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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Hmm, and who lost in Vietnam?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 6 days ago

America, but Vietnam (and Laos, and Cambodia) is still feeling the destructive impacts to this day.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Guy in the bottom right of the thumbnail looks like Tim Robinson.

[–] EffortlessGrace@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

It's George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

[–] miseducator@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's even making the Tim face that he's always making.

[–] tedd_deireadh@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's a scene from Dr. Strangelove.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

Yep, they are in the war room.

Where there's to be no fighting

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well, that's certainly Trump's style, since he's never had an original thought.

Everything he says is a rehash of the stupidest ideas and cliches of the past 100 years.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

I heard that his wife plagiarized one of Michelle Obama's speeches too

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

WHEN IS SOMETHING GOING TO BE DONE TO STOP THAT MANIAC?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, they're saying all the same dumbass things that came out of Rumsfeld and McNamara's mouths.

The upside is no one believes them. The downside is both ruling parties support this war, if not in word than in deed, so we'll probably be at war there for the next 20 years.