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Ghostse said:
Saddam I would argue in 2003 had started to lose his value as a Necessary Evil. He was doing a worse and worse job of maintaining control, and was setting his sons, who were real peices of work, up as the successors. You know how some shows stop when things are declining but still good, while others get run in the ground? "Who's Iraq is it Anyway?" was canceled when it was still good, but it was on its well on its way to becoming shit.
But its the leadership they deserve. Iraqis have been untrustworthy shit bags since at least 680AD.

Gaddafi on the other hand was, by most accounts, becoming much less shit, opening up the country and starting to give more powers to the local councils. He was still kind of fucking crazy in a way that would have been amusing if he didn't hold literal life-or-death power over people's lives, but he was really serious about rejoining the international community and playing nice with others. The son he was grooming to be his successor was better than Dad on just about every front, and speculated to be behind the reforms. In proof that this is a God and he loves irony, it was this releasing of his Iron grip that lead to Papa Gaddafi's downfall....but his son still might end up as taking over for daddy anyway.

But again, necessary or not, how else could the rest of the world have responded when he was carrying out airstrikes on protestors? That is, the value of a "necesary evil" dictator is in providing and maintaining control, keeping the trains running on time as it were. He'd obviously lost control, and was only going to get it back with lots of blood.
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Except there was still the Ba'ath party to hold some kind of order. One of Saddam's sons was out raping and torturing the populace but I believe the other one was in control and Saddam thought of that son as the successor. In either case, the Ba'ath party would have kept order but when the Bush Admin ordered the invasion everything was dismantled. Leaving a power vaccum where Islamic Extremists piled in.
 
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ITT: Springtime for Daffy, and the Other Tinpots. As directed by /pol/ .

But to get back on the derangement, I don't think I've ever seen a funeral get turned into a big old wankfest the likes of which makes the industry awards shows look humble and not up their own ass.

I may have to vote straight R this year. Between the idiot grass rooter who promised an old Bernie pledge that called me and this, I don't think I can even trust the Dems with local shit right now.
 
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Adamska said:
But to get back on the derangement, I don't think I've ever seen a funeral get turned into a big old wankfest the likes of which makes the industry awards shows look humble and not up their own ass.
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When I was but a little Vorht, it was carefully explained to me that funerals were meant as a chance for the grieving family and friends to get together, say goodbye to the deceased, and find comfort in knowing that the person's legacy goes on in so many people. Of all the social gatherings out there, a funeral is the one where it is perfectly okay to display your sadness, to cry, and to open your heart--because, after all, it hurts when you lose someone you love, so much so that perhaps you can't find words. And when you grieve for someone you loved, the world shrinks away, and everything you thought was so important just sort of fades into the background while your loss takes center stage.

And one thing you never, ever were supposed to do was to try to convince the mourners that "the world goes on". Give them a moment to catch their breath, for love's sake!

At least, that was what it meant in my little backwards, religious-whacko, hate-filled regressive corner of the world, anyway. I see now that funerals, like every other thing in life up to and including going to the bathroom, are merely another opportunity to parade one's righteousness and smugly draw attention to how much more progressive than others you are.

Or perhaps, just perhaps, I got to witness a gathering of flaming sociopaths. Occam's Razor.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
He’s good soyboy.
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I wouldn't worry. For one, that's not a katana. For another, he can't even hold it; see, he's sitting behind a counter (in front of a backdrop), and the bat is on a stand.

Anyway, it's hard to feel intimidated by someone who looks like he could easily be thwarted by pointing behind him, yelling "Are those free cupcakes?" and then taking the bat from him while he was distracted.
 
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1Tonka_Truck said:
Why is not Waldo circled in that image?
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A properly-vetted SJW played it, and circled the person they believe most deeply-identifies with being Waldo, not Waldo himself, who isn't a real Waldo BTW, obviously he has internalized Waldophobic oppression by trying not to be seen in public.
 
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