Americabad, what a new and refreshing take thanks lemmy
Maybe there’s a reason why Americabad is such a common take? Just something to think about…
Yes, Kremlin, and more recently also CCP, disinformation on social media.
Ah yes, the ripe target of state propaganda known as Lemmy. You know, the place where SEO bots barely even make an effort on penetrating.
Make another one about the US abroad.
- Movies and other media: USA = savior
- Reality: USA = murderers
One like = one cry for those poor American heroes that got PTSD from gunning down Vietnamese rice farmers.
What’s that quote? History is written by the winners. Yeah, something like that. Not to say the alternative would have been better, but bad historians will always leave out the worst parts of a country’s history.
What’s that quote? History is written by the winners. Yeah, something like that.
…you mean the title of the post?
Well doesn’t that depend on this history books? Try again, my friend. :-)
Actually History isn’t always written by the victors. After WW2 a load of german officers fled to south America and began writing books about how great they were and could have won if only they had finished developing all their wonder weapons in time. This is the origin of a lot of persistent and false memes about how advanced and brilliant the nazis supposedly were. It’s history written by losers.
Interestingly, the CIA also rescued thousands of high-profile Nazis and brought them to the USA, where they were given positions of power and authority (Operation Paperclip, Operation Bloodstone), and began teaching people that changing anything is impossible and we need to fight communism because it is evil and authoritarian and goes against human nature and always fails (not because it’s the most effective way to destroy Nazism).
You talk about memes. I don’t know them. I think all states, including Germany, teach the story of the Victors in school
Actually History isn’t always written by the victors… This is the origin of a lot of persistent and false memes…
You may remember history but your reading comprehension needs a little work
What does writing history mean to you? Making memes no one knows about, isn’t. Making memes that enter public consciousness (as the word combination “a lot of persistent” seems to suggest or at least leave open) maybe. But what do I know, I lack basic reading skills apparently.
