I will never unsee this tweet. It will live in my head rent-free forever. - ThreadSky

vermontgmg.bsky.social • 14 days ago

I will never unsee this tweet. It will live in my head rent-free forever.

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

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Yeah, a whole lot of soldiers who marched to war in 1914 were excited about it then, too. But not after they walked back from the front -- if they could still walk.

incompleteness.bsky.social•13 days ago

Americans didn't join the war in 1914

epolitics.bsky.social•13 days ago

I was talking about French and German soldiers.

incompleteness.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yes, fair enough

jmptahoe.bsky.social•14 days ago

Born in 1900, teen soldier in the trenches of WW1, spend my thirties in the great depression, my early 40's in WW2 - sounds awesome

kagglers.bsky.social•13 days ago

The responses here are great!!

elippolis.bsky.social•13 days ago

There’s a certain kind of person who loves history but for all the wrong reasons.

unmitigatedgaul1.bsky.social•14 days ago

He died of Spanish Flu in 1918 in an overcrowded transport ship headed to France.

bakerblue.bsky.social•14 days ago

Later influencing was never the same.

spencerdow.bsky.social•13 days ago

No mentions of indoor plumbing, automobiles, the m-o-o-n...

jimkendall50.bsky.social•13 days ago

Life through rose-colored glasses.
WWI 15 million dead
WWII 70-85 million dead
Never mind disease

vermontgmg.bsky.social•13 days ago

But in between you also get the Great Depression, a famously wonderful time in history!

incompleteness.bsky.social•13 days ago

Hey, he's a fun guy! ... doesn't seem to know that soldiers get killed in war and the survivors come back with debilitating injuries and PTSD though

Good times in the Roaring Twenties, crappy times in the Great Depression

And maybe he would have caught polio as a baby anyway

brynneridley.bsky.social•14 days ago

Born in 1900. 12th of 14 children, 9 living. One living parent by age 4. Poor. Die of flu 1918.

50megatonfbomb.bsky.social•14 days ago

"For me, 1900. Fight in WWI. Come home. Get the Spanish flu and die of a secondary infection that could have been treated if it'd occurred only 10 years later."

moketchup.bsky.social•13 days ago

In 2525. I'm the type that wants to know how this all ended.

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•14 days ago

That’s all Hemingway’s fault

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•14 days ago

(Who, it should be noted, killed himself after 60 years of surviving through all that)

timrhughes.bsky.social•14 days ago

It would be so great to see all your friends get blown to bits in a world war. Twice.

baldurheimdall.bsky.social•12 days ago

In 1900, 25% of the kids born in the US didn't live to 5 years old. And the avg lifespan of a person born in 1900 was 46, so if he was really lucky, he might have lived long enough to see the end of WWII.

rebeccasugarday.bsky.social•12 days ago

I guess he doesn’t realize that people die in wars.

dylanzwick.bsky.social•13 days ago

I think there's a chance he thinks the "great" depression was so called because of how great it was to be alive at the time.

clearspies.fellas.army•13 days ago

These men.

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