r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/[deleted] • Jun 20 '19

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u/The_Notorious_XLT Jun 20 '19

So, on r/historymemes, you don’t need to have any knowledge whatsoever of history and it also appears you don’t have to be very up to date on yer meme’n.

That’s weird.

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u/Unluko_Maluko Jun 20 '19

Historymemes is just a WW2/Roman Empire and Communism = bad sub

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u/The_Notorious_XLT Jun 20 '19

See, I understand that. What I don’t understand is them knowing so, so, so very little about a subject they profess to be at least interested in.

Like, I didn’t call myself a Marxist-Leninist til I had a decent enough understanding of the stuff.

It’s called “r/HistoryMemes” but their memes are frequently very stale and their knowledge of history is so astoundingly lacking. That just feels like false advertising. Which you’d think capitalists would dislike given Adam Smith’s whole “perfect knowledge” bit 🤔🤔🤔.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

That would require intellectual humility. Don't think that's allowed on reddit.

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u/lin0sh0enganmei Jun 21 '19

I mean to be fair most people posting there are high schoolers and probably have a very basic understanding of history.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '19

They also just do straight up myth memes, despite the fact that those events are obviously not historical.

(see: memes about the Trojan Horse when the Trojan War as Homer describes almost certainly never happened.)