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I've read some weird takes about 9/11 already. (startrek.website)
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[–] 88 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

As an early GenX whose been online since the BBS days this happens all the time but honestly the historical revisionism isn't main problems, it's the loss of context around the history.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    People today think social media is a news source

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Well, traditional news sources have lowered the bar enough that social media isn't really much worse in a lot of cases. Especially considering how many "news" there is about social media content; it makes it seem that something like Twitter is the "source" that the news is citing. The lines have been blurred, seemingly intentionally so it's hard to blame people for not having a good barometer who grew up in an ecosystem of generalized enshitification.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I think of it this way. Me, my father and my grandfather all read the newspaper the same way. We all went to the store with cash in our pockets. We all talked to bank clerks. Another thing is that there were a lot more historic dramas when we were coming up. Old style candle stick phones and telegraph operators were a common trope.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You want some context around history...go listen to Dan Carlins Hardcore History.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I second this! I used to make day-long deliveries across the Kansas plains and listening to Dan Carlin wax eloquent about the rise and fall of the Persian Empire or the Rape of Nanking kept me engaged and entranced the entire time.

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