how people downplay covid by comparing it to flu
jjsjosCreator
ok i know I'll be crucified for this one but sometimes it seems like 9/11 is worshiped for xenophobic reasons. constant reminder to fear the
jjsjosCreator
outsider. i definitely believe it should be memorialized but it seems like it's become this "unprovoked evil" , the context lost.
MDAlchemist
This would make the perfect unpopular opinion puffin. Cause you're not wrong, but whooo doggie! are you gunna make some folk mad.
jjsjosCreator
yea i knew the comment would get enough heat . if you want to make one be my guest but i didn't want to be over disrespectful.
Orcajet
Serious fact. The tragedy of trumps failed covid response doesn’t make the loss of life on 9/11 any less appalling
GnomeDeGuerre
No, it's more the reaction to 9/11 that's put into context and made hypocritical. "Wear a mask to prevent 3.000 deaths - NO!!!".
Orcajet
I am not saying anyone shouldn’t wear a mask. Plenty of people mourn 9/11 and support common sense virus responses..
GnomeDeGuerre
Since 9/11 many people have died. On jobs, as soldiers, as civilians killed by US soldiers, to disease and diabetics without money. 1/
GnomeDeGuerre
2/ imo, mourning 9/11 looks like exceptionalism and nationalism. Like a nation that forgot about drone bombings. I have sympathy and a
GnomeDeGuerre
3/ soft spot for the people and families that got hit in 9/11, but not the nation.
SisterMidnight
Horrifying! And if only trump had cared more about saving lives instead of keeping the market up thousands of peeps would still be alive.
Woodennut
Well people are fucking stupid as well.
ilovethisdog
theimgurappsucksballs
Hundreds of thousands!
sprayingmantis4
It's mass murder
quitehelp
and if we built a monument for it he would see that as some sort of acheivement
kingramzeez
He also has fucked up the market as of recently
jayman0123
Losing 200 to 250,000 people was always going to fuck up the economy
AwesomelyLonely
And the 30-cum-20 million unemployed?
licmasack
Thats a lot of cum ...
sundaymondayhippyday
Still alive! Don’t know there mental state because of lack of info on whether they were directly affected by the all the 000’s of dead! ....
AawesomeAardvaark
Did he do something in the past couple weeks to make it drop?
kingramzeez
He borrowed more money from China increasing our national debt and devaluing the dollar
redcarpete
Increasing the debt and devaluing the dollar a almost even out. Not a bad thing in actuality.
PosthumousExile
Fantastic
joem7716811
Another stupid idiot with no common sense, yea right Trump has complete control over covid-19. Amazing how one person is at fault.
s7r1d3r420
He knew exactly how bad it was from the beginning and still chose to downplay it instead of coming up with a plan. So yeah. Its on him.
joem7716811
So what you're saying is that you're a puppet and can't figure things out for yourself and wait to be told.
s7r1d3r420
No. What I'm saying is that every other leader of a country has way less death tolls and are actively working with their people. Our >
s7r1d3r420
"Leader", you know, the guy who is supposed to have a plan when shit like this happens lied about what he knew and told people to not wear>
Buddasac
You need to hold the gov to a higher standard.
diesel01
Trump isn’t responsible for COVID, Trump owns downplaying a health crisis and the abject failure to have any kind of national response.
mlinke06
Many other politicians also down played it. One snow flake is not responsible for the avalanche.
diesel01
Some downplayed it in the beginning out of ignorance, but most who downplayed did so because he did and they wanted to be on his team.
sundaymondayhippyday
sundaymondayhippyday
Ripplingtwinkie
You can’t really compare a pandemic to a bunch of terrorists destroying a building in New York.
twerksforfish
i dont know why people are down-voting you expect your not playing to their agenda.i totes agree with you.
Kitakita
Can you compare it to a single terrorist destroying America in the span of 4 years?
RobertZimmermanWasRight
This is on 9/11 upvote/downvotes... coincident?
Soufange
I mean when the republican in charge gives about as many fucks I feel we can
Ripplingtwinkie
2020 is already the worst year in the past century, no one is arguing that 9/11 was better or worse. They’re just different events. One (1)
Ripplingtwinkie
(2)is an act of nature and the other is a group of humans intentionally killing other humans because religion.
Jagerbeast
And our response was to ignore saudi arabia, why?
Ripplingtwinkie
No idea. I’m not going to get into our response to 9/11. I was 8 when it happened.
DiracsDelta
You’re right. It’s a lot easier to prevent covid deaths than to prevent hijacking.
Ripplingtwinkie
It isn’t. Preventing viral infections requires the cooperation of the entire population. Preventing a hijacking requires metal detectors (1)
Ripplingtwinkie
(2)at an airport.
Ronelyn
We had metal detectors at airports before 9-11.
Ripplingtwinkie
So you admit it’s easier to stop hijackings than prevent viral infections
Ronelyn
I was pointing out that your argument is reductionistic and lacking many, MANY crucial nuances.
goodbyeitwasfunwhileitlasted
They're comparing the quantity of lives lost, not the manner in which they were lost.
Ripplingtwinkie
That makes no sense. Why not compare the Black Plague to Covid-19? It would be more meaningful than comparing the virus to terrorism.
Jagerbeast
We werent alive for one of those events
Ripplingtwinkie
Plenty of adults weren’t alive when 9/11 happened either.
Jagerbeast
And plenty were
goodbyeitwasfunwhileitlasted
Sure, you could also do that, and you wouldn't be wrong for it. In that regard, the black plague is waaaaaaay worse.
Papabehhr
And before modern medicine and in a different part of the world. Not comparing recent events where gov dropped the ball seems ignorant to me
goodbyeitwasfunwhileitlasted
The point isn't how people died, it's looking at the scale of death and realizing that both are very serious events. One is just ongoing.
Ripplingtwinkie
We don’t have to focus on the death toll of the virus everyday like self-flagellating monks. Suicide rates are already climbing, it’s fin(1)