This shit has seriously gone on too long. People who continue to cling to the "10,000 dead crushed by tanks hosed i to the gutter" bs are cranks. It's jews control the banks, chemtrails, the earth is flat, the moon isn't real level of crank shit and unless you're feeling very indulgent and someone is asking in good faith it can be dismissed as equally serious to that kind of crank shit.

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty much everything people believe about it isn't true, but nobody cares because it's aimed at bad country shrug-outta-hecks

I'm still shocked they actually admitted Saddam's shredder wasn't real.

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The fact that most Americans just assume tank man got run over and killed even after seeing part of the video of it is what genuinely drives me insane. Like the rest of the video is readily available bro you can see him walk away

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That baffles me, because even when I was a turbolib I realized the whole point was that one guy was holding up the tanks. If they had just run him over, why would they have stopped?

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

As a kid, I figured he singlehandedly stopped the tanks from doing something terrible.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Saddam's shredder?!?!?! I am too young to remember Saddam, please elaborate

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They said Saddam owned a woodchipper or big shredder that he would throw dissidents in to execute them and destroy the body.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The moment I realized r/LateStageCapitalism had been ruined was when someone was unironically defending the Iraq War by referring to Saddam's shredder. In the old days that person would've been quickly banned.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Things are different in LSC now and that person would definitely get banned

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine being the über despot murder lord as was portrayed and still needing to hide the bodies.

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shredder

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Wack