laurdlannister-kingslayer:

tilthat:

TIL that when Ken McElroy was murdered with at least two different guns, the residents of Skidmore, Missouri refused to identify the shooters. For decades he was known as the ‘town bully’ due to multiple crimes throughout town, and at the time was on trial for shooting an elderly grocer in the neck.

via ift.tt

I watched the whole buzzfeed unsolved on this and that dude was a fucking menace and a pedo, he stayed getting arrested but he had a lawyer that would get mobsters off charges so he kept going free, the whole town hated the shit out his ass, had a town hall meeting about how to deal with him one day, someone said him and his wife turned up at the bar down the road during the meeting, everyone in the meeting was like “let’s ride” walked down there silently, he was getting in the truck with his wife to leave they SNATCHED his wife out the truck and everyone watched him get murdered and the police investigated, the town said they didn’t know who did it, ain’t snitch on who came up with the plan or nothing the town was really like this 

I just want people to know….

vivalatinamerica:

finehs:

kyotosunrises:

pendulum-sonata:

That the aztecs never thought that the Spanish conquerers were gods, there are no registries of any prehispanic gods with blond hair, pale skin or any european trait, the only reason why they were well received was because Moctezuma distrusted them from the beggining and wanted them gone as soon as possible and he thought that by treating them well he would avoid stirring conflict.

The “indigenous people revered them as gods” was Spanish propaganda, so congratulations centuries after people are still falling for it.

Also the only reason they won, besides the diseases they brought with them, was because they deceived the other indigenous tribes under the rule of the Aztec empire into thinking that they would give them their freedom.

Spoiler alert: they lied.

OP can you please include a source of where you found this? Not saying it in a way that I don’t believe you or something. Just want something to back this argument if I present it to people. And yes, I am googling it but I can’t find anything. Yes I can read Spanish so if you have a Spanish academic source that’ll do too!

Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico by Camila Townsend is a good place to start.

here’s a link to that article! thank you @finehs !