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Black-and-white World War II photo of a soldier in a helmet carrying a donkey across a grassy field, with other soldiers in the distance. Caption: "This picture from World War II, a soldier carrying a donkey. It is not that the soldier loves donkeys or has some sort of perversion. What's happening is that the field is mined and that if the donkey was free to wonder as it pleased, it would likely detonate a charge…

Soldier Carries Donkey Through Minefield, Moral Included

A viral WWII photo of a soldier carrying a donkey across a minefield gets a jackass-themed moral about controlling reckless people in hard times, a chain-email classic.

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Black-and-white World War II photo of a soldier in a helmet carrying a donkey across a grassy field, with other soldiers in the distance. Caption: "This picture from World War II, a soldier carrying a donkey. It is not that the soldier loves donkeys or has some sort of perversion. What's happening is that the field is mined and that if the donkey was free to wonder as it pleased, it would likely detonate a charge…

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Facebook-style post by Karl Smallwood, 2 hours ago, with a small profile photo. Text: "While playing Rollercoaster Tycoon one time, I remember that I was tasked with the mission of getting a higher approval rating than the park next door. Rather than make my park better, I instead built a rollercoaster that launched people at 100mph into my rival's park. Since technically those people died in my rival's park, their… A small green tree frog rests one front foot on a giant human fingertip that has a red heart emoji on it. Text reads: "Frog is here", "Don't be sad", and "Things will be ok". Comic-style illustration of the Trojan Horse being welcomed through a castle gate by two men while a figure watches from the tower. Text on the horse's head: "Funny edginess". On its belly, over armored soldiers: "Literally nazism". Above the gate: "Mentally fragile young men and politically confused people". Over the two men: "Totally apolitical web stars". Italic text quote on a white background: "In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived… Top caption: "Finally someone tells it like it is. Way too many people have forgotten how awesome NASA is." Two photos show a red Russian Space Pen package printed with a rocket, and a joke text: "When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ball-point pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that could write in space,… Tumblr post screenshot. User sapper-in-the-wire: "people today with access to more raw information than any other period: the earth is flat" and "german artilleryman in 1916, who barely washes his own ass: I need to account for the curvature and rotation of the earth when plotting my firing plans". Reblog by thefloatingstone: "Eratosthenes, an Egyptian, in 3750 BC when fucking mammoths hadn't even gone extinct yet:…

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