So as a lot of people know today marks the 15th anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history where the world watched as the Twin Towers were struck by hijacked planes used as missiles and later collapsed killing thousands if innocent people.

Today is definitely a sad day and I would like to honor today not with dark stories and news, but with stories of human beings being good to each other and helping their fellow man rather then destroying them.

So I present to you all 10 true stories to restore your faith in humanity.

Thank you, and may you all have a wonderful day.

Even on that day, and like most Americans old enough I remember exactly where I was and what was happening, I didn't lose faith in humanity. We have our dark sides, our villains, some obvious some not, and those are unfortunate. But that day held far more heroes, doing everything they could to help each other through, in the same spirit as those in the video you've shared here. Thanks for posting this, all the best to everyone.

5482169 This was honestly sweet, even for a cynic like me.

5482169 I already did something here along these lines (https://www.fimfiction.net/group/822/humans-arent-bastards/thread/276094/commentary-after-september-11th-by-guy-atchley-kgun-tv-originally-written-2001)

5482208 Jesse.. Let it go..

5482208
You can never have too many threads honoring 9/11 victims and heroes.

Honestly, I was more impressed that my teacher interrupted class to have us listen to the radio when it was happening, then I was impressed that it happened at all. It was my teacher in primary, here in Quebec, and I didn't know anyone of the staff was so rapid on the news.

I learned that teachers could be flexible and care for things with unexpected eloquence. And I was also curious. As for losing faith in humanity? Nah. America's reaction wasn't most unexpected, but it wasn't like they're evil or anything. Humanity's a chaotic bunch.

If everyone whom had weapons were nasty, the event wouldn't have been so noticed. Also, they did bother to change air travel security stuff, and those commemorations and all that. The fact that a non-natural disaster could happen like that was quite the taboo. So losing faith? Nah.

I'm happy that people remember the disaster peacefully, to be honest.

5482169 I faintly recall hearing about it on TV I think, but I was only... what, five or six at the time.
I didn't understand it at the time of course, cause I was an idiot.

BUt as I grew older and looked back on it... twas a horrible moment in history.

Thanks for posting this brosefski.

5482169
What is this faith in humanity you speak of?

5483029 We all seriously doubt you HAVE any faith in humanity, and I am no exception. This can obviously be seen in most everything you have posted to date both in this and in many other groups.

5483372
Do you just intentionally take every single piece of bait shown to you?

5483482 Only the bait that I (and other people) feel breaks the rules sir.

5483496
Translation: "Only the posts that offend me."
Also:
>calling a mod on a Manchurian horsefucking site "sir".
[CUCKOLDERY INTENSIFIES]

5483529

"Only the posts that offend my postmodernist sensibilities."

If we are to believe that statement, all the rules on here would constitute as postmodernist sensibilities.

"Only the posts that offend me."

Again, we need to look at the site rules. I report the posts that would offend ANYBODY, unless they had your characteristics. And they're right on the psychopathic level right down to that lack of remorse shown for any of them.

calling a mod on a Manchurian horsefucking site "sir".

I tried to come up with a comment for that quote. I have failed. It stands in such a conflict with the site's stance on NSFW content that there is literally no point in trying.

5483552
The concept of hatespeech is postmodernist trash created by th Soviets to browbeat political opposition.
You equate expressing beliefs (granted, crudely), without kowtowing to your views as psychopathy. That's pathetic. Also, nice job equating what you find offensive with what everyone else should find offensive.

And you're apparently afraid to use the word "fuck" on a Burmese glue porn site. Don't worry. I won't hold your intellectual disability against you. After all, that would be evil and bigoted.

5483571

The concept of hatespeech is postmodernist trash created by th Soviets to browbeat political opposition.

Um . . . what?

And you're apparently afraid to use the word "fuck" on a Burmese glue porn site. Don't worry. I won't hold your intellectual disability against you. After all, that would be evil and bigoted.

A: This website is British and not Burmese.
B: This website has a whole lot more to offer than just porn. In fact, unless it is in writing form, porn isn't even allowed on FIMFiction! (see the ''NSFW content'' section of the site's rules)
C: Bleeping harsh profanities when necessary is not a disability. It is a responsibility.
D: Evil and bigoted best describes folks like you.

5483583
Trotsky invented the concept of racism.

A. This website is British

Memes on a Bangladeshi dinner whoring site are above you, apparently.

B. This site has more to offer than just porn

>Thinking an Indonesian transportation masturbation site isn't all porn

It's a responsibility.

Literally to who? The people who come here for fapping material, or the twelve year olds threatening to rape your mother on COD? The 4channers? The mental disability line was actually just referring to you in general.

D.Evil and bigoted best describes folks like you.

"Oy vey! I, (((Jesse Coffey))), will browbeat people who disagree with actions that I perform with that bull next door with the most generic leftist insult ever known!"

You know, if this was Spacebattles or Sufficient Velocity, or a thread literally anywhere else on FiMFiction, I would probably be jumping in on the little derail going on here. Instead, I'm just going to post this:

5483571 The Soviets weren't postmodern. Postmodernism originates in the West, in France and other places. A prominent writer was Foucault, for once.
5483623 Opposition to discrimination based on race goes back further than that. (And even if didn't, the fact that someone like Trotzky, who I don't like either, came up with it wouldn't be enough to render it wrong or anything)

5484724
Okay, fair point. Thanks for clearing that up. As for the racism point, the fact that Trotsky came up with it isn't wrong. But the fact the term itself was invented specifically to silence political unorthodoxy is.

5482208 You're angry because someone down voted your Jet Fuel thread.

Aren't you?

5485040 No problem. It's sad if it was just invented to silence, however that doesn't mean it's not an useful or necessary term.

Just like things originally intended for good purposes can be used for nefarious, unethical means, the opposite can also be happen. The term might be overused now, and sadly some apparently attempt to shut other people down with it where it's not justified, but it's still shorter than saying "discriminating based on (the category) race". And since you sometimes want or need to talk about that kind of thing, it's generally good to have such a term.

5485095
Oh, and I agree. But by and large, the word is used in the same way as it was then, as well as the word "bigot". They're simply overused, as far as I'm concerned.

5485130 Well, yeah, name-calling usually doesn't lead to anywhere, but sometimes it's necessary to call discriminating / intolerance what it is. That the words describing that kind of thing are going to get used where it's not appropriate is not something you can avoid, sadly.

911 - One of the 'darkest day in American History'?
So... Darker than the deliberate policy of ethic cleansing (with a side order of genocide) committed by the US government against the american indians?
So... Darker than that one time half the nation (as it existed then) thought to themselves "Fuck human rights - we just love slavery too damn much!" and then started a bloody civil war?
So... Darker than when America enacted Jim Crow laws?
So... Darker than when America lied to the world about having irrefutable evidence for Iraqi WMD, and then treated some of their oldest allies like shit for years afterwards for calling their bluff?

Well, maybe a dark day. Maybe one one of the top fifty. But probably not the top ten. And maybe in the grand scheme of things edging into 'rather overcast' territory than outright dark.

5489850 I agree with you. A bad day to be sure and fairly monumental by the standards of "recent history" but on the whole there have been more pivotal moments in the history of the US.

A slighty more serious post than mine (on other groups). Well done

5489850

So... Darker than the deliberate policy of ethic cleansing (with a side order of genocide) committed by the US government against the american indians?

So... Darker than that one time half the nation (as it existed then) thought to themselves "Fuck human rights - we just love slavery too damn much!" and then started a bloody civil war?

So... Darker than when America enacted Jim Crow laws?

So... Darker than when America lied to the world about having irrefutable evidence for Iraqi WMD, and then treated some of their oldest allies like shit for years afterwards for calling their bluff?

No... AS dark as all those days.