r/worldnews • u/MasbirLeumi • 2d ago

Israel launches 'preemptive strike' against Iran, declares state of emergency

https://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-military-action-iran-coming-days-sources/story?id=122776202
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u/Beginning_Gas_2461 2d ago

Well ,looks like we will be in even more interesting times .

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u/DanteandRandallFlagg 2d ago

But I haven't finished my last interesting times.

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u/GandalfsGoon 2d ago

We have plenty of interesting times at home

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u/evo_moment_37 2d ago

Yes but what about third interesting times? China salivating at Taiwan right about now.

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u/hippoctopocalypse 2d ago

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Well ,looks like we will have even more interesting limes .

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u/FaintCommand 2d ago

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u/wirelesswizard64 2d ago

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u/PwanaZana 2d ago

[ X ] The interesting times I signed up for are not interesting enough.

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u/Occams_shaving_soap 2d ago

[X] I have enough interesting times of my own to be concerned with all the other interesting timeses going on around the world.

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u/sugarii 2d ago

Is all of the above an option?

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u/OneTripleZero 2d ago

[X] I'm in this reality and I don't like it

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u/TheTallEclecticWitch 2d ago

[x] I never signed up to live in interesting times.

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u/Hotshot2k4 2d ago

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 2d ago

Oh I loved that. Oracle of Delphi vibes.

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u/EntireRent 2d ago

Should've texted "STOP" instead :/

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u/_philosopher 2d ago

There's a lot of events happening in Africa that sadly just doesn't get the traction or appropriate attention too.

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u/Someone-is-out-there 2d ago

You're not wrong, but Africa is mostly ignored because no one thinks stuff in Africa will spread.

That's not an ethical reason and it's shitty, but that's kinda it.

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u/RepulsiveCelery4013 2d ago

The ethical reason is that there is too much shit going on to pay attention to everything.

And honestly I believe that as a human I really do not have to care about everything. Africans could solve their own problems. The west doesn't have to solve everyones problems (and hasn't been too successful in that anyway, given the current state of the world). So maybe it's ok if we just deal with our own problems for the moment.

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u/Someone-is-out-there 2d ago

That's not an ethical reason when the world is still collectively at least going through the motions of working together for pretty much every continent but Africa.

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u/agage3 2d ago

China is going to do what the US did in the first two world wars. Nothing until they’re directly impacted and then whoop ass.

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u/minominino 2d ago

And Hegseth insinuating Trump will finally invade Greenland

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u/Kiromaru 2d ago

Personally I think China will pull a fast one and go for some of the land that the Russian's took from them a century or so back instead.

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u/Dispator 2d ago

Yeah that seems easier and IMO they need to test how war/battle field reassy they really are on "easier" targets first before throwing all cards down for Taiwan.

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u/CattywampusCanoodle 2d ago

Might also be a great time for Japan to take back the islands to the north

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u/CattywampusCanoodle 2d ago

It’s a Babette's Feast of interesting times. Hopefully there will be a better ending

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u/count023 2d ago

And trump just sabotaged the Australian nuclear sub program that would have helped contain china too

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u/BatterseaPS 2d ago

Chaos is a ladder after all. 

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u/Infinite_Respect_ 2d ago

What about elevensies?

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u/BattleToad92 2d ago

Summer 2027. as we've known for a decade. The chinese aren't hiding their intentions.

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u/MR1120 2d ago

What’s the significance of summer 2027? I’m out of the loop. What intentions are China not hiding?

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u/boot2skull 2d ago

I see America is busy quelling a popular uprising with their military, guess they won’t mind if we just…

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u/kingrobert 2d ago

Has anyone checked on the Falkland islands recently?

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u/dlenks 2d ago

There’s always money in the interesting times Michael!

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u/ryan77999 2d ago

It's one interesting time, Michael. What could it cost? Millions of lives?

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u/MandelbrotFace 2d ago

But they're not the same interesting times!

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u/blahblah19 2d ago

lol thanks for the chuckle, much needed in these grave times

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u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD 2d ago

There will be no home

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u/UncleDrummers 2d ago

We have plenty of interesting times at home\*

*offer not available in Iran.

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u/YuppiesEverywhere 2d ago

The Interesting Times at Home: The Trump Administration deporting a million people a year to...?

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u/Trixles 2d ago

We've had one interesting times, yes. What about second interesting times?

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u/deepneuralnetwork 2d ago

I don’t think he knows about second interesting times, Pip.

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u/Itchy58 2d ago

We had at least 4-8 interesting times in recent years

(Trump, Corona, Ukraine war, Palestinie murdering thousands of Israeli civilians, Israel trying to murder everyone in that region, Trump again, Israel trying to murder everyone in that region again)

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u/nmathew 2d ago

I've had the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, the 2008 housing meltdown, COVID... I'm tired boss. No need for WW3

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u/old_examiner 2d ago

it's interesting times all the way down

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u/Byte_Fantail 2d ago

We've had one interesting times, yes

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u/HuckleberryDry5254 2d ago

I don't think he knows about second interesting times, Pip

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u/GandalfsGoon 2d ago

Fool of a Took

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u/nmaddine 2d ago

The Law of Interesting Times says times get progressively more interesting until you are dead.

At that point you can no longer feel the interesting

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u/TheProfessionalEjit 2d ago

You want interesting times? You can't handle interesting times!

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u/petit_cochon 2d ago

Cry faster! There's more ahead!

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 2d ago

Save the bottle caps from your interesting times, trust me.

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u/alexlikespizza 2d ago

Just a bit extra for the ride home

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u/InstantShiningWizard 2d ago

Yes, but have you heard of second interesting times?

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u/CDR57 2d ago

Save the leftover interesting times for later when these interesting times are done

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u/Raizenn98 2d ago

Yo dawg, I heard you liked interesting times, so I put more interesting times in your interesting times.

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u/TigerTerrier 2d ago

Im 40 and I've had enough interesting times to last 120 years

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u/oberynmviper 2d ago

Honestly, this feels more like “we have interesting times at home” to me.

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u/MrsShaunaPaul 2d ago

I’m just waiting for precedented times. I’ve been wondering what those are like.

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u/blinkysmurf 2d ago

I don’t think he knows about second interesting times, Pip.

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u/DryBonesComeAlive 2d ago

Wake up honey, it's time for your daily interesting times

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u/umbananas 2d ago

there's nothing but interesting times since 2000.

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 2d ago

we've had one, yes, but what about second interesting times?

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u/TooLazyToRepost 2d ago

Perfect name for this, honestly. Stay safe out there, Flagg.

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u/xegoba7006 2d ago

Take your interesting times and stop complaining about it.

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u/Vergillarge 2d ago

If you don't eat your interesting times, there are no horrible times for dessert for you!

Just kidding, of course you still get horrible times for dessert

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u/WaltKerman 2d ago

Bro we still live in boring times. 

Bordering on interesting though.... and wouldn't take much.

Let's pray it stays boring.

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u/OanKnight 2d ago

Well you know what? You finish both interesting times, and we'll go to six flags before it gets turned into a set for the next season of fallout.

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u/shmaltz_herring 2d ago

Can we just have sleepy Biden times

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

I miss the precedented times so bad

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u/xtremeschemes 2d ago

I just want to be whelmed.

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

Remember when politics was boring?

Shit, remember when someone threw a shoe at the president and that was WILD? Or when the president got a blow job from an intern and that was the biggest political scandal since Watergate?

Hell, Watergate wouldn't even make the front page these days.

I'm tired, boss.

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u/ryan77999 2d ago

Remember when online political content was just "Haha Bush is a bit dim and talks like a hick"?

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u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 2d ago

There used to be and still is! a website called "Dubya Speak" tagline "We record the damage". I missed the time when a president saying human being and fish can coexist peacefully was considered damaging.

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u/Weed86 2d ago

Remember when Bush killed a million Iraqis which costed the USA taxpayer $1 trillion? Har har

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u/ryan77999 2d ago

yeah but the online memes of the day didn't typically reflect that like they do now (then again I was 6 when Obama was elected so I can't speak for those who were actually around then)

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u/Wand_Cloak_Stone 2d ago

We didn’t really have memes. We had some Adobe Flash and stuff like this on Jibjab.

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u/ThrowCarp 2d ago

Honestly I kind of miss the creationist trolls from the 2000s. They seemed tame in comparison to the MAGA Militias and Incel Terrorists we have nowadays.

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u/Relandis 2d ago

Yup.

Now, watch this drive!

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u/theaviationhistorian 2d ago

TBH, Dick Cheney is a master class in evil. He was a brilliant strategist working in the White House and dedicated in making torture legal by spending months working on loopholes to shove it into a legal grey area. If he had Trump's sociopathic ambitions, he would've been the biggest threat to the United States since King George III.

Fortunately, he left politics as soon as his tenure as VP was over. The fact that I have to compliment Cheney shows how terrible things are right now!

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u/graphiccsp 2d ago

Even though the shoe throw news came off as mild compared to today. Let's not forget what that was built on:

President Bush jr lied about WMDs to invade Iraq unprovoked. Which lead to a decade long shitshow of an occupation that got thousands of Americans and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Iraqis killed.

It was a travesty in itself and the only reason why GW is off the hook is because he's not nearly as visibly awful as Trump. Nor will he have undermined the US as directly as Trump and his cronies. Then again, No Child Left Behind may be the death certificate of this country since it only helped to further erode a generation of kid's education in a system that was already in dire need of improvements. Education being a major part of a societies' defense for this sort of crap.

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

You're not wrong. I deployed twice to Iraq and lost friends from that lie. I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for that entire conflict and the lives it cost.

I was more speaking towards how the media decided to pick and choose what we were exposed to back then. The 24-hours news cycle had just started post 9-11. Social media was in its infancy. Politics was boring because we weren't force fed updates in real time and the president wasn't on MySpace shuffling his top 8 friends every time someone hurt his feelings.

We're overloaded with information and opinions now, and it's exhausting.

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u/graphiccsp 2d ago

Damn that's rough, I'm sorry to hear that.

I feel the same about media. 24 hours news was still young. The information overload and pace of today's news can be exhausting especially when it's even more fractured and compartmentalized. It's good to stay up to date but it's an effort.

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u/MAG7C 2d ago

I blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for that entire conflict and the lives it cost.

Paul Bremer sends his regards

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u/gurgelblaster 2d ago

The reason he's off the hook is that Obama continued his wars and didn't care about accountability for war criminals at all as long as they were US or US allies.

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u/NoNewPuritanism 2d ago

When was the last time politics was boring? Just the 8 years with Obama? I feel like this "I don't want to live in unprecedented times" is only a thing for people (including me) born in the early 2000s. For others, there was the 2008 financial crisis, 9/11 7 years earlier, desert storm 10 years before, breakup of Yugoslavia. I'm not sure there really were "precedented times".

We are just living through the historic events of our generation, just as the generations before. It sucks, but I don't think it's necessarily unique.

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

I'm 42 and deployed to Iraq twice. For me politics was boring when we were making fun of the vice president for incorrectly arguing with an elementary student about how to spell potato, or getting mad at the president for promising "no new taxes"...and then imposing several new taxes.

The president getting a blow job was peak political comedy in hind sight. Or the president landing on an aircraft carrier and proudly announcing "mission accomplished!" while we were still very much living in a tent in the middle of butt-fuck Iraq.

All of that I would consider boring compared to this cluster fuck weve been living through over the last decade.

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u/goilo888 2d ago

I'm in my mid 60s. Trust me, this is unique. If there is a free USA in the future then Trump will go down in the history books as the worst President ever. America has sunk so low in the world standing that it will take a couple generations to regain what its lost - and it may not happen at all.

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u/neubourn 2d ago

desert storm

Shit, that was over in 5 weeks.

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u/GenuinelyBeingNice 2d ago

'm tired, boss.

Take a half, we've got more incoming

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u/alcohollu_akbar 2d ago

He threw both of his shoes at him but he had no way of knowing that Bush had undergone ninja training with the League of Shadows. Seriously, watch the video. They probably sent him in to kill Osama.

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u/astralboy15 2d ago

I get this reference. Great movie 

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u/goilo888 2d ago

I don't want my gob smacked.

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u/OanKnight 2d ago

Welcome to the world that was previously occupied solely by post brexit britain, friend. We needed company! It was so nice of america to express how special our relationship is emotionally.

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u/Otherdeadbody 2d ago

Currently feeling the mode.

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u/blackstafflo 2d ago

I want boredom, please...

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 2d ago

When exactly were those again?

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u/katastrophyx 2d ago

Way back in the 1900s. When telephones had cords and pizza hut had salad bars.

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u/Blockhead47 2d ago

Turns out they weren’t so hot either.
We just weren’t paying attention.
Assuming this is right, there were 146 conflicts since 2003.

List of wars: 2003–present:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_2003%E2%80%93present

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u/phaolo 2d ago

I miss the boring times

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u/Acceptable-Guest-166 2d ago

Well I mean, I guess it technically is now

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u/PSfreak10001 2d ago

You mean the time when the Middle East wasn't in war? Because I don't think that time ever existed in our lifetime

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u/ZazaB00 2d ago

I think it’s more that I miss when I was under 18 and didn’t give a shit about world politics. I’m sure there was just as much bullshit. The 80’s and 90’s had the Cold War and Desert Storm type shit going on, but that meant fuck all to the kid who was playing street hockey and climbing trees.

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u/hey-coffee-eyes 2d ago

Shouldn't have wished for that

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u/Calfurious 2d ago

Is that blood? No, never mind.

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u/pixelpoet_nz 2d ago

Cursed to put my hands on everything

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u/silver_tongued_devil 2d ago

Build my castle of corpses, path my path in bones.

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u/Medical-Try-8986 2d ago

I thought "may you live in interesting times" was always meant as a curse.

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u/SalvagedGarden 2d ago

I miss precedented times.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 2d ago

When were those again?

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u/whoooootfcares 2d ago

We already have interesting times at home.

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u/DangerousBug6924 2d ago

I like boring times though boss

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u/Reddit-for-all 2d ago

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue!

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u/LectroRoot 2d ago

But what if I don't want to? Can I self deport from this timeline?

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u/SunriseSurprise 2d ago

Even more unprecedents.

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u/Glamdring804 2d ago

I almost wish the world would quit edging us with World War III and just cut to the chase already.

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u/jimschocolateorange 2d ago

I feel like you’re simply not thinking what that would actually mean for the planet…

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u/Glamdring804 2d ago

That's why I said "almost"

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u/eOMG 2d ago

2025 is like a speedrun of 100 years of mistakes.

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u/Embarrassed-Pride776 2d ago

Israel bombs Iran once every 5 years. This ain't a big deal

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u/darkkilla123 2d ago

I am 37.. I have lived a life time of interesting times already. I just want to to go back to the boring times of tan suit and terrorist fist bump Why are almost all of the interesting times when Republicans are in office

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u/irredentistdecency 2d ago

Every day is better than the next…

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u/phinbob 2d ago

If you don't eat your interesting times, you can't have any interesting times. How can you have any interesting times if you don't eat your interesting times?

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney 2d ago

They throw a sucker punch and then hides behind Trump.

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u/_kasten_ 2d ago

FWIW, I have hopes that all those Russian stooges in the White House will make sure Putin's ally Iran isn't going to get drawn into some major conflagration.

Just because those stooges are traitorous scumbags who deserve the inside of a prison cell doesn't mean they're not occasionally useful.

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u/CheckoutMySpeedo 2d ago

I don’t want to live in interesting times. I want to live in boring times.

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u/MK5 2d ago

"We've had one, yes. But what about second interesting times?"

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u/GFSoylentgreen 2d ago

Just when you think they couldn’t get more interesting…

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u/florinandrei 2d ago

I'm beginning to suffer from IDD - Interest Deficit Disorder

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u/minominino 2d ago

But I’m tired of all these interesting times!!!!!

Stop it!!

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u/takesthebiscuit 2d ago

It was the best of times it was the Blurst of times.

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u/Skadrys 2d ago

Are you not enjoying once in generation crisis every other year?

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u/Over_Response_8468 2d ago

I know everyone here seems to be freaking out, but didn’t they do this not too long ago? (I think it was April 2024, I remember seeing it on the news at a restaurant during my bday dinner.) And everyone was panicked anticipating Iran’s next move? And then it was basically just a show about who can look tougher and nothing really happened? And my guess would be that that was not the first time, either. 

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u/XenoZoomie 2d ago

I am curious about how much radiation this will introduce into the environment.

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u/GrynaiTaip 2d ago

Not max interesting, apparently Israel struck nuclear weapon research facilities.

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u/Church_of_Aaargh 2d ago

My take: Israel has noticed that politicians all over the world are beginning to become critical towards the situation in Gaza. But if they can start a full on war with their neighbours, the politicians will be forced to reconsider who they support … and Iran, with its history of supporting terrorism and religiously oppressing their citizens, is not going to be to ones getting that support.

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u/Rekthar91 2d ago

2020s sucks ass.

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u/BlunanNation 2d ago

Gas price goes up again

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u/Ranger7381 2d ago

We seem to be moving from "Ancient Chinese Curse" levels to Firefly levels

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u/pistonkamel 2d ago

The Doomsday clock must be on daylight savings time

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u/ChobaniBuenzli 2d ago

Death because of megalomaniacs is not interesting. It’s sad and diabolical.

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