Oh shit, has September just ended?
I remember thinking how this was the beginning of the end for Green Day.
I love it when I’m wrong
Wake up!
One more month, wake me up when October ends 😩
Pretty sure September ended on September 10th, 2001.
I’m just happy that the music of my teens is still relevant in my thirties
/s
Another nice line coming to you from 2009:
“… now preemptive wars are redemptive cause. I’ve never heard such nonsense under international laws! We think we have the right to enforce democracy, when we weaken ours everyday – what hypocrisy!”
I don’t want to be an American idiot.
That’s what I almost titled this post.
A bit on the nose eh?
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
American Idiot was such a great album. And still pertinent now, more than ever.
In my mind, that album is still “new Green Day”
I think Holiday may even be more relevant now than when it came out.
Hypnotize / Mesmerize easy listening version.
ok but rock against bush went so hard too
dookie will always have a place in my heart.
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.
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
TBF out of the 249.7 years the USA has existed they’ve been at war for all but 16 of them.
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.
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.
Sorry are we not still in Iraq?
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.
oh yeah…remind me again… who pulled us out of the middle east?
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.
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.
Epic Fury…
E F…
Epstein Files?
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)
Not weird, that’s the point. It’s the inverse of the “crypto? $300 concert tickets? You hit your head pretty hard…” Meme that was around.
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?”
Was it intentional to look like heroin addicts?
Kinda. The 90’s saw a lot of famous heroin abuse in bands, and it was a response to the coked-up bright colors of the 80s. Plus heroin chic in the fashion industry. The early 2000s had resurgence of pink and bright colors for normies who were all on prozac, so everyone going the other direction doubled down on the 90s fashion trends.
The 90’s saw a lot of [bands] [double down] on [heroin]
Sweet
It is called “the 90s”. An Ancient time when it was considered rude to not have holes in your sweater
Word
I wish.
The war on the Iranian regime is way more justifiable, being for the imec trade corridor which is likely to bring traditional enemies together on the same side, than the war in Iraq (which was about resources for America and the Bush family lineage).
