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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i crushed on billie in the 90s i crushed on him in the 2000s i crushed on him in the 2010s you can bet your ass i'll crush on him now

him and paul rudd

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 11 points 3 hours ago

Weird. Two out of three of those things have happened in my house today (might watch a South Park episode just to round it out)

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

American Idiot was such a great album. And still pertinent now, more than ever.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 hours ago

Hypnotize / Mesmerize easy listening version.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I think Holiday may even be more relevant now than when it came out.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

dookie will always have a place in my heart.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The year is 1991, the US goes to war in the middle east. The year is 2002, the US goes to war in the middle east. The year is 2026, the US goes to war in the middle east.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

We actually were deployed to Afghanistan by October 2001.

Also we were in Iraq until 2011 and in Afghanistan until 2021.

So while the gap between 2001 and 2026 seems large, its actually only been five years since we ended occupation of Afghanistan.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry are we not still in Iraq?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

We have bases still in Iraq, but we fucked up so bad there that major troop withdrawal was done at the end of 2011. Obama tried to keep our troops there longer, but the Iraqi government basically kicked us the fuck out, and we only had 500 soldiers there as of December 2011.

We still have a presence there, but based on cursory research, it's shared space, like Balad AFB which houses the Iraqi military's F-16 squadron as well as US personnel. Al Asad Air Base has US personnel from four divisions of the armed forces, and there are Danish soldiers stationed there as well, and it seems one of the main uses of the base is the continued training of Iraqi soldiers. There may be more in Iraq, but they are smaller and likely short-term use.

An amount of US soldiers were deployed all over the middle east starting in 2014 as a support role in the overarching war against the Islamic State (ISIL), but they had been brought in as a support network for Iraq defending itself from ISIL after ISIL made significant successes in Iraq in 2014. Seems like there's only about 2,500 US personnel in Iraq all told since the end of 2021, and that was from agreements Biden organized for a continued US presence with an advisory and training role for US soldiers.

I would say being involved to help stop an invasion into Iraq and helping their armed forces along with a coalition of other nations also in support capacities was materially different than the US invasion in 2003.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

oh yeah...remind me again... who pulled us out of the middle east?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 41 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to be an American idiot.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's what I almost titled this post.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

A bit on the nose eh?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Who was the last Republican president that didn't initiate a war in the middle-east?

This goes back as far as I can remember.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

And the democrats between then signed a bunch of laws and set a bunch of precedents that they claimed where good and necessary but allowed their shitbag successors to do godawful dystopian nightmare shit

And they wonder why everyday more and more I think Marx was cooking

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

TBF out of the 249.7 years the USA has existed they've been at war for all but 16 of them.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Oh shit, has September just ended?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

One more month, wake me up when October ends 😩

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I remember thinking how this was the beginning of the end for Green Day.

I love it when I'm wrong

Pretty sure September ended on September 10th, 2001.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

What's really wild is it's almost 23 years on the nose since the war in Iraq started on March 20th, 2003.

Bush and the military apparatus at the time was willing to at least pretend they had legitimacy by calling it "Operation Iraqi Freedom" whereas "Operation Epic Fury" just describes Trump throwing ketchup covered plates at the wall because he's an irrationally angry bitch baby.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I had no idea it was called “epic fury” until NPR mentioned it during morning edition today. I almost crashed my car laughing at that Idiocracy-ass name.

That shit sounds like an energy drink for dudes with restraining orders.

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

Epic Fury...

E F...

Epstein Files?

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago

This was the joke back in 2016: "Blink 182 dropped a new album, Clinton is running for president, and Independence day just came out? What year is it?"

[–] goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago