From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/19/2026 5:18 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-19 21:45:15 +0000, moviePig said:   
   >> 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.)   
   >   
   > The Disney film crew chased the lemmings off the cliff to get some   
   > "exciting footage" in their "documentary".  :-\   
   >   
   > There is another silly myth about lemmings: that they "explode" when   
   > highly stressed. The only place leemings explode is the animated   
   > characters in the various "Lemmings" computer games.  :-)   
      
   I don't think I could watch that "exciting footage" today...   
      
      
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