Show some respect for the victims of 9/11

I’m going to set aside the lion persona for a post and admonish some of our regular posters (they know who they are) for turning 9/11 tribute posts into string of toxic squabbles:

https://tuscl.net/discussion/85913
https://tuscl.net/discussion/85917

Almost 3000 people died that day in the towers and in the planes that impacted them and (with the exception of the actual hijackers) none of those people deserved what happened to them. I don’t know if a majority of those people would have appreciated posts memorializing them on a strip club discussion board, but I do think they deserve respectful discussion if someone makes those memorial posts.

My big point is that 9/11 memorial posts aren’t the place for political rants or bickering about stupid points. 9/11 posts should be in the front room because 9/11 posts shouldn’t be political. The only thing I have to say about 9/11 is that I feel sad about the people who died in the WTC and in the Pentagon and on Flight 93 and I’m glad that the world was able to degrade al-Qaeda and kill Osama bin Laden. Frankly, that is all anybody should say.

I have some small hope that this thread will attract agreement and perhaps even apologies from the bad actors rather than “but lion, the other guy started the argument” or 20-page essays on how to solve the world’s problems or whatever other nonsense passes for TUSCL political discourse. But I’m just an internet lion, so what do I know? Consider this post a challenge to act like normal human beings.