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i feelblike every few months this website gets fixated on a new literary trope or archetype and i find it so funny. like in a couple years its gonna be lackeyposting and all you maids and dolls are gonna post shit like "you are a minion you love serving da boss you are bumbling and oafish you love being subservient" and i know youre all gonna love it. and i think thats beautiful. youre all such special souls to me

Honestly I’d be more inclined to play Stardew Valley if it was about a depressed cop trying to solve a murder whilst navigating the politics of a mass strike and the fallout of counter revolution

this is actually really smart when you think about it

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We should normalize saying 'death to America'. It should be a greeting. It should be a prayer we said everyday.

Damn that’s crazy. It’s a good thing America doesnt do anything like th—

Like they literally just described an extremely well known pastime that hundreds of thousands of Americans take part in every year— except it’s evil propaganda because the Chinese are doing it. Arlington National Cemetery is where our president goes every Memorial Day to wax poetic about how every American soldier ever died for perfectly just and heroic reasons. Civil War re-enactments are huge deals in the south especially. All across New England there are whole historic towns full of museums to remind us how the founding of our country was the greatest thing ever done. There are gold rush towns in California that celebrate the great westward expansion with little to no mention of the native tribes that were massacred in the process.

If you don’t think the American government has a vested interest in demonizing China, you need to pay more attention to what exactly they’re saying.

We literally make every public school child in the U.S. put their hands over their hearts and pledge allegiance to the United States of America lmfao.

As someone who was raised on the rev war reenacting circuit, I can tell you that reenacting is heavy on the propaganda. My family got involved because my mom figured it was a living history thing and with two autistic kids obsessed with history, it might be a fun summer activity to keep us busy and educated during the summers. While there was a lot of interesting education and people who were in it out of a genuine love for historical clothing and skill learning, it is a hobby that is 90% wealthy white men who are incredibly conservative. There are also military recruiters who cruise the events.

I am aware of at least 5 gun control bills that didn't get passed because they would have interfered with reenactments because they would have reclassified historical weapons and required permits and courses to own and use them like other types of guns, and reenactors didn't want to have to get permits or get rid of their private collections of historical replica weapons. This was mostly because reenactments are LOUD- even without modern ammunition, musket fire makes a lot of noise, and many of these events were commentated so people watching the battles could understand what was going on. I was 8 the last time I went to a reenactment, and I got tinnitus shortly after starting. In addition to the noise, black powder and paper cartridges puts a LOT of smoke into the air. People get drunk and disorderly at the campsites after hours.

These guys used to brag that they had 'the liberals in their pockets' because if anyone came to them about the guns they could say they were Preserving History, and guilt people into backing down about it. Most of the time it worked. We were hauled out to pose for photos at military cemeteries. As an archaeologist, that pisses me off so much. Living history events are a good way of learning, but they are propaganda. Anything the USA can do to fuel patriotic fervor and make people feel connected to what 'being American' feels like, they will do.

The photos below are from some of the events that I went to as one of my last reenactments. I don't remember a lot, but I remember that the most popular event was lining up all the kids and teaching them how to 'shoot' with wooden guns, and telling them how we were "already serving our nation". I love history, but it's infuriating to see that once again our country is calling China out for propaganda when the United States is one of the biggest propaganda machines on earth.

^ and yeah, that's me. even back then i wasn't too excited about the whole situation.

Please

Northernlion would be an alchemist in the same vein as Van Hohenheim had he lived in Medieval Europe

Too bad God hates him from conception put him here with the rest of us

[reading pigeon message from chat] "silver is washed? Yeah me when the, uhh, the chrysopoeia fails for the third time because I tried to induce fermentation in the white doves before fully dissolving the black crows. Whaddaya talkin about silver is washed? Listen, buddy I know its the the moon to the sun of gold but you gotta have some perspective here. No Abu Bakr al-Razi reading ass." [reading another carrier pigeon message] "I'm not crashing out I'm just saying the only thing im washing my damn silver in is more of the waters of life if you know what im sayin." [Alembic explodes because he was reading chat] "DUDE!!!!"

Me: this is some of what people call ‘that Zaza’

My imaginary British friend: I’m proper tallywacked off of this cannabinoid

Me: yessirrrr

my life is forfeit

vn creator who releases a multiplayer fps featuring their characters for April Fools day