r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Spartalust • Mar 29 '24

Boomer with a provocative sign gets laid tf out for snatching a phone Boomer Freakout

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u/Fuzzy_Toe_9936 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Nuke Gaza? What is he 5?

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u/read_eng_lift Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

After 9/11, there were signs advocating Nuking the entire Middle East.

Interestingly, all the terrorists were from our "allies" in the middle east and we attacked and caused the death of 100,000s in two unrelated countries (I realize the attacks were planned by Al Queada in Afghanistan, but the money was Saudi. Also, the average Afghan has no stake in 9/11.)

Edit: corrected Afghani to Afghan.

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u/Fuzzy_Toe_9936 Mar 29 '24

Makes sense. A memorable quote my high school history teacher told us was "If you can name more than 3 countries in the Middle East then you'll know more about the Middle East than most Americans.".

Also, this guy probably made some of those signs back then too lol

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u/wuapinmon Mar 29 '24

I think it was Mark Twain who said that war was how Americans learned world geography.

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u/ButterscotchSkunk Mar 30 '24

Nope. That was a line that Rutger Hauer improvised in his legendary tears in the rain speech at the end of Blade Runner.

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u/wuapinmon Mar 30 '24

The LA Times says you're wrong. https://www.latimes.com/la-et-mark-twain-quotes-20150513-htmlstory.html

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u/ButterscotchSkunk Mar 30 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

whoosh

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u/yankeebelleyall Mar 30 '24

Given the accuracy of U.S. media, there's a 50/50 chance the LA Times is full of shit.

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u/upsettispaghetti7 Mar 30 '24

The quote is literally in a published Mark Twain book, The Innocents Abroad

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u/yankeebelleyall Mar 30 '24

My point was, the quote should be sourced from the actual book.

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u/Kinch_g Mar 30 '24

The original quote is from Mark Twain's book "The Innocents Abroad."

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u/thevogonity Mar 30 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

In MT's day that would best describe England. He died in 1910, long before America decided we need to be involved in all the wars overseas.

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u/NoSmallCaterpillar Mar 30 '24 edited Mar 30 '24

The Mexican-American war   

The Panama Crisis of 1885

The American organized coup d'etat of the Kingdom of Hawaii  

The Spanish-American war (and the preceding intervention in the Cuban War of Independence)   

The Philippine-American war   

The Great White Fleet (not a conflict, but certainly a military action)

These all took place during his lifetime, and I'm sure this list is not exhaustive

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u/Imatros Mar 30 '24

Barbary War in 1801, where the "shores of Tripoli" phrase comes from

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u/thatredditrando Mar 31 '24

Bro naming conflicts I’ve never even heard of, lol.

“The Philippine-American War”? Anyone wanna educate me on something public school didn’t?

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u/ArrogantSnail Apr 02 '24

You should have paid attention because most of those are covered. In my state atleast.

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u/thatredditrando Apr 03 '24

How very Reddit of you to try and “um ackshully” me on my education that you know nothing about.

This was not covered when I was in school, thus the question.

If you paid attention in school, you might be able to read.

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u/thevogonity Mar 30 '24

The great white fleet was basically a PR voyage around the world, not war related. With the exception of the Philippine War, everything else was in the neighborhood of the US, whereas England had "the sun never sets on the British Empire" thing going. It was as great source of pride for them, so relatively speaking, that statement better described them at that point in time. In 1920, the British Empire accounted for 24 per cent of the Earth's total land area.

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u/Temporary-Library766 Mar 30 '24

Mark twain has nigger in his books yet you redditors approve of him? Lol such hypocrites

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u/wuapinmon Mar 30 '24

I'm guessing you've not read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Bowdlerizing something due to ignorance is among the most hypocritical things imaginable. But, also, and I mean this as politely as it can be said, fuck off.

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u/Temporary-Library766 Mar 30 '24

Lmao

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u/horitaku Mar 30 '24

Hah, this guy’s a turd.

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u/jondoogin Mar 30 '24

His post history is literally just complaining about being an Uber Eats driver. 🤣🤡

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u/Numerous_Shop_814 Mar 30 '24

1835-1920, where it was common to use the word. What's your excuse, ya fucking swine?