‘the less you know about history, the easier it is to imagine you’d always be on the right side of it’

“You can’t re­duce a person’s free­dom from slav­ery down to what is ba­si­cal­ly a Jim­my Johns punch card.”
—John Oliv­er, Last Week Tonight, 2 Au­gust 2020

Okay, so every­one needs to watch the lat­est Last Week Tonight with John Oliv­er.

Do you know about the only coup d’etat in Amer­i­can His­to­ry?

I didn’t ei­ther be­fore twen­ty fuck­ing min­utes ago.

What this video ar­gues is SO im­por­tant, and it’s pre­sent­ed in a way that’s very sim­ple to un­der­stand.

Watch it, even if you al­ready know that US His­to­ry in pub­lic school is a pro­pa­gan­da project:

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2020 Mel­ony Ppenosyne.

MOR D’ARTÍCULOS  MOR FLOMM !

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