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holliano · 1 year

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nice-malice · 10 months

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unpopular opinion but idk I kinda like the fob we didn't start the fire. It's fun. It's silly. I like when people make their own songs based off that song.

#it's the homestuck in me #i read that 33 things wrong with the song article and like everyone was just why didn't you include this or that #like go write ur own song #it's not perfect but it's fun and it's funny #they replaced trouble in the Suez with ever given Suez.... how do u not love it

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stirringwinds · 3 months

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i know people talk a lot about the us and UK special relationship but it kind of fell after the Suez and France kind of sneakily stole it didn't he? I mean did the same before the wars

thanks for the ask! ngl, as a londoner, i've always personally felt the representation of the "Special Relationship" as this mega-close and affectionate dynamic is kind of...an un-holistic understanding of the UK or England, as well as of the United States. don't get me wrong, it's one of their most important relationships and there's a lot of deep history there—my issue is mostly with rose-tinted interpretations underpinning it and what biases they showcase. these were heavily biased by Churchill's (imperialist) gaze of envisioning Anglo-American affinity and leadership on the world stage. this interpretation quite significantly downplayed the rivalry, power struggles, conflicts and differences that historians existed between the US and the British Empire, or how US presidents tended to see it in far less majestic terms. like, Churchill rather downplays FDR's vehement disagreements with him over the issue of Indian independence lol or decolonisation (because the US was eyeing the world as a chessboard, re: new markets and also whether or not support for the old colonial power would be a bulwark against or risk soviet or other communist influence).

so, while you're right that Suez was a pretty low moment in US-Britain relations due to the US being pissed at Britain and France jeopardising its ostensible goal of swaying Egypt away from the Soviet sphere of influence (sidenote: Egypt itself was trying to navigate the mess of the Cold War rivalry to secure its interests), i don't really see it as "falling" after Suez or stolen by France simply because that dynamic Churchill painted a picture of never really existed in that way. plus, Europe (France included) and the ex-colonies of the British Empire (like the dominions and India) weighed heavily on British foreign policy/its national outlook too; i tend to find an overemphasis on a rose-tinted view of the "Special Relationship" leads to a lot of US-centrism that shuts out this understanding. to me, Arthur and Alfred's relationship is most interesting when we situate them properly amidst all these other imperial and geopolitical cross-currents. of which Francis is an important one, from the time he helped Alfred during the Revolutionary War, to the Entente Cordial, WWI and the post-WWII world of NATO, the EU and so on.

in hetalia-verse, it's one of the reasons I personally headcanon Arthur and Alfred as father and son. their bond is lasting, forged by the blood, steel and saltwater of empire, and all the familial, deep and troubling implications that implies. they are "stuck" with each other in some ways, because post 1945, it's a familial dynamic of the old king and the young, ambitious crown prince who thinks his father is out of time—and out of line. francis never really "steals" anything because he and arthur's relationship is on a very different axes: francis is the neighbour who has been by arthur's side as his enemy, friend, lover, rival in imperial douchebaggery, ally (for better and also for worse, like in suez...)—and everything in between. whereas arthur and alfred have some real patricidal/regicidal, titanomachy-level father-son power struggles going on, mixed in with this dysfunctional level of understanding and them also colluding together shadily (you are different from him in many ways, there are many things he'll never understand about you—but you are your father's son, alfred; to be powerful is to be tainted).

so in conclusion, i see alfred-arthur and arthur-francis as both very important foundational dynamics crucial to arthur's character, but conceptualised differently from that understanding of the "special relationship" because they're two different kinds of relationships, even if there is the overlapping dynamic of power, rivalry and empire. ✌🏼

#lord father and the crown prince #hetalia #hws england #hws america #hws france #hetalia headcanons

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justalitlecreacher · 10 months

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Fall Out Boy missed their chance to keep “trouble in the Suez” in their modern cover of “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

#fall out boy

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zanderbobs · 2 years

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I've been seeing a lot of people on social media going "but decolonisation!" when trying to defend the Queen on social media and pointing at maps comparing the size of the British empire at the start and later on in the Queen's reign. And while it's technically true that most decolonisation happened under the Queen's rule, it's a gross simplification that makes it sound like the Queen came to power actively wanting to decolonise and changed everything, which really doesn't sit well with me.

Like, do you think around the 1950s and 60s all of the monarchy and government had a great epiphany that actually imperialism is bad and we should stop it? No! There were many factors that persuaded them to decolonise. Prime Ministers Churchill, Eden, and Macmillan (and even Attlee to an extent) only allowed change throughout the empire to occur because of the action and sacrifice of indigenous people for independence and changing public opinion, especially among the working classes, in Britain about how the government should focus on improving the lives of those at home rather than new conquests abroad. To suggest that the Queen wasn't bad because she decolonised is to erase and undermine the efforts of oppressed individuals across the empire and in Britain to make it clear that empire couldn't sustain itself post-WW2.

Were it not for such shifts, Britain would've likely held on much longer to its Empire. And heck, Britain actively tried at points. The Mau Mau uprising in Kenya was brutally suppressed during the Queen's rule, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland also occured. The only real outlier here is that the Queen did complain about Eden's conduct during the Suez Crisis, though that was unpopular with basically everyone (due to lack of transparency). Territories were generally lost either because they were too hard to control anymore or simply because they were no longer profitable- not because the British ruling class suddenly had a change of heart and realised dominating over countries they had no right to was morally wrong. And not all decolonisation was carried out equally- while it was quite plain-sailing for white settler colonies to gain independence (though indigenous populations there still endured oppression), it generally took much more pain and suffering for non-white countries to assert their own self-government.

The Queen, until her death, wore a crown decorated with the spoils of Empire. Were it not for the constant efforts of indigenous peoples to get rid of the British Empire, she likely would've kept a few more colonies to her name until her death too.

#queen elizabeth #uk politics #uk pol #british royal family #british empire #history #long post

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itstimewehavesomesoliddick · 7 months

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what do u think about the theories that israel actually knew about the attacks but pretended they don't, just so they can justify attacking with everything they have and killing as much civilians as possible? death to israel anyway xx

I don't think it was because

A) like most westernized nations Israel depends a lot on its image and the one it can project, while right now the damage to their image is too great and irreversible (their well maintained myth of IDF invincibility and being the best in the world was shattered into a thousand pieces, they're already talking about writing off the hostages as collateral damage (which is particularly hard to sell after previously exchanging over a thousand prisoners in exchange for a single captured IDF soldier), and it's also hard to sell a genocide when your foundation myth is based on one)

B) if they did they would have kept the attacks contained, just enough to have a justification but not enough to cause any actual hard damage (they wouldn't have let that many hostages get taken/soldiers killed/entire military bases captured), meanwhile right now Merkavas are burning, IDF helicopters are being shot down and bodybags are stacking up in the biggest Palestinian attack on Israel since 1948

C) they would have had a media campaign ready for it, while here we've seen a delayed and reduced response while they scrambled to put out articles, same with the international response, the prepared media campaign is always the tell

This whole thing also caught the US by surprise as they're talking about pausing aid to Ukraine in favor of Israel, which would be a death sentence for Ukraine despite all the billions they've already poured into it, since Israel, much like Ukraine, cannot sustain a war without US help (much like in 1973, where mothballed tanks, pallets of shells and F-4 parts had to be constantly shipped), this is also happening right after the US gutted Israeli shell warehouses for 300K shells to send to Ukraine, and it's unknown whether or not those have been replenished in the 6 months since

I know we like to pretend that the Mossad is omniscient and omnipresent, but it's possible that they'd gotten complacent while also being distracted with domestic matters (namely the civil strife caused by those judicial reforms) and ones abroad (like a certain war in Eastern Europe involving a certain military bloc)

Either they grew complacent and got surprised, or they grew too overconfident and bit off more than they could chew, either way they vastly, vastly underestimated the capabilities of Palestinian groups, and Netanyahu's talk of TOTALER KRIEG on Gaza is only digging them into a deeper hole that they'll have a lot of trouble climbing out of (if at all), as invading Gaza implicates Hezbollah, which would turn this war into a very different one as they're a far more capable, far more dangerous force, they're currently mobilizing in the North, UNIFIL troops are either returning to their bases or abandoning their positions, meanwhile two Egyptian armies are on high alert in case anything happens

Speaking of, it wouldn't be the first time Israel's overconfidence would come back to bite them, they were certain that the Egyptians were incapable of crossing the Suez canal in any meaningful capacity and guess what happened in 1973

Make no mistake though, this is a big one, this is one of those weeks where decades happen, history is being made as we speak, we'll see how it develops

Death to all Satans

#right after they confirmed the red heifer too lmao how's that prophecy working out for ya

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cobaltqueen · 10 months

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Love the we didnt start the fire cover but it wouldve been so much funnier if theyd left the 'trouble in the suez' line unchanged

#fall out boy #fob #we didn't start the fire #otherwise banging cover i love it

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theoriginaldickmaster · 2 months

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South Pacific💧, Walter Winchell👨‍🦲, Joe DiMaggio🐤

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No, we didn't light it🕯, but we tried to fight it👊

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It was always burning🔥, since the world's been turning🌎

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No, we didn't light it🕯, but we tried to fight it👊

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We didn't start the fire🔥

But when we are gone💀

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We didn't start the fire🔥

It was always burning🕯, since the world's been turning🌎

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No, we didn't light it,🕯 but we tried to fight it👊

We didn't start the fire🔥

It was always burning,🕯 since the world's been turning🌎

We didn't start the fire🔥

No, we didn't light it,🕯 but we tried to fight it👊

We didn't start the fire🔥

It was always burning🕯, since the world's been turning🌎

We didn't start the fire🔥

No, we didn't light it🕯, but we tried to fight it👊

Get the fuck outta my inbox

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smallest-turtle · 10 months

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They should have just kept "trouble in the Suez" the same it would have been funnier

#we didnt start the fire #fob #fall out boy #not fandom #text #my post

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quail-in-red · 10 months

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Listening to “we didn’t start the fire” was a mistake, now my brain is just screaming gibberish like “Richard Nixon baseball TROUBLE IN THE SUEZ”

#send help #none of it’s in order #cola wars I can’t take it anymore

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izzys-trying · 10 months

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Objectively it’s fucking hilarious to hear “Evergiven Suez” in the fob cover of We Didnt Start The Fire but honestly,,,,,… Missed opportunity for “Trouble in the Suez” line to return

#it was right there!!!!!!!#it’s okay tho the song slaps #fob #fall out boy

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poorly-drawn-puppet-history · 1 year

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last post before i retire for the night, some thots on the finale:

-I watch with closed captioning on bc im bad ears man, and I noticed that the Professor’s parents are called Dinosir (pterodactyl) and Dinosara (T. Rex)

-the fact Ryan’s wish didn’t work but the professor Still somehow reappeared in the present with his parents is so 🤔

-like the genie even believes he’s dead. that’s pretty convenient for a guy who got in trouble for creating living puppets. and who did it Again with the dino parents. I think the Professor is still in hot water, but he’s at least got Someone looking out for him.

-I think either god Lied about going to sleep or about it being the suez canal thing that made him tired. I have a comic (Big) I want to make w this idea but I am So Nervous for what the future puppet history plans are

I’m honestly expecting another video to come out in the next few weeks that ties up some loose ends and sets up S6, the same way the Holiday Spectacular last year did with the Professor’s funeral. Maybe around New Year’s? idk

#mod post #rly makes u think……..#(also ty to everyone who has followed and rbed my silly little things!!!!)#puppet history

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adreamthatsworthkeeping · 10 months

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They could have kept the line "trouble in the suez" in the remake and it would have had the same impact.

#fob #we didn't start the fire

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tumbletumula · 1 year

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Le plus grand orateur au monde est le pétrole africain !

Thème : Intérêts français et influence russe au Ghana Thomo : Le plus grand orateur au monde est le pétrole africain ; Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. Brant écrit, à partir de quelques questions «L'attaque lâche et la mort tragique de Darya Dugina ont suscité partout des commentaires et des évaluations sur la pensée «dughinienne» et sur les effets politiques que l'attaque brutale pourrait avoir. Une attitude récurrente de la part des correspondants étrangers des journaux européens à Moscou (je cite El Pais mais ce n'est pas le seul cas) est celle d'attribuer le titre de "fasciste" à Alexandre Douguine. » dans la presse, que probablement l'expression radical appartient aussi à l'ordre des grandes unités signifiantes, qui correspondent à des sens globaux, répandus, latents, qui n'appartiennent pas à la même catégorie que les sens isolés et discontinus du langage articulé du Le radical démocrate Aleanz. Ou les passages de détroits tels que Bab el-Mandeb, Ormuz et Malacca, papiers décisifs de la fragilité de nos économies et de nos approvisionnements, toujours exposés à une pluie de risques structurels (il suffit de penser au blocus du canal de Suez) et d'averses géopolitiques dicté par l'énorme trafic de navires, la piraterie et les troubles politiques. Mais cette opposition entre une micro-sémantique et une macro-sémantique pourrait peut-être constituer une autre façon de considérer l'Afrique comme un radical républicain, abandonnant le plan du cimeterre… pour passer au plan de l'AFR africaine, c'est-à-dire à celui de la significations, répandues, dans toutes les voies marxistes de l'ANC. Mais il conviendrait, à ce stade, de s'inspirer des modèles rhétoriques (et non plus littéralement des Républicains français) isolés de la politique actuelle et de la visite française en Afrique, la République française, Emmanuel Macron, ajoutant que désormais la France être « un interlocuteur neutre » des pays africains. Depuis Libreville, capitale du Gabon et première étape d'une tournée (1-5 mars) qui comprend également l'Angola, le Congo et la République du Congo, le locataire de l'Elysée a annoncé le début d'une nouvelle politique africaine pour la France, … Il faut donc arriver à une véritable définition du désir qui montre, en même temps, la « faim et la vérité africaine est une priorité pour nous » dont la conscience est comme excavée dans le processus d'appétit de la contestation républicaine radicale. .AFR.

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breezingby · 6 months

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Billy Joel ~ We Didn't Start the Fire !!! (Official Video)

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye