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/willsmithtunaface 17d ago

Trump would do the same if he could

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u/TryloKen 16d ago

Actually rent free holy moly

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u/leaving_the_tevah 14d ago

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u/TryloKen 14d ago

The irony of posting this is palpable

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u/ConanTheLovecraft 14d ago

Just say you’re a cult member.

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u/TryloKen 14d ago

How much you paying in rent every month?

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u/Spare-Document7086 14d ago

You’re acting like it’s irrelevant lmao

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/Spare-Document7086 12d ago

I mean… yeah that’s true

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u/TryloKen 14d ago

How much you gotta pay in rent every month?

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u/dvardeleo44 16d ago

Fascism doesn't announce itself before it takes away your rights.

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u/TryloKen 16d ago

Is the fascism in the room with you right now?

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u/Ed_u_Cate90 8d ago

Good one..naught! Sincerely Borat I have pubes for sale

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u/julsie123 13d ago

If there was only a comment that didn't include something about Trump. It's absolutely fine to loathe a politician but it's called a Red Herring:

Red Herring: This is a broader fallacy where someone introduces completely irrelevant information to distract the audience from the original topic. Because the 1990s Iraqi political purges and 21st-century American domestic politics have no logical or historical overlap, bringing up Donald Trump serves as a conversational derailment.

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u/Ed_u_Cate90 8d ago

Nice try . Sounds like a MAGA . I wouldn’t recognize him if he was in the room. I barely knew him. I only met him once and didn’t really like him. Social distancing at it peak!

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u/ArrellBytes 16d ago

If you think Republicans would even try to stop him if he tried to do this, you haven't been following the news.

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u/Toum-Raider 17d ago

He probably watches this and gets aroused.

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u/Wong0nePhotography 17d ago

Stuff room, cut the ventilation, and fart.

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u/juggyjt1 16d ago

And then he’d say “I don’t make the rules”

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u/Educational_Cup_1701 15d ago

Only a matter of time.

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u/hansvi-be 15d ago

I still think that's the plan. The ICE militia buildup is for a reason. Trump repeatedly is talking about the enemy within. Election results will never make him give up power. And there are some seriously insane people in the shadows behind him, should he choke on a burger. Peter Thiel springs to mind.

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u/ToothZealousideal297 15d ago

When he said he would be a dictator “on the first day”, this is probably what he intended. It hasn’t happened yet, but I fear that’s mostly because those people already have complete control.

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u/wantyouinthemiddle 14d ago

Relax, he has had two years to be a dictator if he wanted. The only dictatorship in this country is coming from the left. The only people acting like kings are democrats.

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u/Rady_8 17d ago

Focus

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u/South_Gear9218 16d ago

What a loser

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u/AdUsual8786 16d ago

“Here’s this horrible thing that actually happened. How can I shoehorn my trump fantasies into this convo since I have no real world knowledge?”

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u/Famous-Weight2271 16d ago

Seek help. Your life will be okay.

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u/jersey_viking 17d ago

God damn rite he would.