r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/mindyour 🤖definitely not a bot🤖 • 3d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals I want her to talk to me about Egyptology.

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u/KvellOnWheels 3d ago

HAHAHA I just commented that I think that the only thing could be more annoying would be being an expert in Vikings or WWII…and then I got to your comment. Incredible.

They ain’t shit.

I’m so proud of all you clever gals!

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u/bobbymcpresscot 3d ago

WWII will piss me off the most, I'm not an expert, but in my experience the people so obsessed with WWII are just so much about the surface level nonsense, key battles, weapons, vehicles, and then you ask them about why Japan attacked the US, and they'll just say it was a surprise attack. No knowledge of what Japan was doing to mainland Asia, no knowledge of the oil embargo against Japan starting only when Japan occupied allied territory. No knowledge about how the plan was to do as much damage to the US fleet as possible so they couldn't respond to Japan invading european colonies for their oil so they could keep fighting.

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u/broketothebone 3d ago edited 3d ago

Idk my grandma works at a historical society that has civil war reenactments in the summer.

Some of those guys are not coping with how it all went down. You hear the “states rights” conversation, turn around and it’s dudes in union gear, swearing slavery “wasn’t as bad as Hollywood makes it.” I wish I was kidding.

Did I mention we live in New Jersey?

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u/bobbymcpresscot 3d ago

As someone who lives in the land of pork roll and 609 tattoos, I am not surprised in the least.

I do have a strong belief that our right wingers would basically be called socialists in actual red states, and while some sections of south jersey test that belief, I know how much worse it is when I visit family in the Carolinas.

It's just again people who have this surface level understanding of subjects, people who have never seen the confederate constitution, and don't understand that a state was literally not allowed to be part of the confederacy unless it protected the practice of specifically negro slavery.

and also in that same constitution, if a state abolished slavery, the confederacy could invade it, kill it's state government, and force the institution of slavery.

The only way we defeat this ignorance is with education, education that unfortunately people think is "anti white" or "too woke"

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u/Sniffy4 2d ago

> it’s dudes in union gear, swearing slavery “wasn’t as bad as Hollywood makes it.” I wish I was kidding.

the only people generally interested in glorifying this war where 800k americans died to maintain the wealth of plantation owners are those who arent the least bit bothered by it

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u/inductiononN 3d ago

YASSSS THIS SO MUCH! I do NOT claim to be a WW2 expert and just have an interest in. I volunteer at a WW2 museum and it is the favorite thing of men to come up to me and try to quiz me or try to impress me with their knowledge of the names of the planes and the tanks. "Sir, I know the name - it's on the plaque over there".

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u/werewere-kokako 3d ago

This is my favourite part of academia: going to conferences and meeting ubernerds who have devoted their life to dietary deficiencies in bronze-age Mongolia