From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/18/2026 6:54 PM, 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/vid/   
   >>> 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.   
      
   Lies enshrined by popular media ain't exactly new.  (I always figured   
   the leaping lemmings were actually pushed, like at a Walmart sale.)   
      
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