Like was it a meaningful debate or a flat out flame war? And what was the main theme you were arguing over?

  • AskewLord@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    those folks aren’t interested in history, they are interested in fantasy.

    for a lot of folks, that’s all history is, or why it’s fun, it’s the fantasizing about it. It’s not the boring staid work of a true historian who is looking at boring crap like cargo manifests to piece together the reality of history.

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      4 days ago

      They’d sure extrapolate into conclusions for contemporary society and modern politics from those fantasies, which was the usual source of contention to start arguing.

      For some reason they’re ceded the right to call what they’re doing history and not fantasy. Hence things like the Clean Wehrmacht theory become more than fantasy to folks.