Politics How have the terrorist attacks of 9/11 changed the world? (Read 1710 times)

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Immediatly when 9/11 happened, it gave all the super-powers across the world an opportunity to more effectively drive their agendas in an ever harsher way. The U.S. of course was one of those, and I think it made it especially easy to them to push whatever they wanted on a nation kept in an almost constant state of fear.
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Ok. Sounds good to me. I'm talking about people who go out and use their four year old english speaking children to order fries.

EDIT-Ok, that is an example, not a literal point.
Did you think that maybe they are using their kids to order food at McDonald's because they have been driven to a state of fear by shits like you and are scared of displaying their non-perfect English skills to xenophobic high schoolers who will run back to the food prep area and snigger about the verb-noun disagreement among the other mexicans and poor kids of immigrants who are working there. Those kids will pretend to laugh at the joke to keep a friendly atmosphere and not get beaten up at the one place that provides them with money. Meanwhile, the mother of the kid ordering the food works at a factory job for near-minimum wage for 45 hours a week where her fellow employees ignore her when she asks them questions and laugh behind her back, wrongly assuming that she doesn't know enough English to understand when people are calling her an idiot. She gets home and instead of taking a break after the work day has to cook dinner for the family because there's a mortgage to pay and not enough money to go out todinner twice a week. She tried to take night classes for English a few years ago but found herself too tired to concentrate or read a book after a day of squinting under a magnifying glass to paint a few thousand police and firefighter badges at the factory. Instead, she tells her eight-year old son to approach the cashier because he's been going to  elementary school for a few years now where he actually mingles with people who want to talk to him in English.

Nah, you wouldn't know anything about that.
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my mom used to get laughed at for that shit and now if she sees it happening she gets very sad, true story, everyone sucks :(
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there are actually tons of countries where the majority of people speak incredibly good english and would rather speak that with you than hear you have a hard time speaking their language when you don't know it as well as they know yours

not that you shouldn't try, i am just saying that as long as you aren't an asshole about it it's not really that big a deal!
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ppl are assholes though
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EDIT-Ok, that is an example, not a literal point.

God damnit ASE, go get fucked in the ass you stupid piece of shit. If you must know the one fucking example I am talking about the mexican was wearing a LEATHER COAT AND GOLD CHAINS around his neck and spent ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS ON PIZZA AND TOKENS FOR VIDEO GAMES. But hey, LET JUST CONTINUE THE TREND AND ASSUME THE WORST ABOUT DARK ANGEL BECAUSE IT'S STILL COOL FOUR YEARS LATER.

BY THE FUCKING WAY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO PAY A GUY 10 GRAND TO LEAD THEM ACROSS THE BORDER KNOWING THAT HE WILL GLADLY DITCH THEM IF IT'S IN HIS INTEREST IN THE SLIGHTEST, BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THE 130+ HEAT IN THE DRY DESERT WITH NO FOOD OR WATER, AND BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THE BORDER PATROL AGENTS THAT WILL DO WORSE THAN LEAVE THEM HIGH AND DRY BUT LACK THE CAJONES TO LEARN A FUCKING LANGUAGE.

But good point though you got me.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU DARK ANGEL WHY DO YOU NOT GET THINGS (CAPITAL LETTERS CAPITAL LETTERS)

ALSO ONE EXAMPLE EQUALS EVERYONE
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Didn't America alreayd know about the Pearl harbor attack and allowed it to still happen? same could be said about 9/11 later on I guess. 

I think it's retarded as hell that if you even mention 9/11 ina  public area people will be all like "omg don't talk about 9/11 my entire family and pet dog and cat and house and gameboy advance got killed in it ansd it offends me".
You don't see people whine everytime someone talks about guns when there parents were shot.
I have not read the rest but I gotta reply to this post.

First off, it's rumoured(or confirmed, I'm not sure) that BRITAIN allowed the pearl harbour attack to happen, not america!
And guns IN GENERAL != TO A SPECIFIC EVENT

I would write a longer post but you are so stupid I need to cut it down.
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God damnit ASE, go get fucked in the ass you stupid piece of shit.
man go get fucked in the ass yourself you stupid piece of shit. do you not realize he pretty much just told you part of his life story and you told him to go get fucked in the ass? What the fuck is wrong with you dude?

also I dont know if you realize this, because you grew up speaking it, but english is pretty much the hardest language on earth to master. Granted its pretty difficult for us English speakers to learn a tonal language like Chinese or Yoruba or Navajo or whatever but ffs man, we native English speakers really take for granted how difficult it is for people to learn to speak English. I mean imagine if you were from a rural poor unindustrialized area with little to no schooling and then all of a sudden you were forced to learn a new language by people who refused to speak your language. It'd be pretty fuckin difficult no? I think the thing you fail to understand is that many people's deficiencies at speaking English when they first come to this country is not for lack of trying man. Not for the lack of caring enough, not for any of your stupid racist justification reasons either.

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God damnit ASE, go get fucked in the ass you stupid piece of shit. If you must know the one fucking example I am talking about the mexican was wearing a LEATHER COAT AND GOLD CHAINS around his neck and spent ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS ON PIZZA AND TOKENS FOR VIDEO GAMES. But hey, LET JUST CONTINUE THE TREND AND ASSUME THE WORST ABOUT DARK ANGEL BECAUSE IT'S STILL COOL FOUR YEARS LATER.

BY THE FUCKING WAY I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO PAY A GUY 10 GRAND TO LEAD THEM ACROSS THE BORDER KNOWING THAT HE WILL GLADLY DITCH THEM IF IT'S IN HIS INTEREST IN THE SLIGHTEST, BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THE 130+ HEAT IN THE DRY DESERT WITH NO FOOD OR WATER, AND BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE THE BORDER PATROL AGENTS THAT WILL DO WORSE THAN LEAVE THEM HIGH AND DRY BUT LACK THE CAJONES TO LEARN A FUCKING LANGUAGE.

But good point though you got me.

I don't even get this post. it's like...you proved yourself wrong man. I can't...I can't even post about this.

congrats internet you win this battle.
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dark angel no-one is insulting you because they just can't stand dark angel, no-one cares about you. it's your ridiculous and horrible prejudice and thoughtlessness which is getting attacked. what is this four years later stuff? you are just saying some horrible and nonsensical stuff right now.
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man go get fucked in the ass yourself you stupid piece of shit. do you not realize he pretty much just told you part of his life story and you told him to go get fucked in the ass? What the fuck is wrong with you dude?

also I dont know if you realize this, because you grew up speaking it, but english is pretty much the hardest language on earth to master. Granted its pretty difficult for us English speakers to learn a tonal language like Chinese or Yoruba or Navajo or whatever but ffs man, we native English speakers really take for granted how difficult it is for people to learn to speak English. I mean imagine if you were from a rural poor unindustrialized area with little to no schooling and then all of a sudden you were forced to learn a new language by people who refused to speak your language. It'd be pretty fuckin difficult no? I think the thing you fail to understand is that many people's deficiencies at speaking English when they first come to this country is not for lack of trying man. Not for the lack of caring enough, not for any of your stupid racist justification reasons either.

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Is english really the hardest language to learn? I've heard that swedish is terribly difficult but then I've heard almost any native speaker saying their language is the hardest so it might just be about language-penis. My language is much harder than yours!

Then again english might've been proven hard, I don't find it that hard though (I bet I made some horrible mistake somewhere in this post that contradicts this statement ;;)
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Wow this is probably the worst post I've read on GW in a long time.
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your all wrong al bhed is the most difficult language

no, but seriously. English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, especially because of the large amount of exceptions to grammar rules, the way groups of letters change sound depending on context, a shitload of homonyms (most adults still fuck up "your" "you're" "their" "they're" "buy" "bye" "by") not to mention really stupid and complex rules about accentuation coupled with the fact that native speakers have their own gay dialects that prevent non-native speakers from learning proper English (a tendancy to slur words together to make one really long word that doesn't make any sense to someone who doesn't know that "whajusay" means "What did you say?")
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that and here's a fun game:

whats the past tense of burst, swim, hang, lie, lay?
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off topic I know but holy shit this site is awesome

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Does anyone even know what Dark Angel is referring to from FOUR YEARS AGO?

Because I don't.
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I don't understand why believing that it is someone's responsibilty to learn the language of the country they move to makes me a bad person. Because that exactly what I said and exactly as far as my belief in that extends. I never said, and don't believe, that foreigners need to fuck off or anything of the sort. Just what exacly about my believing it is their responsiblity to learn the langauge of the country they decide to move to makes me a bad person? What about that makes deserve your anger and insults? Jesus people really what the fuck is so bad about that?

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why is bilingualism such a bad thing.

especially considering how the only continent we can walk to predominantly speaks spanish.
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bbut steel when the blacks came over here we made them learn english