Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.
The Disinformation Age
The Age of Grift and Disinformation
My face when my kids will have to do a report on Doge Coin.
We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.
Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.
We’re in the age of AI now. Are future historians going to be able to trust primary sources?
I can see future students simply denying that anyone would have really voted for DJT.
“I refuse to believe that anyone was that dumb!”
Can’t really blame them, I can hardly believe it now.
Students learning about the Trump era gonna think we dumb as fuck
It’s going to be Germany 1933-1945 all over again, except the leader is considered even more of a clown than the first time.
Yeah, the way the history books painted Hitler was like he was a supervillain with the power of convincing people to do what he wants against their will. Now I know that’s probably not true and that the Germans were probably just dumb as fuck pieces of shit that would’ve hammered their own faces if they were told to.
There were already plenty of examples to show that making people viscerally hate an arbitrary group of people is incredibly easy. The Stanford prison experiment is so well-known because it perfectly outlines our own innate desire to fit in, even when it means becoming evil, despite how much we want to convince ourselves that we’re above it.
Depends on who writes the history books
Know we are dumb as fuck, you mean
We are dumb as fuck
About 1/3 of us are dumb as fuck
⅔ are dumber as fuck
This helped me understand the lead up to WWII so much better.
Was it really necessary to do a practical example?
Or worse, students going to be taught this was the best era… Hearing your grandkids tell you about how their history books explained the US had always been at war with the evil canadians and that the greatest president HAD to round up all the mexican murders to secure their futures.
Edit- just mentioning because I already see this shit with my 13 yo nephew. He’s obviously too young to understand anything about anything, but his immediate family is all in on trump, his classmates think he’s cool rocking trump gear, his biggest aspiration is to get involved with TP USA in the next couple years. This shit has hit the fan enough already - considering the thought of adding curriculum indoctrination is horrifying to me.
Bold of you to assume students will learn about this in the future
Unless the republicans are able to control all the books and curriculum in schools
bold of you to assume there will still be students, history, or future
Optimistic of you to be so sure they’ll be studying history at all in the future.
If it’s like before, eventually it’ll be just a vague “things were bad” like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren’t great at learning big picture things.
You think history students have it bad.
Imagine lawyers post-Trump. Well, according to established case law minus 2025-2029…
Trump is trying to make it easier for history students by deleting all mention of racism and other forms of discrimination
It’s an outrageously optimistic hope of mine that there will be any students around to study history
They’re already gonna have a hard time recovering all the history deliberately destroyed by the administration.
Realistically, for anything earlier than university level, classes don’t have more time to cover additional material every few years, so new material being covered in class pushes out something that had previously been covered. Or it further abbreviates how much is taught about therm.
Wasn’t history supposed to end mid 20th century?
It did, this is History 2: The Return of History
Students today don’t seem to know or understand any history that’s more than 10 years old anyway so I don’t see why it would be any different in the future.
So… the US president was part of a child eating cult-like sex trafficking net that was actually managed by moSS*d. Countries around the world that stump into that information used it to blackmail him.
At one point, the info got partially leaked, but he was kept in power for some reason.
First: that wont ever make it to a history book
Second: i wonder how many times things like this happened… this cabt be the first one
First: that wont ever make it to a history book
It probably will, it’s too relevant to be left out. It will just not be explained in that plain language, because people care about protecting children from the raw character of historical figures.
