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I thought the invasion of Iraq and use that f Guantanamo are universally accepted to have been pretty idiotic even by super power standards. The USA gained no s

I thought the invasion of Iraq and use that f Guantanamo are universally accepted to have been pretty idiotic even by super power standards. The USA gained no security and lost inordinate amounts of money, blood and good will.

swayvil 3y ago
What's up with these weird typos? And is it just me or is there a consistency in the tone, among those who make these weird typos? It's just weird. Also it's early in the morning and I'm a little addled.
- meiraleal 3y ago
  Yeah it is just you. Non-American users aren't Russian/soviet bots. It is interesting to see the tactics in discussion being used here: add conspiracy to facts so they seem less plausible.
  - swayvil 3y ago
    Have you seen these typos? These aren't just "I don't speak the lingo" typos. And if I was attempting to bend the narrative, a good tool for that might be a counterargument that, tho apparently strong, is actually weak. Let's not be naive about how this works.
- giantrobot 3y ago
  > What's up with these weird typos? I think sometimes the typos are speech-to-text artifacts. For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" and I could see that easily tripping up STT. I know people that use STT and don't review the output before sending so I get weird text messages from them from time to time.
  - meiraleal 3y ago
    > For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" It was "and use that f Guantanamo" which is not that difficult to understand if you change "f" for "the F word".
oilchange 3y ago
> blood Iraqis lost a lot of blood, not americans. 99% of the people killed were innocent iraqis.
- mrangle 3y ago
  Enough Americans were maimed and killed to deeply care.
mrangle 3y ago
Until one might come to the conclusion that the Iraq invasion wasn't about security.
cma 3y ago
Idiotic/blunder is a very blameless language.
sh34r 3y ago
But Halliburton got to plunder Iraq's oil, and that was all that mattered to Dick Cheney.

swayvil 3y ago

What's up with these weird typos? And is it just me or is there a consistency in the tone, among those who make these weird typos? It's just weird. Also it's early in the morning and I'm a little addled.

meiraleal 3y ago
Yeah it is just you. Non-American users aren't Russian/soviet bots. It is interesting to see the tactics in discussion being used here: add conspiracy to facts so they seem less plausible.
- swayvil 3y ago
  Have you seen these typos? These aren't just "I don't speak the lingo" typos. And if I was attempting to bend the narrative, a good tool for that might be a counterargument that, tho apparently strong, is actually weak. Let's not be naive about how this works.
giantrobot 3y ago
> What's up with these weird typos? I think sometimes the typos are speech-to-text artifacts. For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" and I could see that easily tripping up STT. I know people that use STT and don't review the output before sending so I get weird text messages from them from time to time.
- meiraleal 3y ago
  > For instance "used that" would be phonetically similar to "used at" It was "and use that f Guantanamo" which is not that difficult to understand if you change "f" for "the F word".

oilchange 3y ago

> blood Iraqis lost a lot of blood, not americans. 99% of the people killed were innocent iraqis.

mrangle 3y ago
Enough Americans were maimed and killed to deeply care.

mrangle 3y ago

Until one might come to the conclusion that the Iraq invasion wasn't about security.

cma 3y ago

Idiotic/blunder is a very blameless language.

sh34r 3y ago

But Halliburton got to plunder Iraq's oil, and that was all that mattered to Dick Cheney.