• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    All you young ones just wait until you get corrected in twenty years by someone like you because they didn’t live it and think they know more about it than you.

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    13 hours ago

    So… the US president was part of a child eating cult-like sex trafficking net that was actually managed by moSS*d. Countries around the world that stump into that information used it to blackmail him.

    At one point, the info got partially leaked, but he was kept in power for some reason.

    First: that wont ever make it to a history book

    Second: i wonder how many times things like this happened… this cabt be the first one

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      First: that wont ever make it to a history book

      It probably will, it’s too relevant to be left out. It will just not be explained in that plain language, because people care about protecting children from the raw character of historical figures.

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    12 hours ago

    I might suggest that rather than saying people are dumb for having made certain decisions, that we should ask ourselves how the opinions that led to those decisions were formed. There are always external factors acting on and influencing our agency.

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    11 hours ago

    As if.

    They will water it down, shorten it up and place it at most on lesson on the side.

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    1 day ago

    We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.

    Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.

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      15 hours ago

      We’re in the age of AI now. Are future historians going to be able to trust primary sources?

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      18 hours ago

      I can see future students simply denying that anyone would have really voted for DJT.

      “I refuse to believe that anyone was that dumb!”

      Can’t really blame them, I can hardly believe it now.

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        12 hours ago

        Many Germans did vote for Hitler (never the absolute majority of voters, though), even though he was clearly hateful and evil and obviously making lots of false claims, and on top of that looked completely ridiculous when he was shouting and screaming in his speeches. Can’t remember seeing any German say that they don’t believe that anyone voted for the guy.

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    1 day ago

    Optimistic of you to be so sure they’ll be studying history at all in the future.