Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Cake day: July 21st, 2023
  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoNonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•Rest In Piss bozoEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    He was a useful propaganda piece for the Russian state and thus treated well by the higher-ups, but the last I heard, he was mistaken for an American ‘spy’ by some braindead half-trained goons in the Russian military. Obviously the Kremlin is a little salty about losing a propaganda tool, and shuttling some idiots to a Storm-Z battalion is probably no great loss.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoNonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•History repeats itselfEnglish
    111·
    8 days ago

    Yeah and Neither NATO or Just the US gave a shit about Hussein, or The Shah, or any of the human rights abuses perpetrated by their friendly dictators until they were a convenient excuse to remove them.

    Right, human rights abuses were the justification for the Iraq War. Silly me, thinking the WMD lie was the justification.

    Now we’re responsible for removing the Shah too? Wow.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoNonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•History repeats itselfEnglish
    171·
    8 days ago

    1. That’s not even vaguely true. The intervention was initially carried by France, the UK, and Italy, with US involvement being initially secondary.

    2. … yes, I’m sure that the real reason wasn’t that Gadaffi was a longtime enemy of Western governments and a walking PR disaster who had provoked a massive rebellion against his rule that seemed poised to win (thus making it desirable for Western governments to speed the issue and curry favor with the winning side); it was that Gadaffi was stupid enough to make yet-another plan to damage Libya’s economy. That was the REAL reason the United Snakes of Amerikkka had to assassinate him, or whatever stupidity is being passed around since the last time this game of “idiot telephone” occurred.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoNonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•Who could even imagine a weapon crueller than the SHOTGUN???English
    13·
    8 days ago

    Explanation: After some three years of European powers brutally bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and using chemical weapons on each other in WW1, the Americans entered the war. We, of course, immediately indulged in the same bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and chemical weapons as every else did, but we also brought a large quantity of pump-action shotguns to the fight, with brutal effect in the tight confines of the trenches.

    The German Empire lodged a formal complaint that the use of shotguns was against the laws of war due to the inhumane nature of the weapon. “Lol”, said everyone else, “lmao”

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMtoNonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•History repeats itselfEnglish
    15·
    8 days ago

    Explanation: On the left is the immensely corrupt Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi, who met his end fleeing from insurgents who he had initially provoked with his tyrannical behavior seeking personal wealth and privilege, but who ended up backed by NATO and the UN. They opted to bayonet him quite literally up his ass. An unpleasant way to go.

    On the right is a depiction (admittedly very stylized) of the immensely corrupt Roman politician Crassus, who met his end trapped by Persians who he had initially provoked with his tyrannical behavior against the locals of Mesopotamia in seeking wealth and glory (to the point where his fellow Romans thought he was waging an unjustified war of conquest). They opted, at least according to some accounts, to kill him by pouring molten gold down his throat because of his legendary greed. An unpleasant way to go.

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