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Bernard Quatermass 4d ago

@mattb and good, you forgot good

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Bernard Quatermass 6d ago

@nixCraft you’ve probably got more than the average number of legs

Bernard Quatermass Jun 22

Legit_Spaghetti Jun 22

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

Bernard Quatermass Jun 22

K. Reid Wightman

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Jun 22

#directorytraversalmemes

Bernard Quatermass Jun 22

Nikita Jun 22

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

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Bernard Quatermass Jun 21

@globalc ooh, I remember visiting that back in 2015. Well sort of, I was really fucking hung-over, having done the best part of 2 bottles of good French red the night before at the Blue Note.

Good museum.

It was also the first time I used the iPhone/watch to give walking directions, which it duly ensured it had on device (useful since I had no data plan for .jp) and being delightfully surprised when the haptics triggered as I approached each junction.

Bernard Quatermass Jun 21

@krypt3ia ‘kin glorious

Legit_Spaghetti Jun 22

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

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2xfo Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti
What are the chances Trump Jr will embroil the US in the Middle East in 2047

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Raglan Niall

Jun 22

@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti 2057, the cadence is adding 10 years to the previous gap.
#Fact #Science

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2xfo Jun 22

@Niall @Legit_Spaghetti i have a vote for "not great" 😅

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pjrm Jun 22

@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti
And drag other countries into the invasion as well

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disorderlyf Jun 22

@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti Yeah, I'll literally eat my own shoe and videotape it for you if the man lives to be 101, let alone is still President

EDIT: lmao, I missed the "jr" part. If we have Donnie Jr for that long and humanity doesn't resemble Fallout games by some miracle, maybe.

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Aaron Brown Jun 22

@disorderlyf @RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti I think you missed the “Jr”

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disorderlyf Jun 22

@aaronbrown I did, sorry.

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Catherine is not giving up.Jun 22

@RnDanger @Legit_Spaghetti slim and none.

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Wyatt H Knott Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti It's 1983, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit civil war in Lebanon, getting our embassy blown up.

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Askold Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

unprecedented! nobody could have predicted that or have any reaction other than pure shook. if you are not shocked that means you are a terrorist. deport him guys

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EndicottRoad59 Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti I think I see a pattern here.

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Aaron In Minnesota Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti I can't speak much to 1991...I was alive but a kid, and i haven't studied the history too much. but for the later two....

If Gore had won, (or righyfully been declared the winner SMH) would he have avoided war? I have my doubts.

Similar for Kamala, I very much wish Trump had lost, but I have suspisions Kamala could have been drawn into this war on behalf of genocidal Israel in much the same way

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Legit_Spaghetti Jun 22

@aeischeid Personally, I don't think 9/11 would have happened under Gore.

In the late '90s, the FBI had a hard-on for going after eco terrorists like the ELF (though that label is debatable). In 2000, there was an arson spree in Phoenix, and they reassigned a few key FBI people to crack that case. One of the agents assigned to the arson case had been working on a report about Al'Qaeda cells learning to fly planes.

No one paid attention to that report until it was too late.

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Oberst Enzian Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti @aeischeid It still would’ve happened. bin Laden put that plan into action in the early 1990s. What might not have happened was spending 20 years fighting two wars largely for no legitimate reason. We probably would’ve chosen one nation to invade for 20 years instead of two.

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Aaron In Minnesota Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti sure, maybe so, who can really say, betterfly effect and all, but even if 9/11 hadn't happened... I remember pretty clearly how much Gore talked about all the intervening he hoped to do in the middle east during their debates.

Bush came off to me as the anti-war candidate of the two of them, and I don't know maybe that was me being yound and credulous, but Gore sure didn't seem like somebody who would avoid war

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Oberst Enzian Jun 22

@aeischeid @Legit_Spaghetti Harris would’ve happily help Israel murder children. At least she’d be aware that she was a bad guy (and absolutely done it anyways). Trump will go to his grave convinced he’s a hero.

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Morten Hilker-Skaaning Jun 22

@aeischeid @Legit_Spaghetti the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, remember? That was just a Bush family extra curricular activity, that wasted trillions of dollars and millions of lives.
If Gore had been president there not would have been an Iraq 2.

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Doreen32128 ready to rumble!Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti Yup!

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astroPug Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

Oh, that’s so not my kind of nostalgia. I just wanted to repair my Walkman.

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doomy 🦀Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti fun fact neocons are really similar to neoliberals except neoliberals prefer debt traps before allying with fascists to extract value from the 3rd world. nice and tall horse u got though.

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Flaming Cheeto Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti early 1980s Marine barracks in Lebanon.

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Kierkegaanks regretfully Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti could add reagan at the top

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

#meme #memes #Iran #israel #WWIII #iraq #uspol #uspolitics #trump

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BillionaireBourguignon Jun 22

@cryptadamist @Legit_Spaghetti I wonder which freedoms will be removed this time? You know, for Palantir

And this song remains relevant each time…

[Moxy Früvous - Gulf War Song, 1993]

https://youtu.be/DktM16tVAD4?si=a8hqemDNxTTJ2kYl

Gulf War Song

YouTube

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Rome0 Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti History Repeats itself... *sigh*

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日本語まあまあ Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti a reminder again that Ozymandias engineered his exile...

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

#Trump has been sagging in the polls. He needed a war to boost his favoribility and seem more "presidential"

Works every time.

#iran

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freediverx Jun 22

@sleepy62 @Legit_Spaghetti

I think public support for this war will be comparable to public sympathy for the dead CEO a few months ago.

Statements by political leaders and the corporate media do not reflect the sentiments of the public.

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Su_G Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

Detecting a pattern here… 😐

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disorderlyf Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti Watch a republican president embroil us in a bullshit war in the Middle East in 2067

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canleaf08 ⌘ ✅Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti Peace president. Family friendly politics. Yep… Break young men even more. war is peace.

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JD Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti it's years.... (fill the blank) and some American politicians started a war.

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Luuk_Aalders Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti
so next time you'll probably vote for a Republican candidate again.

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Jakob Voß Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

1991 there was a (disputable) United Nations Security Council Resolution allowing US to do so

2003 it was fake news, a pressure to "do something" because of 9/11 and at the US tried to get official support from other countries

2025 is different.

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Angua

Jun 22

@nichtich

2003 involved NATO as the US involved Article 5 - that went so well... still is as far as I know. The UK to our shame got involved. Bliar The War Criminal amongst other issues.

Ongoing - the UK has participated in Israel's War Crimes already - Starmer The War Criminal.
Good for the rest of NATO not getting involved.
Now pursue the Genocide Convention.

@Legit_Spaghetti

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Leonard Ritter Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti the grand american chessboard is what unites them all

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George Baily Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti media: non stop cheering and ultra serious rationalization

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Jordi Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti Llavors ja queda clar qui son els més feixistes no? (Writed in catalan)

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Kroc Camen Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti Europe, you have the chance to do the funniest thing and really piss off the orange turd — give Harris a Nobel Peace Prize

As it is…

@Legit_Spaghetti The pic is Earth in 2035 what remains of it ?

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bparcons Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti ..talk about doom scrolling

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Alfred Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti
... and now you're only talking about the wars which are on the frontpage of the news. I'm afraid the US is already involved in multiple wars, but nobody knows about it.

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freediverx Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti

There were Democratic members of Congress behind all of those wars.

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Patrick Coyle Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti At least the Bushes tried to make a case to the American people and the international community about the necessity for their wars. Whether we believed them or not, they explained why we should go to war. Trump just expects us to go along with whatever he wants to do.

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TundraWolf Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti @Binder

Republicans know that:

1) American presidents who are embroiled in a war tend to be re-elected.
2) Trump wants a third term.
3) The only thing stopping many of them being strung like Mussolini and his wife is Trump is still in power. The only question there is which faction will get to them first.

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Tomas Ekeli Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti at least the time between seems to be doubling every time

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Robert H Jun 23

@tomasekeli @Legit_Spaghetti

Time between? Don't count conflict start dates. Consider conclusion dates

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ren (is fairy eyelashes) 🎶🌈Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti to be fair, ALL US presidents have bombed the shit out of the middle east for some reason or another..... oh... wait... probably oil. It's oil isn't it.
But also, Fuck Trump.

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Troubled Clef Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti 100% agree. If history teaches us anything, when US international aggression is displayed, those on the receiving end of it will use all the tools at their disposal to fight back. It isn't stopping the Iranians from firing more missiles at Israel, so I guess that didn't work and all it did was to embolden them to state that now they are DEFINITELY pursuing a nuke.

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crazyeddie Jun 22

@mylesw @Legit_Spaghetti I read a book in college I think called, "The End of Peace," but I've not been able to find it by that name. He discussed all "worldwide" (western) wars, the peace agreements made, and what destroyed them. He pointed finger at the development of a hegemony. The hegemony starts pushing everyone else around and the world blows up, everyone dies, and then everyone agrees to never let that happen again...but there's always some loophole that lets it happen again.

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crazyeddie Jun 22

@mylesw @Legit_Spaghetti The author suggested one of USA or USSR would become that hegemony and the UN Sec council would make it useless.

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Troubled Clef Jun 22

@crazyeddie @Legit_Spaghetti This seems so close and all too familiar.

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Troubled Clef Jun 22

@Legit_Spaghetti
Old Taco will end up dealing with constant terrorist attacks on US soil from Iran (and those sympathetic) to them. The second one of those kicks off on US soil, he'll lock down the USA hard. Remember "Build a wall"? Well walls have two sides - they keep out those you don't want in, but they jail in those that want the freedom of travel to get out. So we got that to look forward to.

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