History is written by the confident

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• MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Me when I willfully misinterpret history because it sounds cooler and I dislike the antagonists I’m painting in the story.

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Standards were different back then. Even in my lifetime, we would just believe things that were wrong because we had no easy means to validate that without doing actual, manual research using books, which themselves could be outdated by a decade.

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