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50 Memes That Shed Light On Our Past And Are Hilarious At The Same Time
Interview With Expert
Did you know that the ancient Romans believed that the blood of gladiators was a possible cure for epilepsy? Maybe you didn’t want to know that, but quite often, all the interesting and weird details from history get buried during quite boring and dusty middle school classes. Fortunately, many have discovered that memes are a wonderful way to actually cover these topics in an engaging way.
The “History In Memes 3” Instagram page shares hilarious and insightful posts about the past. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments section below. We also got in touch with archeologist and historian Ari Akkermans to learn more.
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Andrew Keir 1 year ago
I'm glad I wasn't his commanding officer, though "Capture that hill" "I will but first I have to empty the dungeons along that valley"
Regina Holt 1 year ago
And yet, we still stole land from indigenous peoples. I refuse to call them Native Americans because they were here before there was an America
SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
As a Native American Indian? Can you please clarify your comment? It's not that I'm "uppity" about the subject btw! (Been accused of that before!) Nor do I speak for all Native Americans. It's just that your last sentence reads two ways 🙂
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Altea 1 year ago (edited)
nor was he blond and blue eyed (provided he existed of course...)
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Also Jesus was Jewish. All his followers, the apostles, ALL JEWISH. Christianity happened AFTER he died. Christianity, Islam and Judaism are called the "Abrahamic" Religions for a reason. They all have the same old testament. Sorry I have no dog in this race but I despise hypocrisy.
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 year ago
People are mad with me when I teach to their children (I teach Catholic Religion in Italy) that Jesus went to only one mass and his parents were not married in church...
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
I'm equally amazed by the number of Christians who sincerely believe that Jesus was white, and spoke perfect English
George D 1 year ago
Because perception vs reality in America is something to behold. If you're a grounded individual it'll blow you're mind what people choose to believe, and I'm talking about everything, not just religion.
Gen X Feral 1 year ago
Please send help. I'm about to stick my head in the oven, the idiocy and horseshiit is just too much.
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
LDS claim that Jesus came to North America and that native Americans are “lost tribes of Israel” even though they’re depicted as being white.
lovemy suffolk 1 year ago
LDS aren't Christians by definition. You have to beieve only in the Holy Trinity to he Christian. They acknowledge the Holy Trinity,bit they add a lot of ,-extras'
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
All the conservative and evangelical Christians think Jesus was some strapping Anglo-Saxon with flowing blonde hair, pearly whites, and piercing blue eyes. If you tell them otherwise, they freak out.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
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Load More Replies... Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Tell that to that guy who said something like „If English was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for me!“
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
By hiding years of the vile molestation of altar boys and other scandals. Yet they had the gall to still say that LGBTQIA+ is a sin and that women need to be subservient.
Red PANda (she/they) 1 year ago
As a Christian who was formerly Catholic, I approve this message
Bored Panda got in touch with archaeologist and historian Ari Akkermans to cover parts of history that often go overlooked. After all, the record is mostly made by things that were actually “left behind,” which ignores all the objects and items that were lost to time. So we asked him to give some examples of objects, artifacts, etc that were common in the past but are just not around anymore.
“First, the Kilia idol. Super common in the late Neolithic and Bronze Age, only 15 have been found complete, and thousands of small fragments, I'm one of the few experts in the topic and one of the idols held in Istanbul, bought from an auction, was a central character in my film After Utopia: The Birds, a collaboration with Feleksan Onar at an archaeological museum in Turkey,” he shared.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
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.
Trillian 1 year ago
I think that is why most Trumpers vote for him. Not because they actually believe he will make anything better for them, but bc they want to be able to do things like that without fearing consequences.
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Kris 1 year ago (edited)
I remember a story where there were 2 Muslim women were on a bus in Wales (UK) and speaking in a different language. Some other woman snapped at them and said "this is England, speak English" and another person said "This is Wales, not England and they are speaking Welsh" haha
Petra Schaap 1 year ago
i had to tell an American (in America) that English is not the official language. She got mad.
Dee Rutherford 1 year ago
This person was respecting her religious beliefs. Suppose we were to stand outside a church and grab bibles out of parishioners hands as they headed in. 🤔
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
OMG. People are so stupid and disrespectful and to actually touch that girl. Ohhhhhh no!
Damned_Cat 1 year ago (edited)
I'm imagining him pronouncing it "Plahyn Towst'" like Eliza Doolittle. That would be hilarious.
James Peek 1 year ago (edited)
Languages are fascinating and weird and beautiful to hear/learn. I may not understand most but this is how I feel.
Sylvi Ann Børsheim 1 year ago
And I'm sure she would have spoken only Norwegian, if she went on a vacation to Norway!
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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago
The Aztecs had such an advanced civilization and culture which is why I get so pissed when they’re portrayed as this backward civilization.
Mrs Irish Mom 1 year ago
Aztecs were way ahead of us, they seen stuff we havnt come across yet and maybe wont in this lifetime
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Regina Holt 1 year ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, I love a good corny joke! Yours was a'maize'ing.
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Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
Why are we downvoting James Stevenson? He's right, the Aztecs were religious
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
SA by the Catholic church are real too, what‘s your point?
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Xenia Harley 1 year ago
It was always about the money with the Catholic Church. How much gold was looted from South America all in the name of the church? How many people killed, as a result?
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
True, and the Protestant Revolution (separation of the Roman Catholic Church) was started more or less because of the greed of the church. And centuries of tension before that, but the greed is what influenced people to revolt
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TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
If you decapitate them, they just grow another head and the head grows another Karen. Please do not help them to spawn more.
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Eric Williams 1 year ago
Decapitation will not stop a Karen. She will just grow two heads back.
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Amateurs all. Yanks have taken out more presidents than all of you lot combined and they've only been at it for a couple of centuries.
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Other examples were quite a bit larger. “The Temple of Apollo in Antioch, nothing remains of it,” he shared. “Not because of the 50 earthquakes that rocked the city, most likely destroyed by Christians after it survived many generations.” An important temple in an important, large city, lost to time.
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tresgatos72 1 year ago (edited)
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.
WindySwede 1 year ago
"I use clothes with mixed materials, what's your thought on that? And sat on a chair my menstruating wife sat on"
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james stevenson 1 year ago
Most people don't take everything in the Bible literally. Christians can believe that the dinosaurs existed.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
If you’re a theist, we have a difference of opinion. If you’re a young Earth Christian and believe the universe is 6000 years old, and that dinosaurs roamed the Garden of Eden, you’re a fool.
Terry Tobias 1 year ago
I don't know why, but an image of Eve riding a dinosaur like Lady Godiva just flashed in my mind.
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Symon Riedstra 1 year ago
The galactic year of our milkyway is about 230 million earth years, so at the time of the dinosaurs, earth was about 1/4th galactic year away, which corresponds with approximately 50 thousand lightyears. Yes, that is a distance.
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Anon822209 1 year ago
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.
Freddy M. (He/Him) 1 year ago
All history should be taught, not all history should be honored
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james stevenson 1 year ago
Important side note: Dehumanising bad historical people, e.g. Hitler, isn't actually good either. Hitler did do monstrous things but he himself wasn't a monster, he was a human being. Dehumanising people like him can be dangerous as we come to believe that we as humans are different and incapable of such horrific acts. Truth be told, we are all human, and we need to remember just what human beings are capable of so that we can prevent something like what Hitler did from ever happening again.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago (edited)
I would retort that all real monsters are human beings, and a frighteningly few human beings are not monsters
Load More Replies... james stevenson 1 year ago
Things that happen in the past shouldn't be judged from a modern lens, they must be understood in the context of their time.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
And in the context of their time they can be understood to be horrible and unexcusable, as they were understood to be then.
Load More Replies... Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Oh, it's such a shame Germans don't remember Hitler because there's no statues of him /s
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
There's actually a shrine to him with a statue in it.
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Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
The only way to prevent history from repeating itself is to be informed of the past. We've had two world wars among others.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
The Saratoga Battlefield Monument has four sides, with niches in them, and three of them have statues of Continental officers who played crucial roles in the battle. The third niche is empty. It represents Benedict Arnold, who also played a crucial role in the American victory, but had long since been considered unworthy of a statue by the time the monument was built. At another site, he's memorialized only by a stone boot
Black Cat Green Eyes 1 year ago
You gotta love folks arguing that dead people or their actions are "cancelled" if/when we add the complicated, often disturbing aspects of the past. Meanwhile folks making this 'critique' are often in favor of actually banning mention of LGBTQ people/relationships, racism, etc. in textbooks and teaching . . .
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Phantom Phoenix 1 year ago
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?
Jk 1 year ago
That's obvious... It would be "a conspiracy! Elvis isn't alive, they're only making that up! '
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago (edited)
Look up what happened in 1976 when Legionnaire's Disease appeared. Nobody whined about "rights and FREEDUMBS!", instead they cooperated with track and tracing, with quarantines, etc. People did what the experts asked them to do. They acted like adults. [ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/health/01docs.html ]
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Many conspiracy people are followers of Donald Trump. Maturity does not factor in. Science and statistical evidence is no longer trusted. Only the conman leader is trusted.
Load More Replies... Anywhere but Here 1 year ago
And they’re like, “sure Grandma, let’s get you to bed.”
Load More Replies... María Hermida 1 year ago
In my country, the polio vaccine was not an injection, but some drops on a sugar cube.
ewa 1 year ago
It depends on the level of vaccinated people. As long as there are not many you give the oral vaccine since the vaccinated person sheds ( less dangerous) viruses through bodily fluids, but at one point the risk of getting actual polio through a vaccinate child is higher than the "natural" risk, than it's Switchedto I.m. Vaccination, because there is no risk in shedding virus.
Load More Replies... jamesmcwhirty 1 year ago
ooooh, no wonder he became overweight and got ill and died and blah blah blah blah
Shelley Dawson 1 year ago
And now we the anti-vaxers now who 'don't believe' in vaccines. They don't believe the proof of years and are happy to put their children at risk of terrible, debilitating diseases because they believe social media.
If that sounds bad, you might be surprised to learn that some even important things are also just lost or destroyed. For example, one other lost item is “The tomb of Alexander the Great, although there are many ongoing excavations right now in Egypt to find it, of course under a nationalist viewpoint.”
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Rowan Kohler 1 year ago
OMG finally a meme the literally belt out a laugh so hard I about died lol. I have been re educating anyone that thinks Edison was some great inventor. There is only legitimate proof he ever invented anything for one item. The rest as with Nikola Tesla he stole or cheated someone out of. He was sick used Teslas correct to kill live animals in public to show the dangers AC current like elephants and horses. DC current is actually the dangerous one Edison was promoting and could do very little than cause fires a minimal lighting.
Sa Ruuu 1 year ago
Idk why people are downvoting you. It's an absolute fact that Edison killed animals, most famously, an elephant
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SkippityBoppityBoo 1 year ago
I'm just glad that at least someone invented/discovered electricity!!! 😄
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The Announcer 1 year ago
Gotta think about your marketability before you get too involved in a societal cause.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Too true unfortunately. Even worse in the world of social networks.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
That says less about the NAACP's decision than about how society as a whole reacts. Look at how women are treated after a man rapes them - unless they're a "perfect victim", the woman will be blamed.
james stevenson 1 year ago
This, ladies and gentlemen (And cats and pandas), is the sad truth about society
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Seriously? This is maddening. I was a little girl when the civil rights movement was happening and did know until I learned in school how dangerous it was for black people in some states. I'm white and born in 1961 and knew myself that all of this was just wrong. I remember seeing on the news when Martin Luther King was killed. The Woolworths store in Greensboro NC is only about 45 miles from me. Bi didn't realize until I saw the video last year how bad those kids were treated. It made me sick!!!
Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
Ok, 1st, love love love Claudette Colvin. She's a legitimate badass! BUT she wasn't pregnant at the time she refused to give up her seat!!! That came after. She was shunned by her peers, and, being vulnerable, was preyed upon by a man 10 years her senior. By the time the CASE went to court, she had just given birth only a few weeks (possibly only a few days) prior to giving testimony, that, along, with 4 other African-Americans, is the reason that bus segregation was outlawed. Rosa Parks was the face, but Claudette's testimony was instrumental in desegregating buses. She is a GD legend!!!
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Thank you!!! All the "yeah, but..." and picking the "right face" or "training for the event" drove me crazy. Claudette gets none of what she deserves. She refused to stand and history wants her to disappear because people can know her story and she still gets castigated.
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Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Was unaware of this until the movie "Barbershop"...thanks Cedric (Al).
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RabidChild 1 year ago
Can we use him to replace all the statues of Robert E. Lee? Yeah? Then I'm all in!
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
I am more inclined to leave the statue...with an asterisk on the plaque.
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pineapple87 1 year ago
The Nazi regime only lasted 12 years. Doesn't mean it didn't create lasting damage on that time.
james stevenson 1 year ago
The confederacy doesn't exist anymore but for some reason some people in the southern united states still have confederate flags.
Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
There is a market for just about anything unfortunately.
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David 1 year ago
It is (obviously) about impact on the nation, not existing for X years. The microwave in my kitchen has existed for over 23 years but nobody is making a statue of it.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Maybe look for a more valid comparison than 'on tv'? A few of those killed in "the war between the states" might like to make their opinions heard, at this point. Or don't they count, just because they're dead?
“The original manuscripts of the poetry of Sappho, and most Archaic poetry, including plays by Aescylus, Euripides,etc, a whole lot of literature! Which were lost with the Library of Alexandria among other catastrophes in the ancient world,” he shared with Bored Panda.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Royal families are just overpaid prostitutes, thieves, and murderers. They're paid to have offspring while committing crimes no one else is allowed to get away with.
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago
Alright George RR Martin, if you could just finish your books, that would be great.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
Hehe, I remember Kenny Everett making a version of this but with Margaret Thatcher
Trista JW 1 year ago
I'd gladly take Emperor Nero (someone Frankenstein his a*s back to life!) Over the stupid c*unts that are running here (USA.) Hell, Henry the 8th was a better king than any president that's reigned as long as I've been alive.
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
Henry 8th's reformation parliament had quite the impact on the constitution of the country at the time. He was, very much, the shittiest of husbands of course.
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devotedtodreams 1 year ago
I have heard people say that Switzerland is the biggest wh*re when it comes to money. I daresay that's true (though it's not something one is proud to admit), and I am Swiss.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Be fair, they didn't join in the war. They have the right to stand aside, we don't have the right to criticise them for that. I've always loved their response when a certain nation stated that that nation's army was twice as large as Switzerland's; "then we shoot twice and go home".
Lewis KR 1 year ago
We absolutely do have the right to criticise them for that. Nazi Germany was trying to conquer Europe, abolish everyone's rights and commit a genocide. The Swiss did nothing and were even happy to profit from it. They should be thoroughly criticised.
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Jaya 1 year ago
"when other countries that are close in proximity search for allies" Pretty much every country doesn't become an ally in pretty much every war, unless the other countries are very close. That's not a Swiss thing, every country does that. How many wars in other parts of the world have there been, that your country choose not to get involved in?
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frederick clause 1 year ago
Remember, American freedom is only the freedom to own as many guns as you want. Other aspects of life are severely restricted.
Foffy Skrimshaw 1 year ago
Freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of worship or not ..
Load More Replies... Manana Man 1 year ago
We're just the latest in a long line of worst countries in the world.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
When the yanks "export democracy", they invade a country and remove democracy from it.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
We beat Japan and Germany but we didn't TAKE THEM OVER!!!! Get the difference???
François Carré 1 year ago
Wonder how many people actually figured out Daenerys's journey was an allegory of American foreign politics the whole time.
Magicrat 1 year ago
Where do you think this world would be without the USA. It was terrible for this country to help take down the Nazi regime? WTF is wrong with some of you? Yup Saddam was a great guy other than the millions of people he killed.
der sebbl 1 year ago
So the words 'US intervention' and 'South America' ring any bells?
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This wasn’t even the only bit of language we can no longer access. “Tablets in the languages that preceded Greek, namely Minoan, in the Bronze Age. There's only a couple of inscriptions and the famous Linear A and B, though it might have been written as extensively as Babylonian. The first language Linear A has not been deciphered, the second language, Linear B, has only one fully deciphered text.”
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mSpencer 1 year ago
Making me wanna go back to the days of banishing wannabe leaders to islands
Load More Replies... Andy Frobig 1 year ago
500BC hell. Rhode Island was founded as a colony because Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636 for being a Baptist
CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
Being exiled in those days could be a death sentence, as community was a cornerstone to survival. Other communities would be very suspicious of a lone wanderer, so finding a new tribe wouldn't be easy.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
As recently as 800 years ago, "exposition" was a common method of "birth control" for unwanted children: take an infant out into a forest and leave the child to die. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_exposure ] It was considered "acceptble practice".
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
I.E. The Colonies. Most people don't know that the Puritans didn't come here because they wanted religious freedom, they were basically told to leave England because they were tired of them harassing everyone with their "all fun is sin" message.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Yes.....ya know what else they did? Bought and sold other human beings, and executed anyone who didn't believe in the same made up from the never was that they deemed appropriate. Doesn't really have much to do with the perpetually offended trying to bully the masses into silence whenever they hear something they dislike.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
UMM that is exactly what Trump wants to do in his first month if he wins this year. Exciling 15 MILLION people. That won't go well.
james stevenson 1 year ago (edited)
If re-elected, he will somewhat follow the path of a certain infamous Austrian. (If you look at their lives closely, they are kind of similar)
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The word Ostracise comes from the Greek word ostrakon, When people were or became unpopular, the citizens used to vote on whether or not to have them exiled. These votes were placed on shells, called ostrakon. People are not cancelled, they are ostracised. How admirable that the modern society has regressed so far. Terribly uncivilised.
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GenericPanda09 1 year ago
When I grew up in the 70s here in the UK pretty much every family had an aunt who never married but lived with her 'friend'. How sad they could never just be open about the true nature of those relationships.
Carrie Laughs 1 year ago
Once removed... Patroclus also slept with Achilles wife Deidameia. Sexual mores were very different at the time!
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
But some do it without causing millions to die.
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james stevenson 1 year ago
That reminds me, the only winners in the Vietnam war were North Vietnam and the american economy (war profiteering single-handedly saved the american economy in the 20th century)
SolitaryIntrovert 1 year ago
Politicians and CEOs should be sent to the front lines. Let them get a taste of reality for once.
David 1 year ago (edited)
Well not to mention the 2 million jobs directly tied to the defense industry which is 10% of all us Manufacturing jobs, and about 1 million jobs supported indirectly. This also includes $238 billion in foreign weapons sales. So it is good for US Jobs and manufacturing
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
And freeing slaves, getting people put of torture camos, political prisoners, removing unjust megalomaniacs and giving people back their countries. At least around the time this illustration was made it was.
Walter Bravenboer 1 year ago
Yes, my parents and family were still quite please when they were liberated from the Nazi's. And I think the people in Ukraine would like to live in peace too. So, when someone invades your country, just do nothing then? Fight with sticks?
Load More Replies... SCP 4666 1 year ago
The Ukraine war is good for Rheinmetall. They more than doubled their profits since it started
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
is this clearly cause and effect, or is it coincidence? A fall in the number of pirates in the 17th and 18th centuries closely matches the success of the Industrial revolution, but ...
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 year ago
We've been giving the world a reason to party for centuries. You're welcome, ungrateful former colonies.
tresgatos72 1 year ago (edited)
I would argue that Monty Python and James Bond are far bigger imports.
RedPepper 1 year ago
Agatha Christie is the all time best-selling fiction author. Shakespeare is third best.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Actually the USA's largest export in 2024 is OIL and NATURAL GAS.
james stevenson 1 year ago
And in the wars it was war materials which pretty much allowed america to become what it is today, through war profiteering
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PFD 1 year ago
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!"
Undercover 1 year ago
I never believed this number. Btw, if you own lifestock, there is per se no day "off". At a minimum you have to take care of the animals, and that amounts to easy 3-4 hours of work a day without "extras" like cutting grass, fertilizing the fields, taking care of sick animals, erect and maintain fencing etc.
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Max Fox 1 year ago (edited)
Except that it's not true, because that is only the work that the peasants owed to the landowner. They worked 150 days a year just to pay their rent. They needed to grow their own food on their own time, and also needed to provide water and heat, as well as furniture, and clothes, not to mention upkeep on their home, and taking care of their animals, all in th eother 215 days of the year. so that is pure BS.
Gabriele Alfredo Pini 1 year ago
Sorry, nope. Most of them had to give some work but not so much. In fact the division half/half was a modernity change. You couldn't work on Sundays and in all the major holidays (holy days) that were a lot.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
That really depends on how you define "work". Not a lot of 9-5s back then.
Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago
A peasant might have worked 150 days on his masters land. The rest of the time they worked their own land, made clothes and tools, etc. There were a lot of fasting days and religious observances, but that just meant people worked while hungry
Load More Replies... Jessica Shookhoff 1 year ago
As someone raised Catholic and as someone who bizarrely likes to read about Medieval Nunneries- ya'll they had a LOT of Holy Days (and a lot more naughties than you'd think). That's all I'm saying...
Jeff White 1 year ago
And I'm certain they were PAID holidays, lots of food, clothing, heating supplies (firewood) delivered and brought by everyday. Sorry, but this above concept is stoopid (two o's). Everyone can have 365 holidays a year. Good luck with that.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
No doubt it also includes the sentence "I want to speak to the manager!"
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
The customer is actually speaking to the *owner* of the business. A fragment reads : "How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt." Apparently, it was a dishonest merchant who had done that to others in the past, but the copper was for a temple.
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John Mosley 1 year ago
You know you've f'd up when someone chisels a tablet to tell you about it.
Rabbit Of ill Portent(she/her) 1 year ago
Holy hell I hadn't scrolled all the way down and thought this was shredded wheat -_- I think I should go to bed and try that sleep thing I've been hearing so much about
“Most Byzantine art during the 4th crusade,” he added, was destroyed by crusaders. “A lot of it is in Italy, but mostly has been lost. For such a long and important period, Byzantine art exists in incredibly small amounts, except for coins.”
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james stevenson 1 year ago
I've always called this particular type the "Dutch muffin". It's like a Dutch oven but, you get the idea
Load More Replies... Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago
Norwegian resitance fighters also probably prevented Nazi Germany from winning the war by sabotaging their nuclear weapons program. Without it the Nazis probably would have gotten the bomb first and that would have derailed the allied war effort. So huge thanks to those few Norwegians on skis
Shaunn Munn 1 year ago
Ya do what ya can. Only so much a u-boat can accomplish when the crew is jammed in the heads. Yay Norway!
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
In the 1950s, the yanks intentionally "redlined" to prevent Black people from owning homes, forcing nearly all Black people to be lifelong renters. They did it because home ownership is how wealth accumulation begins (how families get rich, saving and investing money that used to be paid in rent or mortgage). Then the yanks intentionally made property tax the source of school funding - rich neighborhoods get good schools, poor neighborhoods get underfunded schools. It was intentional racism and classism.
B Jean the Jelly Bean 1 year ago
It's not free but....it doesn't coat what we have to pay... Not even close to what we pay!!
Load More Replies... Virgil Blue 1 year ago
It's not a free system but a distributed one really. Everyone pays in a relative low amount and the far fewer people who get sick (and this might be you) get most of their costs refunded. As long as those costs are reasonable.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
And now we have a Presidential candidate who actively wants the Russians to win ...
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Hey! You just revealed the Republican party's new method for dealing with people who disagree.
Graham_Illegal 1 year ago
What is particularly Marxist about it? In other developed countries, even conservative parties support universal healthcare. Being against it is considered crazy and radical everywhere else.
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Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
I may be a bit of a cynic, but imo that could apply to practically every country in the world.
Isabel Galvez 1 year ago
Actually, in that sketch they're playing German soldiers. "That Mitchell and Webb Look".
Andy Cran 1 year ago
was hoping someone would notice,I put sir digby chicken Caesar salad on the case 😉
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R1MV4Superleggera 1 year ago
And there's this unbelievable stupid individual, with orange skin, in the American Continent who try to imitate Hitler! And don't get me started about his supporters
Shelley Dawson 1 year ago
It's amazing to see just how much was achieved against to many by such a small island.
Remember, in most cases, the things that survive are made from strong, durable materials. “Many of the marble and stone idols we have from the Paleolithic and Neolithic existed in cheaper versions in wood that we assume the poor mass produced and bought (like the Kilia idol or the Neolithic Mother Goddesses). But wood doesn't survive well, the oxidation process eats it up, few examples exist, sometimes preserved in water or in caves,” he shared.
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Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Claudette Colvin wasn't an unwed pregnant teen when she refused.
Load More Replies... Teachzebra 1 year ago
She was only 42 when she refused to give up her seat on the bus. She purposely made herself up to look much older than that. It was not a spontaneous act. She planned to get arrested. By looking like a lot of people’s grandmother she drew a lot of sympathy because it was, and still is, considered extremely poor social skills for a man to not give up their seat for an old lady who needs it. Making her get up and arresting her for it was much worse. And got the attention to the cause the NAACP was looking for.
Leah Wilson-Walls 1 year ago
Absolutely true and it's great ur sharing the real facts...crappy that the NAACP went to these lengths and belittled the 1st girl, but possibly necessary for the safety and well-being of many ppl at the time...I'm just glad we've moved closer to ppl getting along...and wanna say what Rosa Parks did may have been glorified for something it was, but she was still courageous and actively helping her ppl progress 🥰
Load More Replies... CrunChewy McSandybutt 1 year ago
Rosa Parks was rather poor at the end of her life. Somehow the owner of Little Caesar's Pizza, Mike Illich, found out and he paid her rent for the last 11 years of her life.
David 1 year ago
I'm still alive. Which is not a flex - I'm nobody special. But living in the times we live in now, sometimes it blows my mind to remember I was alive during much of this. The bus incident was a few years before my time but some of the Jim Crow laws were still in effect when I was a baby / young boy. I grew up in a not racist state and open minded family so I never personally witnessed the jim crow stuff. When it was covered in school it felt more like "history". I was an adult when I realized, "Holy c**p! A lot of that BS was happening in my lifetime. I know racism still exists in some places (with various races of people doing it). But it's shameful that it used to be the law of the land.
smolspeedycats 1 year ago
My whole perception of reality was shattered when I was informed there was a Shrek 5
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Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago (edited)
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
WindySwede 1 year ago
*never trust a BP post fully without sources* thanks for the update.
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DC and S 1 year ago (edited)
1 - He tried to operate as quickly as possible because there was no anesthesia, sedation or anything like that. He wasn't a reckless show boater; he genuinely wanted to make patients suffer for as little time as possible. 2- it's a story that has never been verified. Likely a gross exaggeration or a complete fiction.
Anna Stephenson 1 year ago
The fact that it was a spectator that died of shock and not the assistant who accidentally got his fingers chopped off! Lol
Lester the Space Duck 1 year ago
Medieval knights performed amputations faster than that, and they also had a high mortality rate!
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Natty Tempest 1 year ago
He's gone beyond metal and is dancing between punk and techno... Either way, it involves so many d***s that they need to keep him away from open flames...
Load More Replies... Interestingly, this even happened in the past. “The 7th century Archaic Greek city of Sybaris, in Calabria, southern Italy, is buried underneath an aquifer, and although the site is known, it cannot be excavated, the site will flood with water within minutes. I worked at the site with a team of artists last year. It was already lost in the 4th century BCE.” If you want to see more of Ari’s work, check out his Instagram and Linktree.
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Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Meanwhile Australia: "Hey, can we please be independent?" Britain: "Sure, whatever, run along."
james stevenson 1 year ago
Technically it was a revolution because america was still part of the British empire at that point
Regina Holt 1 year ago
And america never repaid its debt to France, contributing to major problems in France.
Papa 1 year ago (edited)
No. That was during the War of 1812 (maybe it's called something else by the British?). There was no capital to burn when the Revolutionary War was fought.
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Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
Not exactly. In 1971 when Bangladesh was fighting with India for independence, the US mobilised the 7th Fleet, along with ~ 3 battalions of Marines, to the Bay of Bengal with orders to engage the Indian Army and "free" Bangladesh.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
The yanks invade countries and put up sham "trials" but the yanks also refuse to sign onto the International Criminal Court. Because the yanks know they are criminals.
Historyherstory (old guy) 1 year ago
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joann fielding 1 year ago
Don't forget Hawaii! The US government sent actual troops to support the overthrow of the native rulers. :(
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Don't forget-- Alex Keeton wanted to invade Canada.
David Green 1 year ago
This is such a short list, says the Brit. I think we are now on the wrong side of 170.
alex_with_adhd 1 year ago
FORGOT THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION (very much unsuccessful and part of Cuba)
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
Now, imagine a world...the current world, without the U.S...with Russia, China, and N.K. being B.F.F.'s...and only NATO, absent the U.S.A., to defend us...no thanks...that isn't a world I want to live in.
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Megalicious 1 year ago
It's completely accurate. We will never erase the damage we did to our indigenous people. Our legacy is shame and horror.
Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 1 year ago (edited)
During WWII the Canadian Army was in charge of the successful military campaigns to liberate Netherlands from the German occupation. As well, we hosted the Dutch royal family during their exile. My favourite bit of trivia: Princess Maigret was born during this exile, so the Canadian government formally made the area around the Queens birthing bed Dutch territory. After her birth, Netherlands ceded that land back to Canada.
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Great Aunt Kate 1 year ago
Why is acknowledging that a deed/law/generally held belief etc become a personal affront? The whole point is to recognise a past injustice and strive to better it. I’m an Aussie and as a nation we have and still do awful acts to the original owners of this land. As an Aussie, our nation has been the recipient of awful acts as well. Acknowledge, learn and strive to do better. I think it’s that simple but………
Edison Lima 1 year ago
Because, during WW2, it was the Canadians who liberated the Netherlands from a "certain" group of German occupiers, and more than "just" that, they fed and treated the locals.
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Zoey Rayne 1 year ago
For anyone interested, the miniseries Dear Flora is an excellent depiction of Canada's history with indigenous people.
Jnausicaa 1 year ago
I remember watching that when it came out. It still hurts. (Haida-Tlingit)
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
We really didn't scrub our history books the way Americans did/do. I remember learning how we exploited Chinese to build our railway, the Japanese interment in WWII, the terrible things we allowed the Catholics to do to Native Americans, just to name a few.
Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
I've learned about all those same things in the US. Used the Chinese to build railways in San Francisco. Japanese internment camps. Killed off the Natives with small pox. Slavery. Slavery is for sure taught in school. As are the Japanese internment camps and the railway. Not sure where I learned about the smallpox but I would not be surprised if it was taught in schools now. America is just such a s**t show. We have so much currently going on to be embarrassed about that we don't have the time to linger on past shame. We create fresh new shame every day.
Load More Replies...The truth is that without archaeologists taking steps to find and preserve these things, much would be lost. We tend to think of historical artifacts as being hidden in some tombs, but realistically, most were household items that just ended up being thrown out. Tombs, incidentally, are “great” because no one is looting them (for the most part.) It’s important to keep these ideas in mind when thinking about the past. We know a lot about things that are still around, but our minds tend to not fill in the blanks effectively. Picture a medieval street? How colorful is it? Because, in reality, most people would have colored clothes, and yet the concept seems so weird in our eyes. This is probably why memes can do a lot of work to teach people about the past.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
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.
Isabel Galvez 1 year ago (edited)
That's not how Spanish / Italian / Portuguese sailors looked like back then...
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Apparently when the first white people showed up here in Australia, some of the locals thought they were the souls of the dead. And yeah, I can definitely see that.
boredkoala 1 year ago
I can't imagine suddenly seeing a bunch of people with a different skin color than everyone you've ever known 🤯
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The Starsong Princess 1 year ago (edited)
Unless he arrived by Tardis, Columbus looked nothing like this. This is a mid 18th century look, not a late 15th century one.
BrunoVI 1 year ago
The meme isn't wrong entirely, just because that's a face no sailor would've worn. Europeans had beards. And of course, there's their complexion. And curly or light-colored hair. Imagine being a European and seeing someone's entire face covered in green fur, and this is how off this must've seemed. I mean, yeah, native Western Hempishere folks can get a little facial hair, but still...
Pink Princess 1 year ago
That's not what they looked like in 1492. That's what they looked like in the 18th century
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
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.
María Hermida 1 year ago
The best summary of Russian history I've ever read.
Load More Replies... greenideas 1 year ago
Yep. Germany got the Marshall Plan and Poland got robbed by Stalin. We're still a little bitter about that one...
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Czechoslovakia had been annexed by the Germans before any bullets flew. They were a little less happy to join the Reich than the Austrians were, but both were part of Germany at the start of the war
David 1 year ago
I don't know what the real situation was but guy in white looks like guy in yellow just ripped a loud, nasty fart.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
Guy in white is mad that guy in yellow gets an EMBROIDERED Big Sky Daddy Club hat XD
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Little known fact - if you define 'winning a war' as 'gaining territory', then USSR (CCCP if you're fussy) is the only country that 'won' WWII.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
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).
Amy S 1 year ago
I think it's crazy, and I think that people who say there won't be another war with western nations don't know their history.
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AussieTolkein 1 year ago
I overheard a kid say the other day "My mum's Croatian and my dad's Serbian..."
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
This is why I laugh about these stories about partners looking through their significant others phone in the Google search history... And I think, man. Someone were to look up my search history? They wouldn't find any evidence of cheating or red flags but they sure as hell would wonder whats going through my head with the stuff I'm looking up. It's so eclectic!
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I have a habit of going down rabbit holes if I'm watching television, oh thermite? Let's deep dive that, now I know how to make bombs, oh something else...
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Mary Green 1 year ago
If my partner dared to violate my privacy by looking through my phone, they would no longer be my partner. But if I did cheat, which I wouldn't because it's despicable, I'd definitely have a burner phone I'd keep well hidden. How stupid are people to keep compromising information on their primary phone? Smh.
james stevenson 1 year ago
She missed the bit where I was trying to figure out how to steal some of the German "Wunderwaffe" for museums. (And because driving around in a Maus would be epic)
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Ti Al 1 year ago
I read somewhere "Ukraine voted for a clown and got a president. The USA meanwhile ..."
tresgatos72 1 year ago (edited)
At least Zelensky was a talented entertainer. The US has a former president who is an ex-reality tv show host and is now a convicted felon.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
There was a quote about Zelensky in 2022: "He was a comedian who became a leader in an age where leaders everywhere became clowns. What a fkcuing champion."
pineapple87 1 year ago
He also played the president in a comedy before running for actual president
Aspiring Canuck 1 year ago
Servant of the People. Netflix made it available when the war started.
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james stevenson 1 year ago
Yeah, this is just a temporary thing until he can find work
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
I've actually known this since he was elected. Also Ronald Reagan was a cowboy in the movies.
michael conrad 1 year ago
Reagan was also in a movie called Bedtime for Bonzo
Load More Replies... VisualHowlaroundTitleSequence 1 year ago
You could have left off the "m" in "many" and also would have been correct.
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nm (he/him) 1 year ago
The predictions were saying that he would catch the first chopper available to escape. However, he proved that is carrying a heavy pair of bronze ones.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Pocahontas, Zheng Yi Sao. Had to look up spelling on the last one.
Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
Jeanne D'Arc was my choice of Saint for my Confirmation name.
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Kaa 1 year ago
I am a woman, and I try to be extra witty, smart and strong around my crush. And I have a huge crush on him. No need to play weak I think
Sparky4 1 year ago
That's what drew me to my wife. Integrity, hard work, great personality. And good looks was the kicker!
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Kabuki Kitsune 1 year ago
Pocahontas was about 12 when she first met the white men, and then was taken back to England. Once there, she fully assimilated into English culture, and never returned to England.
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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago
I wonder if that Is the moment Kit Harrington reads Jon Snow is going to sleep with his auntie?
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james stevenson 1 year ago
The terms of the Treaty of Versailles was one of the main reasons that the Germans followed Hitler, they felt like they had been punished way too much and they wanted to make Germany great again.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Well, if the Allies had done better after WWI, there wouldn’t have been a WWII with the same country. What we did so very differently after WWII was to help rebuild instead of abandon. The abandonment of a decimated Germany to build itself back after WWI bred resentment on top of the poverty and starvation, which is a perfect breeding ground for someone like Hitler to find a really good scapegoat to blame, and end up winning an election even though the career politicians laughed at him. Doesn’t that last part sound kinda familiar?
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago (edited)
Erm....ever heard of the Berlin Wall...East Germany...the Cold War...?
Load More Replies... nm (he/him) 1 year ago
And the world faced the consequences of Allies' foolishness 20 years after.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Germany got over it (mainly because of WW2), but Hungary is still b!tching about it.
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james stevenson 1 year ago (edited)
"Ecke ecke ecke FFTANG zoowam *incoherent mumbe* Ni!"
Load More Replies... Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
The siege of Troy was 9 years. I guess they cut some bits out for the movie.
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Lavern Defazio 1 year ago
The smell. All cramped up in there all hot and sweaty. And you just know they didn't take any bath before getting into that thing. Although they were at a seashore if my schoolin' serves me right.
Cyndi Hafele 1 year ago
I'd be more concerned about heat and darkness and the poop and the pee and the vomit and the body odors of 40 sweaty men.
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Ether wasn't used as an anaesthetic until 1846, and both manufacturing and transporting it was difficult. Alcohol was easier to use during war.
John Nelson 1 year ago
Ether was available at the time, but reserved for wounded officers. Even then it was often in short supply, as logistics on both sides was a mess. A bottle of whiskey was usually able to be scrounged up. If nothing else, hit Grant up for a bottle! :)
Babynursemissy 1 year ago
I was so nervous about getting my crown (the prep part) that my dentist gave me a shot of bourbon (not cheap bourbon either!) before he started (with Novacaine of course). I ❤️ my dentist 😁
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Bored Seb 1 year ago
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.
Elena Witch 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler?wprov=sfla1 One left and he's pushing 100
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I_need_a_nap. 1 year ago
Just did some research, sadly, one of the grandchildren died in 2020. Still one living grandchild though!
Michelle C 1 year ago
One of his grandchildren is still alive: Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who was born in 1928.
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Vanessa Panerosa 1 year ago (edited)
Alphabet: A Greek word that’s literally just saying their Alphabet(a) , Gamma, Delta, Epsilon. . .
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james stevenson 1 year ago
People only actually care so much about what the British did and the thing they have from other countries because the British are still around. Nobody really cares too much about the Romans stealing stuff from Greece, or Gaul (now France).
Just_for_this 1 year ago
Can you imagine the riots over Christianity if the Egyptians were still about.
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Karina 1 year ago
English is a bastard language, written in the latin alphabet.This meme fails basic history on every count
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
And written long after the Roman Empire ceased to exist. The question is as stupid as the one about cavemen and dinosaurs.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Why did Latin dominate the ancient world and last 1000 years? Not because the Romans had a better society, language or culture. They lasted because they had technology that made spreading violence easier and were used in society. The same now, the yanks and limeys didn't dominate the last two hundred years because of "superiority" the dominated because of technlogy. (See also: all European "empires" of the 12th-18th century, and technology.)
Kenneth Barns 1 year ago
"[They] didn't dominate the last 200 years because of 'superiority'; they dominated because of technology." Yeah: technological superiority. (Which was probably related to social, cultural, and economic ways-of-being that promoted developing a technological superiority ...) Of course, technological superiority =/= moral superiority.
Load More Replies... tresgatos72 1 year ago
Because nobody speaks Latin anymore- it's a DEAD language. And the Roman Empire collapsed in 476 CE
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
Meanwhile China was inventing gunpowder and the first firearms.
R1MV4Superleggera 1 year ago
I wonder, where they stole that technology? We all know that, that country is the best in doing that
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 1 year ago
If Europe hadn't known about the Chinese crossbow, then they both invented it. Like the Chinese and the Italians both invented boiled dough strings
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Ancient Rome knew how to make amazing concrete. Then the whole technique was lost for centuries until we reinvented it. But theirs was still better.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Well the European ones were better. but like OP says, it was much later.
Tom Hutcherson 1 year ago
Cool. The crossbow was invented in China and Europe sometime between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. The earliest known crossbows were made in China as early as the 7th century BC, and the first recorded use of crossbows in Chinese warfare was at the Battle of Ma Ling in 341 BCE. The Chinese crossbow was a key weapon in the Warring States period and the Han dynasty, and by 209 BCE the Chinese army had 50,000 crossbowmen. Crossbows were also used in Greece as early as the 1st century AD, where they were called gastraphetes.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Go read the history of mathematics. Nearly every mathematical discovery before 1500 came out of India, China, or the Middle East, but was renamed after a white person, or the human name was removed (described by what it does). Many things attributed to Europeans (e.g. Euclid, Pythagoras, etc.) were known hundreds or thousands of years earlier in Asia. [ https://www.tkim.graphics/ERASURE/Confronting_Euro_Centrism.pdf ]
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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago
I could be the tallest man in the world if I had a 5-foot (1.12345-meter) hat too.
Professional Bastard 1 year ago
Boggis, Buntz and Beans One fat, one short, one lean these three terrible crooks, so different in looks where all as equally mean
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
They left out the skinniest. Maybe he's the photographer.
Basko 1 year ago
He is in the picture as well, standing with his back to us. Veery skinny, easy to miss.
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DudeFortitude (He/Him) 1 year ago (edited)
Again, THANK YOU BP for saving me from the scary curse word 😨 I was worried /s
Spittnimage 1 year ago
They're just trying to look out for people's tender feewings.
Load More Replies... Teutonic Disaster 1 year ago
And now the Party of Nixon™ has re-nominated a dude who would do that while sober, just out of whimsy. But with South Korea (because he has a hard-on for the dictator of North Korea). And NOT cancel it.
R1MV4Superleggera 1 year ago
A lot of people, worldwide, were worried that, he was tweeting, all the time, using the briefcase with the codes for the nuclear launching missiles
Load More Replies... TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago
According to snopes.com, there is not enough evidence to determine if this claim is true or not. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-korea-richard-nixon-nuclear/
Mike F 1 year ago
Leave THAT for the people who have to deal with them. Even 13+ years sober I can't imagine the amount of alcohol it would take to deal with a guy like Ted Cruz.
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Auntriarch 1 year ago
If a chap had said it to me on a first date there would definitely have been a second one. Unless my story about parrot smuggling didn't go down well
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setsuriseikou 1 year ago
They: *tells me the story* Me: wait, weren't pants concidered barbarian clothing back then so the Romans didn't wear any? We: *proceed to discuss ancient fashion trends*
Natty Tempest 1 year ago
Ghengis Kahn or Atilla the Hun (sorry, forget which) died of a nosebleed when they were drunk.
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Andy Cran 1 year ago
makes one wonder if the Donald was an unwilling civilian "volunteer" 🤔
Load More Replies... Tom Hutcherson 1 year ago
Project MKUltra was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify d***s that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. It began in 1953 and was halted in 1973. MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects' mental states and brain functions, such as the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive d***s (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects' consent, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.
james stevenson 1 year ago
Wow! The CIA was drugging people? Not surprising, is there anything they won't do?
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Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
Sometimes you’re just glad to meet someone you can talk to who gets you,without wanting to have s*x.
Ashlie Benson 1 year ago
Gay men should embrace this more. Oh, a well-known important history-shaping man had close friends? Of course he was fabulous, you think a straight could pull that off? Thank a gay for the end of slavery slogans, oh it would be awesome. I want to see an Abe in drag.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
A geniunely had a student who asked me how the soldier who wore that died. I answered that he died from an iron overdose.
Arkham Wohlfert 1 year ago
Is it just me seeing things, or does it look like the cuirass is shaped for a bit of a beer belly? I'm not judging if it is, I rather like the idea of dad-bod armor. Some for me please!
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
Came looking for a comment that acknowledges that!
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Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Most power plants follow the rule "We get the power, you get the pollution"
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Nevid 1 year ago (edited)
The first Chooz power plant was a joint Franco-Belgian project built along the river making the border and it powered Belgium as much as it did France. The second Chooz power plant (the first was dismantled) was a French project only, but it also does power the Belgian part the same as before, and the Belgian administration gets a say in most of the plant's management. There's nothing crappy there, it's neighbour cooperation.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
This is because the border follows a river and ALL power plants, nuclear, non-nuclear, whatever need water. Power plants make steam, steam needs water. Nothing nefarious going on.
John Mosley 1 year ago
So the entire border between them is a river and they chose that spot. Still seems shady to me.
Load More Replies... Saint_Zipcodus 1 year ago
Same concept as with Swiss nuclear power plants along the Swiss-German border
John Nelson 1 year ago
There is a safer and cleaner nuclear power plant design that isn't used, as it cannot be used to easily create nuclear weapons. Check out thorium reactors.
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HI, I'M A SHOUTY MAN 1 year ago
I'M MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS, NO RICH MAN COULD EVER SURPASS US, WANTED PEOPLE TO SAY I WAS BRAVE, BUT LOST MY FIRST FIGHT AND HID IN A CAVE
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Fun fact, that's the origin of the phrase "parting gift". Parthians were the ones who killed Crassus. They also shot their arrows over their shoulder, when retreating.
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Parthian shot, anyway. Parting gift is a gift when you're, er , parting
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Jeffy B is a distant second at this point. I mean not that it really matters since almost all of his "wealth" is in the form of STOCK.. Even if he wanted to sell off every single stock he owns, he can't due to regulatory rules, and even if he could the value of the stock would plummet long before he sold off even a portion. It's a meaningless number, widely reported so as to direct the outrage of the masses at a meaningless target. No affordable health care, the US education system is an oxymoron at this point, minimum wage hasn't changed in decades, there's a housing crisis, a huge chunk of the american job market has been outsourced, the air is toxic, we're living through a mass extinction, science and free speech are being disregarded in favor of the feelings of the few....but why pay attention to any of that? "Everyone, quick, look at the rich guy"
Regina Holt 1 year ago
ooooh, let's start a GoFundMe page to raise funds to change that question mark to a check mark!
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kansasmagic 1 year ago
When the Millenials of war, atrocities, and mayhem come to my town, this Gen Xer will meet them with a proud "MEH!"
Jeremy James 1 year ago
Ah, yes. The infamous Three Millenials of the Apocalypse.
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Pandora 1 year ago
I was born in 1981, which technically makes me the first of the Millenials. But I was raised as a Gen Xer. So I call myself a, Xennial.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
The Bible tells me that the "bad guys" were, in fact, the Christians, who did a lot of wiping out of entire peoples/races/religions/you name it.
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JB 1 year ago
The Welsh invaded England several times. Not just to reclaim sovereignty or territory that the English had occupied but also in attempts to make Wales the sovereign country.
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XenoMurph 1 year ago
I'd like to say Ireland, only defending itself against oppressive invaders, but a lot of the Irish joined the English army, so...
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Me Oh My (He/They) 1 year ago
Fun fact! It was Caesar Cardini, an Italian-American chef who had started a restaurant in Mexico to escape Prohibition.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
That's the name of the street I grew up on XD NO ONE believed me whenever I had to give my address as "Nimrod Drive".
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Liklik Snek 1 year ago (edited)
Shower thought: If the tower of babel was built to be closer to heaven, are church towers basically giving heaven the middle finger for its demise?
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
The acceptable explanation is that they point towards heaven. The actual explanation probably had more to do with "my god's middle finger or appendage of choice is bigger than yours".
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 1 year ago
The tower of Babel probably only got to about 20 feet tall when construction stopped. No one could understand the job foreman. And all the workers were immigrants as they are the only people that would do the back breaking labor.
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Francois 1 year ago
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'.
MrLiesegang 1 year ago
You've got it wrong. Roman Empire ≠ Holy Roman Empire.
Load More Replies... Andrew Keir 1 year ago
Like the way the "Democratic People's Republic of , Blah" ends up being neither democratic, a republic or run by the people; the Holy Roman Empire was described later as "Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" by Voltaire
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The Holy Roman Empire wasn't holy, Roman, or an empire. It was secular, chiefly German, and mostly a collection of city states.
james stevenson 1 year ago
Technically the "Thousand Year Reich" was the dream, not the reality
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Russell Tilling 1 year ago
Copper plate on the hulls made the British Navy go much faster as no barnacles 🥳
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
English commanders had 2 options: Win the battle and gain money and fame or loose it and then court-martialed and hanged.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
They never found them again so they most likely died in that escape. That was teh Mythbusters conclusion at least.
Libstak 1 year ago
The point of escaping is to disappear, not to get found, just saying.
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CanadianaKa 1 year ago
I've seen them in real life. Through the bars six feet away, they look good enough to pass, especially in the dark.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
This is a great lesson for any kid who wants to sneak out at night, or run away.
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Jane Alexander 1 year ago
My introduction to politics in the mid '50's was in Mad magazine. that's where I first read of 'Mousy Tongue' and others.
SCamp 1 year ago
When I first became aware of Mao’s existence in the mid 70s, I only had seen his name in print, never said, so I thought it was pronounced (seriously) ‘Mayo Tessie Tongue’ 😂
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
*Millions. The Chinese have fought wars with death totals that dwarf world war two, and most Americans never even heard of them.
Manana Man 1 year ago
Huge death tolls, but not that huge. Biggest was the Qing dynasty conquest of the MIng dynasty with an estimated 25 million casualties. WW2: at least 50 million deaths as direct result of the war and estimated 20-30 million more from war related disease and famine. Staggering numbers really.
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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
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".
Spencer's slave no longer 1 year ago
Yes but the UK has had queens too and has public toilets older than the USA so there's really no comparison. And it's made up of 3 whole countries + Northern Ireland, the USA is one country.
KatZen 1 year ago
How could they leave out the queens? Especially since the queens were some of the most effective/consequential rulers.
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Kathy Sinclair 2 weeks ago
If I remember correctly, in 1812 Canadians burned down the White House in some war. I'm too tired to Google,
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Only if you are in America. Are you in America by any chance?
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Phantom Phoenix 1 year ago
Body - Wolverine Barbie. Head - someone named Chad
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Black Cat Green Eyes 1 year ago
When your AI image forgets that knees exist (not that the rest is plausible)
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Mark 1 year ago
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
nm (he/him) 1 year ago
Argentinian junta reached a stalemate and decided for a military adventure. It didn't end well for them.
martin734 1 year ago
No, it is the Little John character from Walt Disney's Robin Hood. All of the characters were portrayed by animals. Robin and Marian were foxes, Little John was a bear and King John was a lion.
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Steve 1 year ago
Not to the Falkland islanders - try reading up on your history
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james stevenson 1 year ago
I thought it was just a "happy meal" not a "McHappy meal" they add "Mc" to McFricking McEverything
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panther 1 year ago
They seek him here, they seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? Or is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel!
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JB 1 year ago
Er, no. There’s several possible reasons for his death. A jousting injury when he was 44, led to permanent suppurating ulcers (infection/sepsis). He suffered chronic lung inflammations and was almost certainly victim of an STD for which there was no effective treatment at the time. Morbid obesity will have contributed but food consumption is unlikely to have been the primary cause.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 1 year ago
We know exactly what a present day face shot of Henry VIII would look like - a skull.
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Oh he invaded it just fine; it was leaving he had trouble with.
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BrunoVI 1 year ago
The Olympics are in Paris, and the food is so bad that people are turning to the BRITISH to smuggle food from their chefs.
james stevenson 1 year ago
How is it worse that it's the British? They are pretty close by.
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LeftEyedAsmodeus 1 year ago
It wasnt just the nazis, pervitin was produced till 1988
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Michael MacKinnon 1 year ago
"He habitually wears an expression as if he had determined to drive his head through a brick wall, and was about to do it. I have much confidence in him." (Colonel Theodore Lyman, Staff Officer, Army of the Potomac).
Scott Sawyer 1 year ago
McClellan, first union General... relieved for being too slow to come into battle... generally "waiting to be more prepared".... of course, versus Grant, um, like we're not even remotely ready but what the hell, let's go... hey look, we win...
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
This! I still maintain that the Viet Nam war was used primarily to eradicate the American counter culture hippie youth. The hippie movement threatened Nixon's and Johnson's ability to maintain the stagnant stifling status quo of a militaristic materialistic society devoid of empathy for those suffering.
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james stevenson 1 year ago
What do those animals mean anyway? I've been wondering ever since I first saw them.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The donkey stands for the Democratic party, and the elephant for the Republican party.
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Spannermonkey 1 year ago
"the most horrid enormities of the people"?? So 2-party politics causes obesity? *thinks about American education system*....yeah, ok. As you were.
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Andrew Keir 1 year ago
What would they do with ideas? They have four words of Spartan Greek and a 'grab' reflex
Load More Replies... james stevenson 1 year ago
Great, a guy and his wife protecting their front lawn from a protest with ATGMs? Yeah, why not?
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
The second amendment, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." It doesn't say Bob can have RPGs just because he wants. But what do I know.
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michael reid 1 year ago
It's the gigachad guy. Can't remember his name but he's not photoshopped
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
They went to bed when the sun went down because there were no lights, so of course they got up when the sun came up.
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Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
If the meme makes one want to know more (and then go and find out more) , it's not entirely useless.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
No, but it's the book they go to that teaches history, not the meme.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Most of this needs fact checking, please do not consider yourselves informed based off memes
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
The ignorant don't want to read because they're lazy. But if you can shock them into realizing a fact, maybe they'll go look it up.
Tom Hutcherson 1 year ago
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but espe
Ariom Dahl 1 year ago
If the meme makes one want to know more (and then go and find out more) , it's not entirely useless.
XenoMurph 1 year ago
No, but it's the book they go to that teaches history, not the meme.
Load More Replies... Crouching hippo hidden panda 1 year ago
Most of this needs fact checking, please do not consider yourselves informed based off memes
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
The ignorant don't want to read because they're lazy. But if you can shock them into realizing a fact, maybe they'll go look it up.
Tom Hutcherson 1 year ago
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but espe
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