Everyone so damn defensive about history texts like they're fucking gospel.
Norm was a funny guy. It was a joke.
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The only thing I'm annoyed about is the use of the semi colon
Take away the “that” and the semicolon is okay, but you should go full colon.
Same advice as with your mom, actually.
I love a good mom roast. It's almost a lost art these days, or at least it feels like that.
I do too (and I’m glad)! My mom died at the height of the yo momma joke trend and I came up with a comeback that I was so proud of, it made me actively hope for one. Here goes:
My mom’s dead, but I hear she was a great piece of ash.
Sorry to hear your mom passed away. Thankfully mine is still with me.
That comeback is darker than a black lab in a cave.
you should go full colon
Never go full colon!
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Studied history at uni. On the topic of historical revisionism professor shruged and said: History is revised all the time. It's called learning more.
Why did they put a semicolon in the middle of this sentence?
To bother you
Should have snuck an em dash in there if you really want to rile people up
I'm glad I finished school before the AI era—I put an em dash and a semicolon in the same sentence at least twice in a given paper; this would get flagged every flipping time nowadays.
Lol same... I used to have the alt code for em dash memorized (back when I used Windows)
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Engagement bait baybee
Wow. They did it.
I mean, while there's certainly a bias towards the victor, there's definitely some histories that have slipped through from people who were very much not the victors. Josephus comes to mind, even if he did so by surrendering to the victors; Thucydides and Athens lost the Peloponnesian War; for a more recent example, the American South's narrative on the Civil War.
for a more recent example, the American South’s narrative on the Civil War.
Bold of you to think that they would agree that it's over.
I always loved his joke about 9/11. It went something like, “ I saw the towers fall and immediately went down to Ground Zero to look for my brother. I spent hours looking and searching for him, but I never found him then I remembered that he moved to Colorado three years ago.”
I realize he's talking about "history is written by the victors" but I thought of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds
If this is the best of all possible worlds then God must be pretty fucking terrible at making worlds.
I go with Schopenhauer:
Arthur Schopenhauer argued, contrary to Leibniz, that our world must be the worst of all possible worlds, because if it were only a little worse, it could not continue to exist.
We appear to be working on proving Schopenhauer's theory.
How great it would be to realize that our god is the equivalent of a grade school child making finger painting and crayon drawing versions of worlds in the timeout chair and this was just the one we got stuck with.
I've read webcomics with something close to that premise.
Its object was to solve the problem of evil, that is, to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering in the world with the existence of a perfectly good, all-powerfuland all-knowing God, who would seem required to prevent it
I'm reminded of HAL from 2001 for some reason. Maybe because HAL was given two conflicting goals and went insane trying to reconcile them with each other, rather than simply discarding the goal that was obviously just some nonsense.
I couldn't get past this...
Is that Leibniz?
Such a fancy boy
Edit: didn't click the link before posting. Dunno if I should be impressed or concerned that I recognized this dude lol.
He might look like a dandy, and might have been way too weirdly Christian, but the man was a fucking genius. Still think his notation style for calculus was better than Newton's
Wai? Dude looks like he plays drums in a Spinal Tap tribute band. What could be better than that?
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I miss Norm so bad. The wisdom of the ages packed into a guy you could work on a lawn mower with.
You would need to be extremely racist to think the good guys won the Opium War or the wars of European conquest in the Americas or Africa, and even centuries of propaganda spin don't change that. And there are cases like the Siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade that was rightfully vilified even at the time.
You would have to lack a certain kind of thinking to take this quote that was posted in the memes community seriously
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Are you familiar with the concept of sarcasm? Or contextual reading?
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One Piece, of all things, phrased this concept better
"Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what's wrong and what's right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!"
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