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0 pointsUltraSane5mo ago0 comments

as an American I very much want to live in the reality where Gore won and 9/11 didn't happen.

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If Gore had won, maybe McCain could have been President after him, and the Republican party could've gone in a very different direction too.

If you enjoy these kinds of hypotheticals, check out the series For All Mankind on apple tv.

rkomorn5mo ago

Are you implying Gore winning would've meant 9/11 wouldn't have happened?

tempestn5mo ago

Not the parent, and I'm not saying it definitely wouldn't have happened (I have no idea), but it's at least possible. There was advance intelligence around the event that might have been treated differently by a different administration.

Even if it had happened, the response would also have been different.

mixmastamyk5mo ago

In Richard Clarke’s book he details the intelligence community’s multiple warnings to the new Bush administration that spring and summer. They were ignored.

As Gore came from the Clinton admin he and the people around him would have had a lot more experience dealing with and familiar with the threats and actors, who were already known.

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chistev5mo ago

What do you think the different response would have been?

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UltraSaneOP5mo ago

squidbeak5mo ago

Are you asserting that Al Qaeda liked Gore enough to suspend their vendetta?

natebc5mo ago

They're asserting that they want to live in a world where two things are true.

- Gore was declared winner of the 2000 presidential election

- the WTC wasn't attacked on September 11th, 2001.

the two don't have to be connected to be wishes.

netsharc5mo ago

Bush's team ignored Clinton's team attempt to handover what they knew about the threats (in these threads someone mentioned Richard Clarke's book, I remember reading a 2003 TIME article, you can probably also read the results of the congressional investigation).

If the Supreme Court hadn't done the shenanigans in Florida, Clinton's team would've been Gore's team, and who knows, maybe those hijackers would've been caught...

UltraSaneOP5mo ago

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tempestn5mo ago

If Gore had won, maybe McCain could have been President after him, and the Republican party could've gone in a very different direction too.

If you enjoy these kinds of hypotheticals, check out the series For All Mankind on apple tv.

rkomorn5mo ago

Are you implying Gore winning would've meant 9/11 wouldn't have happened?

tempestn5mo ago

Even if it had happened, the response would also have been different.

mixmastamyk5mo ago

In Richard Clarke’s book he details the intelligence community’s multiple warnings to the new Bush administration that spring and summer. They were ignored.

As Gore came from the Clinton admin he and the people around him would have had a lot more experience dealing with and familiar with the threats and actors, who were already known.

1 more reply

chistev5mo ago

What do you think the different response would have been?

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UltraSaneOP5mo ago

squidbeak5mo ago

Are you asserting that Al Qaeda liked Gore enough to suspend their vendetta?

natebc5mo ago

They're asserting that they want to live in a world where two things are true.

- Gore was declared winner of the 2000 presidential election

- the WTC wasn't attacked on September 11th, 2001.

the two don't have to be connected to be wishes.

netsharc5mo ago

If the Supreme Court hadn't done the shenanigans in Florida, Clinton's team would've been Gore's team, and who knows, maybe those hijackers would've been caught...

UltraSaneOP5mo ago

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