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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by marcinzm on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:22PM (#22563499)
I remember 9/11, saw the second plane hit with my own eyes. Other than airports and flying being more inconvenient nothing fundamental really changed as I saw it. People still traveled, people still flew and so on. Now you just budget an extra hour before a flight.
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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by neuronic on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:38PM (#22563593)
Geopolitics has seen massive impact since then. For example, the rise of ISIS is a direct descendant of the Iraq war which is a direct consequence of corrupt and criminal decision making by the Bush/Cheney admin in response to 9/11.

Debatable if the Arab Spring would have occurred without it, as the Middle East might have been much more stable.

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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by netsharc on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:20AM (#22564684)
Hear hear. And war refugees entering Europe is causing right-wing populism to rise (not that years of stupid austerity polcies was helping).

Would Brexit have happened without 9/11?

There's an ancient TIME article I have in my archives highlighting how the Dubya admin ignored Clinton's intelligence team's attempts to hand over info about the threat of a terrorist attack in the US. Would 9/11 have been prevented if Gore had won 2000? God damn hanging chads and rigged elections...

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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by marcinzm on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:15AM (#22564649)
Sure but the comment I responded to wasn't about geopolitics but daily life changes.
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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by jacobush on Friday March 13, 2020 @09:04AM (#22566911)
Because geopolitics does not change daily life? Damn, you should see some geopolitics where I live.
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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by dboreham on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:04AM (#22564610)
Pretty much the US just introduced the security measures other countries had had for years before.
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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by zanny on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:24AM (#22564704)
The TSA has been proven many times over to be totally ineffectual security theater - theres this popular report from a few years back that the TSA has a 95% failure rate when their measures are tested[1].

It doesn't go anywhere because there is now a lot of private industry in it for contract money to supply the spectacle whom have the lobbying power to keep it in place, but it is a total waste of money and gross violation of privacy for no positive benefit to society.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-fails-95-percent-tests-ho...

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Re:Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in... by dboreham on Friday March 13, 2020 @08:21AM (#22566659)
Ok, I misspoke : the US introduced less effective security measures than other countries had before.

In particular you'll see other countries focus on measures like interviewing (briefly) the passengers as they board.

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