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leftyladyfrommo

(18,874 posts)
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 11:20 AM Jan 2022

This is funny. Fake news at its best.

A man on FB couldn't believe that the Aztecs sacrificed so many people. He was sure it was fake news.

I told him fake news is a brand new concept and it didn't apply to the history of the ,Aztecs.

Yes! All of written history is just fake news because it couldn't have really been that bad.

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doc03

(35,389 posts)
1. History is written by the winner, it isn't necessarily totally factual. If Germany would have
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 11:46 AM
Jan 2022

won WWII they would have us as the aggressors.

Wounded Bear

(58,743 posts)
2. Except for the American Civil War...
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 12:03 PM
Jan 2022

that history was rewritten by the "Lost Cause" white supremecists.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,874 posts)
5. That's a little different than a people who lived
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 12:59 PM
Jan 2022

A few hundred years ago. There are not only all the codices left by the Aztecs but also lots of written records by the Spanish monks.

Of course the Mormons taught that all those pictographs actually told the tru story of Christ's visit to the Indians. They thought that Christ died and went to Middle America to teach during the 3 days he was gone before he rose from the dead. I guess that was kind of fake news.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
4. What does Facebook dude make of the human sacrifices on Trump's altar?
Wed Jan 26, 2022, 12:53 PM
Jan 2022

Are they proud to die for their pro-COVID god-king?

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