50 Intellectual Memes That Need You To Know The Historical Context

1929 - Great Depression, for anyone who was wondering.

After the stock market crash, President Hoover thought raising tariffs would be a great idea.

They're even repeating the Smoot-Hawley bs

At the rate we going, they'll know pretty darn soon.

Still repeating history will not give a different outcome..ever

The current regime is doing their best to rewrite history in order to undercut the contributions of women and minorities as well as being more flattering towards people like Nixon.

I always picture that old Adams family movie thanksgiving play 😂 (I’m Aussie) the way they cover it up like it was a fun play date

First of all, they’re not Indians.

Trump admired what China did and American chose to elect hik to lead the nation.

"And good old Chris Columbus discovered America :D "

*scribbles "Family to create in Sims 2..."

And the last thing, what they wanted to be meant, was exactly this.

love wins <3

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"Adopted" beautiful children. Darren and Tarquin didn't "have" beautiful children, they adopted them from a non-religious adoption agency. Just being pedantic

Fun story, but not entirely true. Yes, the word is based on medieval mercenary warriors, but the word itself is much newer: it's from the early 1800s, not from the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages they called them tipendiarii (stipendiarie), soliderii (soldiers) or mercennarius (mercenaries).

Do people not read any more?

ObSeSsEd

Lances are free, but swords are for sale

Free and mercenary seem contradictory.

Hopefully It wont become a trilogy! 😦

But the right side is Great

"Tell what the people on the right side of the Time Hall have won Bob..." "They have won the chance to either die in a world war conflict, or a worldwide flu pandemic!"

Beware of 1912... There could be a Titanic room!

Are you only allowed to "own" him if your name ends in -rwin?

"Owned" - temporary custodian

They didn’t “own” her. She stayed with them.

And remember that Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day: Feb 12, 1809.

So, who's the other's pet?

The average age of an American soldier in the Vietnam war was 19. That means quite a few were 18. They were kids who weren't considered responsible enough to drink alcohol but were (mostly) forced into a war with a country they didn't understand & told to k**l their fellow human beings. If they were lucky enough to make it home, they were then condemned by most of their peers. Oh, and let's not forget those doused in Agent Orange who suffered for the rest of their days with not only mental but physical agony. What a monumental fùck up that entire farce was.