Meat Sword

Hey, I'm Max. History, absurdism and memes. I'm the world's largest slut for obscure military uniforms. I also cook a lot, so there's that. You should ask me about Zouaves.

[watermelonjeager-deactivated201]

This is an important message that needs to get out to Markiplier!

There is a gang war in LA. The first gang to get to 100 kills, gets to take over that part of the city. You NEED to be careful, Mark. You could be at high risk because of your high status. PLEASE be safe, everyone in or around LA, and please reblog this to get it to the youtubers in LA.

I just worry about their safety.

markiplier stay safe! <3

[exit-delete-deactivated20220301]

Please stay safe markimoo (

markiplier

) We are all very concerned for you and other youtubers! Someone tag all of the grumps!!!

[thominyourside]

9 Year Anniversary of the LA Gang War that threatened Markiplier’s life

[mandycore420]

It’s been a decade since an LA Gang War has threatened Markiplier’s life

[spacesea-sprout]

hello, i have read "Roadside Picnic" and i cannot stop thinking about it

what if your home tried to kill you every single time you came back, and all the horrible things it brings out of you and other people warps you into something you never wanted to be, and despite crawling around to survive like an animal for years and years you still wished for happiness for everyone, because then what is it all for

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[theonion]

It's actually happening. Via Global Tetrahedron CEO Bryce Tetraeder

[theonion]

It's actually happening. Via Global Tetrahedron CEO Bryce Tetraeder

[ayeforscotland]

Saying that nobody in America is doing anything about trump is a huge slap in the fucking face to us BIPOC who haven't had a day's rest since the election. You're lucky you don't know what it's like to live under a regime that wants you dead, but there are so many of us working tirelessly for any small victory.

To be blunt here, people’s sympathy towards Americans is withering if not gone entirely. You get extra attention because US culture dominates the internet. BIPOC everywhere get a shit time because the US doesn’t have a monopoly on racism.

It is not a slap in the face to say nobody in America has done anything about Trump because he’s still very much in power.

Your leader was threatening to wipe out a civilisation, and all we get from the weak as fuck opposition, half of which probably love the idea of destroying Iran anyway, is a couple of signatures to maybe consider an impeachment.

[demilypyro]

Sometimes as a European you play an American game and even though you speak fluent English and culturally there's not too much different you can Tell you're missing some kind of cultural context

I had no fucking clue what a mormon was when I played the New Vegas DLCs

[demilypyro]

This post is not an invitation for you all to explain mormonism to me I am fine not knowing about this

[propalahramota]

I can't put this in tags like a normal person because apparently Tumblr no longer lets you do long tags which is dumb and I hate it but ok. Long time ago when I was but a wee 14 years old kid living in a sleepy town in Northern Ukraine, one day my bestie told me: hey, have you heard about this new English speaking club at the city library? They say it's run by two guys that came here on a mission all the way from America. And I was like: what mission? And she told me they were supposed to be Mormons. I didn't believe her. I was convinced she was fucking with me because at the time I didn't think that Mormons were real. I honestly thought they were fictional and only existed as a gag in South Park. And then a couple of days later those two missioners actually showed up to our English class to promote their little conversion club. Those poor men stood in front of a bunch of 14 years old and told us they were Mormon and several of my classmates said: wait, Mormon? Like in South Park?, and from their pained expressions you could clearly tell that it wasn't the first time they had been asked that here.

[fedorathexplorer]

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

[chrownox]

Impart me in your wisdom of ancient times

[fedorathexplorer]

one time there was a tumblr user with the url “pizza” and she would just comment on any text post about pizza saying “omg that’s me” and then we found out she had an entire tag dedicated to saying the n word

[thetyrannosaur]

One time somebody paid $750 for the url ‘hi’ and got deleted in less than a year for promoting weight loss scams

[bathykolpian]

There’s always been something deeply wrong with this place.

[superwholock]

too much to document, but god damn we can try

[whereserpentswalk]

Seeing that this was from 2019 is like how ancient Egypt had people who studied even more ancient versions of Egypt.

[ripstefano]

A Zouave (1856–62) Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)

I always liked the appearance of the French Zouave, I also always found it funny that America copying French light infantry tactics had Americans cosplaying French who were cosplaying Algerians.

[nevver]

Apocalypse soon, Oleg Vdovenko (soon)

[thedreadvampy]

Whenever America starts a war with a nuclear power everyone starts yelling about WW3 and it's only just occurred to me that when Americans say 'WW3' they are at least partially expressing an anxiety that this time their government's blind aggression might have hit somebody who'll actually hit back.

I was gonna say 'like WW2' but then rapidly remembered that neither of the existing world wars involved like. much of any direct damage to civilian populations either because America's eternal wars haven't touched its own soil since like the 1860s. except for Pearl Harbour, which was literally One Attack in the whole of WW2 (and which was also primarily targeting a military base. and was in a colonized nation far from the mainland USA). I am not kidding if you look up 'attacks on American soil' every single thing since 1900 except individual attacks (Pearl Harbour and 9/11, basically plus a couple of border skirmishes with Mexico) is like 'America was attacked In The Gulf States' or 'America was attacked In Asia'. like mate where is the US? you can't count attacks on military bases as 'attacks on US soil' unless you need to bulk out the list which. look at the history.

Like imo one of the reasons the US is so comfortable being leisurely belligerent against Literally Any Country In The World is that it's been literally well over a century since the fight actually came to them. why WOULD the US government stop being blindly aggressive when the only costs are financial?

and instead of being primarily concerned about like. the actual thousands of people who are actually gonna die in these strikes. every time the US's unprovoked aggression hits a nuclear state of a state with a measure of international heft, the loudest concern from Americans is OH NO WHAT IF THIS ONE'S WW3

because. war is so abstract and foreign. because it's spent 150 years constantly happening Over There and only involving Americans who are in the military. foreign wars don't register as a threat because they're NOT a threat to Americans (the only Real People) and the way in which they're frightening is the abstract possibility that the other party might at some point bring America actually into the war. which has basically never happened so it's this vast unknown threat.

(the UK btw is also not immune to this but it's a wee bit different. our economy was permanently crippled by direct damage in WW2 and the Irish republicans got a lot of hits in so there's still some memory that War Has Consequences. but by and large we still approach war as something that Happens Elsewhere and are scandalised by the idea it might directly affect us at home. this is still a fairly abstracted and fictionalised threat to us which we treat as More Worrying than the actual bombings currently happening, but I just don't think it's as completely abstracted as the American relationship to foreign wars)

[ralfmaximus]

The Black Tom explosion in 1916 was a German terrorist attack on US soil and resulted in 7 deaths, hundreds of injuries, about half a billion dollars in adjusted damages, and complete annihilation of an island in New Jersey.

Also, WWII was a nuclear war.

[thedreadvampy]

SEVEN. SEVEN DEATHS. A CENTURY AGO. is the 'war has come to US soil' you wanted to pull?

Preliminary figures today (4 March) is 787 Iranians killed since 28 February. so forgive me if I say you're proving my point pretty effectively.

similarly yes you are correct WWII was a nuclear war. so far the only one. a war in which the US made the decision to kill over 200,000 people Over There on a different continent and then spent the next 80 years making sure nobody else would be able to either retaliate or do anything similar. And the American (and Western) relationship to nuclear arms remains primarily not 'Jesus Christ I cannot believe America killed close to a quarter of a million people in a civilian centre with one set of orders' but 'oh noooooo what if this means we have to mitigate our aggression in case they do something like this BACK TO US'.

so. again. my point. war in the American cultural imagination remains an abstract thing that THEY do to OTHER PEOPLE where the concept of any enemy action reaching people in civilian centres is so completely abstracted it just becomes a boogeyman and apparently we should still be talking about the 7 American civilians that were killed in a war that claimed in the region of 6-13 million civilian lives in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Seven. Fuck me. I thought I was being needlessly shitty when I wrote this post but you have really helped clarify that this actually is how warped American perspectives on civilian casualties are.

[wiz-kaleb]

BATTLETECH TACTICAL MANUAL

[girlnephew]

[env0]

[dogpuppy]

[teratocrat]

there's no cock anymore no ones getting dicked down ever again they just announced that the last cock was found and sucked by a fisherman in argentina

[nationwidedornermoment]

[garaks-padded-bra]

A BIRD POOPED ON MY HEAD ON THE WAY TO WORK.

[do-not-fold-spindle-or-mutilate]

HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIRD WAS ON THE WAY TO WORK?

[garaks-padded-bra]

DONT MAKE ME ANGRIER THAN I AM

[2242706]

BWAAAAHHHHH wake the fuck up everyone on earth