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graysongoal

I love this.

liberalsarecool

'Widely debunked misinformation' is what MAGA calls research.

ruhlare

nothing more attractive than calm men who can bring you comfort

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.

ragemovement

ravensknowledge

COMRADE POTHOLE

behindnightmaresanddreams

Hi so this phenomena is whats known as a sinkhole. For those of you that dont know let me lay it out for you.

So heres the general idea: A road is built, somehow, overtop a large cavern or cave. Doesn't really matter how. Now, the dirt is usually packed enough to support itself for a bit, because otherwise there wasnt a cave to begin with. Somehow, a pothole exists. That pothole gets deeper somehow, maybe erosion. Over time, it gets deep enough to start breaking in to the cave. Slowly, over time, the dirt stops supporting itself. Gets loose or whatever. And it all falls into that cave. So what was once a perfectly safe street with a Pig Factory above it is now a massive 30 foot hole in the ground with part of a Pig Factory in it.

behindnightmaresanddreams

Meant to include this

ferrousferrule

Sometimes the hole didn't exist before but a leaky pipe caused underground erosion or compaction that created a hole. That's more common in new cities that don't put much into maintaining infrastructure.

derinthescarletpescatarian

If you live on limestone with a high water table then sinkholes will just happen over time no matter how well you maintain your pipes. All you can do is build around them or fill them in as they arise. Very big ones take a really long time to form naturally though.

the-illustrious-zwee

xiaq

The lack of self-awareness is truly astounding.

posttexasstressdisorder

Just lack of awareness, period.

They're on cult-o-pilot.

rubbishraven

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posttexasstressdisorder

Effective graphics.

weirdness-is-good

frostedmagnolias

“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”

Happy Black History Month!