About a month after 9/11, I remember driving to Long Island. The *second* I crossed over from Queens into Nassau, the hyper-patriotic “we’re gonna kick their asses whoever they are” flag-wavey stuff started.
@racheline.bsky.socialYou know another thing that sucked in the months after 9/11?
Folks in matching t-shirts flying into NYC, wandering around trying to hug randoms, and explaining that while they thought we were all going to hell they were here to shop to save America and we were Americans too!
That shit was not cute