50 Memes That Shed Light On Our Past And Are Hilarious At The Same Time

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Exactly...Jesus wasn't Anglo-Saxon.

Bill Burr wins

Back in 2017 a muslim girl got on the tram here and a woman walked up yanked off her Hijab and screamed "THIS IS DONALD TRUMP'S AMERICA NOW!". Can you even imagine? That happened here in blue as blue gets Portland Oregon.

And the sun can burn you, like them

I don't want to decapitate any Karens, but maybe just denigrate.

I sat in a parent conference once where the parent was insisting that his son not be taight anything that wasn't in the Bible - IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL - because "unless it's mentioned in the Bible it isn't true." I looked him straight in the eye and asked, "So you're telling me that George Washington didn't exist? He isn't in the Bible. What about cars and airplanes? Those aren't in the Bible either." His facial expression was priceless.

Cancel? No. Tear down memorials to traitors and exploitative colonialists who tortured and killed natives? Absolutely. Because they never should have had memorials erected to them in the first place. Ironically, the folks who are freaking out about the eradication of these monuments are often the same people who rage against teaching history the way it actually happened instead of a sanitized version that glosses over the mistreatment of others.

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What would a conspiracy theorist's mind have made of it if Elvis had been brought out of hiding in 2020 to publicly get the covid vaccination?

Ironically Elon Musk stole Tesla for the original inventor/ owner….

Gotta think about your marketability before you get too involved in a societal cause.

Can we use him to replace all the statues of Robert E. Lee? Yeah? Then I'm all in!

Counts are running countries

1: me spy on brother hiding kandy 2: he leave room

You gotta fight for your right to party

Ahh, the good old days

Roommates, they were roommates.

People find a way to benefit off everything

Now, now!

This is not true btw (and it should be pretty obvious, really). It's all down to one person's error (that in any case was originally constrained to one location in England in the 13th century) that went viral a few years ago, I think actually after the original author had repudiated it. "In 1986 economist Gregory Clark wrote a working paper that (according to citers) contained this estimate. It doesn't appear he published it, but it got cited. He actually did for real publish a new paper in 2018 raising that number up to an estimate of 250-300 days. That's quite a revision!"

Ea Nasir, the most famous seller of lousy copper in history 😁

Operation Dutch Oven?

Funny? Yes. But not funny haha funny weird

I may be a bit of a cynic, but imo that could apply to practically every country in the world.

I hope she did

Richard Gordon is the first source for this story, as told in his 1983 book "Great Medical Disasters". And even he said it took two and a half minutes, not 25 seconds. How is this ridiculous story still getting passed around? Liston was not Ash from The Evil Dead, chainsawing anything that didnt move fast enough

Makes you a little more metal

Meanwhile Australia: "Hey, can we please be independent?" Britain: "Sure, whatever, run along."

When did the US invade India?

It's completely accurate. We will never erase the damage we did to our indigenous people. Our legacy is shame and horror.

Off by about a century or so. This is the Georgian style. The first English people who rolled into America, did so during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabethan, Georgian. Not the same. See for example season 2 of Black Adder vs. Season 3.

That's complicated. The countries liberated by the western allies reestablished the pre war borders and the ones liberated by the Russians were subject to the whims of Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a complete bastard. That's the short version.

This is what gets crazy for me. My Oma was from Sekitsch, Yugoslavia...same as my aunts and uncles, I'm from Western Germany. None of these countries exist anymore. And Sekitsch is pretty much a dead language/dialect now, my dad can speak it but who else knows it. (I know it's not that crazy....but meh).

Missed the Ancient Rome searches

I read somewhere "Ukraine voted for a clown and got a president. The USA meanwhile ..."

Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, Zheng Yi Sao. Had to look up spelling on the last one.

I just love Emilia’s face in the last pic.

The knights who say "Ni!"

ok who farted

Grandpa's cough medicine has multiple uses

If he had a kid at 70, the kid was born in 1860. If this kid had a kid at 70, grand kid would be born in 1930 and would be 94 today. That is plausible. And probably easy to fact check.

But this meme is written using the latin alphabet.

It's like the new flip phone

I could be the tallest man in the world if I had a 5-foot (1.12345-meter) hat too.

Again, THANK YOU BP for saving me from the scary curse word 😨 I was worried /s

Time for a new signature story to share

This is how the Guardians of the Galaxy characters were created

No one is JUST friends I guess

Ow

Unless it helps power that country

There's still time...

When the Millenials of war, atrocities, and mayhem come to my town, this Gen Xer will meet them with a proud "MEH!"

What about Antarctica? Those penguins are a pretty peaceful bunch. 🤔

I thought it was Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer

Babel on

Romans took their time to conquer. Germany did most of it in 2 years and that wasn't enough. No surprise that the rest of world banded together and said 'hold on, that's is not very nice of you'.

Is this the Roman version of 'the trees speak Vietnamese' or 'the snow speaks Finnish'?

Copper plate on the hulls made the British Navy go much faster as no barnacles 🥳

That's actually not bad! Lol

My introduction to politics in the mid '50's was in Mad magazine. that's where I first read of 'Mousy Tongue' and others.

*Millions. The Chinese have fought wars with death totals that dwarf world war two, and most Americans never even heard of them.

We've actually had more than that, Wikipedia lists 7: of those Matilda v Stephen in the early 12th century, Wars of the Roses in the mid 15th, Cromwell v Charles in the 17th, which is sometimes broken down into 3. There's also John v the Barons (leading to Magna Carta) in the 13th, Simon de Montfort...it's debatable which one counts as "major".

I see Wolverine Barbie.

Then they proceed to put together a strike group while servicing the carrier they are assembling the strike group on and showcase some of the most advanced logistics in military history

Tea! Green Jasmine tea.

The Scarlet Pimpernel!