Abe Lincoln's Man Cave

What was Camelot famous for?.....Its knight life!

[knusprig-titten-hitler]

really?

[lord-kitschener]

[thedreadpiratecam]

Why he light skinned?

[octopuscato]

That might be due to the fact that Martin Luther - who lived ~450 years before Martin Luther King Jr. -  was ethnically German. We’re usually white.

[sovietsofficial]

when you try to be woke but actually you’re just an idiot looking to start shit

[sonofthesummersun]

This is at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. This is a statue of Thomas Jefferson.

Those bricks behind him?

Each one has the name of an enslaved person that Thomas Jefferson owned.

[owlschemes]

I like my pasta the way I like my medieval Italian literature: All Dante

[felderwin]

my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”

[agnesmontague]

i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.

the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:

稽首天中天，

毫光照大千，

八風吹不動，

端坐紫金蓮

(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)

on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.

(here’s a chinese source for the skeptics)

[blessedarethebinarybreakers]

(x) my favorite part of this image is the flame-skirt #demonfashion

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

ok but the best part is

[user-deact]

Hail Mary, full of Grace, PUNCH THE DEVIL IN THE FACE

[pathstomper]

“My son offers the other cheek. I offer the other hand.”

[applesdotexe]

the image “george washington welcomes abraham lincoln into heaven” is so homosexual

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[applesdotexe]

everyones reblogging this as if its contemporary or asking who did it but i gotta inform you all it was made in the very same year lincoln was assassinated (1865) and we literally have NO GODDAMNED CLUE who made it and its like fuckin 150 years old

[yeoldenews]

(source: The Tennessean, August 9, 1925.)

[sunflowercocoa]

1) i love how they said “not just” implying that Florida man being from Florida was ONE of the reasons he was arrested but not the sole reason

2) i can’t believe florida man meme is like nearly 100 years old

[black-brunswickers-deactivated2]

1797-1815 but every time napoleon invades a country it gets faster

[jobu-2paki]

[nexya]

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

[charlesoberonn]

The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”

[terminallydepraved]

my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”

[loremerchant]

Ancient Shitposting

Now on the History Channel

[self-critical-automaton]

‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world

[unbfacts]

The National Library of Sweden has a 16th century book that can be read six different ways. Its special sixfold, back-to-back binding combines six different devotional texts into one book.

[memewhore]

[shitroughdrafts-deactivated2021]

Captain America: Civil War 

[factsinallcaps]

Harriet Tubman was cynical, she would force people to escape against their own will with a gun to their head. She has more flaws than you think.

YEAH, YOU CAN MAKE ANYONE SOUND TERRIBLE IF YOU STRIP AWAY ENOUGH CONTEXT! 

YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THERE WERE HAPPY SLAVES WHO WOULD HEAR A CLICK BEHIND THEM AND TURN TO SEE HARRIET TUBMAN SAYING “ESCAPE OR DIE, JERK, YOUR CHOICE.” THAT’S NOT HOW IT WENT DOWN. 

HARRIET TUBMAN WAS A CRIMINAL, WHICH I’M OKAY WITH BECAUSE THE LAW SHE WAS BREAKING WAS UNJUST, AND THAT’S WHY SHE PACKED HEAT. IF SHE WAS CAUGHT, SHE’D STAND A FIGHTING CHANCE OF DEFENDING THE PEOPLE SHE WAS ASSISTING. 

NOW, AS FOR “FORCING PEOPLE TO ESCAPE AGAINST THEIR OWN WILL.” THE PEOPLE SHE PULLED A GUN ON WERE ALREADY ON THE RAILROAD WITH HER OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL. THEY WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE TRYING TO ESCAPE, AND WHO KNEW ONCE THEY SET FOOT OFF THE PLANTATION THAT THERE WAS NO GOING BACK. THEY DIDN’T HAVE TO LEAVE THE PLANTATION WITH HER, BUT IF THEY DID, IT WAS “ESCAPE OR DIE TRYING.”

HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON FOR THEM TO TRY AND TURN BACK ANYWAY. TRYING TO ESCAPE WAS DANGEROUS AND MISERABLE, AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME IS A THING. MANY OF THEM GOT COLD FEET WITH THE PROSPECT OF THE UNKNOWN STRUGGLE OF A FREE PERSON IN THE NORTH, WHICH FOR ALL THEY KNEW WOULD BE WORSE THAN THE FAMILIAR STRUGGLE OF A SLAVE IN THE SOUTH. MANY OF THE OTHERS FIGURED THEY’D BE CAUGHT AND RETURNED ANYWAY AND THAT THEIR PUNISHMENT WOULD BE LESS SEVERE IF THEY TURNED THEMSELVES IN AND BLEW THE WHISTLE ON TUBMAN AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. EVEN IF THIS WASN’T THEIR PLAN, ANYONE WHO’D SEEN HOW THE RAILROAD OPERATES WHO RETURNED TO THE PLANTATION WOULD BE TORTURED INTO GIVING UP THAT INFORMATION. 

ANYONE WHO WENT BACK TO THEIR PLANTATION PUT THE REST OF THE RUNAWAYS, PRESENT AND FUTURE, IN DANGER, AND TUBMAN COULDN’T ALLOW THEM TO BLOW HER COVER AND GET ALL THE PEOPLE SHE WAS TRYING TO PROTECT CAPTURED OR KILLED. SO YES, WHEN SOMEONE ATTEMPTED TO TAKE SENSITIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE METHODS OF THE RESISTANCE BACK INTO ENEMY TERRITORY, SHE’D PULL A GUN ON THEM AND GIVE THEM THE CHOICE BETWEEN GETTING TO “LIVE NORTH FREE, OR DIE HERE.”

BUT I WANT YOU TO STOP THINKING ABOUT HARRIET AS A CIVILIAN FOR A MOMENT. SHE WAS A SOLDIER, A SPY, AND AN INSURGENT REVOLUTIONARY IN A WAR THAT STARTED CENTURIES BEFORE THE SOUTHERN STATES SECEDED. THE RUNAWAYS IN HER CARE CARRIED INFORMATION THAT WOULD ALLOW THE ENEMY TO WIN THE WAR, AND I’M CURIOUS AS TO WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE HER DO. 

SHOULD SHE ALLOW PEOPLE WHO KNEW ALL THE RESISTANCE’S TRICKS AND SECRETS TO ALLY THEMSELVES WITH THE ENEMY BECAUSE THEY’D LOST FAITH THE WAR COULD BE WON? SHOULD SHE HAVE SENT THEM HOME WITH A BAG LUNCH FOR THE ROAD AS LONG AS THEY PINKY-PROMISED THAT THEY WOULDN’T TELL? 

BECAUSE REALLY YOU ONLY HAVE TWO OPTIONS: WOULD YOU RATHER “HARRIET TUBMAN OCCASIONALLY PULLED A GUN ON PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO BETRAY HER AND THE PEOPLE UNDER HER PROTECTION TO PEOPLE WHO WOULD ENSLAVE AND MURDER THEM WITHOUT LOSING A WINK’S SLEEP,” OR “THE SLAVE STATES LEARNED THE SECRETS OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, RECAPTURED THE RUNAWAY SLAVES, AND KILLED HARRIET TUBMAN SO SHE COULDN’T LEAD ANYONE ELSE TO FREEDOM?” 

I KNOW THERE’S PROBABLY A MIDDLE GROUND, BUT I’M TELLING YOU AS A HISTORIAN THAT THE LATTER IS THE MOST LIKELY SCENARIO, AND WHEN YOU’VE LIVED THE HORRORS HARRIET TUBMAN HAS LIVED, YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO TAKE THE CHANCE THAT YOU MIGHT GET LUCKY AND THINGS WON’T GO WRONG. 

[acquaintedwithrask]

I can’t believe in 2016 that people are trying to paint fucking Harriet Tubman as a bad/problematic person.  Jesus christ

[dynamic-desperado]

Gotta love how white people always make the biggest reaches

[thugilly]

I actually didn’t know this

[missesholyphantom]

WHITE PEOPLE?? WHAT THE FUCK YOU LITTLE SHITHEAD. THERE IS NO SOURCE OR WAY TO SEE THAT THE ANON WAS WHITE. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, THIS IS ABOUT HOW AN ASSHOLE TRIED TO PAINT HARRIET TUBMAN THE WRONG WAY. NOT ABOUT HOW WHITE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DO IT. THERES LITERALLY NOTHING IN HERE ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE GOD DAMNIT. DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT ME RIGHT NOW. WE ARE HERE ABOUT HISTORICAL INNACURACIES, NOT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU WANNA BLAME A DAMN WHITE PERSON FOR THIS. 

[factsinallcaps]

I’M THE OP AND ALSO HAVE MY DEGREE IN HISTORY/HISTORIOGRAPHY AND I CAN CONFIRM THAT EVERYTHING HARRIET TUBMAN SUFFERED THROUGH AND FOUGHT AGAINST WAS DONE TO HER BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF WHITE PEOPLE, THAT THIS POST WAS AT NO POINT ABOUT “HISTORICAL INACCURACIES” BUT EXCLUSIVELY ABOUT HOW BLACK HEROES WHO OPERATE OUTSIDE THE LAW IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PEOPLE FROM ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY WHITE PEOPLE ARE SLANDERED BY THE HISTORICAL RECORD CREATED BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF WHITE PEOPLE

I’M NOT TRYING TO BE A DICK HERE BUT YOU REALLY CAN’T TALK ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN’S STRUGGLE WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING WHO EXACTLY SHE WAS STRUGGLING AGAINST, WHICH WAS, IN FACT, WHITE PEOPLE. 

PLEASE DON’T SAY WHAT “WE” ARE HERE FOR ON MY POSTS ANYMORE, IT’S CLEAR THAT “WE” ARE HERE FOR VERY DIFFERENT THINGS. SPEAK FOR YOURSELF FROM NOW ON. 

[fallontonight]

Jimmy takes some time to write his weekly thank you notes!

[morbidology]

Cueva de las Manos, which translates to Cave of Hands, is a cave located in Santa Cruz, Argentina. The name comes from the fact that the cave is composed of paintings of hands that date back from 13,000 to 9,000 years ago. The cave was last inhabited at approximately 700 AD.