Marine Todd
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Marine Todd is a copypasta story about a United States marine who violently assaults a college professor for challenging the existence of God. While numerous variations of this story have been circulating for over a decade, the meme resurged in April 2014 after Twitter users began parodying the original story in satire of various American conservative and right-wing ideologies.
Origin
According to the tech news blog Technology Tell,[1] an email copypasta telling a story about a marine who hits a college professor in the head after offending him for challenging the existence of God began circulating as early as 2004. On March 20th, 2014, an image macro variation of the copypasta was posted by Facebook user Earl Dibbles Jr, which gained more than 283,100 shares and 241,000 likes in the first three weeks.
A Marine was taking college classes between his deployments to Afghanistan.
One of his courses had a professor that was an atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day the professor shocked everyone by walking into class, looking up and stating "God, if you are real, I want you to come down and knock me off this platform, I will give you 15 minutes.
Several minutes tick by in silence, when the 15 min. time almost expired the Marine gets up from his seat, approaches the professor and punched him in the face knocking him off the platform and out cold. The Marine simply went back to his seat.
The professor came to, visibly shaken and asked the Marine, "What the heck did you do that for?!"
The Marine said, "God was busy protecting America's military who are out protecting your right to say stupid shit like that, so he sent me to fill in."
Spread
On March 21st, 2014, Redditor NibblyWibbly submitted the image macro to the /r/cringepics[2] subreddit, where it garnered upwards of 7,900 up votes and 600 comments in two weeks. On March 22nd, Twitter user @dankmtl[3] posted the image macro, to which writer Luke O'Neil replied with a parody version of the copypasta written in the Comic Sans font.
swarthyvillain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dankmtl">dankmtl MurderBryan</a> <a href="http://t.co/GLI0cjJQOL">pic.twitter.com/GLI0cjJQOL</a></p>— Luke O'Neil (lukeoneil47) March 22, 2014
On March 27th, Twitter user @jdcrowley posted another parody written in Comic Sans about a marine who successfully seduces a woman at a bar.
nickmullen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47">lukeoneil47 polksalad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dankmtl">dankmtl rigamarock</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MurderBryan">MurderBryan swarthyvillain</a> <a href="http://t.co/4Sy2VehglU">pic.twitter.com/4Sy2VehglU</a></p>— J Crowley (jdcrowley) March 27, 2014
On March 29th, Salon politics editor Elias Isquith tweeted a parody version of the copypasta, in which Marine Todd kicks a professor for saying "America deserved 9/11." In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the copypasta parodies, including Gawker,[5] Mediaite,[6] Technology Tell[1] and Thought Catalog.[7]
Follow-up to an earlier report on Marine Todd. Please share if you know a warrior pic.twitter.com/B2vDxDAznJ
— Elias Isquith (@eliasisquith) March 29, 2014
Search Interest
External References
[1] Technology Tell – Twitter and the glory of Marine Todd
[2] Reddit – This totally happened guys
[4] Twitter – @swarthyvillain
[5] Gawker – Marine Todd is an Awesomely Stupid Right Wing Meme
[6] Mediate – Brave Marine Steals Upside Down American Flag
[7] Thought Catalog – The Story of Marine Todd
![□ Anonymous 02/06/12(Mon)17:05:21 No.379407522 File 1328565921.gif-(44 KB, 260x241, crying-eagle3[1] gif) A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock. How old is this rock?" The arrogant professor smirked quite Jewishly and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian Wrong. It's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... then it should be an animal now The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out of the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The students applauded and all registered Republican that day and accepted Jesus as their lord and savior. An eagle named Small Government" flew into the room and perched atop the American Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The pledge of allegiance was read several times, and God himself showed up and enacted a flat tax rate across the country The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the gay plague AIDS and was tossed into the lake of fire for all eternity. Semper Fi.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/729/691/161.png "Now with more racism")
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