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I don’t get it, who are the characters in the video

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Context from the original OP, u/jackt-up on reddit:

Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus and by Aelianus Tacticus. Both writers reported that Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas’ siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the massed Macedonian war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of Macedonian soldiers by trampling them to death. According to an account, Gonatas later made his mahouts keep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.

Context from the original OP u/jackt-up on reddit:

Context: In the Bible we have this really crazy episode in Kings, where Hezekiah, the king of Judah, prays for God to aid him, as Jerusalem is under siege by the Assyrians. Not only does God deliver him, he sends one singular Angel to deal with 185,000 Assyrian troops. All of them are killed.

“The prophet Isaiah sent word to Hezekiah that, because of Sennacherib’s blasphemous taunts about the God of Israel, the Lord Himself would fight for them and destroy Sennacherib and his armies. Sennacherib was not just defying Israel; he was defying the Living God. That night, the angel of the Lord slew 185,000 in the Assyrian camp. When Sennacherib saw the carnage, he abandoned his conquest of Jerusalem and fled to Nineveh. He never stepped foot inside Jerusalem, just as Isaiah had said.”

In reality, something must’ve happened—maybe a setback for Assyria, or perhaps a diplomatic concord—because when describing their enemies of the time, the Assyrians always mention how they crushed them. But with Judah, they simply say, basically, “they’re chill; all good with them.”

Right? They put this statue in Animal Crossing, dick and all, and it’s rated E for Everyone.

Context: Sir David Attenborough’s silly ass chased a giant anteater in 1955

Context: the philosopher Plato defined a human as “a featherless biped,” and the philosopher Diogenes showed him how stupid that definition was by holding up a plucked chicken. BEHOLD! A MAN!

Also, I think “Groyper” is a reference to followers of Nick Fuentes, a far-right white nationalist influencer/livestreamer who just happens to have a Hispanic surname.

Whenever I see a Grumpus_Maximus post and don’t understand the context, I just Google reddit historymemes “[post title].” They’re all just scraped directly from reddit.

Frank “The Blonde Devil” Marshall Jiménez was a Costa Rican liquor smuggler, deputy, anti-communist paramilitant, general, member of the Hitler Youth and leader, and founder, of the first and only fascist movement in Costa Rica’s history

What does the spade tattoo mean?

I’m not sure I get the implication - tax evaders got massacred by the millions as punishment? Or the census had no record of millions who didn’t register with the government during times of turmoil, leading to an overestimate of the casualties after major wars because it looked like the population decreased more drastically than it actually did?

It’s an inventory screen from Minecraft. I haven’t played it, but I think those golden items in every slot are idols that prevent you from dying. So the joke is that he consumed a video game item to stay alive every time he would have been killed by the CIA