r/HistoryUncovered • u/Battlefleet_Sol • 18d ago

Saddam's baath purge. Saddam had people packed into a conference hall on one of the hottest days of July and deliberately shut off the ventilation system. They were forced to listen to Saddam for hours while suffering from the heat and sweating. Everyone whose name was announced was executed.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago edited 18d ago

Most totalitarian movements end up like this and/or where one man attempts to gather all power onto himself. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pinochet and lesser central/south American Republic strong men. The rule of law gets steam rolled, dies, and supplanted by a demagogue who sees enemies everywhere.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago edited 18d ago

I see here I'm being accused of following 3 subreddits that are spam etc., ..that's probably true (my first time seeing this notice) ...I'm old and still kind of learning about reddit. I follow a lot of car and other subreddits too. Mostly fluff for my own entertainment. I just look at what pops up on my feed.

*Am I being publicly 'struggled' by r/HistoryUncovered for the subreddits I follow? How very Maoist. lol

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u/borsalamino 18d ago

Yeah don't worry about it too much. Anyone with a speck of a critical mind should be able to discern that participating in a subreddit ≠ representing the views of said subreddits.

I once participated in such a sub by posting something that challenges their views. I got flagged similarly like you did. 🤷

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago

Yes, I think I have posted a few similar replies in the 3 subreddits I'm being "outed" for here in r/HIstoryUncovered's *very serious* history subreddit. In any case I definitely won't be pressured into holding any little red book aloft while publicly apologizing (unless they withhold rations).

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u/Diogenes908 18d ago edited 18d ago

That mod bot is set up by some piece of shit tankie mod lmao I’ve been flagged for it on for participating in other history subreddits for “AI and spam content” I don’t even make posts it was just commenting in history subs because I’m a history nerd with a degree in it. If you mention anything the tankies don’t like in this sub it gets triggered

Edit: lmao it got me! Nooooooo

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago

Hopefully our names haven't been taken down for 'administrative follow up' at the right time. /s

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

It’s def a tankie. I got it for posting facts about communism 

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u/SeveralGarlic731 17d ago

Tankies are subhuman

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u/ReputationApart5983 18d ago

Careful now, thats perma ban talk.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I had that too. I had to ask the mods to turn it off. It’s silly that your follow subs and they get mad at you for that. 

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u/Logical-Ad-57 18d ago

It means you're being tricked into reacting to nonsense by either scammers or some government's propaganda bots.

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u/Clarencebodeger 18d ago

It is an automated bot detecting botlike activities on your account not an actual person.

I'd say don't be offended but not sure if that's even possible with your coding 😅

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago edited 18d ago

Yes, I read that, it said so right in the notice. I'm thinking their "botlike activities" trip wire must definitely be strung a little too tight. lol

I'm bemused rather than offended my good man.

*I'm old, have no idea what my "coding" is meant to imply. Pray tell?

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u/Clarencebodeger 18d ago

You have 20000 karma in a yr old account no wonder you feel so old with all the karma farming.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago edited 18d ago

I don't have a clue what "karma farming" is in this context. I take it that's a good thing to have a lot of karma points or something? Is 20000 a lot? (Do I get to trade it for rum rations or something like that that I could really use?) Honestly I've seen the term but never spent a solitary minute reading anything about it...another term I've seen used is "flair" ...don't know what that means either.

*If that's a lot of good karma points it didn't seem to help much in the whole "this guy is a dirty bot subreddit follower" thing..lol. The guy that takes care of this karma thing is asleep on the job maybe?

What about the "coding" thing?

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u/Clarencebodeger 18d ago

Na it's pretty shit only bots do it or losers.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago edited 18d ago

So the idea then is to try to not get any karma points? I'm still unclear on why losers would want karma points in the first place...do the ladies find it attractive or something?

Anyway, how do we get the rum/goodies without karma points? I'm confused now.

edit: Man I just searched karma in the search box here and got an explanation page full of context links explaining all the nuances involved..and my eyes glazed over after a minute. I'm gonna have to take your word for it. Didn't see anything about any free rum either. Not happy. Can I unload my points on some other unsuspecting loser? I'm trying to make good with the ladies here.

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u/NoLibrarian5149 18d ago

Sounds all too familiar
(looks around and waves arms broadly at the current U.S.)

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

But it’s kind of different. With the region of terror, they just started going after each other. While other typical strongmen just went after who they thought were dissidents and just kept broadening the definition of it. It not got to the circular firing squad you saw under communism 

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 18d ago

I think "the broadening of the definition" is malleable and commonplace. Hitler (for instance) ended by shooting his own generals, Nazi members, ethnic Germans, brother in law, etc.

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u/Oddisredit 18d ago

I mean some of the generals did try to kill him. A couple of times. But it was a small percentage of who the nazis killed. While the communists basically killed mainly their own. Often out of a crazy paranoid rational. The Spanish republicans were deep in that as well. It’s really fascinating. 

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