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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·3 days agoHistory is written by the victors.
minus-squareOptional@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoIt used to be, before everyone had a printing press in their pocket.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoVery well. History’s industrial scale marketing and distribution hubs are operated by the victors.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoA statement banned from all serious history communities because it’s demonstrably wrong
minus-squarehitmyspot@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIt doesn’t have to be absolutely true to be a truism.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoFor the kind of mind that operates on a truthiness instead of a factual level maybe
History is written by the victors.
It used to be, before everyone had a printing press in their pocket.
Very well. History’s industrial scale marketing and distribution hubs are operated by the victors.
Indeed.
A statement banned from all serious history communities because it’s demonstrably wrong
It doesn’t have to be absolutely true to be a truism.
For the kind of mind that operates on a truthiness instead of a factual level maybe
Only sith deal in absolutes.