You forgot how they singlehandedly won WW2
117If today, I wonder if the US would be more reluctant to get involved in that war, considering how seemingly half the country wish Hitler were their president.
52More reluctant? It's arguable that if Japan did not directly attack the US they never would have joined. "America First" was a powerful political group that urged elected officials and the public to stay out of European wars even if Hitler took over all of Europe. America First disbanded after Pearl Harbor. Fun fact: Dr. Seuss got his start parodying this group in political cartoons.
87I don't know. A lot of ideas about eugenics came from the US to Nazi Germany. US' support of allies was more political than ideological, and that in turn changed US ideology. Also, death camps which are the automatically objectionable act weren't known (or maybe weren't happening yet, I'm hazy on this) before Pearl Harbor.
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Nah, that's mean to the Nazis. Republicans love Nazis now.
13Always has been 👨🚀
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The moon landing wouldn’t be up there in red states.
45It would be, but only to talk about how it was a waste of taxpayer money
19True but depends how delusional they are. Some are further lost than others. Drinking the koolaid too much.
6Nawwwe, they're all flat earthers. No way they acknowledge it if they actually get their way.
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The moon landing wouldn’t be up there in red states.
Of course it would. It is one of the few actually valid examples of American exceptionalism which nationalists absolutely require as the underpinnings to their myopic ethos. In addition to teaching the history of this wonderful achievement, it will also be taught how these events never actually took place to support their claims the government actively lies to the American people requiring action for citizens to "take back" the country. Questions for both viewpoints will be on the midterm, so remember to study.
If you're wondering how these two contradictory ideas can be taught in the same classroom, then remember in MAGA school the class taught immediately prior to history is "Learning to live with Cognitive Dissonance".
13Yeah but "the moon landing was a myth"
1It's not really cognitive dissonance, they just don't care about facts or truth. Words are just carrier waves for emotions and aren't the signal per se
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Nah now that other countries are expanding their space programs the Republicans would never pass up the chance to brag about how they were first to the moon if for nothing else than to put everyone else down.
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Hitler wasn’t so bad
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Slavery was good for black people
44I wasn't taught much from the "slavery is good" angle in GA. It was more subtle, framed as mostly information about the goods traded and what slaves produced for the countries they were in. Like, it was all about the slave trade industry and not how awful the conditions were.
Lots of information glossed over in favor of capitalism.
21I think TheJims was referencing the fact that Florida has recently added the explicit idea that slaves benefited from slavery (that they developed skills, for example, being one of the things they claim the slaves benefited from) to their curriculum.
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- God created everything 6000 years ago
12- The Moon landing was fake news
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They wouldn't pass up on WWII since that's the last time we were honestly seen as the good guys to the world. The Cold War would probably be there too just to show "communism doesn't work".
39You’d think they would want to talk about the Civil war too. That was a notable event in history where the democrat party of the time was the bad guys and wanted to keep slavery legal.
5No no, because then white kids feel guilty and everyone has reason to doubt the glory of our beloved nation. America dindu
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Republicans won't teach about WWII because they lost
2Well they WERE getting seen as the good Guys with Ukraine, but Putin wasnt happy with that so the republicans have decided to get in the way of that
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1776*
*revised edition
32Also gotta teach both theories of how the moon landing could have happened...
8What is the right wing version of 1776? Or is the joke that they will revise it? If that is the joke I'll delete this once someone tells me because explaining a joke is a sin I think. I'm just curious what their revisions are if it's real
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Wait until they mandate teaching about Jan 6th tourist visit to the Capitol
27No way they let people learn about the moon landing.
26(how) the moon landing (was faked)
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25The space Odyssey?
13ironically
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Moon landing was fake though, you can't teach something that is fake. /s
25That's probably what they'll teach. That it was a fake liberal lie to undermine the glorious nation of Russia.
12you can’t teach something that is fake.
Uh... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can though. Here's a little example:
Africa is a shithole country. White people were kind to accept the slaves that Africans themselves provided, and civilized them. They even gave them sammiches sometimes!
There problem solved: now little Timmy doesn't have to feel guilty about being the oppressor anymore! :-P Next week we'll cover how chaining native Americans to (active) hot stoves in >100 degree temps in the desert will help teach them the true meaning of Christianity...
10God (who is white) forbid that little Timmy should ever be made to feel "uncomfortable" about the uncomfortable parts of human history. And why is it that today's kid's seem so molly-coddled and unconcerned about justice? Hmmm - it's a real puzzlement all right. And after all real "christianity" is about how tightly you put those little brains into braces so they can't be upset by reality.
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Two wrongs doesn't make a right
1I know it sounds nutty and delusional to say the moon landing was fake (and perhaps you're being facetious) but - I remember watching it back in 1969 and it seemed kinda fake on TV back then. I'm not saying one way or the other, but it seems awfully suspicious that we suddenly made it to the moon in time to beat the Russians back then, yet we don't really know today how to engineer a spacecraft to make a return flight from the moon (the hard part isn't getting there, it's getting back again). SOMETHING seems fishy about it all. Just sayin'!
-12Just to interject here. For those wondering the actual thing holding up the lander and liftoff lunar vehicle is a really sore spot. Because what’s stopping us isn’t some technical challenge.
SpaceX owned by Elon Musk and Blue Origin owned by Jeff Bezos are having a spat over who gets to build the HLS. And the objecting and complaining to courts that NASA isn’t being fair to (insert either of these players) has easily set back going back to the moon at least half a decade if not moreso.
So this pretty specific part of the whole moon landing has actually held up a lot surprisingly but mostly because we’ve got two very rich people having a very visible cat fight that’s slowing everything else related to moon travel down to a crawl.
13Sure there are technical challenges in getting to the Moon, landing, relaunching, and returning to Earth, but none of them are particularly insurmountable. The reason we haven't really been back to the Moon is that public and political interest in space practically disappeared and funding along with it. And now space agencies have to either wait for some petty billionaire twats to stop cat-fighting or somehow scrape together enough of a budget out of countless other, arguably more important missions.
Also, just because something seemed fake on tv, it does NOT indicate that it is actually fake. Moon-landing hoax conspiracies have been torn apart numerous times and are all over YouTube, buried under all the hoax videos. We also have physical evidence such as Moon rocks that we use for research and reflectors placed on the Moon that we can shoot lasers at. You can even visit the Saturn V in a museum (can't remember which one off the top of my head). The real question is why fake the Moon landing? Why spend billions of dollars on R/D, hardware, and technology as well as employ thousands of people for decades just to not do the thing? Occam's razor is particularly relevant here, the simplest explanation is almost certainly the correct one.
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Probably something in there about poverty and crime rates soaring after the liberal North forced the glorious and God fearing South to end the benevolent system of slavery that provided free housing and healthcare to those poor incapable souls in its care.
18Let's be real here.
The Moon Landing ain't gonna be on there.
17That's sad but true, especially here in Utah. Now that they've threatened to arrest any kids who openly talk about LGBTQ issues in school, and they aren't allowed to recognize any black history, that doesn't leave much for kids to learn except how to be as pablum-brained as their own parents.
15I bet they leave in plenty of time to talk about how oppressed the Mormons have been.
8Oh of course. They're allowed to teach pioneer history, so long as it doesn't include any of the Mountain Meadow Massacre stuff. We all know mormons are truly saints in every possible way and incapable of human blemish of any kind.
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there was certainly WMD in Iraq. The UN just never looked in the right place.
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over a million Afghanistan civilians deserved to die for the Trade Center attacks carried out by the son of a wealthy Saudi businessman
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12That wealthy Saudi businessman, who had direct financial ties to the sitting president at the time.
Direct financial ties being partnership in a group that owned a bunch of arms manufacturers.
4Don't forget how Saddam Hussein PERSONALLY flew both planes into the twin towers on 9/11.
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apparently the constitution doesn't exist in this alternate universe. Which seems weird.
11That's covered in 1776, blacks and women are 3/5 of a person
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maybe our president should make an executive order federalizing education and make standards stick
forgot never mind everything is a state by state issue and it is the citizen's fault for not voting correctly even though some are not allowed to vote and we have a militarized police to ensure citizens get put in their place and the minimum wage is $7.25 unless you win the geographic lottery and are born in a state with higher minimum wages
at least trump is not president so all is good
8The first three weeks of the Iraq war?
2Don't forget the Benefits of oil
2Wasn't the moon landing a nasa scam to get more budget?
-5To provide an alternative viewpoint:
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-us-history-course-and-exam-description.pdf
-5I'm pretty sure the cartoon is not about kids taking college-level history.
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Holy shit this is as stupid as anything i've seen on therightcan'tmeme.
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