# Iiandyiiii is pitted
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 24, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360 "2026-09-24T22:10:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/61 "2026-09-26T22:24:59Z")
I don’t think that’s a good idea. 😉
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/62 "2026-09-26T22:26:14Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> A dumb old man who refuses to adapt his thinking to present circumstances and new facts. Typical dumbfuck warmonger.
Such an insult from such a poster as WC should be seen as a compliment.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/63 "2026-09-26T22:30:15Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I even nominated him as a possibility for Mod when we added @ParallelLines instead.
That’s pretty cool!
If you can’t give me the ignore list, can you give me the mod vote count for my nomination?
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/64 "2026-09-26T22:31:12Z")
> [@Atamasama](#):
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> Such an insult from such a poster as WC should be seen as a compliment.
Indeed! That warmongers think I suck gives me a warm feeling deep in my soul.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/65 "2026-09-26T22:33:33Z")
Oh, I think everyone was against it. 😅
Seriously, why ask questions like that?
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/66 "2026-09-26T22:34:12Z")
Because it’s funny?
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/67 "2026-09-26T22:34:19Z")
Fair.
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/68 "2026-09-26T22:39:42Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Of course, @iiandyiiii is barely ignored and doesn’t even make the top 50 list.
Well now I want to see the list too
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### Author:  [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/69 "2026-09-26T22:53:43Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Says the guy who thinks it was a _good thing_ that Trump and Hegseth started a war with no strategy, no mission, and no plan, even after it’s tanked the US and world economy and solidified the Iranian regime’s rule and control of the Strait of Hormuz for the forseeable future.
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> You’re a dumbfuck. A dumbfuck warmonger who lives in the long-past. Everyone with half a brain can see that this war has been a catastrophe and made the US look like the biggest chumps in the world. We _lost the war to Iran_. No matter how much Trump/Hegseth propaganda that you swallow, these facts won’t change.
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> A dumb old man who refuses to adapt his thinking to present circumstances and new facts. Typical dumbfuck warmonger.
I never expected Trump, Hegseth, etc to be competent in this war. As I mentioned in another thread that you responded to, my hope was both the Iranian and Trump administrations would both be weakened by this war. Trump looks incompetent and gas prices are up, which hopefully means the GOP loses the midterms and this administration is hamstrung by congress for the next 2 years.
Meanwhile in Iran they’ve lost a lot of their military power and hopefully their domestic oppression tools have gotten weaker too. They’ve also hopefully helped build a regional coalition against them. You can call it wishful thinking, but what’s happening now is just a battle in a longer term war against Iran.
What is your ideal solution to all of this? If you could go back in time to 2022 how would you handle all of what has happened in the middle east?
Also how old do you think I am, and how old are you?
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Indeed! That warmongers think I suck gives me a warm feeling deep in my soul.
I don’t think you suck. I just think you’re dumb, but you’re too dumb and loud to understand that you’re dumb.
You think I’m evil and I think you’re dumb. Tomato, tomato
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/70 "2026-09-26T22:59:34Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> Meanwhile in Iran they’ve lost a lot of their military power and hopefully their domestic oppression tools have gotten weaker too. They’ve also hopefully helped build a regional coalition against them. You can call it wishful thinking, but what’s happening now is just a battle in a longer term war against Iran.
Their military power is perhaps a little depleted, but so is ours. Their domestic power, meanwhile, has skyrocketed, and their international economic power is significantly increased.
Part of the tragedy of this is that, prior to Trump’s idiocy, the Iranian people were just possibly moving towards throwing off their oppressors. But now, thanks to our ineptness, there’s no chance of that for another generation.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/71 "2026-09-26T23:02:43Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> What is your ideal solution to all of this? If you could go back in time to 2022 how would you handle all of what has happened in the middle east?
I don’t have a “solution”, except _don’t_ start a war when there’s no serious threat to us. Don’t end a nuclear deal that was working, for no reason at all. Don’t start a war with a country for which we have extensive wargames demonstrating that it would likely be able to hold out and extract massive economic pain were we to attack. Especially, don’t start a war with _no mission and no plan_.
Plus what @Chronos said. We’re both weaker militarily, but Iran’s international reputation has skyrocketed, while ours is even worse than before. The world now sees Iran as the little David that beat the Goliath of the US, and we handed them that reputation, as well as control over the Strait indefinitely.
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### Author:  [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/72 "2026-09-26T23:06:31Z")
> [@Horatius](#):
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> now I have to Pit you for having a barcode as a name.
Wave of the future, comrade. Or did you not care if you can vote?
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/73 "2026-09-26T23:09:08Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> It was a real horror during the Vietnam era when the draft was in effect.
Mostly for the Vietnamese though, right? That’s gotta be kinda the point.
I also sometimes wonder if the reason Vietnam veterans talk about feeling betrayed is because it’s our own national “stab in the back” myth. That and the POW/MIA fetish.
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### Author:  [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/74 "2026-09-26T23:11:31Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> I don’t think you suck. I just think you’re dumb, but you’re too dumb and loud to understand that you’re dumb.
I think you are a miserable, joyless, unimaginative fuckstick, and your avatar is fucking perfect.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/75 "2026-09-26T23:16:09Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> > [@wolfpup](#):
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> > It was a real horror during the Vietnam era when the draft was in effect.
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> Mostly for the Vietnamese though, right?
It was a horror for the Vietnamese, but not only for them. Tell that to the 58,318 grieving loved ones whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. And while some have variously blamed Kennedy, Johnson, McNamara, and Nixon for this tragic shitshow, America’s inherently hegemonistic and militaristic culture transcended and empowered all of them.
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### Author:  [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/76 "2026-09-26T23:51:38Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> doesn’t even make the top 50 list.
From the absolute lack of responses to all my witty posts, I assume I’m at the top of that list! Thinking of changing my username to Casper.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/77 "2026-09-27T00:35:04Z")
I checked it came back as TILT.
Weird.
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### Author:  [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/78 "2026-09-27T00:50:22Z")
I’m busy looking into the parallel (heh) world where @iiandyiiii is the one having to bite back pithy insults all the time to be fair and rational, and I get to rant or climb on my soapbox instead…
Nah, I think I’m too used to trying to play devil’s advocate.
I don’t always _agree_ with iiandyiiii, but I’m glad they’re the person they are, even if they sometimes make work for me. And pretty little at that.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/79 "2026-09-27T01:01:02Z")
Thanks very much for it kind words! I love you all. Well, almost all…
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### Author:  [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2026, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iiandyiiii-is-pitted/1033360/80 "2026-09-27T01:34:41Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> I even nominated him as a possibility for Mod when we added @ParallelLines instead. This despite being fairly left of me.
Strange. For some reason I always thought one had to request the job of modding.
All I know is that my own sensibilities were so vastly misaligned with the mods in this place for a good decade or more (suffice to say, I had GREAT umbrage to how the board gauged free speech by how permissive racist fuckers were allowed to spam the worst 4chan neo-nazi shit here) that this fundamental core value of mine would’ve barred me from any mod discussion (unless it was to make an example of me for “reacting too strongly”).
Meh, different times under different rules, I guess. I haven’t been triggered by fly-by “race-realist” klannies in ages now.
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