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Cripple. History Major. Vaguely left-wing.

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Joke's on you, I gave up long ago!

Secret service agents moments after the 1981 assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan. (lemmy.world)

Excerpt: On this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest at the side entrance of the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking to his limousine after a speech to AFL-CIO leaders when Hinckley, 25, who was standing among a group of reporters, fired six shots, hitting Reagan...

PugJesus,
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Dubya's Iraq delusions cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. But Dubya didn't threaten the fabric of our democracy, nor did he encourage internal divisions and hatred.

PugJesus,
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Oh, Dubya DEFINITELY fucked shit up and set things in motion. He is one of the worst presidents, just above Ronald Reagan. But Trump, tied with Andrew Johnson, has him beat, I hold.

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They even look so damn 80s.

PugJesus,
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https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018679953/

PugJesus,
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What's 'offline'?

PugJesus,
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"No new models, but if you have a lifetime warranty we can help!"

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You may be misinterpreting the meme - it's meant to be intentionally silly, anti-anti-intellectual if anything. "YEARS yet no REAL WORLD USE found for counting any higher than your FINGERS" is definitely poking fun at people who think that higher academic notions are useless.

PugJesus,
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OP, the Kbin link should have /m/ instead of /c/ to work.

PugJesus,
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What if we listened for British Sopwith Camels together? JK JK! ... unless...?

PugJesus,
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Wyll can have the aux

PugJesus,
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In this economy!?

US anti-armor grenade packed inside a foam football, 1973 (lemmy.world)

“Since a regulation-size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....

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"Sports."

"Okay. I like it, I like it."

"PLUS... big boom."

"My God. Give this man a promotion and the Medal of Congress!"

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https://www.military.com/history/armys-anti-armor-football-grenade-did-not-work-envisioned.html

You might be able to find more about it elsewhere, though, this is just the short article I got it from.

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[Soviet tanks roll through the Fulda Gap]

"PUT ME IN, COACH"

A divorced couple divides their Beanie Baby collection in court, 1999 (lemmy.world)

Full caption: Nov 5, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Attorney Frank Totti looks over papers while his client Frances Mountain sorts out Beanie Babies with her ex-husband Harold Mountain in Judge Gerald Hardcastle’s Family Courtroom in Las Vegas November 5. The couple, who were divorced four months ago, were ordered to divide up...

PugJesus,
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Ah! The 90s.

PugJesus,
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You've never told someone to go fuck themselves and that they're a fascist twat before?

PugJesus,
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Looks like a thatched roof to me.

PugJesus,
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It's a very dystopian aesthetic, though. The right mixture of 'crude' and 'industrial'.

PugJesus,
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The invention of the phone and its consequences was an unprecedented disaster for the human race

PugJesus,
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For those wondering, the riot police still attacked them in the end. But the Velvet Revolution eventually succeeded in overthrowing the government through sustained civil resistance and strikes.

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Also, if it’s a parallel to Earth, I guess we’re supposed to assume that the Christian underclass eventually takes over and are just as bad as the formerly pagan Romans they added into their fold.

Considerably worse, really.

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Because he's part of the war effort now o7

The elephant was taken from a civilian zoo and pressed into service. 'Conscripted' seemed appropriate.

PugJesus,
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"I work at NASA!"

"Oh, man, that's so cool! What do you do?"

[sweats, thinking of all the hours spent dropping cats and taking photos of them in mid-air] "B-biostudies..."

Hungarian revolutionary holds a captured AK rifle in 1956. (lemmy.world)

The 1956 Hungarian revolution was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK rifle, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows an anti-Soviet Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes with a captured AK....

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Amazing find!

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