Funny picture thread...

[Irish#1]

 

[Bishop2b5]

Great bad parker pics! I hate those inconsiderate people. I love just about everything about the town where I live in S. Dakota, except for the way people park. Worst bunch of people I've ever seen for parking crooked, half in the next spot, halfway out in the street, and etc. We live directly across the street from the middle school and every time there's a basketball or volleyball game, people will park across the mouth of my driveway or even IN my driveway.

 

[Irish#1]

 

[Irish#1]

 

[NDdomer2]

I don't know how many of you use thechive but this was in one of there memes threads yesterday.

 

[GrangerIrish24]

I don't know how many of you use thechive but this was in one of there memes threads yesterday.

I always like a success story.

 

[ulukinatme]

As a big BttF and Star Wars fan, I couldn't help but love this.

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[Bishop2b5]

This reminded me so much of some of the funny mom insults several of us have hurled at each other over the years.

 

[ulukinatme]

This reminded me so much of some of the funny mom insults several of us have hurled at each other over the years.

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I read this as Darrell Hammond playing Sean Connery on SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.

 

[Bishop2b5]

 

[GATTACA!]

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Thought that was just a book end? My wife has the same one……

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

 

[GATTACA!]

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

That dude should be in the Hague. Him and every flipping Senator and Congressman who voted for that travesty.

 

[ulukinatme]

That dude should be in the Hague. Him and every flipping Senator and Congressman who voted for that travesty.

The reason we went in will always be cloudy. Was the intel fabricated, or did Saddam manage to cover it up before the invasion? That will always be murky, but I think removing Saddam needed to happen. The real problem is what he was replaced with has been far from great, and corruption has spoiled the transfer. In some areas like infrastructure they're still hurting, but in other ways the country is more prosperous. I saw an account from a boy that grew up during both Iraq wars. His father was a government employee, his mother a full time teacher, and they made a combined 11,000 Dinar a month during the rough years right before Saddam was removed. That translates to $6 a month! It was incredibly rough, but he said it was also safer. There were few car and suicide bombings, streets were in good repair, they feared only one man and if they kept their mouths shut they were generally safe from him. However they were also locked down to just state television, very limited internet and cell phones, etc. Now they live comfortably with much better wages, better access to information and entertainment, yet safety is a greater concern. The Sunni/Shiite power reversed, and the corruption has not struck a fair balance that it should have.

It's complicated. In many ways they are better off, and in other aspects they were actually better under the dictatorship. You see a lot of varying opinions from Iraqis online depending on how their lives have changed since 2003. Many seem to agree they welcomed Saddam's removal at the time because they were hopeful that the change would bring peace and prosperity. Today they're a far cry from the change they hoped would come, and the influence of ISIS hasn't helped the situation. Bottom line: most Iraqis have been happy with Saddam's removal and it was the right thing to do even if the reason we went was wrong. Sadly the power void and what was implemented to replace him has failed in many ways, and so many Iraqis are left still suffering.

 

[TorontoGold]

The reason we went in will always be cloudy. Was the intel fabricated, or did Saddam manage to cover it up before the invasion? That will always be murky, but I think removing Saddam needed to happen. The real problem is what he was replaced with has been far from great, and corruption has spoiled the transfer. In some areas like infrastructure they're still hurting, but in other ways the country is more prosperous. I saw an account from a boy that grew up during both Iraq wars. His father was a government employee, his mother a full time teacher, and they made a combined 11,000 Dinar a month during the rough years right before Saddam was removed. That translates to $6 a month! It was incredibly rough, but he said it was also safer. There were few car and suicide bombings, streets were in good repair, they feared only one man and if they kept their mouths shut they were generally safe from him. However they were also locked down to just state television, very limited internet and cell phones, etc. Now they live comfortably with much better wages, better access to information and entertainment, yet safety is a greater concern. The Sunni/Shiite power reversed, and the corruption has not struck a fair balance that it should have.

It's complicated. In many ways they are better off, and in other aspects they were actually better under the dictatorship. You see a lot of varying opinions from Iraqis online depending on how their lives have changed since 2003. Many seem to agree they welcomed Saddam's removal at the time because they were hopeful that the change would bring peace and prosperity. Today they're a far cry from the change they hoped would come, and the influence of ISIS hasn't helped the situation. Bottom line: most Iraqis have been happy with Saddam's removal and it was the right thing to do even if the reason we went was wrong. Sadly the power void and what was implemented to replace him has failed in many ways, and so many Iraqis are left still suffering.

Casualties of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

185,194 – 208,167 "Documented civilian deaths from violence".

 

[ulukinatme]

Casualties of the Iraq War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Now do the deaths and disappearances under Saddam:

Human rights in Ba'athist Iraq - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The total number of deaths and disappearances related to repression during this period is unknown, but is estimated to be at least 250,000 to 290,000 according to Human Rights Watch,[1] with the great majority of those occurring as a result of the Anfal genocide in 1988 and the suppression of the uprisings in Iraq in 1991.

Also, those death numbers from violence have been tabulated from 2003-2020 by the Iraq Body County Project, IBC. They don't differentiate when the deaths occurred or who was responsible. For one, we've been mostly withdrawn from Iraq since 2011 while almost 100,000 of those deaths have occurred in the years since. Many of the deaths are also attributed to extremists and not directly related to the US military:

Iraq Body Count project data shows that the type of attack that resulted in the most civilian deaths was execution after abduction or capture. These accounted for 33% of civilian deaths and were overwhelmingly carried out by unknown actors including insurgents, sectarian militias and criminals. 29% of these deaths involved torture.

According to a 2010 assessment by John Sloboda, director of Iraq Body Count, U.S. and Coalition forces had killed at least 22,668 insurgents as well as 13,807 civilians in the Iraq War, with the rest of the civilians killed by insurgents, militias, or terrorists.

13,807 < 250,000 - 290,000

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[ulukinatme]

I don't know who is running Radio Shack's twitter right now, but they're getting mad publicity. Apparently this is legit, they're not hacked. Radio Shack is mostly a crypto trading company or something now.

 

[ACamp1900]

Radio shack is like,…. Still a thing???

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

A crypto connection is all it takes for a twitter page to go rogue.

 

[GATTACA!]

Lizzo fat as fuck. Gross.

 

[ACamp1900]

Is lizzo that thing that apologized for saying spazz while celebrating cutting off random dude’s dicks???

 

[GATTACA!]

Is lizzo that thing that apologized for saying spazz while celebrating cutting off random dude’s dicks???

Yes and we're both dumber for having known that piece of trivia.

 

[TNUtoNotreDame]

 

[Irish#1]

I can't un-see that.

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[ulukinatme]

I want that to be real.

 

[ACamp1900]