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While promoting the interview on X, Carlson praised Cooper as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.”

Article is actually kinda thin, to be honest. But the couch-fucker gets clicks, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Some people are saying these two 69 each other

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

the best people

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's the only explanation for the twinkle in their eyes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

On a couch, it's a 2 1/2-way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I read it on the internet. It must be true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

While on a couch? That’s a big fantasy of JD Vance, someone allegedly said before.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The controversial statement:

“You know, Germany, look, they put themselves into a position in, Adolf Hitler’s chiefly responsible for this, but his whole regime is responsible for it, that when they went into the east in 1941, they launched a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners, and so forth that they were going to have to handle. They went in with no plan for that and they just threw these people into camps. And millions of people ended up dead there.”

Apart from the blatant Holocaust denial, it's interesting that he completely discards the attack on Poland and puts the start of the war in 1941 when they invaded Russia.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Yeah, TBF

"And millions of people ended up dead there.”

is pretty disingenuous too. They ended up dead because they were systematically murdered. Plus they mostly weren't prisoners of war, it was a targeted genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Apparently, when they were "reunifying" German lands, it was ok. Somehow, that wasn't "conquest." I was also struck by the two years of war that didn't enter the tabulations.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

dude you can't just put these two faces so close to each other; you're gonna create a punchable black hole!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

both these fuckers look like they don't understand why they're shitting themselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think every piece of history written by a confederate or a nazi should have to have that perspective in the title.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

… fuck couches together?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What is a 'popular historian' and does such a person have any credibility at all?