I Believe That Someone's Got A Plan For Me

Hi! I'm Dan and I like politics and the front bottoms and memes!

[meme--dad]

hey what’s up ahaha

[boarofthenorth100]

Get A Load Of This You Little Pansies

[slavery]

The girl reading this eats the buttons off remotes

[horsepowers-deactivated20180314]

god tier barbie movies:

1. barbie in the nutcracker 2. barbie as rapunzel 3. barbie as the princess and the pauper

honorable mention: barbie of swan lake

[gaysun-deactivated20230205]

u fool all barbie movies are god tier!

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

the only biological imperative that humans actually have is to play jazz

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

[emogyptian-deactivated20180909]

yall mind if i

self isolate n die

[kingjaffejoffer]

Top 10 Twitter thread in history

[kansass-deactivated20230224]

being nice is so easy just do it

[safegore-deactivated20190610]

you sound neurotypical

[skineater1998]

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[gramarye]

person: hey be nice it’s easy some jackass on tumblr dot com: um ACTUALLY? some of us are mean and hurtful to COPE :/ you ableist FUCK

[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]

[stephanieruble-deactivated20240]

I thought of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi too. Never underestimate the power of a good book.

[riluu]

Every year in my entire schooling in small town Indiana, we’d start the year studying the revolutionary war. By the end of the year we would reach world war 2. The next year, the cycle would repeat. Every year. Revolutionary war to world war 2. Rinse and repeat.

We never studied the Vietnam War. Korea. No current events. No ancient cultures. No history of other countries. When 9-11 happened I was in high school, and me and my classmates legitimately had no idea who would attack the U.S. or why. We were baffled. Because we were taught our entire lives that America is always the good guy.

History class in America is an utter joke.

[karnythia]

I just had this conversation on twitter with someone who was convinced that slavery is taught properly in US schools. 10 minutes into going back & forth with me (and a bunch of other historians), it was super clear that while she thought she was well educated on the topic she literally didn’t know anything except that slavery happened. She didn’t know how it came to be tied to race, that slaves were considered skilled labor (hence why people from different areas were sent en masse to places with similar crop needs), or that American whiskey is the result of the recipes of enslaved people. And I would bet (based off what she was saying) that she is better educated on the topic than many people that she knows. But she still knew more myths than facts & didn’t actually understand how slavery built the US economy. 

[moved-to-vinegarfield]

the American mindset made me think that America saved my country, the Philippines, from Spain and Japan, the instead of the truth: they promised to help us in the face of fighting of a much stronger power, then lied and cheated us, backstabbed us because we were the “white man’s burden”, because they didnt trust us to govern ourselves. MASSACRED US. shoved us in human zoos, spread chlorea, tortured us for information, SET OUT AN ORDER TO KILL ANY MALE OVER 10. colonized us even though we worked so hard to set ourselves free, made the philippine identity even more muddled with foreign influence then it already was.

and when japan invaded, they did /jackshit/. while they were helping england, they lied to us one again, promising that “reinforcements were coming soon!” my people fell for their fake hope: they put their battle plans with the idea they would have much more people, but it was a lie and they ended up losing a lot more than they wouldve. and the worst thing: the Paris of Asia, our beautiful Manila was reduced to nothing but rubble. without a care for the beautiful cityscape, for the innocent lives who used to thrive there, they recklessly annihilated it.

the us gov’t supported the dictator Marcos, the same dictator who put my nation under martial law, abused the native mindanaons even more that they already were, and took hundreds of billions of dollars from the economy. the reason why my country is so underdeveloped with such a terrible infrastructure, a third world compared to the first world it used to be in the 50s.

yes, the american govt supported it.

of course, i had to conduct the research myself. bc the only place in the history books i could see american imperialism mentioned was one. little. line.

america will always support the destruction of a brown/black country. no matter what.

[pure]

i looked at this really fast and misread it and thought transphobic turtles were on my campus

[meme--dad]

Hey I want to mcfreaking die

[90stvqueen]

mpreg

since no one seems to be happy with lgbt, mogai, or any other acronym or umbrella term, i came up with a new one that i think is gonna cover all our bases:

mpreg = marginalized people of romantic, erotic and gender

[dragonretirement]

hey OP are you open to constructive criticism? 

[boberta]

Bode, as a meme, totally vanished off the face of the earth and I just wanna say I don’t like that one bit. Where are the fat cats??? Fucking robbing me of the content I signed up for, hell bloggers the lot of you

[jennyhoelzer-deactivated2016120]

[carnival-phantasm]

I love when communists and fascists make memes about “centrists” because it’s always the same stupid message that if you don’t adhere to radicalism you just have no political opinions and never thought about anything in your life 

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

I love when centrists think they’re ever relevant in politics when all they do is take the worst policies and water it down a tiny bit

[nilvoid]

https://twitter.com/crushingbort/status/463132110006784000

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[wombshaker]

look at yourself ass naked wit socks and shoes on and tell me it’s not the funniest shit you ever seen