#false history

[lizardsfromspace]

I've looped around from finding the belief that The Wizard of Oz was "the first color film" or "first technicolor film" understandable if wrong to finding it deeply annoying

Like. I get how it feels true - how the transition from sepia to technicolor in the film feels epochal, and how it's a springboard to people imagining how AMAZING and how AWESTRUCK audiences must've been at the time, but it just isn't the case, and no one in 1939 would've thought it was the first color film.

I mean, you've probably seen Snow White (1937) and Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). At the time color features were becoming more common, and they had been common in cartoons and shorts for years.

On a base level, if The Wizard of Oz was such a monumental moment in film history, giving people something they've never seen before, why did it only break even at the box office? By all accounts while not a flop it did decently but not great, and it only became a Cherished Classic thanks to TV airings later on. I mean, 1939 saw what is still, if adjusted for inflation, the highest grossing film ever made, and it wasn't The Wizard of Oz

Here is the actual history of color: most silent films were tinted, most commonly with different scenes being all tinted different colors, but more rarely hand-coloring. But back then people started experimenting with many different "true" color film systems, most of which failed for one reason or another, and there were a couple silent features made in two-strip technicolor, which had a more limited palette. At the start of the sound era, some black & white scenes would have color segments; this stage has been largely forgotten bc in many cases, the color segments don't survive & we only have them in black and white. Then three-strip technicolor began and became the dominant form of color until the late 1950s, with the first full-length three-strip technicolor film being 1935's classic...Becky Sharp. Which did decently, and got one Oscar nom for Best Actress, but didn't really become a classic. And then color films became more common until they became the norm in the 1960s

But it has to be a classic, right? It can't just be some random movie that ushered in technicolor. It has to be a famous movie everyone's heard of. It can't have been a gradual process touched by many individual artists, it has to be something one Great Man ushered in overnight, and the crowds were amazed, bc they had just been waiting for someone to Do Color Film so they could ditch black & white forever. It couldn't have been the case that they rejected many previous attempts at color film bc they sucked. Nothing can ever be the result of many people making many choices in many works of art, it has to be the work of one Great Work of Art that Changed Everything Instantly, and all the little people and failed experiments and less-enduring ones just have to be erased to make way

But it isn't. The transition from sepia to color in The Wizard of Oz did dazzle audiences, and still does, but that's because it's a incredibly well-done visual effect and a creative choice within the story to show the change from Kansas to Oz. We don't have to say it was important bc it was the first to do something technologically; it can be important for just being a really good movie

[viv-hollande]

You seem like a decent person with admirable goals and values, but after seeing some of your recent comments, I felt the need to set the record straight and educate you. (I am also sorry if my English is not good; I did not grow up speaking it).

The most major issue that I need to help you with is the entire Zionist narrative that they use to justify their settler-colonialism. I do not blame most of the Zionists, as it is what they were taught by their rabbis and they do not know any better, but I know better than to try to tell them the truth of what actually happened in Palestine all of those hundreds of years ago. But hopefully you will be willing to listen and learn.

The truth is that the Jews claim that they are the original tribe and religion that received a prophet from Allah, but this is only half-true at best. Ibrahim did receive the full revelation of Islam from Allah, as did his son Ismail. However, later Jewish leaders secretly changed and edited what they had been given by Allah for their own purposes, and thus corrupted and distorted the revelations given to them. Allah was upset by this, and continued to send prophets to try to correct them, including Isa ibn Maryam, who you call Jesus, who the Jews killed for challenging them and trying to bring them properly back to Allah. This is why Allah turned to Mohammad ﷺ as his final prophet, in order to correct the teachings that had been distorted by the Jews over centuries and bring the whole world back to Him.

Several Jewish tribes knew that a prophet of Allah was coming before the birth of Mohammad ﷺ, and had settled in Arabia beforehand, and when they encountered him, they recognized him as the one they had been waiting for, and swore to be his enemy for as long as they lived, while mocking and belittling him. Mohammad ﷺ was kinder than them, and when he defeated them in battle after a betrayal, he showed kindness and mercy upon the women and children who had not attempted to betray him, even taking one of them as his wife in order to show unity and peace, even after another Jewish woman attempted to assassinate him via poison! Truly, Peace Be Unto Him and his mercy.

As Mohammad ﷺ continued to spread his revelations from Allah, many recognized the truth within them and returned to Islam. Among these included the Jews of Palestine, who returned as a group, and took the name "Palestinians" to commemorate this, handing down their identity through the generations. Other Jews elsewhere in Muslim lands were more stubborn, but were recognized as People of the Book and given a protected status, where they would be free to follow their ways, however edited they were, in exchange for a modest additional tax, with the Christians there being likewise given the same protection. For centuries, this state of harmonious peace lasted under the auspices of Allah, only to be shattered by the European powers carving up the Arab lands between them a century ago.

As part of that, for some reason that I don't understand, a number of Christians in Europe decided to convert to Judaism over the centuries. These White European Jews later created the myth that they were descended from the ancient Jews, which is impossible as those people all returned and became the Palestinians when Allah's revelations reached them. From what I do understand, this myth was created by a group of these European Jews, the Zionists, in order to create a colony of their own during the height of European colonialism, and convinced the British and the other European powers to give the land to them in order to displace and replace the Palestinians, so that they would have a permanent colonial presence in the region covered over with a false justification.

The Zionists, however, betrayed the British and declared independence. Some people I know have suggested that such betrayal is a part of the Jewish religion, with their own Tawrat showing several such cases of the people they claim as ancestors engaging in deceit and betrayal. I find myself more skeptical about such claims, even if it would explain a lot of things, such as how they managed to convince so many Europeans to convert, or their claims about their importance to the world, or even the entire basis of Zionism itself, where they are trying to displace and genocide the actual descendants of the ancient Jewish tribes and claim their place, with concocted and transparently false archeological and genetic evidence to back up their narrative.

I hope that this helps you understand who you are deciding to help and speak out for--they are not victims, but victimizers, and their claims of being 'indigenous' and 'decolonization' are absurd and insulting, and I hope that you see that now.

Ho–ly—shit.

I hope to god you're a troll or bot. I don't even know how to respond to this. I thank you, I guess, for… just… laying it all out there. It's rare to see triple-distilled, 200-proof, 100% pure antisemitism. I would go through and debunk all of… that, but I don't care and also have college work to do, so I'm just going to tag @spot-the-antisemitism and let anyone who dares do the debunking for me.

[secondstar09]

Trump: “The FBI secretly planted 274 agents to stage Jan 6!”

Translation: “It couldn’t have been my people, even though they filmed themselves doing it.”

Receipts check:

1,200+ charges: All MAGA supporters, not FBI actors.

Proud Boys & Oath Keepers leaders: Convicted of seditious conspiracy—that’s literally plotting to overthrow the government.

Court records: Defendants testified they went because “Trump told us to.”

Violence tally: 140 officers injured, millions in damages, gallows built, Congress evacuated.

If this was an “FBI hoax,” the FBI sure did a suspiciously good job handing out Trump flags, MAGA merch, and GoPros to the rioters.

Let’s be clear: looting a Target = conservatives scream “anarchy.” Storming the Capitol with gallows = “Great American Patriots.”

It wasn’t a fedsurrection. It was a Trumpurrection. And history is branding it with felony convictions, not Truth Social posts.

[libraryofbaxobab]

November 30, 2024:

This one gave me a LOT to think about, but a month later I'm still having trouble parsing my thoughts about it. The ending(s) really threw me for a loop, because the book is much more complex than I first gave it credit for (I was giving it credit to begin with!) The best non-spoiler way I can describe it is multifaceted: if I change my perspective by even a small degree, the whole view changes. That's fascinating.

The main highlight of the book is the povertycore aesthetics (even I'm upset at myself for writing that phrase, don't worry). The house where this family lives is DISMAL, everything is at least a little bit gross, the despair, the disrepair, the entrapment, the fighting, the awful acceptance-- that's the star of the show here. You could argue it's over the top at times. And if you've never glimpsed the psychology of Generational Dirt Poor, you'd straight up call it absurd.

You'd say "No one would ever--" You'd say "How could someone...?" You'd say "Why don't they just ___?"

If you want characters in horror to make sensible decisions in their own best interest, keep walking, this book will make you tear your hair out. Everyone here is doing just the worst thing for themselves, and they're doing the best they can. This is a tragedy, and the flavor of horror you've signed up for is Sad.

8/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[crushed-gh0st]

your favorite conspiracy theory?

That I'll be happy someday. JUST KIDDING. (Mostly.)

So here's the deal: I treat conspiracy theories like extended universe fanfiction for the real world. I don't believe in stuff I can't prove (Might sound wild but I'm pretty logical at heart) and they're theories for a reason. But I love diving into them like theyre part of a weird narrative written by the internet itself.

My favorite right now? Anything related to Agartha and the Hollow Earth. I don't believe a fraction of it, but it's fascinating. The lore just keeps growing. Like, you start with "there's a hidden civilization inside the Earth" and end up neck-deep in: Free Masons, Atlantis and Lemuria drama, mole people, apocryphal religious texts pulled wildly out of context, real-life cave systems that are definitely entrances to secret worlds, weird Russian military encounters in Antarctica, UFOs HIDING in Antarctica and/or in Agartha.

Also shout out to Reddit and 4chan turning this all into a collaborative and very much interactive fanfic! I just love facebook uncles making infographics and playing around with pseudoscience.... Can't wait to turn into one of them someday.

Anyways, recently I stumbled on a sub-branch of this whole thing where people have woven the Bucegi Mountains into it. Which I devoured, obviously, because I live near them. Gotta engage with the local lore.

But if we're talking all-time, my ultimate favorite is false history. Like the idea that huge chunks of what we accept as history have been edited, deleted, rewritten or straight up made up. And we'll never know the truth because the sources were buried before we were born.

Also: the Dead Internet Theory is getting harder to laugh off lately. As someone who uses 4chan a lot, it's very easy to feel like something's off. Like yeah, maybe the internet really did die sometime and now we're all just talking to bots, corporate ghosts, and weird AIs trained on each other's content in a loop. Maybe that's why everything feels uncanny and like an echo lately.

Maybe we are in the content farm and the harvest was us.

Other favorites: cryptids, UFOs, Mandela effects, unsourced weird facts that no one can prove are real but also no one can confidently say aren't. Im obsessed with the possibility. If it's eerie, half-plausible, and totally unverifiable? Inject it straight into my brain. No nutritional value and yet I'll eat it up every single time

Also, and I don't usually talk about this much, but I do believe the media we consume is shaped by something. A higher power? A structure? A filter? Whatever it is, it's not random. I don't like naming it or giving it personality. But you can feel it. Sometimes it's subtle. Sometimes it's really, really not.

Anyways. Everything is fake but the vibes. Thanks for asking.

And yes. I'm the most stereotypical INTP in existence, so naturally I hoard unprovable rabbit holes and facts like shiny rocks. I don't believe the Earth is hollow. In fact if you said that I would probably kill you with a rock right then and there. But I do think it's funny, dramatic, and interesting. Which is good enough for me.

[namezsonetailikemusicandwriging]

ancient civilization yaoi used to depict uke and seme on hieroglyphics... said their relations were 🐂 🌞 🧑‍🌾

[you-are-another-me]

[allweknewisdead]

How The Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (2021) - Clint Smith

I'm left wondering if we are all just patchworks of the stories we've been told. What would it take - what does it take - for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having to fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been? Just because something is difficult to accept doesn't mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn't make that story true.