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Mickey7 @lemmy.world

1w ago

Interesting

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welcome to USSA where history rewrites you!
- “Don’t know much about history…” —Sam Cooke
  
  "Don't know much biology..." -Sam Cooke some more

And I was taught the Soviets are evil because they spy on their own people……
- I was taught that in the mid 00s. My father somehow was confused that I supported snowden
  
  Did fox news tell him Snowden was a big bad gasp traitor?
  
  When the propaganda is chef's kiss
- They did spy on their own people, and to get ahead, a lot of people collaborated with the government to report other people.
  
  Yeah that wasn't a great point. The US spies on its own people sure (but literally every country does) but it was nothing like the Soviet union.
- That's not why they were evil 😑well not only that.

Or as a young man in the navy, being told to make sure to act right in foreign countries...."you'd never want to have to deal with their legal system."

I remember being a kid wishing there was more world history being taught. Seemed like we got a touch of world history in 6th grade and 9th grade but between those spaces was all US History
- What world history do they teach in the US?
  
  How Ancient Greece created Western Democracy and separated us from the savages.
  Franz Ferdinand got assassinated and that was bad, therefore assassinations only make things worse.
  WWII and how the US saved the world.
  Russians were scary but America won.
  
  Fascist world history, aka, Republican party history. Seems their failed fascist "Business plot" was skipped over in school history books.
- I remember HS history was incredibly neutered. It was still America is Heroes. There were small cracks, like Japanese internment camps. Or the Trail of Tears. But they had a single paragraph or two. I remember reading about the Vietnam war and how people "feel" about it.
  Only during college did I read about real history. Things like our meddling in the Philippines. Our meddling in South America. Our meddling in Southeast Asia after WW2. Not to mention real American history, like Black Wall Street.
  The worse is that the text books are owned by conservatives, so expect even more neutering/white washing. Combined with religious folks hating modern education and homeschooling, and we got ourselves some backwards ass folks.
- MAGAts got raised?
  
  MAGA
  Morons And Genuine Ass-holes

I was raised to love my neighbor, to respond to hate with compassion, to tell the truth even when it hurt. I was taught that these were Christian values and by extension, American ones. We were the country that believed in freedom of thought, the integrity of history, and moral courage.
But now I see many of the same people who taught me those values embracing a movement built on denial, grievance, and revisionist history. They’ve tied themselves to a man who mocks truth, glorifies cruelty, and demands loyalty over integrity.
And the saddest part? We used to look at other nations and say, “That could never happen here.” But it is happening here. And it’s not being forced on us, we’re choosing it.
The cost of that betrayal isn’t some distant consequence we’ll face down the road. It’s already here. The values they abandoned didn’t slowly fade, they were cast aside, willingly, and replaced with something hollow. This isn’t a detour. It’s the destination. And the people who once preached righteousness have no intention of turning back.
- It was always happening in the States, just less so or people didn’t care whether or not the history of slaves or whatever was real or not.
  
  It was a slow burn in 'murica that grew into a raging inferno.

Those adults then got treated real poorly, underpaid, abused, and replaced. Now state media is great!
- funny how no one in school trusted the mainstream media and now they believe everything they say without question

As a kid I distinctly remember American conservatives bombing half my country to keep Russia away from this hemisphere. Now they suck Putin cock
- As a kid, I distinctly remember protesting (two separate decades) to stop the middle east invasion. I remember even when it was announced, it was deeply unpopular.
  And here we are again.

My parents said "Quit eating that school glue, shithead!".

curious how almost everyone missed the point of this post

😆

I also remember that the USSR was mocked because their citizens had to show papers to move around inside the country. With all the warrantless searches allowed within 50 miles of the border (aka a huge part of the USA) and the huge amount of scrutiny that you face to even fly within the USA, it doesn't seem quite so funny anymore.

I mean, yeah. Two different things can be true at the same time.

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