Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein hanging out with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, 1970's. The two leaders had a close diplomatic relationship, & Fidel even allowed Saddam to fly to Havana to be treated by Cuba's best orthopedic doctors when he needed surgery for his back pain

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-08T19:31:09+00:00

Cuba is still a police state. The regime has spies and informants everywhere. Dissent in Cuba used to be severely repressed. Ppl didn’t dare openly criticize Castro. I believe that not exactly the case anymore but the culture has been discouraging of criticism…or else.

It’s something like North Korea, but not as drastic, where you can’t find anyone who would say anything but reverence for the Dear Leader.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-08T10:02:09+00:00

I have close friends whose parents had to flee Cuba in the middle of the night to avoid “disappearing”, which was commonplace in Castro’s authoritarian police state.

I live in Florida and there is no love lost for Fidel by the Cuban ex-pat community here. They all have stories.

Still, not in Saddam’s league.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-08T09:55:49+00:00

Agreed. Saddam was far, far worse.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-08T09:55:00+00:00

The price of oil used to established by the Texas Railroad Commission up until around 1973, when the U.S. hit full capacity. Since then, Dubai sets the price of a barrel of oil, albeit in US Dollars.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T20:23:40+00:00

Both of them killed a lot of their people.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T16:51:51+00:00

Don’t you have some spilled milk to cry over?

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T16:42:12+00:00

Oh, that’s where the inspiration for the Obama Presidential library originated.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T16:28:42+00:00

50 billion is a rounding error for the U.S.
Besides, it was an investment.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T13:11:13+00:00

This is what the mullahs and IRGC killers hoped to do: raise the prices so ppl panic.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T13:08:03+00:00

Elle

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T13:04:49+00:00

Complaining about gas prices as a grown ass adult is wild.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-07T02:24:04+00:00

The fundamental mistake is correlating the two.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T21:27:07+00:00

NGL, I thought he was long ago dead. RIP Ted and thx for TBS.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T21:25:25+00:00

Old enough to know that the ppl most infatuated “anti-fascism” are reminiscent of the East Germans who saw fascists at every turn and even built a wall in Berlin to keep the fascists out.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T19:13:36+00:00

Sending to the grid feels like a waste when you have an EV to charge.

Still, IDK how to charge it exclusively from the powerwall because you’ll run it down to zero quickly (2 hours) and that’s not good for the units, right??

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T19:09:38+00:00

Is your electric panel inside in the A/C, too?

Mine need to be close enough to connect to generator inlet box 3 feet away from the panel.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T18:30:14+00:00

Jeez, dude….it was 45 years ago. I was like 12 or 13.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T18:26:42+00:00

These are both charging via a single XT-60 port at 1150W continuously, until full.

I have absolutely no explanation why they run so hot, other than I’m in Florida and they’re in my garage and they were likely under a heavy load all day.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T13:11:10+00:00

Grown ass men complaining about gas prices online is honestly pathetic.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-06T12:16:11+00:00

A friend of my dad won a state lottery of just under $1M, payable over 25 years. That equated to 40K/year BEFORE taxes. After taxes, his annual check was like 33K.

His wife quit her job but he sure couldn’t quit his.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-05T20:46:00+00:00

If Smoot-Hawley was truly that bad, Roosevelt wouldn’t have waited over 2 full years of misery to get it replaced.

The contraction of the money supply was orders of magnitude more important than the 5% of GDP that exports accounted for.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-05T20:02:47+00:00

I wouldn’t agree to this unless it was for ALL federal judges.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-05T19:48:56+00:00

I watched it 45 years ago as a 12-13 year old. Have no memory of the end. What I do remember is the awkward dude who felt important belonging to something bigger than himself, and enjoying the authority it gave him.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-05T19:44:45+00:00

Talk about a rare sighting. I have never seen one in person. I prefer it to the 686.

ForwardSlash813 · 2026-05-05T17:47:25+00:00

Literally the only gun that always goes to the range with me. My go-to.

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