Xennial Memes

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History Class

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… Aged, creased typewritten memo from the Dallas County Hospital District, Office Memorandum, November 27, 1963, to all employees. It recounts President Kennedy and Governor Connally arriving at Parkland Memorial Hospital on November 22, 1963, and Lee H. Oswald dying there on November 24, 1963. A seven-item list covers what the hospital did in 48 hours and 31 minutes. It closes by praising its people. Signed J.… Circular Myers-Briggs infographic with a pink and yellow wheel at center (Extroversion, Introversion, Intuition, Sensing, Feeling, Thinking, Judging, Perceiving). Around it, 16 type descriptions, from ENFJ to ISFP, each paired with a caricature of a famous person. Credit: Illustrations by Chris Morris. Six-panel comic-style meme repeating a sepia portrait of a man with slicked-back dark hair and a mustache in a dark coat and high white collar. Panel 1: "Invents A/C Electricity" / "Tries to give it to the world for free". Panel 2: "Finds out someone is using one of his patents" / ""Let him use them, he is doing good work."" Panel 3: "Finds out a contract he has with someone will cause that person to lose their… Photo of the gray lunar surface with a lunar module leg at upper left and a small reflector instrument tilted in the foreground. Caption text: "For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all mankind.' As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small… 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,… Six-panel Doonesbury comic by GB Trudeau. A man in glasses on a bed asks a translator: "Tell me, honey--since you're the only translator in China who can still understand the Chairman, how faithfully do you actually carry out his wishes?" She replies: "Well, sir, he changes his mind a lot, and although his word is absolute law, I have to account for that. For instance, last Monday, he told me to have the Great Wall… 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:… Newspaper clipping headed "Letter of the Week" with the title "What is wrong with you?" Jonna Ramey of Salt Lake City, a 67-year-old white woman, says her WWII-serving parents fought fascism, tells white supremacists to put down their Tiki torches and get involved in real work, and says all Americans stand against hatred and bigotry. Scan of a textbook page. Caption: "Basic high school civics lessons we knew in 1948. From Magruder's classic American Government textbook. page 1." A two-column chart, "Without Government" and "With Government". Direct Protection: no protection of life, family, property or country vs. police, laws, courts; Army, Navy, and Air Force. Sanitation and Health: polluted water, filth and waste everywhere, tubercular milk,… Yellow diagram with black icons showing a loop of arrows. Text in order: More Equality, Boom!, Wealth Gap, Wealth Glut, Unemployed Lawyers, Elite Fratricide, Political Disorder, Reform? Icons include people toasting, a tiger, a lounging figure with a drink, a tornado, and raised hands.