Blue check marks and shitty takes? It's more common than you'd think.
Ah yes, the 'good times' of tsarist Russia were really something, weren't they
yup, the good times of tsarist russia, colonial africa and feudal china.
To be fair to libs, having the longterm memory of a goldfish does make it difficult to form "theories" about history.
The good ol' times under Czar Nicholas II during the first World War
TIL i learned that the contradictions of capitalism are actually good
Bad takes and anachronistic interpretations of the fall of the WRE, name a more iconic duo.
Here's a six-part series of essay-blogs by an actual historian about how "Hard times create hard men that create good times that create soft men that create hard times" is hot bullshit, and the history of where that bullshit came from.
