Yup this is an oldie. Of course no one was on the observation deck that morning since it hadn’t opened yet. I do believe some of the staff of the businesses on the observation floor were already there and died. I seem to recall hearing a Sabaro’s employee died (there were a few NYC style eateries on the observation floor.)

Incredible core strength. All of it.

I have it on good authority that after the towers collapsed Trump tower became the tallest building in NYC. In fact, Trump called into a news broadcast to proclaim that hours after they’d fallen.

Cursed Pez dispenser

OG right here

I mean to be fair people were joking about 9/11 way before that time, even South Park made fun of 9/11 a few years later when they made that 9/11 conspiracy episode.

Ouch, a valentines days 9/11 card

There was also reports that the FBI had anticipated the possibility of terrorist using explosive-laden jets to attack the towers but they assumed they’d use smaller private jets like gulf-streams and would use 4 or so to hit the towers. After 1993 lots of people knew the towers were a target. Lots of people that fled the towers on 9/11 had worked there during the 1993 bombing and instinctively knew something was off and they needed to get out of them ASAP.

It’s really just lazy writing. The WTC was attacked in 1993 so it was well known to be a target. Plus you had the OKC bombing a few years later which just confirmed that government structures were targets. Flying planes into stuff wasn’t a new idea either; the earliest cruise missiles were basically jets with some remote controls added to them and even suicide-pilots were an old idea by then (kamikaze’s in WW2.) And the idea of a plane crashing into the WTC wasn’t even that novel before the 1993 attack. There were numerous experts criticizing the possibility of a jet accidentally crashing into them when approaching the nearby airport, so much so they eventually tweaked the flight-lanes around Manhattan to limit the chance of an airliner hitting them in bad fog.

So to have a plot about some jerk remotely flying a jet into a famous skyscraper that had already been attacked once before isn’t all that surprising.

Yeah I’ve heard most countries flip the month and day around so it’d be 11/9 so 9/11 sounds strange to them since it’d be implying November 9th rather than September 11th.

Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history

Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.

All that terrible country music did spoil the whole post-9/11 vibe.

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OP is just mad his older brother died on 9/11

No planes in this one. In fact, you have to have lived through Duhbya’s presidency or be very knowledgable of it to understand the humor this subtle 20-oughts meme.

From around 2007

Nah. We now have videographic evidence of who was in control of 9/11

Some good oldies on that site.

I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?