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Jesus fuck, the political extremists have escaped the tankie containment instances
I'm not a tankie, so I wouldn't be on a tankie instance. Other radical views exist outside Maoism and Marxist-Leninism.
I'm not saying those 3000 people deserved to die. It is sad that they died. The US as a whole had it coming, and it would have been better if only the government or combatants were targeted. But to act like the US citizens who died on 9/11 were completely innocent bystanders is also unrealistic. It's sad that settler families were slaughtered by native Americans, but I'm not going to act like it was completely evil that they were targeted, especially after we were slaughtering tribes en masse with our military.
I'm an anarchist on the same instance as you are, I agree with the idea that US's geopolitical games had to have a blowback at some point.
Should the 3000+ died? Probably not. Would someone at some point have died due to the blowback at some point? Most likely. Can't say when or where, or how many.
But people were (understandably) seething with hatred for what America did to their nations and cultures. Removing elected leaders for autocratic dictators, assassinating people to help aid in anti-communist efforts, and so on. America was not innocent in the region pre-9/11.
The people in the towers probably had nothing to do even tangentially related to the reasons for 9/11 to be done in the eyes of the Al Queda, beyond "they are in the buildings tied to American capitalism, valid target in our eyes."