• s@piefed.world
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    1 month ago

    Do kids these days think that the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald wasn’t real and it’s just a thing from pop culture like they do with 9/11?

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      1 month ago

      Do you seriously think young people think 9/11 wasn’t a real event? Just cause we make stupid shitposts about it doesn’t mean we think its fake.

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        1 month ago

        we

        If you’re commenting here, you’re older than the age I’m referring to

        fake

        I don’t mean staged. I mean they think that it’s just something from pop culture that people reference without necessarily knowing what it’s from or about or having seen the original media, like “Play it again, Sam” or “That’s the beauty of it: it doesn’t do anything” or thinking that 420 and 69 are funny internet numbers with no real meaning.

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          If the majority of mentally ill elementary schoolers at the place my partner works know that 9/11 was real, I have a hard time believing the average kid thinks its just some weird cultural reference. And when it comes to the Edmund Fitzgerald, they just don’t know what that was. I didn’t know what it was till I saw the meme.

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    I don’t get it.

    What do DiCaprio and Hardy have to do with the lyrics of that song?