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Terra: Chaos Lesbian (terra@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 11:45:22 JST Terra: Chaos Lesbian

In the week following 9/11, I wrote an essay about how America was facing a choice. By that time, I was already publishing essays and mostly had no problem getting published. So I wanted to have a compassionate voice be heard.
I wrote that we have a choice. We could continue on the course it seemed to be on, or we could choose compassion, understanding, and an acknowledgement that such actions do not happen in a vacuum and that America, also, has debts to pay. I wrote about how America could chose aggression and animosity, or we could chose love, compassion, understanding.
I could not get anyone to accept my essay, even places that accepted anything I wrote immediately turned it down. Some responses even called me out as anti-patriotic. In fact, I got kind of shadow blacklisted.
That's all I think about when 9/11 comes around every year. I will #NeverForget that America had a chance to choose peace and reconciliation, and instead chose hatred and war.

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  It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 11:45:18 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸
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  @Terra I'll never forget what Hunter S Thompson said the day after the attack. He called it.
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  1. We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to ‘smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Irag, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. ‘This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed ~ for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they lve or why. If the guitty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
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  Terra: Chaos Lesbian (terra@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 11:45:20 JST Terra: Chaos Lesbian
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  @Tweetfiction Like, the president actually said "If you're not with us, you're against us." Holy shit.
  
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  Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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  It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸 (tweetfiction@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 11:45:21 JST It's Just Spider-Jenn 🕷🕸
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  @Terra I'm not surprised, sadly. Remember when any complaint against the actions of the Administration was met with "Why do you hate America?"
  Good times.
  
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