Current Events > Why couldn't we turn COVID into a patriotic movement like 9/11?

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The X Dawg
04/20/22 10:34:04 PM
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People gave up, and still don't have, a lot of their rights and freedoms stemming from the terror attacks. Yet, they banded together to root on the USA in war or something.

COVID and almost 1 million dead in the USA? "Eh, screw it and them. I ain't wearing no face diaper."

Is it really simply a result of the rhetoric from Trump's leadership? Is that really all it is? Or is it something else/more like the spread/evolution of technology/news, an invisible enemy, etc.?
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Dakimakura
04/20/22 10:34:52 PM
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Because then Trump would still be President

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SiO4
04/20/22 10:37:22 PM
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Missles are way more expensive than masks.

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MabusIncarnate
04/20/22 10:37:28 PM
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It was 2001, long before everyone hated each other via the internet.

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pegusus123456
04/20/22 10:39:20 PM
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Trump really is a big aspect of it.

Part of it too is that 9/11 didn't really require you to do anything. You hang up a flag and say never forget. Covid required you to make actual sacrifices.

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MrMallard
04/20/22 10:43:07 PM
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Because when foreign agents of terror kill a lot of people, it validates people's bigotry and riles up the country in response, giving everyone a common enemy.

When something at home is killing a lot of people, and is preventable through responsible legislation and a community effort? People would rather lick other people's doorknobs and deep-throat the barrel of a rifle because they think it will upset the people in their own country they don't like.

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jpenny2
04/20/22 10:44:16 PM
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Should've blamed COVID on the terrorists.

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RealityDose
04/20/22 10:45:35 PM
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Because unlike Bush, Trump genuinely doesn't seem to be anything other than a stupid fuck
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FortuneCookie
04/20/22 10:47:48 PM
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'Cause Trump is a piece of shit.
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Derwood
04/20/22 10:49:09 PM
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9/11 was a patriotic thing for maybe a year and then it was used as a spike to divide the country (and its gotten worse ever since)
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Stewman_Magoo
04/20/22 10:49:30 PM
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They did. They just got patriotic about covid taking over instead.

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The Top Crusader
04/20/22 11:01:51 PM
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I blame Trump. There would always be *some* segment of the populace that would rebel against anything, but he politicized it and made it way bigger. I really think any other Republican President of my lifetime, as well as GOP nominees that lost like Romney and McCain, wouldve been able to unite most everyone against the common threat, and sailed easily into a re-election.

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VigorouslySwish
04/20/22 11:02:19 PM
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Donald Trump

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meestermj
04/20/22 11:03:08 PM
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Because war is more profitable than unity.

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