757af333   
   From: ijball@mac.invalid   
      
   On 2/18/26 8:35 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
      
   > Rhino  wrote:   
   >> On 2026-02-18 7:53 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>> Your Name   wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-02-18 22:10:07 +0000, moviePig said:   
   >>>>> On 2/18/2026 1:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2024059899617976320/v   
   d/avc1/576x1024/96uBV9UUO7gvIuPn.mp4   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> America’s historical literacy is dismal.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> CLAIM: "Millions of women were sexually assaulted and genocided at the   
   Salem   
   >>>>>> Witch Trials"-- when the colonial population was only ~210,000.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> FACT: Only 19 people were executed during the Witch Trials (including 5   
   men).   
   >>>>>> Not gender-based. No sexual assault.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> The 'progressive' neon-haired nose-ring crowd will not only believe   
   anything,   
   >>>>>> they'll get violent in response to their fantasies.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'd think you'd be hard pressed to find a self-avowed 'progressive'   
   >>>>> who'd support anything in this video (...except the background music).   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Part of the blame for Americans' "historical inaccuracies" can go to   
   >>>> Hollyweird. Just look at the World War I and II movies they make where   
   >>>> 'America saves the day' even when Americans weren't actually in the   
   >>>> events portrayed (other than perhaps a few voluteers). The Disney   
   >>>> enforced fallacy of lemmings throwing themselves off cliffs is another   
   >>>> example.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have no idea what Your Name is talking about. While I am not familiar   
   >>> wth epid WWI movies from the silent era, if any, in the sound era. it   
   >>> would have been an unusual topic. There's Sergeant York and I'm hard   
   >>> pressed to think of another. I guess For Whom the Bell Tolls counts.   
   >>>   
   >>> Kirk Douglas starred in Paths of Glory (1957), but that was about epic   
   >>> failure of the French general staff and in no way glorified war nor had   
   >>> anything to do with Americans.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nor can I think of a WWII movie falsely taking credit for a battle   
   >>> Americans did not participate in.   
   >>>   
   >>> False historical statements about witch trials cannot be blamed on   
   >>> Hollywood either. Well, there were comedies about witches but no one   
   >>> took that as history.   
   >>   
   >> Are you trying to say that Bewitched *wasn't* historically accurate?   
   >> Gasp!   
   >   
   > The TV show or the movie where she was a psychotic killer?   
      
   Actually they should take that concept and run with it and make a true   
   horror movie (or TV series) based on that premise.   
      
   I'd watch it.   
      
      
   Ian  (Especially if they got Madelaine Petsch to star!! -   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueepqA3jIdc)   
      
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