I've done the Marx thing too, replied that he was German after someone claimed he was Russian. I've met people who have mixed up Marx and Stalin too. One coworker was telling me how Marx and Hitler signed a pact in WW2. Another time I outed myself as a commie for knowing every president of China.
Knowing who Hugo Chavez was has outed me as a commie a few times, since most people seem to just say Venezuela and be done with it. I think one time I corrected someone that Che Guevara was never president of Cuba, nor was he born in Cuba.
I don't know, where I grew up is absolutely bonkers with history. You get called a leftist (or a liberal more likely) if you say the Confederacy should have lost or that slavery is bad. I got called a liberal one time because I told my mother once a confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, killed Lincoln. She was adamant that Lincoln got killed at the Gettysburg address by Robert E. Lee. That's the type of confusion I deal with.
i think she might have been making up the events as she was saying them, which is what a lot of Americans do with history. Everything is incoherent vibes.
Yeah but there's only been 12 heads of state in China since 1954, and only 5 of them have had the title of president
I know every American president too. I recently started a project to memorize every Mexican head of state and it's going ok. I just like memorizing lists ok
Low literacy rate, poor education system, propaganda everywhere and a lack of being corrected. Middle class Americans live in a comfy bubble of their own vibes and never need to peer outside of it. It's also why they freak out the most at homeless people or seeing drugs. It ruins their comfy unquestioning worldview.
I've done the Marx thing too, replied that he was German after someone claimed he was Russian. I've met people who have mixed up Marx and Stalin too. One coworker was telling me how Marx and Hitler signed a pact in WW2. Another time I outed myself as a commie for knowing every president of China.
Knowing who Hugo Chavez was has outed me as a commie a few times, since most people seem to just say Venezuela and be done with it. I think one time I corrected someone that Che Guevara was never president of Cuba, nor was he born in Cuba.
I don't know, where I grew up is absolutely bonkers with history. You get called a leftist (or a liberal more likely) if you say the Confederacy should have lost or that slavery is bad. I got called a liberal one time because I told my mother once a confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, killed Lincoln. She was adamant that Lincoln got killed at the Gettysburg address by Robert E. Lee. That's the type of confusion I deal with.
Tbf it would have been more epic if your mom’s version of Lincoln’s assassination were correct.
i think she might have been making up the events as she was saying them, which is what a lot of Americans do with history. Everything is incoherent vibes.
Thanks for sharing this insanity. I think my hatred for America just increased by 11,4%.
TBF knowing every president of China doesn’t make you a commie, it makes you a gigantic nerd.
I know every American president too. I recently started a project to memorize every Mexican head of state and it's going ok. I just like memorizing lists ok
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Low literacy rate, poor education system, propaganda everywhere and a lack of being corrected. Middle class Americans live in a comfy bubble of their own vibes and never need to peer outside of it. It's also why they freak out the most at homeless people or seeing drugs. It ruins their comfy unquestioning worldview.