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

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"Big Mo"

Who? What the fuck.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And beefing with television characters

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

H.W. Bush: owned by Bart Simpson

Quayle: owned by Murphy Brown

Wonder why they didn’t get re-elected

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That Dan Quayle card is no Jack Kennedy card

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He was basically Kamala Harris for Gen Xers

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Colin Powell was OP with his anthrax false flag attack.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Children of all ages, yes

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

No baudrillard emote, damn

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Every Westerner a little Eichmann

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

Literally

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can we get each card as an emoji please?

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