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If Guy Fawkes day had a modern USA equivalent, it would be celebrated on September 11, and we would burn Osama bin Laden in effigy; the anti-Islamic overtones w
by fennecfoxen 5y ago
If Guy Fawkes day had a modern USA equivalent, it would be celebrated on September 11, and we would burn Osama bin Laden in effigy; the anti-Islamic overtones would be incredibly unfortunate, but become more obscure with time.
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- toss1 5y agoUm, wouldn't it be more like on May 2nd, the day (in 2011) that Osama Bin Laden was killed, rather than the 9/11/2001 date on which he enjoyed his rather large victory of sucker-punching the USA? If that plot had failed, and OBL had been captured/killed, then of course 9/11 would be a fully parallel celebration date. It really does make one wonder about alternate history, if these plots had succeeded instead of failing, or failed instead of succeeding...
- fennecfoxen 5y agoFawkes died 31 January 1606.