This classic from The Onion was originally published all the way back in 2003.

  • Chaotic Entropy ( ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ) 
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    What has the middle east ever seen the US do besides:

    • Buy their oil, at the point of a sword
    • Fund extremists to overthrow their governments, to give them more favourable oil terms
    • Bomb their and their neighbours’ civilian populations/infrastructure with relative impunity
    • Hand weapons to nations committing wars and genocides against them and their neighbours
    • Provide backing to extremist friendly regimes, artificially propping up monarchies and dictators
    • Invade, destabilise, and then bail on them and their neighbours, creating horrific refugee crises
    • Constantly threaten to turn them and their neighbours “to glass” if they get uppity
    • Abandon their regional partners/interpreters to the whims of the forces they were previously fighting against
  • Dagwood222 ( Dagwood222@lemm.ee ) 
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    I lived in New York City on 9/11/2001.

    The Village Voice was a weekly ‘alternative’ newspaper that covered politics, culture, and the arts.

    The pot smoking hippies ran dozens of predictions of what would happen. that included two cartoons.

    One showed Dubya as Mickey Mouse. the sorcerer’s apprentice was chopping up a broom that looked like Sadam, and getting a million little brooms that looked like bin Ladn. The other was a buddy cop movie where Sadam and bin-Ladn are forced to work together, and eventually learn from each other