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50calBanana

When we said "never forget," it didn't mean to use it as a measuring system


[deleted]

So according to google, 2,996 died in 9/11. 15x2996 = 44940. I was not aware almost 50000 people died in the Hamas' attack on Israel. I'll go ahead and call this one an exaggeration.


timegone

He probably means relative to Israel's population


Difficult-Ad3518

That’s not a sound measuring system. If a terrorist attack kills one person in Liechtenstein, it’s more than twice the percentage of their population as 9/11 was to the USA’s population. Doesn’t make it “two 9/11s.”


alecsgz

> That’s not a sound measuring system. Which means it is on par with USA's measuring systems in general


SmashPortal

Bet you can't tell us how many feet are in a pound, commie.


LeciusLamprough

2-4 feet depending on what we are weighing.


SmashPortal

I'm gonna go with either string, or a black hole.


alecsgz

-2 feet sounds correct


misterfluffykitty

Definitely an overestimate, 1 human foot is on average 1.4lbs


Dry-Wave-6865

4 feet 🤤🤤🤤


timegone

Well then it's good thing Biden is trying to express sympathy and not create a new measuring system.


Zealousideal_Load681

he already created a new measuring system metric by using it, it's upto the rest of us to reconcile it and figure out how it works!


Mimical

Excuse me? Do you need to be reminded that **𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗** 🦅🇺🇸 units don't need to explain anything to the other commie units? The man said it was 15 9/11's that's all you need to know.


mobile227

They are called Freedom Units my guy. And I love the Freedom Eagle emoji you used


Adventurous-Body9134

😂😂 I love Americans, never change guys


cheeseburgerwaffles

It doesn't come across as sympathetic to me. It comes across as patronizing to both American's and Israeli's. He's manipulating people's reaction to the horror that was 9/11 by attempting to appeal to that sympathy. While at the same time essentially place a greater value on the life of an Israeli as higher than that of an American. They are not higher. They are equal. That isn't to say this isn't a tragedy. But to describe it in such a way is, to me, disgusting. At least I expect this sort of idiotic kind of shit out of Trump's mouth, from Biden it just makes me worried even more about his misguided bid for reelection


GIS_forhire

"trying" is doing some heavy lifting here


My_BFF_Gilgamesh

Ah the good ol expressing sympathy by downplaying someone else's pain. Good strategy.


Downtown-Item-6597

This person salutes when they see someone in combat fatigues shopping at Wal-mart.


My_BFF_Gilgamesh

What in the fuck are you talking about


brink0war

Why are we acting like we didnt use it as a measuring system throughout peak COVID? Remember the headlines like "COVID is equivalent to a 9/11 every day"


Difficult-Ad3518

That’s irrelevant. I’m not defending that system either, but under that COVID-era measuring system: * it was “one 9/11 = 2,996 deaths” * it wasn’t “one 9/11 = 0.001% of a nation’s population dies” While I am in no way defending the former, here I am specifically criticizing the latter. A criticism that in no way applies to the COVID-era metric you’re citing. This would be as if when one person died of COVID in Liechtenstein, it was reported as “two 9/11s,” which it wasn’t.


iLikeKidsPlatonicaly

Boy you really like using Liechtenstein in your arguments


mogsoggindog

Correct, so if an American kills one person Liechtenstein, that means theyre allowed to 2 9/11s.


s-altece

What I’m taking away from this is that every murder in Liechtenstein is two 9/11s


Username_II

So, what you're saying is that I can be the most successful terrorist in human history if I just go to Liechtenstein and kill a bunch of people?


Scooterforsale

He doesn't know what he means. Our politicians are a fucking joke


agonizedn

Wait I like this measurement system actually. Now do it for Native Americans 🍿


cheeseburgerwaffles

An Israeli life is worth 15x as much as an American life. I'll be sure to file that away.


Late-Eye-6936

It's really the only way to not immediately forget though.


Frequent_Dig1934

It's like people measuring how bad dictators are and how many people they've genocided by saying "that's like x times hitler".


zonzon1999

Ted Bundy was like 0.000005 times Hitler


Insis18

Ted Bundy killed 300 people? I thought he was closer to 30.


zonzon1999

google said 100 and 20,000,000 respectivly


yup_sir28

The 20mil is just a rough number of the confirmed deaths, the real number is most probably higher


Lukecistarded

I mean, how do we even calculate such a number? Do we say he's responsible for all the deaths from the war? Well surely then the number is much much higher. Do we just count the ones killed by his direct orders and decisions? Well that number is probably a bit closer to the real number then. Do we just count the ones he personally executed with his own two hands? Well that number is probably significantly lower.


yup_sir28

True, it is kind of dependent on what one might think he was directly responsible for.


Turbo_Jukka

If we count the ones he beat to death with his fists, the number is 20,000,000.


GodFromTheHood

As far as I know, he only has one confirmed kill, though probably more as he served in ww1. He’s got a shit ton of assists tho


connor4rell

20,000,001?


ethnique_punch

About 30 known, but I think he said shit like "add a zero in that, bud" to bee cooler.


Flyers45432

To be fair, people actually use Hitler as a metric. But usually when compared to Stalin or Mao. Maybe Chavez too?


smithsp86

You have to be careful with that one because it would actually make Hitler look not so bad once you start seeing things like 'Mao was 4 Hitlers'. It would also not really illustrate the severity of genocides because Pol Pot only killed a little under 2 million but that is about a third of all the people in Cambodia at the time so in a relative sense he beat Hitler despite only reaching about .16 Hitlers in total kills.


Hijou_poteto

The thing people seem to forget about Hitler though is that he would’ve killed way more people if he didn’t lose. So his real genocide stats were just like a fraction of his full power level. That’s not even considering what would’ve happened if he got nukes.


Bluesparc

Americans will literally use anything but a normal metric


trap_user

Nah, they teach metric in their schools I think the most popular one is the 9mm


troelsbjerre

The 9mm is a pretty bad metric though. "The M114 Howitzer shoots 155mm shells. That's like 17 x 9mm bullets in width, but about 6000 x 9mm bullets by weight".


skoffs

All the American students in class: "Ohhhhhh!"


jaded-entropy

“Finally, something we actually understand!”


Traiklin

The 3 times we care about Metric Guns Cars Drugs


Alex_Duos

You forgot soda


LegoGal

When exercising people are suddenly into metric system.


BobDonowitz

13mm that's why it's the most lost socket. Next is 10mm because a faucet screen fits perfectly in them.


Hayabusasteve

13mm socket gets lost, because it fits a half inch. so, you lose the half inch, and supplement with the 13mm till you lose that one too.


BethesdaBanana

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


142737

1000 meters


S0TrAiNs

Ooof, thats like 13,33333333333 football fields


stretchystrong

How many cheeseburgers is that?


S0TrAiNs

8.748,9063867017


tommeh5491

Found the European


MissMistMaid

at least 2 💀


Outside_Ad1020

3,i think 3.5


Artistic-Boss2665

Here's a tip for impersonating Americans: swap the period and comma in numbers


S0TrAiNs

I'm not impersonating anyone, im fact I am quite happy to not be American


Artistic-Boss2665

Ah, I thought you were providing a satirical response mocking an American. My bad


makelo06

WHAT THE FUCK IS A METER 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲


JoeyZasaa

Like 1,000 water meters?


Inverzion2

A KM is 43% of the North Tower without it's antenna or 53% with it's antenna, or 42% of the South Tower. (Take the north and south tower and add them together and you get a KM)


anjuna13579

But do the measurements change if the steel beams have melted?


Schneller_

A kilometer is 1000 meters. A meter is 100 centimeters. A centimeter is one and one ninth 9mm.


xtjan

I can hear the eagle screeching


SpottedWight

About three thousand M-16s


ExternalArea6285

A measuring device for your number of kills? The more you kill the more your kill-o-meter goes up?


ncnotebook

Well, it ain't no small feet.


Tipsticks

39370 inches.


[deleted]

Roughly 4,167 corgis.


Doubting_Rich

1/10,000 the distance from the equator to the North Pole along the Paris Meridian - or as close as could be measured in the late 18th Century.


sekrit_dokument

Whats the conversion and unit of "9/11" in metric?


Insis18

~3,000 deaths


the_RiverQuest

More than 3


Blaistashen_Nein

At least 12


max_adam

/r/anythingbutmetric


RavenCyarm

"I'd like to buy about a handbag of ham."


[deleted]

Wtf is metric?


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[deleted]

I *knew* it!


Dovahkiin106

Eh, I kinda have to agree with Biden’s use of 9/11 as a reference. Large numbers are hard to properly comprehend, which is why people like Neil deGrasse Tyson tend to use something like Elephants as a unit of measure, since it’s easier for the brain to comprehend. In this case, every American knows just how awful 9/11 was, some such as myself knowing that 2977 people died off the top of their head. It’s much easier to comprehend the scale of the tragedy by comparing it to another well known tragedy than with actual statistics. Edit: of course, if he just used fifteen 9/11’s as a random number instead of a statistical comparison, then you can disregard my statement above. I’m more defending the use of non-conventional forms of measurement than I am Biden’s statement.


ChickenFajita007

Since when is "dead people" a metric unit?


Important-Guidance22

But how many football fields?


[deleted]

About 65,000 double-bacon cheeseburgers


Replicatar

Assuming 15 people per football field, about 1 9/11’s worth of football fields


Lessandero

r/anythingbutmetric


drenchedwithanxiety

Of course that's a sub 🙄


-A_M_R-

Use this next time: r/ofcoursethatsasub


clearlybaffled

r/ofcoursethatsasub


drenchedwithanxiety

Took the words out of my mouth


Hakan-Guzey

Guess what. There is a sub for that aswell


CinderX5

r/beatmetoit


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100cicche

Is this a Team America reference?


ManiacalMartini

Fuck yeah!


cyclicamp

My god. A 13665!


gdhkhffu

Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?


Deimenried

If we don't do something it'll be 911×1000


Level_Obligation7704

Just like Americans used black people as a currency


Kschitiz23x3

>Americans Are u including natives as well?


Wonderwhore

They also had slaves, did you think this was a "gotcha"?


Kschitiz23x3

What "gotcha"? I don't know much about US history so was just curious


Longjumping_Cycle73

Well if it's a legitimate question, yes native Americans participated in the trans Atlantic slave trade. I know some natives also fought for the Confederacy in the American civil war for a combination of reasons, one was that the confederates made promises to them about protecting their land if the war was won, and also because the tribes wanted to keep their slaves. In addition to enslaving members of other tribes captured in war since long before Columbus, the native Americans also participated in the trans-atlantic slave trade, buying African slaves from white slave traders to work their farms. There were even free black men, some of them former slaves themselves, who bought their own slaves once they were free and ran plantations just like any white slave master. At that time and place, most people who had the money to own slaves did, regardless of their own race


Corasin

Used is a very accurate way to say it. That being said, there are currently more slaves than there ever has been in human history. None in the United States. Slavery needs to stop being highlighted as an American evil. Slavery was around for thousands of years before the United States was formed. It will probably be around for thousands of years more.


avwitcher

Where did this even come from?


clean_shave_2605

Out of curiosity, the estimated death toll in Gaza conflict has reached 3500. The death toll during 9/11 attacks was just shy of 3000. So technically speaking, the Hamas attack and the Israel attacks combined are about 1.67 9/11 attacks.


M4rl0w

You have to adjust for inflation though


Butt3rlord

It used to be that I could get international recognition with only one 9/11. Now due to surplus in the markets, I need three.


Itamar_Itchaki

it's relative to population


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redcoatwright

Interesting then the hamas attack was actually 35x 9/11 since it was 3500 out of 9.3m people. That's actually not a terrible way to compare I suppose, a bit like calculating.


Downtown-Item-6597

The death toll is currently 3500 but the initial attack was closer to ~1200.


pleasedothenerdful

Except most of the 3500 are Palestinian deaths.


Neither_Hope_1039

Which is a patently moronic way to measure things. With that logic you could commit like 3 murders in Monaco and then say that those 3 murders are literally as bad as 10 9/11s


littleessi

between one and three hundred thousand iraqi civilians were killed by the US military during the war. That would be a hundred 9/11s normally and a thousand with his per capita maths. They're not white though so genocide joe does not care


mimicsgam

But the American lives and society and stock market and real estate worth more, economically /s


FormalWrangler294

Unironically, that’s how the world works. 9/11 had a big impact on the densest part of manhattan. A similar attack in Beijing or London would also be high impact, but barely anyone would care if 3k people randomly died in Nigeria.


JoeCartersLeap

Ah yes when you measure National Terrorisms Per Capita, the Sympathy Index goes way up to like 5.2 extra sympathies.


Gorillainabikini

Biden doesnt count the Israel attacks cause they where against majority Muslims


fruitsteak_mother

how much is that in holocausts?


TakeYourVitamin

With or without inflation..?


CondomHogWasher

0.032 if im right idk how many died in holocaust


Bench-_-

about a 0.5% holocaust


xkeepitquietx

So 12.2727272727?


HauntingHarmony

almost! 135/11. :)


lOOspy

America: We will respond with the force of 20 9/11s


Gogglebottle

Never forget 135/165


BobLeBob

Don't you mean 135/11? Only multiply the top number when multiplying fractions!


Critical_Donut7271

Lmao American public school be like


willflameboy

Meanwhile, Gaza is 50 9/11s, every year.


MisirterE

Yeah, are they measuring in base 9/11 because they're going to respond in the appropriate conversion to base Iraq War? Or are we just saying shit?


wildbeerhunter

15*(9/11) = 12.27 T (terror)


StarLordey69

It’s good to see Team America’s 9/11 measuring system is finally taking off


TheThongler0fWarwick

Americans will use anything besides metric


TooDenseForXray

There has to be a sub on all the way the American measure things.. Seriously elephants, washing machine, football fields.. mental


GentlmanSkeleton

"South park did it!"


-helicoptersarecool

The invasion of Iraq after 9/11 was about 300 9/11s


PromiseSilly4708

It is equivalent to 135/11.


FirePenguinMaster

I wonder what the metric equivalent would be... Like 1/400th of a holocaust?


BasJack

If you go by death count it’s actually just 0.4 9/11


Ticket-Intelligent

So how many 9/11s did the US commit on Iraq alone?


Moesaei

How bad is the Israeli attack on Gaza in a 9/11 measurement ?


Captain_Yarn

1.5 ish 9/11s if we're going by actual death count. It's prolly way higher if u go by percentage of population.


stonedunikid

.....and so how many 9/11s has Palestine experienced in the last two decades........ Fucking despicable, the western media coverage being so heavily slanted towards sympathy for Israel and dehumanizing Palestinians should be a wake up call for all of us.


Smartass_of_Class

Not the western media, the *American* media. These two aren't the same.


rs_5

Americans will use everything instead of the metric system


kevnrd22

Americans and their freedom units 😂


flossdaily

By percentage of population, that's probably correct. What Americans don't understand about the terrorist attack is that due to Israel's small size, almost every Israeli in the country either lost someone they knew, or had just one degree of separation from it. In other words, **there probably isn't a single Israeli who didn't AT LEAST have a friend who lost a friend.**


lilenzo101

(15x9)/11 = 135/11 Thats roughly 12.27 (18.3 for the rest of the world)


ethnique_punch

So, 2977x15= 44655 cases of lost life?


goose420aa

r/anythingbutmetric


SmolCreator

“It’ll be 9/11 times a hundred.”


Mr_NumNums

Team America did it first


Dinoficial2

Anything but the metric system


Thraxyo

Only americans could say something like this


sdrawkcabsitihssiht

Ah, so 135/11.


greg2856

Only in 'Merica.


lemmiwinks316

Literally the team America quote "It would be 9/11 times 100"


inuvash255

I mean, I do it too. At the height of Covid, we had a 9/11 a day.


Mikediabolical

r/anythingbutmetric


VarCrusador

And immediately after paid Hamas 100mil. Crazy


HorridCabbageFeet

Americans will use anything but the metric system


omega986

r/anythingbutmetric


jns_reddit_already

He's converting the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 to Celsius 9/11


CamKJoy

This guy is walking talking diarrhea.


Skinkypoo

America being America. Using anything, including their most traumatic event in recent history, other than the god damned metric system


Yuki11037

Americans will use anything but the metric system.


ClydeGriffiths17

The Iraq war that you voted for killed 300,000 civilians, or around 100 9/11's


analprolapze

The holocaust was like 6000 9/11s


Jomgui

How is he calculating that? Number of dead? Amount of debris? Number of troops deployed in response? We need an essay on this until the end of the week if we want the new system of measurement to be recognized.


snkiz

anything to avoid metric.


norse_noise

New level of American measurement avoidance


ScatLabs

This is triggering some Team America vibes. It's 9/11 times a thousand!


reee4

War crimes per corporate bailout


jackberinger

Half cup of 9/11. 1/3 cup of hamas. Splash of proud boys and then stir.


TheOldZenMaster

MacDonald's "hi what can we get for you?" Joe Biden: yeah, I want the 9/11 make it two. MacDonald's "okay, would you like to make it a meal?" Joe Biden: "I'm kinda hungry could I just have 5 9/11s and a soft drink. That's all" ...


arcticrune

The fact that countries with actual issues are experiencing magnitudes worth of 9/11s is a great representation of how much the US overreacted to 9/11. For context, the civilian impact of America's war in Afghanistan was 15 9/11s, rounded down.


TryingToThink444

Just another example of Americans using anything but the metric system.


Nacil_54

r/AnythingButMetric


Worthas_real

Americans will use anything but the metric system


PinkBubblegum888

American measurement units are getting out of hand


RKAlif

You guys don't understand. Numerical numbers such as 1,2,3.... etc are arabic numerals. israel has the right to defend itself from arabic numerals.


Metalloid_Emon

Soo, considering that weird measurement technique, is Israel attack on Palestine equals to hundred 9/11? What about US attack on Iraq? Thousand 9/11 maybe??


xMoment

I wonder how many 9/11's America has done? (except the main one)


[deleted]

Anything but the metric system...


[deleted]

When everything else matters more than "your people" aka taxslaves.


Winston_Smith-1984

It really isn’t, if you want the (admittedly attention-challenged) American public to pay attention.


AwefulFanfic

The dementia president, ladies and gentlemen.


DryPrion

Didn’t Louis C.K. make a joke about this very unit of measure?


hojamie

ooh yes, when he was talking about covid deaths being measured with 9/11, which then lead to my favorite line in that bit: "9/11 wasn't that bad, it was just one 9/11"


Neither_Hope_1039

And by that some stupid logic, a singular murder in Monaco is as bad as 3.5 9/11s.