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Conservative Dad Who Exclusively Watches History Channel Learns Nothing From It

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I mean, is there much to learn from ancient aliens and finding Bigfoot?
- In the late 90s/early 2000s it was the WWII channel. Non-stop Third Reich munitions, strategies, successes, and failures. They may want to bring that back.
  
  Even then a lot of it was perpetuating the myth of German technical superiority.
  
  Hey now they also had that one show where they recreated ancient battles using the total war engine. That was pretty cool.
  
  The Travel Channel has had better historical shows than The History Channel lately, maybe History should buy some of the old ones.
  Eg Mysteries at the Museum - kinda funny editing but genuinely I learned SO MUCH History from this show and it really stuck with me. The story about Galloping Gertie and the dog stuck in the car for one.
  (Link is sad but not gory) https://youtu.be/j-zczJXSxnw
  Or Expedition Unknown, which that guy actually interviewed and nearly went on the Titanic sub. That episode was scrapped for safety concerns (lol) and not really historical, but he’s had plenty at old ruins etc.
  
  First reich?
That's because it's all Goddamned Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars.
- And Ice Road Truckers
  seriously idk what that has to do with history lol
  
  Historically boring
- that, conservatives exclusively watch conspiracy related content on tv, besides political ons.
  the show used to have a series about potential extinct/cryptid animals, but it switched to all the junk.
  
  real history, how was this built?
  conspiracy history: how was this built when they were not white?
I miss when the history channel was 90% Hitler content.
Hitler's rise to power. Hitler's war on the eastern front. Hitler's Nazi super megastructures. Hitler's downfall. Hitler's atomic weapon. Hitler's dog.
At least it was educational.
- I recall it being more about WW2 than Hitler. I enjoyed it, but you can find better military history on YouTube these days.
- Maybe that's why everything went to shit, because they stopped (or once showed?) the endless hitler content.
  
  I unironically think it probably played a role. When I was growing up (and History Channel showed WWII history), it was generally just understood and accepted that Nazis were evil scum and Hitler was one of the worst people in the 20th century. It wasn't even up for debate.
  It's probably more about the sabotaging of our public education system, but I think this is actually part of that.
I liked the Daily Show sketch of the History Channel updating their WWII programming to highlight who the bad guys were.
I learn more history watching Drunk History.
He is doomed to reruns.
- History does seem to be repeating.
Not so sure this belongs on the Onion. Sounds too accurate.
- Good thing it's on the hard times then 😉
  
  weak men make hard times.
  not talking about history, looking for some twinks
It'd be more believable if it was talking about ancient aliens.
From the thumbnail, I thought this was going to be about Al Bundy.

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