Oh you wouldn’t believe the propaganda bullshit we get taught in K-12 here. Pretty sure that’s why politicians (mostly republicans, but not invariably) vilify higher education and ensure it remains prohibitively expensive; wasn’t til college that I learned that a good portion of my history classes growing up had, at best, shown only the American (or, in the case of US history, the white male American) side of the story, and at worst, been almost entirely fucking fabricated. “No no no, the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery” lookin ass. Honestly “we saved the world from Nazis because we’re just such kewl dudes” isn’t even the biggest bridge they sold us.
I assure you every single person in the US who thinks anything remotely close to that picture actually believes the US single handedly saved the world from the Nazis.
They singlehandedly liberated germany and defeated the nazis. What kind of alternate history are you guys smoking over there?
Oh you wouldn’t believe the propaganda bullshit we get taught in K-12 here. Pretty sure that’s why politicians (mostly republicans, but not invariably) vilify higher education and ensure it remains prohibitively expensive; wasn’t til college that I learned that a good portion of my history classes growing up had, at best, shown only the American (or, in the case of US history, the white male American) side of the story, and at worst, been almost entirely fucking fabricated. “No no no, the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery” lookin ass. Honestly “we saved the world from Nazis because we’re just such kewl dudes” isn’t even the biggest bridge they sold us.
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I assure you every single person in the US who thinks anything remotely close to that picture actually believes the US single handedly saved the world from the Nazis.
Poe’s law at work here
I think the point is that the americans view themselves like that, generally, and thus the change is startling
the accuracy of the first statement is irrelevant, their belief in it is relevant