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I learned about it via "Monk Gloats over Yoga Championship" https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-1819563855 https://www.theonion.com/mon
by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I learned about it via "Monk Gloats over Yoga Championship"
https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-1819563855 https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-...
I also frequently mention I don't watch television. In fact, I don't even own one.
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-televisi-1819565469 https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
- saalweachter 2y agoFor me, it was "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over": https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882 https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of...
- romanhn 2y agoYes, this was an incredibly prescient article.
- tootie 2y agoThis one just keeps on aging like fine wine.
- OldGuyInTheClub 2y agoThe foresight... still hurts to this day. Wish it had gone this way. From 1998: https://www.theonion.com/clinton-threatens-to-drop-da-bomb-on-iraq-1819564617 https://www.theonion.com/clinton-threatens-to-drop-da-bomb-o...
- toyg 2y agoThe article is funny and I agree with overall sentiment, but it's always surprising how people just forget Kosovo and Somalia. Clinton bombed a European country and doubled down on a hopeless mission in an African hellhole (before giving up), not exactly "sustained peace abroad". Even if you agree with the moves, you can't say it was all peace and love.
- jl6 2y agoTrue, but those were tiny interventions that hardly affected mainstream USA at all, unlike the brutalizing experience of 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the following decade.
- Kye 2y agoIt's telling that the Iraq or Afghanistan vet (or both!) has replaced the Vietnam vet in TV shows and movies.
- serf 2y agowhat does it tell? the only thing it tells me is that time moves forward and a 70+ year old Vietnam veteran can't fit the role. if you're saying that it indicates that the conflicts had a large impact, I would argue that actually it's because the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts lasted a long time and had an impact on Americans specifically, and Americans specifically have a large impact on television/movies/media. Go ask Albanians and Serbs about their 'tiny intervention'. The Americans lost 4500 in Iraq and 2400 in Afghanistan. 10000ish were killed in the Kosovo War, and 200,000 people ( at least ) were displaced.
- Kye 2y agoThe context of the post you replied to is effect on culture in the US. Were you looking for someone to go off on, or did you sincerely miss it?
- greenthrow 2y agoComparing the Kosovo and Somalia operations to Iraq and Afghanistan is like comparing a fly to a whale in basically any terms that matter. Human suffering, duration, lives lost, monetary cost, reputational cost in the world, etc.
- mattl 2y agoHow do you watch TV shows or movies?
- PopePompus 2y agoI love: https://www.theonion.com/bush-finds-error-in-fermilab-calculations-1819566086 https://www.theonion.com/bush-finds-error-in-fermilab-calcul...