[hirtenstar]

[somacruz]

Toby fox is voicing who in what

[icarianarts]

[evilsexy]

[toothsalad]

[crittervillage]

heaven's preying gaze by comacheese, posted with artist's permission

[caesarsaladinn]

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

[caesarsaladinn]

it feels like the sort of unforced error that should be obsessively postmortemed for the next fifty years, a catastrophe that should utterly delegitimize the society that made it happen, but instead everybody’s like “oh yeah, that. lmao, that was crazy”

[septembriseur-deactivated202502]

I have to add to this because I was teaching a text about this topic to a bunch of post-2003 undergraduates recently and each time I do so I experience the same sense of disorientation.

This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”

This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.

It seems to me that there are several important lessons here.

[doubleca5t]

I feel like this response is kind of hiding the ball on the motives to invade Iraq. The reason for invading Iraq was simple: the Bush administration believed in expanding U.S. global hegemony. The reason that some of them, post facto, have decided that "no one knows" why we did it is because that's less humiliating than admitting the reality, which is that they flagrantly lied to the public in the interest of starting a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people, resulted in the torture of countless POWs, destroyed the country of Iraq, created ISIS, and didn't even accomplish the goal of expanding American hegemony, which was not even a good idea in the first place

[prompts-in-a-barrel]

"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

[californiannostalgia]

[toskarin]

recently my elderly shattered-up phone started letting me charge it to 107% which I've been using to get let's just say a little bit extra out of it on long days

[toskarin]

added benefit that this makes it crazy warm and soft so I use it to warm up my coat when it's cold outside

[toskarin]

to be honest with you it's swollen as fuck and that's why I'm rocking with it

[ganurath]

Swollen batteries are incendiary explosives.

[toskarin]

this one's just a phone

[toskarin]

if it was a bomb and not a phone I couldn't make a call on it, but I can because it's a phone, although it will be to the fun department instead of the fire department

[pneeyrose]

respectfully, ma'am, phone and bomb are not mutually exclusive descriptors

[toskarin]

I'm not gatekeeping I'm just speaking from my presently lived experience

[chaos-otter]

When you start speaking from your formally lived experience, be sure to let us know!

[toskarin]

I already live every day with undue formality and noble grace

[toskarin]

I'm not a technician so I don't really see how this applies to me

[everythingfox]

One must always pay the cheese tax

[kada-kade]

[grecoromanyaoi]

citationless behavior

[grecoromanyaoi]

sourceless behavior

[agrust-art]

[segamascott]

[daofeibutdead]

idek what that means I think a yes would have sufficed

[sexhaver]

for context this person claimed that Mitski bought them as a child sex slave and had them chained up in her dorm at college. and everyone just believed them for a few days

[rslashrats]

dude we are just like twins except we were born at two completely different times and we are not related and we look nothing alike too

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Really fucked up that you can just inherit complexes from your mother and be fully aware that they're complexes from your mother but still do all that shit

[damazcuz]

Stone faced and barely moving in the club.

[damazcuz]

To be honest yeah

[geeseareassholes]

[im-tired-404]