There's no way they're not just playing dumb, right? Right?? :matt-jokerfied:

  • Abstraction [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Do people really not know "mussolini made the trains run on time", surely not

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      People not knowing famous cliches about WWII is levels of historic illiteracy that seems genuinely unbelievable.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Particularly considering that it is the ONLY 20th century conflict American history teaches throughout the country (the rest are "not noteworthy" or "political")

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Well they also teach Vietnam: the Americans bravely went to defend Vietnamese freedom, but there were a lot of protests back home and officials listened and ended the war

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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        2 years ago

        its anecdotal but this dumb tid bit is usually one of the idk, 5 things, people say whenever ww2 gets brought.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I always thought that was a joke. The setup I heard was always something like "Mussolini converted the trains in Italy to run on herbs so they could finally run on thyme"

    • kissinger
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      1 year ago

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