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falsedetective

uquiz pitch: which of the CIA’s 638 failed attempts to kill fidel castro are you?

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thebaconsandwichofregret

OP you're amazing and I love you!

#reasons to love tumblr #fidel castro #quiz #uquiz link

falsedetective

uquiz pitch: which of the CIA’s 638 failed attempts to kill fidel castro are you?

falsedetective

you asked for it!

crunchbuttsteak

thebaconsandwichofregret

OP you're amazing and I love you!

#reasons to love tumblr #fidel castro #quiz #uquiz link

etrogim-deactivated20200109

wait….are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldn’t concede to western oil demands….and how that coup was the reason for the shah’s return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorship…..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???

jheselbraum

No. No we don’t know about it.

Americans aren’t told this shit.

The only thing we’re taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) it’s where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. That’s it. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isn’t about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, it’s not important.

Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. It’s not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shah’s return to power, and even then you’d be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: they’re racist as shit) by the time they get there. And it’s almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.

The only reason I knew about it is because there’s a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.

fempunkandkittens

“All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.

rebelcaptain4life

!!!

systlin

I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people it’s insane.

She’s 60. She never heard of this.

As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.

He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods. Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but that’s a side tangent.

And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said “Yeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasn’t surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldn’t they resent us for that?”

And she just looked floored.

“So…” She started, after a few minutes. “What do you think of Trump?”

“I hate him. He’s a coward and he’s going to get good people killed.” He didn’t even blink. “

She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.

“I research things.” I said. “Google is great.” He nodded enthusiastically.

And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, “I didn’t know.”

She lived through it.

American schools don’t teach you any of this sort of thing.

runwithskizzers

kanguin

This extends beyond schools too.

Even our more liberal news outlets don’t discuss current or past events outside the white western world often, and when they do it’s always in a vacuum to context.

For instance, very few Americans know that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is the direct fault of post WWII Allied governments already in colonial control of the region dividing it up against the will of the people already living there, because there are no news sources based in the US who report on that, and our textbooks are produced by a monopolized industry based in Texas, one of the most conservative states in the nation.

We straight up get entirely different versions of Time magazine, a magazine company BASED in the US, than the rest of the world, and thus even those subscribed to get current events summarized get the American Version.

For the average American who went to school and then college and then worked 40 hours until retirement, they have no idea that they live in a bubble that censors the outside world, and there’s almost no way they could know. Until someone rocks the boat, the average American in their daily routine will almost never come across information that would prompt a “hey wait a minute” moment and further research.

This is slowly changing with the internationalization of social media sites like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter, but even those sites have algorithms designed to keep you seeing more of what you like and are already familiar with, and rarely anything shockingly new.

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anarchistpantry

Why am I seeing my young adulthood summarized

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Alternatively...

The extremely Goth family with one normal looking kid.

bobbyhasstardust

Buster Keaton SERVING while serving

The Cook (1918)

anarchistpantry

Omg I have such a crush on Buster Keaton

#buster keaton #black and white #vintage #1920s #silent film #vintage hollywood #buster edit #if you are buster keaton reincarnated pls contact me

radicalgraff

New Year's Revolution poster spotted in Sydney

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

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humans are the same

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bedlamsbard

I’ve seen this one doing the rounds a few times (and it makes me cry every time I see it), but was curious about the original Latin text, so I did some digging: it’s a shortened version of CIL 10, 00659, a tombstone from Salernum (modern Salerno, Italy). (source; CIL is the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum).

Portaui lacrimis madidus te, nostra catella,

Quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.

Ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis oscula mille

Nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.

Tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem

Et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis

Morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam,

Perdidimus quales hei mihi delicias.

Tu, dulcis Patrice, nostras attingere mensas

Consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,

Lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas,

Quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,

Accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter

And here’s my translation:

Wet with tears I have carried you, our little (female) dog, just as I did in happier times fifteen years earlier (lit. “three periods of five years). For myself, Patrice, now you will not give me a thousand kisses nor will you be able to lie lovingly around/against my neck. I have sorrowfully placed you, merit-worthy, in a marble tomb and I have joined you always to myself in death, as by your cleverness you matched a human. Alas, we lost such pleasures for myself! You, sweet Patrice, were accustomed to join us at our table, to beg charmingly for food (while sitting in our) laps. You were in the habit of greedily licking our cups with your tongue, which my hands often held for you. Frequently and joyfully (you) receive a weary one with your (wagging) tail...

tl;dr: this dog was named Patrice and was very, very loved. (another translation with some glossing of the text.)