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aurumacadicus · 1 month

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*phone rings* Tony: Hello? Steve: Yeah, hi, is this Tony? Tony: Rhodey? Steve: No, this is Captain America. Tony: Oh! It's Captain America! Yeah, you're hilarious, Rhodey, you're just a regular riot. Steve: No, this isn't Rhodey, this is Captain America. Tony: Oh! Well, I'm glad you called, because I forgot to tell you today what a nice ass you have. I'm also impressed you were able to get my phone number given the fact that I don't have a phone. Good night, Rhodey. Steve: Uh, this isn't Rhodey-- Tony: *hangs up* Steve: *sigh* This used to be easier.

#incorrect quotes #stony #original: the american president #rhodey later in tears: my captain america impression isn't THAT GOOD

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bonnieura · 1 month

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i hate queer people

+ ref and a ramble under cut (god forbid tumblr doesn't kill the quality

honestly it fucks me up just how detailed some sources' claims are when it comes to JFK and lem billings' relationship. of course if we just throw out the idea of them pulling things out of their ass, how was jfk not considered bisexual at least? also i find it pretty amusing how allegedly whenever kennedy was ill (even if for a moment, like dizziness which afaik was a common symptom/result of addison's disease) he needed lem to be there with him no matter yow many nurses (attempted to at least) aided him. if all that was true that would be a mix of both wholesome and odd fuuuuck

Frankly it pisses me off how american queer history is never discussed in the american public. even the most iconic and famous (or infamous) of american figures had had parts of themselves completely overwritten by texts and articles to not rub up sad conservatives the wrong way. So much of history is lost because of this disgusting discrimination but sigh what can i do

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wandering-cemeteries · 4 months

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Tombstone of Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), the eighth US president and the first one born after the Declaration of Independence. English was also his second language. He grew up speaking Dutch. Kinderhook, New York.

#tombs of the dead and famous #martin van buren #us history #history #american history #tomb #cemetery #original photography #photography #taphophile #taphophilia #lensblr #photographers on tumblr #tombs #american president #new york #wanderingjana

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araiz-zaria · 1 year

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ユリシーズ・S・グランタマ

#if i were a cartoonist during his presidency and i had to draw a hit piece on him...#this is how i would do it 😏😈#mr president i'm so sorry 🙈#drawing #original art #manga #illustration #pen and ink #brush pen #traditional art #fan art #birthday post #ulysses s grant #it's crack o'clock folks #gudetama #american history #i've been so backhanded at him so far skfjfjshfhfj

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863.

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n-brio · 11 months

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Not to beat a dead horse but holy shit has Google gone bad.

Looking up the history of the phrase "run for president" should not give me multiple articles about Logan Paul's campaign announcement.

#I'm sure I read somewhere that “run for president” is a specifically American phrase #with a specific origin from one guy's immensely successful campaign #before then you “stood for president”. “run” emphasized how he changed the culture of campaigning in the US #for the life of me I can't remember who it was (Andrew Jackson?) or where I read it (AP U.S. History?)#There I am Gary; there I am!

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thedisablednaturalist · 2 years

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You know? I'm realizing now that when I was taking American government classes in k-12 I wasn't misunderstanding or being stupid when I asked the questions I did. Honestly I don't blame my teachers for not really being able to explain it.

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"wait so bribing politicians isn't allowed but lobbying is?"

"wait shouldn't gerrymandering be illegal?"

"I'm confused about why we have the electoral college"

Like if an elementary schooler finds something wrong...maybe there is something wrong! Like blatantly wrong! With how our government works!

#politics #government #american centric #honestly im still confused lmao #also i live in virginia so this is also virginia centric #pls dont doxx me lmao #also i was super confused that like technically congress can like...control their own salaries?? cause they pass the budget and amend it #even tho the president originally writes it #or at least the executive branch

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mungeater999 · 12 days

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I think the world would be better if youtube animator lhugueny was president.

#lhugueny #president #united states #world #politics #world politics #american politics #sad thoughts #original mungeater content #original

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secretmellowblog · 6 months

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People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!!#this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

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sundry-whovengerslocked · 3 months

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so I finally had an Obama dream I can contribute to the internet

(I'm gonna put it in greentext format to streamline it better)

>it started with a kid going up to a president in public.

>(i can't remember if it was Trump or Biden or Bush or something, just that he was white and had someone with him, probably a bodyguard)

>the president asked if the kid would be nice enough to buy him some candy or gum or something from the nearby convenience store.

>the kid laughed at him and basically said he'd do it if he paid him.

>the president handed over the money and the kid counted it, satisfied he'd have extra and keep the change.

>the dream ends with the kid running to the store, and the president slightly insulted.

>cut to Obama alone peacefully looking out over a park or pond or something, leaning on a wooden fence.

>a little kid ran over to him and placed the end of a thick rope in his hands. it was so long the other end was nowhere in sight.

>Obama simply cradled the rope, smiled at the kid and asked, "Does this go all the way to Hawaii?"

>the boy just giggled (mischievously this time, rather than maliciously) and ran off.

>he then met up with a bunch of other kids who were also laughing and running into a building.

>together they carried the other end of the rope, implying that it wrapped all the way around the world.

(it's important to note that the kids were very diverse)

so yeah, happy black history month. (does that tie into this? tell me if it doesn't)

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imsobadatnicknames2 · 8 days

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What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

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bonnieura · 3 months

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shnawg what am i meant to title this. it is what it looks like

backstory: this was meant to be a bonus drawing to a tribute i made

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wandering-cemeteries · 4 months

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Tomb of Thomas Jefferson.

Monticello, Virginia.

#tombs of the dead and famous #thomas jefferson #american president #monticello #Virginia #tomb #cemetery #photography #taphophile #taphophilia #lensblr #photographers on tumblr #tombs #original photography #us history #history #wanderingjana

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filosofablogger · 6 months

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Quarrel of the Colours

November is National Native American Heritage Month, as dedicated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. I don’t know why, but a search through my archives shows that I have not posted about this very important month before. My best guess is that in November my focus is mainly on elections and the upcoming holidays, but as I need a break from talk of politics today and am seriously lacking in…

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#&039;Quarrel of the Colours&039;#Jon S. Randal Peace Page #National Native American Heritage Month #Native American folklore #origin of the rainbow #President George H.W. Bush

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rabbitcruiser · 5 months

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American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863.

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doyoulikethissong-poll · 4 months

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Aha - Take On Me 1985

"Take On Me" is a song by the Norwegian synth-pop band A-ha. The original version from 1984 was produced by Tony Mansfield and remixed by John Ratcliff. The 1985 international hit version was produced by Alan Tarney for the group's debut studio album, Hunting High and Low.

In 1984, Andrew Wickham was the international vice-president for Warner Bros Records America, and their A&R man in London. He immediately signed A-ha to Warner Brothers America, after learning several previous attempts had failed to make "Take On Me" a commercial success. The next release was not successful either and featured a very ordinary performance video. He authorised considerable investment in the band: on Slater's recommendation, renowned producer Alan Tarney was commissioned to refine the song. The new recording achieved a cleaner and more soaring sound. It was re-released in the UK, but the record label's office in London gave them little support, and the single flopped for the second time.

Wickham placed the band on high priority and applied a lateral strategy with further investment. Steve Barron directed a revolutionary rotoscoping animation music video which took six months to create, using professional artists. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete. The single was released in the US one month after the music video, and immediately appeared in the Billboard Hot 100 and was a worldwide smash, reaching No. 1 in numerous countries.

At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won six awards: Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Special Effects in a Video, and Viewer's Choice, and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year. It was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986.

"Take On Me" received a total of 95% yes votes, and is currently the most liked song on this poll blog! 🥳

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#finished #high votes #high yes #high reblog #low no #aha #80s

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