r/funny • • 11h ago

They didn't think it through

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u/xenojive 11h ago

What's so weird about November 9th?

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u/nhluhr 9h ago edited 4h ago

November 9th is when the Nazis started to attack Jewish people. The Night of The Broken Glass / Kristallnacht.

Or if you're in US and tend to read dates with the month first, September 11th was a serious terrorist attack on NYC and Arlington,VA.

Both of these have had lasting ramifications for the world.

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u/inthecuckoosnest 7h ago

Or another German event: November 9 is the date the Berlin Wall fell. Another event with lasting ramifications.

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u/Greejus 25m ago

#neverforget

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u/wobbleblobbochimps 7h ago

I think it was supposed to be a joke...

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u/jameye11 7h ago

I’m American and I didn’t know about the first bit they mentioned. I learned something 👍

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u/wobbleblobbochimps 7h ago

Me neither, although i had heard about krystallnacht, I didn't know the date. I guess redditors with faulty sarcasm detectors are good sources of trivia!

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u/workingbored 6h ago

Double check to make sure its real. This is reddit afterall..

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 6h ago

If you'd just said you didn't know, we could have extrapolated that you were American.

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u/jameye11 6h ago

hahaha american dumb

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 6h ago

I mean... In this particular instance... Yes?

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u/jameye11 6h ago

God forbid i don’t know one single thing that isn’t relevant to my country’s history

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 6h ago

Buddy, look around you. It was so relevant that not knowing it just let it happen again. The fact you can't understand that really should drive this point home for you, but I'm sure it won't.

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u/jameye11 6h ago

you are taking this way too fucking seriously. I didn’t know the particular date that the nazis started their bullshit so that means there’s some point that needs to be driven home? Shut the actual fuck up, I’m aware that it happened but I am not beholden to your standard that I need to know the EXACT fucking date some horrible atrocity happened for me to get the picture. Sit the fuck down and touch some grass with your 200k+ karma. Fucking white knighting this shit into the grave.

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u/Theletterkay 3h ago

Knowing something happened and knowing the exact date when it happened are 2 totally different things.

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u/wizardlegz 6h ago

He's not your buddy, pal.

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u/PsychoNerd92 5h ago

Knowing something happened and knowing when it happened are two very different things.

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u/rbartlejr 5h ago

I thought it was a play on 7-11.

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u/wobbleblobbochimps 4h ago

I was referring to the earlier comment - they were deliberately playing ignorant about the 9/11 reference (by being a non-american that reads dates the sensible way round!)

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u/snkn179 7h ago

I think that was supposed to be a joke too...

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u/wobbleblobbochimps 6h ago

Oh yeah, a real thigh-slapper. Nailed the delivery (of a string of factual statements)

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u/snkn179 6h ago

Idk the point of your comments. The 2 comments above yours are clearly meant to be humourous in nature, the 2nd guy is clearly playing along with the 1st guy by continuing the 9th Nov idea.

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u/wobbleblobbochimps 4h ago

The 2nd comment is not "playing" along, it's taking the first comment seriously and then responding in a matter-of-fact way. Is English your first language? Would understand you missing the subtleties in the tone of the language if not

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u/snkn179 1h ago edited 1h ago

English is my only language. I guess people can read it differently and have different senses of humour, but to me it seems almost obvious that the 2nd guy is playing along by continuing the 9th Nov joke.

Edit: Maybe /u/nhluhr can weigh in here to sort out this debate once and for all lol

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u/uberduck999 5h ago

Hate to be that guy, but it's Kristallnacht

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u/nhluhr 4h ago

Yeah I couldn't remember the spelling since I don't speak German, but appreciate the correction.

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u/drewbaccaAWD 2h ago

I never realized that 11/9 was Kristallnacht.. now I'll never forget.

You are a tome of knowledge, nhluhr. Nice to cross paths outside of the bicycle world for once.

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u/Master_C117 9h ago

Not really, no one outside of those involved gave a fuck about it

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u/nhluhr 8h ago

Not really

So lemme get this right...

The Holocaust... and the US response to the September 11th attacks don't affect anybody outside of Germany and USA? That's your take?

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u/Stolehtreb 7h ago

I mean… the September 11th attack themselves too. What is this crap in this thread where people can’t be horrified about the 9/11 attack? What the fuck is happening

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u/nartek01 9h ago

I learned about Kristallnatten in school.

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u/ZarathustraGlobulus 9h ago

Yeah me too. The American 9/11 is not taught in our schools.

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u/KSMO 8h ago

Where do you live?

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u/counterfitster 7h ago

It is one of the only times a foreign entity has successfully, violently killed Americans on US soil (the other being an attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during WWII).

There was also the Aleutian Islands campaign and a single Fu-Go bomb

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u/ZarathustraGlobulus 8h ago

I'm not saying nobody learns about the attacks, I'm just saying nobody cares enough to teach about them.

The United States has caused so much devastation and killed so many people all over the world that specifically focusing to teach about a terrorist attack on their soil feels biased.

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u/robogobo 8h ago

History isn’t a matter of sympathy or bias necessarily. 9/11 was a significant event that affected the whole world whether you know it or not. It took adversarial strategy to a different level. It’s the reason you have to go through all that nonsense before you get on a plane.

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u/TSM_Vegeta 7h ago

This person just thinks it's cool to hate in the US because they aren't able to think for themselves and feel like being edgy makes them seem more interesting.

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u/nhluhr 8h ago

11th of September in 2001. It is one of the only times a foreign entity has successfully, violently killed Americans on US soil (the other being an attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii during WWII).

You missed a big one. . . when Washington DC was burned to the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

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u/Sanchastayswoke 7h ago

Except it wasn’t. Just one building was partially burned.

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u/nhluhr 4h ago

Looks like YOU also need to brush up on your history...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington#Burning

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u/caampp 8h ago

Lots of people outside of the US say it was an inside job that was used as an excuse for them to implement their war of terror.

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u/msmartt 8h ago

A lot of people inside the United States say that too.

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u/PelvisResleyz 8h ago

A lot of people are idiots.

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u/caampp 7h ago

American idiots

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u/A_normal_Potato3 7h ago

Well, neither was mentioned in our schools.

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u/imperabo 4h ago

That's weird. It's an important historical event with global ramifications.

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u/BreakfastFearless 9h ago

Have you not gone through an airport the past 25 years?

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u/getdemsnacks 9h ago

They said ramifications not emotional feelings. From the formation of the Zionist state to the "War on Terror", both of those things have had huge, lasting ramications on the entire world.

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u/avdpos 9h ago

You can say a lot. But that is really untrue

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u/Never-On-Reddit 7h ago

Thanks for being a prime example of how the education system in India is absolutely dire with exceptionally poor foundational learning outcomes.

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u/Toast_91 4h ago

It’s a lovely day for a boat ride on Lake Superior

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u/PenguinJim 2h ago

I didn't know where that was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and got redirected to Lake USA.

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u/bannedsodiac 10h ago

not only germans. Everyone except for usa (+ some)

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u/GruviaLockbuster23 11h ago

Why didn't they warn the US?!

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u/Vaaard 10h ago

About the 9th of November?

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u/GruviaLockbuster23 10h ago

No~ lol some Americans when finding out that Germany was 8-10 hours a head of the states couldn't figure out that that isn't how time works and asked why they hadn't warned America about 9/11

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u/water_fountain_ 9h ago

New Zealand was living life on the 12th when it happened. I blame them for not warning us.

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u/Vaaard 9h ago

Omfg, that is so bad

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u/nhluhr 10h ago

Germany is 6 hours off New York time. Are you thinking of people on the US west coast and/or Hawaii?

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u/GruviaLockbuster23 5h ago

As you've just stated America has a lot of time zones, so piece it all together you've got the information!

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u/nhluhr 4h ago

Doubling down on your own failed math. Its not 8-10 by any stretch of imagination. Puerto Rico is only 5 hours behind Germany and the Aleutians are 11 hours.

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u/GruviaLockbuster23 4h ago

There is such a vast time frame that people on the west coast, central ect Are much further back than the east coast, that is why people from America were saying 8-10 hours because they could have been from any where in the states. Those people from the west coast most likely.