This is a good example of how many people who pretend to be historians think reading one (1) primary source in isolation without any additional context somehow does the job. Nope! - ThreadSky

kevinmkruse.bsky.social • 44 days ago

This is a good example of how many people who pretend to be historians think reading one (1) primary source in isolation without any additional context somehow does the job.

Nope!

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tlhite.bsky.social•44 days ago

To give credit where credit is due, Yarvin is a bona fide expert on The Matrix (the movie) although he seems to believe it is a documentary.

smejia87.bsky.social•44 days ago

As an undergrad history major who stopped reading books focused on history after law school: any recommendations for books on the new deal and fdr the look at it in a modern lens instead of just regurgitating what happened?

kevinmkruse.bsky.social•44 days ago

Try this:

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264838/why-the-new-deal-matters/

smejia87.bsky.social•44 days ago

Will do, just ordered a copy. Thanks for the reccomendation!

generalgcm.bsky.social•44 days ago

One is all he wanted. He probably started with the conclusion he desired and and picked his source accordingly.

kim65.bsky.social•44 days ago

Oh like SCOTUS.

ddf1976.bsky.social•44 days ago

So a 7th grade essay.

pravata.bsky.social•44 days ago

Or a Supreme Court decision. Start with the outcome and work backwards

ma-lau-er.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not even start with the outcome. Just "start with the intention to reward the GOP."

waldocat.bsky.social•44 days ago

Draw the curves, and then plot the data

ddf1976.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sadly, too true.

notwittyvicki.bsky.social•44 days ago

So much a 7th grade essay! It’s all he seems capable of.

ksiegel.bsky.social•44 days ago

My junior high teachers would never have permitted such laziness.

sossity.bsky.social•44 days ago

I checked-out this asshole’s appearances on YouTube.

Seems any dumshit with an opinion can be taken seriously in MAGAworld.

But hey, they think unwashed Bannon burps truths, & Pride Boy Enrique has the solutions to their dead-end, misfit lives.

Let ‘em have their monarch-fetish.

olemvik.bsky.social•44 days ago

Back when we started on the master program in History, we were constantly reminded that if we had one source, we had nothing.

pauly2coffees.bsky.social•44 days ago

So when does he get his Netflix documentary series?

publicrecdsource.bsky.social•44 days ago

From the Nazi POV the POTUS power WAS absolute in the 1930's US - all of their success getting networks into the US are post WWII Cold War stuff. FBI Swept whole networks until then. Racist bastards, but effective in that sense. No Competition for the Bureau from the Right.

thinkyparts.bsky.social•44 days ago

Core problem with the guy is that he throws out so much bullshit that you have to be an expert on all the pseudo intellectual rat holes he goes down. Would be near impossible to interview him in real time.

rribbitt.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sam Kriss' take down of Yarvin was excellent

rribbitt.bsky.social•44 days ago

Should have included in first post, but this was the culmination and pretty much sums up Yarvin imo

bloodybible.bsky.social•44 days ago

The Gish Gallop.

thinkyparts.bsky.social•44 days ago

🎯

crtvprdx.bsky.social•44 days ago

Most people these days wouldn’t know a primary source if it ran them over.

nakedirish.com•44 days ago

If anyone reads the intro by the writers of "Massacre at Mountain Meadows" they would be quickly disabused of that notion.

Not that the type of person you're talking about would ever let process interfere with their 'genius'.

welcome2absurdia.bsky.social•44 days ago

I love it when you kick ass with historical facts!!! I wish doing so wasn’t so underappreciated. Can you imagine what an incredible country we’d be if we actually LEARNED from history???

thomasjheaney.bsky.social•44 days ago

The 1 primary source then gets picked up and echo chambered on Fox and all their ilk media. It is the only view that will be broadcast repeatedly each day every day, until it becomes the truth.

robhon.bsky.social•43 days ago

Thus the saying, “Fear the man of only one book."

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•44 days ago

TBQH he hasn't even read one (1) *secondary* source, either. Even chance he hasn't read a legit tertiary source. It's all reddit comments or somesuchlike.

mrharrisplutocrat.bsky.social•43 days ago

He has a false stereotype about FDR, and he went looking for an anecdote that could be misinterpreted to support his lie, and ignored the contrary evidence and context. Typical RWNJ.

scoutsaber.bsky.social•44 days ago

He must have been tainted by the Amity Schlaes book.

ads60nyc.bsky.social•44 days ago

You mean history is a research-intensive endeavor requiring dedicated work and intellectual humility and rigor? What fun is that compared with “I read a document and am now explainer and interpreter of all human experience”?

vicbastard.bsky.social•44 days ago

"He has enormous respect for the concept of democratic governance. And he has enormous respect for the consent of the governed. Just as he does for American institutions... Democratic governors ask; dictators demand."

https://executivedecision.libsyn.com/website/lend-lease-and-the-decision-to-intervene-in-wwii

drelizabethseattle.bsky.social•44 days ago

This drives me up a wall when people do that in my field!

frogboiling.bsky.social•44 days ago

Shocked - just shocked, I tell you -- that an ideologue would cherry-pick historic anecdotes to support his nihilistic agenda. (At least Steve Bannon acknowledges his Duginist intentions).

dennis-jernberg.bsky.social•44 days ago

I never thought twice about it while he was just some fringe extremist with a word-salad problem, but now that I think of it Yarvin has the same stench as fellow infamous pseudo-historians Davids Irving and Barton, only he aspires to be herald for a genocidal mad king wearing an actual crown.

skimpole.bsky.social•44 days ago

It is the doing your own research model of public discourse where that research ends with the source that confirms what you want to believe or seems the most cool. C' mon, there are people who still pretend what O'Reilly does in his Killing --- series is historical research, real deal and all

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•43 days ago

Trump is a fool's version of FDR - a spoiled rich kid with little respect for the normal way of getting things done. Except FDR was raised to believe his advantages were an obligation, and he gave a damn about other people.

mysteriousrook.com•44 days ago

I am a 50-something computer scientist myself, who also has studied history. But I have learned from dozens of excellent credentialed historians I can name, and often credit. I use history to search for truth and to help people. Amateurs like him always want to use history for one thing: oppression

mattortega.com•44 days ago

The press literally begged FDR to assume dictatorial powers in the lead up to inauguration day. The New York Herald-Tribune ran the headline "For Dictatorship, If Necessary" *on inauguration day.* Walter Lippman recommended "a mild species of dictatorship" and FDR refused to assume such powers.

msanderssmith.bsky.social•44 days ago

Right. I mean, Bob Taft would probably like a word with him about FDR having absolute power.

brandxb.bsky.social•44 days ago

Well at least we know that with the deportations destroying populations of ag laborers, there will be more than enough right wingers available to pick cherries

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