the Soviets did all the heavy lifting and they let the UK bleed themselves against Hitler and imperial japan.
Well, America did sit on its ass issuing loans to the UK and the USSR and waited until the best opportunity before jumping in just so it could get a foothold in asia, so have to give the devil its due, but no, it is not “american” to beat up nazis, it was a foreign policy fluke that ended when america started hiring nazis for its intelligence operations
This severely undermines all that happened with America in WW2.
No, it strips the fantasy that America was The Good Guy™ that saved the day.
Like, by mere body count, America didn’t do shit in WWII. The soviets lost more civilians in Leningrad alone than Americans lost soldiers in every theatre of war combined. If America had suffered damage proportional to what the soviets endured, almost every major city east of the Mississippi would have to be razed to the ground. (Can you imagine, America loses two towers in New York and it drops all pretenses by granting the president an imperium to buff up the secret police, torture, and wage multiple wars for funsies and profit. If they knew tragedy like other countries do, they’d surrender so fast and lick whatever new boot you show them before you can say, “kneel”)
If this is the first time you’re exposed to the reality of america’s dithering and slimy way of fighting wars, then welcome to the first day of your life, most of what you think is a lie, take a seat and listen because you’re out of your element here.
lol yes seriously, it’s criminal that america has been able to restructure the entire narrative of ww2 and make itself the savior of the world when it’s soldiers didn’t even step foot in western europe until literally the 58th month of a 69 month long conflict and even then, at no point did it fight more than 20% of the german military! its not a stretch to say at all that the defeat of nazi germany was singlehandedly a soviet endeavor. and like, the war against japan, which is always similarly called an exclusively american affair is just as false and misleading when the only real troops the americans fought were literally besieged, starving japanese soldiers on small pacific islands while the most powerful forces remained on the continent fighting against the chinese and british/indians. funnily enough, the largest and most powerful japanese army of the war was also completely defeated by the soviets in like a week lol (it took the usa like 3 months to defeat a japanese force a tenth of that size on okinawa all while suffering massively more casualties)
Americans were lynching black soldiers and experimenting on black people at the same time like, plus the Japanese internment….
Over the course of two devastating wizarding wars, and the deadly reign of Lord Voldemort, two secret societies rose from the wreckage to defend the wizarding world: the Order of the Phoenix, and a small group of Hogwarts students called Dumbledore’s Army. [X] Pottermore
I believe this is one of the best tweets ever twotted
They’re destroying history
They’re making history.
They’re taking supportive reminders of treason, murder, and tyranny and leaving the pedestals empty. People can see the pictures and read the stoies and remember that yes, these things happened, but they can also see the moment when America decided to reject the idolization of treason and terror and attempted to move forward.
Pay attention, because these are the heroes of the future.
And here’s the thing folks. “Participation trophy” is actually a great descriptor for these statues. They’re not very old. They’re not high art, and you NEVER need statues commemorating the villains in history. You commemorate the heroes.
THE CONFEDERATES LOST. These statues got put up because racist white people were mad that they lost and had to start treating black people as equals so they put up these cheap, mass produced statues to make themselves feel better even though THEY LOST.
There wasn’t even a layer of the most basic mortar holding the pedestal to the base. Gravity was enough for granite. Cheap, tacky crap.” [Keep scrolling down on that link, the guy is a scholar and details about how these are cheap pieces of trash.]
These statues by and large (I’m sure there’s exceptions, there always are) aren’t old. Like the “battle flags” appearing at state houses and rising in popularity around different areas they didn’t go up until the Jim Crow Laws and Civil Rights Era. They were put up as a petulant, racist response to black folk in america slowly getting rights as human beings. Tear that trash down.
Edit: A list of more confederate statues that would go down just as easily! [link | list]
Written in the Bones. New comic, written by Christopher M. Jones & illustrated by Carey Pietsch.
I’m hoping to have printed copies of this at MOCCA, ABPCC, and TCAF this spring, and SPX in the fall! More info to come.
Me and Carey worked really hard on this comic; if you got something from it I’d love for you to reblog it, and maybe even buy a copy from Carey when she’s in town or even if she’s not. Thanks so much for reading.
I’ve read this before, but each time I come back to it, it touches me differently.
It’s such an unfamiliar and yet intimately familiar way of vocalising grief. This entire comic is gold.
apparently modern medieval scholars have no solid idea why there’s so many old paintings of knights fighting snails. Like that wasn’t just one weird painting there’s hundreds of those.
the firste meyme
And my favorite one here
I’m not saying humanity defeated an invasion of snail aliens in the Middle Ages but hold on wait that’s EXACTLY what I’m saying
snail aliens, or snaliens,
probably it was just funny so people kept doing it. which is basically what a meme is
the explanation I’ve heard is that most of the monks who did these illustrations would have kept small gardens where they grew all their own food and this was their way of venting about snails ruining their gardens
ok thats even funnier
This is hands down one of my favourite posts on Tumblr.
“Fuckin snails, I’m gonna draw me some God damn knights killing the shit out of these shell slime fucks. Teach them to fucking ruin my herbs. Assholes.”
I'd Much Rather Have a Dragon 