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Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

"Big Mo"

Who? What the fuck.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

The USS Missouri was known as Big Mo, apparently. I guess the guy in the pic was on that ship idk shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Could also be that they call him that for short since his name is Mubarak.

He's from the Kuwaiti Air Force. He gets a mention in this WaPo article:

https://archive.is/C0ORN

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

As a kid I never knew who Dan Quail was except that his name was used for the lowest rank in Civilization II. I never usually scored higher than this.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I remember that, pretty solid burn from the usually lib Civilization series.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Back in the 90's libs still had a few bones left in their spines

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

The severity of the Civilization series's global warming effects got less severe as global warming became more politicized.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Most fampusly known for cirrecting a child's spelling at a spelling bee to "Potatoe"

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

And beefing with television characters

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

H.W. Bush: owned by Bart Simpson

Quayle: owned by Murphy Brown

Wonder why they didn’t get re-elected

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

He was basically Kamala Harris for Gen Xers

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

That Dan Quayle card is no Jack Kennedy card

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Colin Powell was OP with his anthrax false flag attack.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

This is an earlier version, they introduced that buff in 2003.

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

You can debuff him with Gulf War Syndrome, it stacks. It's balanced if you play right, just saying.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

I feel like the actual demo for this kind of shit back then was like retired enlisted, that after spending 20 years on military bases, eating powdered eggs, handing out socks and inventorying laundry detergent, don't really know what to do with themselves or their days, so they buy shit like this, curate it, and keep it in a memorabilia area of the room their wife isn't allowed to clean.

[-] DerEwigeAtheist@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

This is an extremly fascinating piece of nedia, I only ever knew these for the football world coup, or the like. Did they sell these to children?

[-] btfod@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

Children of all ages, yes

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago
[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Verhoven media are just documentaries from a slightly different timeline that leaked into our reality.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

My brother, last I checked, still has two mint Saddam Hussein cards.

[-] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 6 months ago

Had a box of these. Collected them ironically. Carpet bombing was the fav but so many choice propaganda pieces to choose from. Wow this takes me back

[-] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

I had a Stormin Norman card...but, as any MTG fan knows, Storm is OP

[-] WELCOMETHRILLHO@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

The Extended Perfect (Desert) Storm.

Playing against Mind’s Desire back in the day was one of the most demoralizing experiences I’ve ever had, and I’ve been playing competitively since ~Planeshift.

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

No baudrillard emote, damn

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard explores how the media spectacle took over and became "the war" as much as the real war.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Every Westerner a little Eichmann

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Wonder how many kids cried after getting the Dan Quayle card.

Literally

[-] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Can we get each card as an emoji please?

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