I've realized something today Sup Forums. 9/11 was a perfect storm. The Towers were very tall and very iconic buildings that could be seen for practically a hundred miles in every direction. They were the only thing that TWO planes could crash into and then collapse the way they did with so much attention on them.
Is there anything that could even come close to the kind of iconography and ability to focus on?
They were the only target where there was TWO of them.
Adam Thompson
If you ever watched a movie set in New York during the 80s and 90s, the Twin Towers were the go to establishing shot so audiences from around the world instantly knew the setting. They were iconic in the way that Parliament building is iconic to London, or the Golden Gate bridge to San Francisco.
Hunter Rodriguez
Exactly, but I'd go further and say they were probably the most iconic things in the world except maybe the Statue of Liberty, exactly because of how many movies take place in NYC.
Nathaniel Fisher
Their destruction was absolutely the most iconic event of the era but before that they were just a couple of pretty buildings.
Asher Nguyen
Don't worry about the missing floors.
Elijah Jones
>Is there anything that could even come close to the kind of iconography and ability to focus on?
The new one has missing floors also.
Cameron Brooks
FuckIN WINDOWS! HOW DO THEY WORLD!?
The interior is still being build.
Christian Wilson
I'm not saying it wasn't an inside job, I'm just saying that's a shitty argument .
Brayden Hill
>most iconic thing in the world
kek nah the statue of liberty held more weight overseas m8, at least here
Carson Kelly
Well I said that Lady Liberty might be, so I get an out.
Brayden Brooks
That you did and that you do
Brody Nguyen
Hate Has No Home Here
Joshua Murphy
Why are shills here? There's practically no one in this thread
Kevin Price
Will Trump rebuild them?
Xavier Sanders
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Kevin Fisher
From North NJ and that intro credit sequence is an extremely accurate representation of building styles in this area.
Anthony Russell
They were iconic, but not as much as the Empire State Building.
A lot of New Yorkers didn't like the WTC.
Cameron Richardson
You didn't listen.
Jeremiah Hill
9/11 was exactly a quarter of a year after Timothy McVeight was executed. Gotta make those wallstreet profits niggas.
Isaiah Green
Why were there so many pictures of the WTC exploding/being hit by planes BEFORE 9/11? I've never seen another building depicted that way.
Hell, the Lone Gunmen even did an episode about six months before 9/11 which was about terrorists flying planes into the towers.
David Mitchell
an attack into the US Capitol Building, which was the original plan for flight 93 before people stormed the cockpit and it went into the ground. Had that happened we'd literally be living in a fascist state right now.
Cooper Flores
Because it was such an iconic location and was so big only planes seemed like a legit threat to them.
Brandon Cooper
>I've never seen another building depicted that way.
That's because they were bombed in '91 and were already known to be targets. Nobody thought it would actually happen though, because they trusted the government's ability to coordinate itself and protect it's citizens. That didn't occur.
Julian Stewart
They were built with the sole purpose to destroy in a large spectacle. The ritual was intended to symbolize/trigger a new phase of society and a new step in human evolution. The towers were constantly portrayed in (((popular media))) since their construction. Maybe that's doing something subconsciously to the average person consuming the media... If you believe in secret societies/cabals etc., it is plausible that the elite New York families that were responsible for the WTC construction (Rockefeller mainly) colluded with (((Hollywood))) and other social engineers to prepare for the ritual on 9/11.
Jaxson Gomez
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Jose Hall
The Deus Ex one always gets me and I never even played it.
I thought 93 was headed for the white house? The whole 93 story is suspect anyway desu senpai.
Robert Harris
Muhammad Salami tried to truck bomb them in the nineties. Every body knew they were marked.
Lincoln Jenkins
>They were the only thing that TWO planes could crash into and then collapse the way they did lol idiot
Lincoln Long
Another one from The Simpsons episode Marge vs. the Monorail. The portrait in the shot appears to show a burning WTC.
Interestingly, this episode aired one month before the FIRST WTC attack in 1993.
Jordan Johnson
forgot pic
Michael Russell
Hmm I'd say that they were iconic but there are a number of buildings that spring to mind over the twin towers when I think New York.
Maybe it's because the last 16 years they have not been around but I'd think the Empire State is both more interesting architecturally as a symbol of America.
Levi Powell
Two planes weren't enough
Tyler Hughes
Speaking of which, I'm not sure how to articulate this but I think that this came very very close to a perfect storm to take down the US financial system. Like if that was your intended goal to take down the US financial system this would come close. I mean even the timing was almost perfect.
Carson Collins
>I've realized something today Sup Forums. 9/11 was a perfect storm. Realize this:
The 1993 bombin of the WTC towers in the basement caused such severe structural damage that the owner, Larry Silverstein knew both buildings had to be demolished in 1999 so he bought them. But he needed time to empty out his gold, silver and other precious commodities without alerting suspicion. He also needed time to prepare a team of experts to plan for the demolition and plant explosive over the course of two years to make it look completely accidental.
And it really did.
Jack Brown
And also a major center of globalist world trade.
Jaxson Peterson
reminder that larry silverstein is a jew
Lucas Collins
They renewed insurance policies against this kind of shit every year, dipshit.
>b-b-but the jews!
Ryan Thomas
The terrorist 'mastermind' who rented the truck they used for the bomb got busted when he went back to get his deposit. archive.fo/KNK8R
>They renewed insurance policies against this kind of shit every year, dipshit. why would the insurance company not have sued him instead for all the suspicion?
Joseph Price
You really nailed it. It's disappointing to think about, but 9/11 was the happening among happenings. Even if it seems like crazy stuff could happen any day now, I do not believe that anything will happen during our entire lifetimes will be more iconic that that event.
Thanks to 80s and 90s movies, the twin towers were representative of not only New York but America in general. An attack using commercial plains were unprecedented (reason as to why it actually worked), the timing, everything was "perfect".
Asher Rodriguez
>I've realized something today Sup Forums. 9/11 was a perfect storm. The Towers were very tall and very iconic buildings that could be seen for practically a hundred miles in every direction.
You're both wrong. The Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building were much bigger icons. Even the Sears Tower was a bigger icon than the Twin Towers.
Samuel White
No one gave two flying fucks about those tall sticks before they got mossad'd
Hunter Bennett
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Andrew Jones
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Michael Barnes
Not even close. As a non-american, I can tell you the towers were the more iconic by far.
Isaiah Ward
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Asher Cook
>The WTC was the world's biggest forced meme
William Butler
Wow, I'm really surprised. I always thought of the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building as far more important. But fair enough, I don't pretend to know how foreigners see things.
James Young
The whole thing was a ritual to bring in the next era.