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I love deeply online pseudohistory. I understand perfectly how awful it can be and that it is objectively bad for the public and for professional historians and archeologists just trying to do their job but holy shit is it so funny. Real history is something I am deeply passionate about, especially the history of antiquity so you'd think I hated this stuff and to some extent I do but on the other hand... the shit they come up with is so entertaining. They are so horrifically wrong that it can be belly laugh inducing. Please keep searching for atlantis, its been 3000 years but you, mr youtube man, it will be you, the chosen one, who will find it for sure. Yes, the world globalist cabal IS hiding antlantis from us, keep searching I am begging you. The Free Masons ARE coming for you if you find it though, it is so over. Admittedly, the eye of rhe sahara is a really neat geological feature.

Thanks, Joe Rogan. Thanks, Plato

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[–] Krem@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Like Grand Tartaria! That's my bag, it's hilarious, dude finds an old map with the name on it, but can't find it on a google search, couldn't be just that old mapmakers didn't know what was there, it must be a secret ancient empire from the 1700s. They go all out, including saying that Early Modern period star forts were literally built by giants despite us having the actual physical blueprints of some of them and the records of the engineers who built them. Again, it would all be hilarious, if it wasn't so sad and harmful.

i just learned about this one the other day, and it's so hilarious.

your regular old classic pseudohistory talks about how really ancient things like pyramids and ziggurats and stone tablets all come from the same really really ancient civilization that was wiped out in a flood or something a hundred thousand years ago. provably wrong, but less ridiculous, since everything is so ancient and some of the missing steps have been lost, and ancient civilizations across the planet had some similarities.

Tartaria however picks things at random throughout history, including very recent things, and with no connecting features. anything older than you or me is a potential target. only people with absolutely no idea about history would believe any of it. like, pavillions built for the world's fair in 1900-something somewhere in a US city, and a cathedral from 1700-something in a european capital, and the macchu picchu, and maybe the forbidden palace in beijing why not, were all actually built by an antediluvian supercivilization one million years ago. stuff with nothing in common, stuff in the middle of modern cities or in the middle of nowhere. fucking amazing.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

I especially like when they look at an old cathedral or town hall or something and go like "Why would a building have such a big door? Because it was for a Real Big Guy! That's right, the Tartarians were also giants!"

And yeah, they love saying that "Grand Tartaria" was an ancient empire from anywhere from the 1700s (when the term appeared on maps) to like, a million years ago, just because. And "their" buildings survived in perfect condition but weren't mentioned or used by anyone until the time the quote unquote "official story" says that people actually built them. Because...reasons.

It's just so completely off base from even the most basic understanding of anything that it would be hilarious if it wasn't actually taken seriously by some very sad and angry people. And unfortunately I have seen it linked back to antisemitism. Blaming the Jews for why their terrible historical fanfiction makes no sense seems to be an inevitability of all these alt history things.