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as an American I very much want to live in the reality where Gore won and 9/11 didn't happen.
Are you asserting that Al Qaeda liked Gore enough to suspend their vendetta?
- Gore was declared winner of the 2000 presidential election
- the WTC wasn't attacked on September 11th, 2001.
the two don't have to be connected to be wishes.
Article neglects that the WTC defied NYFD building codes on egress. If the code was applied as existing in 1966, it would require 8 or 9 fireproof staircases. Instead Rockefeller asked for and got a pass and the building instead had three staircases embedded in six layers of drywall, which is far else than the then standard fireproofing (brick encased). Not only that, they had non-standard transit corridors that wove…
The Twin Towers sort of represented the height of American power and prestige, and their fall kicked off the decline. From its peak in the unipolar 90s, a series of expensive misadventures that began after the towers fell diverted critical funds from development (against the backdrop of China's inevitable rise and industrial capacity), into conflict and war far away.
It is - seriously - no wonder they got destroyed. NYC is a symbol, and the towers were a recognizable icon in the skyline. There's a high number of coincidences about the towers getting destroyed. It's no conspiracy, it's because the towers and NYC meant something in the eyes of the world with regards to the USA. Just rattling off a few of the wild ones: The episode of The Lone Gunmen which predicted an attack with a…
That totally freaked me out when I re-read the article a few years later.
I saw a documentary that made the case that the Twin Towers' design was compromised from the beginning. The original design called for pillars at the corners, but the designers wanted open floor plans, so the city could be seen from anywhere in the offices. (Makes me wonder if the terrorists did more research than we would think) I'm sure there are some civil engineers in here who would just love to weigh in so now I…
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Thanks for that. We seem to have lost sight of the importance of "commercial biodiversity" in the past 40 or more years of continuous M&A concentration. Happily, I saw a little discussion of it in 2008 when the advocates of letting the auto companies fail were pushed back by statistics showing how many second and third tier suppliers would be destroyed. But the fourth tier, the shenzhen / radio alley-type stuff is st…
It's a shame the same logic wasn't applied in maintaining a healthy root-level auto company ecosystem. Having a single megacorp at the top inevitably makes it too big to fail. On the other hand, if there are dozens of smaller car companies, the failure of any one of them is insignificant to the wider ecosystem. A company that knows it is too big to fail will inevitably lead to mismanagement. After all, why bother sav…
The Twin Towers sort of represented the height of American power and prestige, and their fall kicked off the decline. From its peak in the unipolar 90s, a series of expensive misadventures that began after the towers fell diverted critical funds from development (against the backdrop of China's inevitable rise and industrial capacity), into conflict and war far away.
I couldn’t help feel the same. Looking at where America is right now. It seems to make a downfall.
It's been happening for years now. 'America', the idea, died the moment the 2nd plane hit the towers.
People saw that happen, and were so fearful they immediately opened their hearts to fascism.
2025 is merely the year where all of Bush's fascist policies & Obama/Biden's failure to clean it up metastasized into the overt fascism that hurts everyone in a country & eventually destroys the country itself.
The Twin Towers sort of represented the height of American power and prestige, and their fall kicked off the decline. From its peak in the unipolar 90s, a series of expensive misadventures that began after the towers fell diverted critical funds from development (against the backdrop of China's inevitable rise and industrial capacity), into conflict and war far away.
It is - seriously - no wonder they got destroyed. NYC is a symbol, and the towers were a recognizable icon in the skyline. There's a high number of coincidences about the towers getting destroyed. It's no conspiracy, it's because the towers and NYC meant something in the eyes of the world with regards to the USA. Just rattling off a few of the wild ones: The episode of The Lone Gunmen which predicted an attack with a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...
I imagine this terrorist attack inspired some of the art on your list.