• SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Sadaam was a bastard, but at least that country had free healthcare, education, and a near perfect literacy rate.

    Sadaam’s Iraq also didn’t have Humvee’s rolling around, because your conception of Iraq comes from the US occupation. But the reason the US today looks like the occupation of Iraq, is because the Imperial Boomerang has come back around:

    The Imperial boomerang, or the colonial boomerang, is the theory that governments that develop repressive techniques to enforce imperialism or control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.

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      20 hours ago

      I really wish the only example given on Wikipedia wasn’t the United States.

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    17 hours ago

    Someone should go ask sadam how it went for him. He’s probably enjoying painting classes and late night massages. I hardly ever hear about that guy anymore.

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    You wish you looked like Iraq under Saddam Hussein. At least before all the fuckery, healthcare and education were free.

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      22 hours ago

      i thought that’s why the white house looks like a senile Versailles now.

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      22 hours ago

      I assumed that was just a random unrelated meme, then read that he was actually hidden in a food cart…

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    1 day ago

    Well at least we don’t have golden toilet bowls in the Palace… Right?