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re: What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:25 am to grizzlylongcut
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:25 am to grizzlylongcut
This thread just reaffirms my luke warm take that this site is chock-full of legitimate dimwits and morons.
This post was edited on 8/19/26 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:25 am to Bullfrog
The other eight were called "President of the United States in Congress Assembled". I never knew this and your post forced me to look it up. Thanks
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:36 am to OWLFAN86
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Well I think your math may be a little bit off
but then this should be in the thread Give an example from what people think is history that proves they're incredibly stupid
And it's often presented as if it was just a whole lot to do about nothing. There was segregating busing
the Rosa Park aspect may have been a stunt but what it was highlighting was very real
Thats the factual history
There is a reason why they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Of course it was a photo op. A lot of people would not have understood the absurdity of segregation without seeing the pictures and videos.
Same thing happens today. People get way more worked up about videos they see on Tik/Tok vs written stories.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:38 am to Epaminondas
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Texas should have been its own country. Obviously.
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It's turning into India.
More like a combination of India and Pakistan.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:41 am to Celery
quote:The founding fathers didn't choose Democracy. The United States is not a Democracy!
Democracy was the wrong choice.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:42 am to Bullfrog
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George Washington was not our first president.
go on...
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to grizzlylongcut
JFKs assanation was a fork in the road and not a plot and probably saved lives
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to Stinger_1066
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Of course it was a photo op. A lot of people would not have understood the absurdity of segregation without seeing the pictures and videos. Same thing happens today. People get way more worked up about videos they see on Tik/Tok vs written stories.
today people have to watch videos to understand the absurdity of desegregation on public transportation.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to grizzlylongcut
Malcolm X was wiser in his approach than MLK
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:43 am to theunknownknight
Is that really a hot take on Tigerdroppings?
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:44 am to Naked Bootleg
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go on...
It’s a neat little nugget.. and true.
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“ George Washington is the first president under the modern U.S. Constitution, taking office on April 30, 1789. However, eight men held the title of "President of the United States in Congress Assembled" before him, starting with John Hanson in 1781, under the Articles of Confederation.”
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:49 am to grizzlylongcut
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I don’t feel bad at all for what happened to the Indians.
They'd still be living in the Stone Age now, had Europeans never arrived.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:55 am to theunknownknight
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The civil war wasn't about a moral fight over blacks.
True Nuff
Pretty sure most every war in human history going back to cavemen is about
Money
Power
Resources
To be fair all 3 probably fall back on pussy. Without pussy men would still be in caves scratching their balls and drawing on the cave walls while drinking beers with other cavemen. Time outside th cave was spent huntin and fishin.
Middle East is not about Iran / Ayatollah
It did not start with Carter and the hostages
It started over a century ago and it was ALL about oil. Persian Empire was probably one of the Top 5 to Top 10 empires in human history and probably spanned at least 3,000 years.
Then along came Standard Oil and British Petroleum who basically recognized the Bedoin nomads (See Lawrence of Arabia) and went against the Turks (See Galipiloi) to get regimes friendly to oil concessions to Standard Oil and British Petroleum.
Same with the War of Northern Aggression. Look at all those folks in Eastern Kentucky mountains who don't even own the rights to their land (save a house they live in in the surface) because Kentucky was neutral in that war but after the war all that timber and coal was taken from the citizens and held by a handful of families in Philadelphia and New York City to this very day.
In the Middle East we have our kids fighting and dying so some multinational or private equity group can sell that cheap oil back to the rest of us at GREATLY inflated prices.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:58 am to OWLFAN86
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WRONG ,, thats liberal ,commie rewriting of history,
We lied about having more nukes (which didn't do as much damage as firebombing Tokyo). Everyone says the bluff "worked", but Oppenheimer's russian moles were already leaking info. Russian & American invasions were the real catalyst for the surrender, and proves we never had to drop them in the first place. Dropping Nukes was the biggest mistake ever, the genie will never go back in the bottle. Henry Wallace doesn't drop those bombs. But the MIC always wins. Surprised Eisenhower didn't catch a stray for calling them out like he did.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 9:59 am to Naked Bootleg
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They'd still be living in the Stone Age now, had Europeans never arrived.
Indian Chief, “Two Eagles,” was asked by a white government official, “You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he’s done.”
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The official continued, “Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?”
The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. “When white man find land, Indians running it. No taxes, No debt, Plenty buffalo, Plenty beaver, Clean Water; Women did all the work at camp, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; All night [making love to wife.]”
Then the chief leaned back and smiled. “Only white man dumb enough to think he can improve system like that.”
Posted on 8/19/26 at 10:01 am to grizzlylongcut
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What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?
We started dying as a country when we stopped practicing Manifest Destiny
Posted on 8/19/26 at 10:02 am to Darth_Vader
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Add all that up, and even with the victory at Stalingrad in early 1943, by the end of that year the Red Army, and indeed the Soviet Union itself, would not have lasted past the end of the year if not for Lend Lease.
Well worth it. Keeping the Reich away from the oil in Baku was incredibly important.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 10:03 am to migui8618
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We lied about having more nukes (which didn't do as much damage as firebombing Tokyo).
that's a stupid comparison. it took hundreds, if not thousands, of sorties to do to Tokyo what one single bomb did to Hiroshima.
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Dropping Nukes was the biggest mistake ever, the genie will never go back in the bottle.
now that's the kind hot take i came here to downvote.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 10:09 am to ErectileReptile
Any specific examples you would like to argue against? This is a “hot takes” thread after all.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 10:14 am to grizzlylongcut
Three of the first five US presidents died on the Fourth of July
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