I'm old enough to remember and while the Iraq war was extremely stupid - i remember freedom fries, yellow cake, mission accomplished, osama's masters of the universe secret underground lair - I am in the minority opinion that our current situation is still infinitely stupider. - ThreadSky

bitterkarella.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I'm old enough to remember and while the Iraq war was extremely stupid - i remember freedom fries, yellow cake, mission accomplished, osama's masters of the universe secret underground lair - I am in the minority opinion that our current situation is still infinitely stupider.

Reposted from Nikki McCann Ramírez

I was too young to be ware of the Iraq invasion debate but was it this degree of stupid? It can't have been this stupid.

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emberaegle.bsky.social•9 days ago

I continue to firmly believe that really the only thing that's changed since then is that the fascists have had more practice.

nookmorrigan.bsky.social•9 days ago

God, I even remember how everyone pissed themselves when The Dixie Chicks made a comment about George W Bush during that time.

bitterkarella.bsky.social•9 days ago

They were right!

thelibraryces.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's stupider because we've got the same shit plus all of the AI slop

cassievulpine.bsky.social•9 days ago

G Dubs was but a prelude to the stupid to come. Now is like The Stupid Strikes Back.

wildecard.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm not sure it's a minority, as surely other people can see that there was at least some semblance of 'stage management' last time.
This one? Absolute clown shoes from the word go.

derkusanthropus.bsky.social•9 days ago

W Bush being allowed to live in peaceful retirement opened the door to others to carry out similar wars they've lasciviously drooled over for decades. The only true difference now is that the soft power that generated international support for Iraq at its star,t has long been eroded into scorn.

murduck.bsky.social•8 days ago

I remember and believe the current situation is infinitely stupider.

inhumaninterest.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh it absolutely is. Back then they at least hinged their claims of a threat(and all the associated stupid) on an attack on us soil. This time they're basing it on the sort of paranoid rants normally associated with foil haberdashery.

itsnotmeadam.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think one difference is, with Iraq they were too stupid to imagine it might go badly, now they just don’t give a shit as long as they get to post memes and own the libs.

consciouscustodian.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's hard to out-stupid Dubya, but I think we have the right man for the job.

vinchenzojackal.bsky.social•9 days ago

Currently CNN is talking about the secret underground castle kingdom underneath Iran filled with terrorist armies... and it reminds me of how CNN did that when they talked about Afghanistan and Iraq, and they said there was rivers and seas underground connected the Al-Quada bases with boats.

koltreg.bsky.social•9 days ago

We have social media now and stupidity comes in from so many more sources now

aberrant-eremite.bsky.social•9 days ago

No, you're right, this is stupider. Whether it's more stroke-inducingly smug and evil is harder to tell. I think it is, but that may be recency bias.

highway62.bsky.social•9 days ago

This one is going to make the last one look mastermind-level. A cascading series of clusterfucks await.

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