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:baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: @yassie_j@labyrinth.zone (2026-09-12 03:13:33)
All the shit that has happened since 9/11 is proof that the terrorists won the War on Terror

Islamphobia, surveillance capitalism, the surveillance state, the militarisation of the police, the obsession with national security above all else, the humiliation ritual of airport security, democratic backsliding, the demonisation of the Middle East, the forever wars, the situation in Palestine, the ever present knowledge that you can be wiretapped without your consent, and all of this has no weight or meaning. It is all for show. It is all for nothing. You don’t benefit. Society doesn’t benefit. But defence contractors, Google, Microsoft, and Palantir do.

We are not safer, we are not more secure. We are instead assumed to be guilty before any proof is offered. Anyone who looks vaguely brown or Muslim is assumed to a threat while those who don’t get treated with sympathy. A wedding party somewhere in a faraway country gets a £1 million bomb dropped on them by a £1 billion jet because they look suspicious from a grainy video feed. 

Al-Qaida, bin-Laden, and the so-called Islamic State are long gone by now, but their effect on making nations of the world hysterical has and will outlive them.