kontextmaschine

crazy-brazilian:

Ohio is the plains area and Pennsylvania is the forest part of the tutorial zone

drsaturn7kbs:

lagomortis:

people on tumblr will look at this painting and be like “what if the artist just wanted to paint a big lady”

#people on tumblr will look at this picture and be like ‘not to be a lesbian on main but oh my god’

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argumate:

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This is my favorite “American as imagined overseas” take of all time. If you can predict what this man will say in response to the question “do you carry a gun” then I would also like you to predict some lottery numbers for me.

afloweroutofstone:

I’m pretty sure Jack is doing this half-seriously, but nostalgia for 20-year-old corporate marketing is one of the most succinct descriptions of US conservatism I can think of. This really is the whole ideology right here

vintagelasvegas:

I-15 to Las Vegas Blvd, Convention Center Dr, August 1968. Nudes on Ice at Aladdin, Black Forest restaurant, Barbara Eden & George Carlin at Frontier, Stardust, and the Landmark. Detail in 7: Somerset Shopping Center sign before the yellow circle. Slides scans from Johnny Carlisle.

Poor Dick’s Almanack

fireyourowncannons:

that-lesbian-writer-deactivated:

necromatador:

guerrillatech:

Going back to the Reagan era to tell American conservatives that investing so much charisma in Donald Trump as avatar of the American spirit of the ‘80s is actually a really load-bearing part of the program

No, we do not.

kontextmaschine:

Yeah, what kind of country would take mass casualties among its population as an acceptable cost of maintaining its limited government and a free way of life?

One serious enough to win a war. Do wonder if Australia realizes China sees what they’re doing.

The obvious comeback, of course, is “But America doesn’t win wars.”

Yeah, what kind of country would take mass casualties among its population as an acceptable cost of maintaining its limited government and a free way of life?

One serious enough to win a war. Do wonder if Australia realizes China sees what they’re doing.

femmenietzsche:

As Xerxes was doing all this, he also sent a courier to Persia to report his present misfortune. There is nothing that travels faster, and yet is mortal, than these couriers; the Persians invented this system, which works as follows. It is said that there are as many horses and men posted at intervals as there are days required for the entire journey, so that one horse and one man are assigned to each day. And neither snow nor rain nor heat nor dark of night keeps them from completing their appointed course as swiftly as possible.

Holy shit, the Post Office motto comes from Herodotus. Neoclassical America strikes again

kaumnyakte:

kaumnyakte:

the united states of america, a steppe empire whose culture is centered on horses & the open road

umbrageliker: i do consider myself a modern type of horse girl

that’s the spirit!

mapsontheweb:

Population growth in Florida’s cities, 2010 - 2020.

meatswitch-deactivated20231107:

peniswakt-deactivated20210717:

OH SHIT IT’S MARK TWAIN COLT 1903 PIMP STANCE MONDAY

You can only reblog this

So much of America rn is just

“the white race are the time-hallowed people of the United States, to maintain legitimacy systems must be rigged to ensure they prevail!”

vs.

“liberal internationalism is the time-hallowed ideology of the United States, to maintain legitimacy systems must be rigged to ensure it prevails!”