Pop historian, casual and youtube shorts/reel History channel when you told them to use nuance:
macdelamemes on
Tried to listen to Our Fake History once, 2 min into the episode the guy is telling me, and I quote, that “the great fire that swept through Rome in 64 AD was the 9/11 of the ancient world”
Yeah sorry you just lost me bro
Gigantopithecus1453 on
People comparing contemporary America to a historic period always gives me a headache
Agricola20 on
Don’t you know that empires only last 250 years (empirically proven!!!) and that the US is turning 250 years old *this year*?!?!
Stupidity manifest.
Blundertail on
There’s a podcast I listen to that likes to compare certain historical figures to Trump sometimes. They’re pretty good about citing sources so I keep listening but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it makes me slightly concerned that this continual comparison might color his reading of the sources regarding that figure (at least it sounds like it’s not inaccurate in some ways but it’s still annoying)
Fr05t_B1t on
*the internet
FordShelbyGTreeFiddy on
“History fans” whining when people try to learn from history so we don’t repeat it
nuker0S on
I read poop instead of pop
Crafter235 on
When you see people comparing 2020s US to the Weimar Republic becoming Nazi Germany
xenocuriosa on
Noooo what is this history elitism?!?! I like drawing parallels between different points in history including the one I’m living in.
It makes things easier for me to understand, but I can still accept objective differences.
GustavoistSoldier on
The contemporary USA heavily resembles ancient Rome.
FlyingFreest on
Yknow, Quasimodo predicted all this…
Soot027 on
Take the Mike Duncan pill and just relate everything to either French Revolution (and be justified because the liberal nobles getting scared the second before progress happens is the one true constant in history)
PomegranateHot9916 on
those casuals don’t even know what contemporary means.
RamblesTheGent on
To be fair, political extremism, especially political extremism that is as “loud” (and occasionally ridiculous) as it is in the current US makes for easy parallels to other such times in history.
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Pop historian, casual and youtube shorts/reel History channel when you told them to use nuance:
Tried to listen to Our Fake History once, 2 min into the episode the guy is telling me, and I quote, that “the great fire that swept through Rome in 64 AD was the 9/11 of the ancient world”
Yeah sorry you just lost me bro
People comparing contemporary America to a historic period always gives me a headache
Don’t you know that empires only last 250 years (empirically proven!!!) and that the US is turning 250 years old *this year*?!?!
Stupidity manifest.
There’s a podcast I listen to that likes to compare certain historical figures to Trump sometimes. They’re pretty good about citing sources so I keep listening but I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it makes me slightly concerned that this continual comparison might color his reading of the sources regarding that figure (at least it sounds like it’s not inaccurate in some ways but it’s still annoying)
*the internet
“History fans” whining when people try to learn from history so we don’t repeat it
I read poop instead of pop
When you see people comparing 2020s US to the Weimar Republic becoming Nazi Germany
Noooo what is this history elitism?!?! I like drawing parallels between different points in history including the one I’m living in.
It makes things easier for me to understand, but I can still accept objective differences.
The contemporary USA heavily resembles ancient Rome.
Yknow, Quasimodo predicted all this…
Take the Mike Duncan pill and just relate everything to either French Revolution (and be justified because the liberal nobles getting scared the second before progress happens is the one true constant in history)
those casuals don’t even know what contemporary means.
To be fair, political extremism, especially political extremism that is as “loud” (and occasionally ridiculous) as it is in the current US makes for easy parallels to other such times in history.
What pop history are you consuming?