ITT: Historical red-flags I'll start with some obvious ones.
>plays strategy games >uses more modern terms to refer to things that predate them (things like nation, left/right politics, Europe, etc) >subscribes to the great man theory >says women barely contributed anything to society >is mainly caught up in military leaders, inventors and the 'characters' of history (it's ok for them to be your focus, but knowing the historical background and context surrounding them is important too) >main interest is nazi germany, the crusades, WWI or WWII >argues about the ethnicity of certain figures >uses the terms white/black/asian, etc unironically >unironically posts the weak men/hard times/strong men/easy times meme >unironically believes that history is cyclical >is a historical determinist >is russian (or just eastern europe in general) >is turkish >is british >is greek
Caleb Cooper
>Is Jew, Muslim, Negro, or Hispanic living in the West >Thinks the West is currently in its Apex, things are just getting better >Virulently anti-Christian
Wyatt King
>posts on Veeky Forums their pet peeves about /pol/
Ayden Long
>muh history of oppression
Nolan Edwards
>Is OP
Ayden Collins
THE FUCKING BIGGEST RED FLAG
>""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""STUDIES"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" HISTORY FROM YOUTUBE """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""HISTORY""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" CHANNELS
THIS SHIT NEEDS TO FUCKING LEAVE THIS BOARD
Samuel Perez
I'm too lazy to list them all and we know what /pol/ is like, so /pol/.
Tyler Robinson
>is anglo
Mason Anderson
>go to youtube >search "THE TRUTH ABOUT [THING]" >conspiracy theories and revisionists everywhere
Nicholas Foster
> > >
Ryan Anderson
>>plays strategy games Pretty dumb one buddy.
Carson Cox
Spotted the paradox fan.
Don't you have more germany blobs to be creating?
Landon Carter
>blob Germany >implying I'm not spending my time establishing the great Caddo Nahuatl empire over the entire globe
Pleb
Josiah Sanchez
>shitty race baiting "tactician" >attacks character and not argument of the coresponding discussion participant
>unironiclaly believes in the Democratic process >unaware of the Hegelian dialectic >justifies crimes against humanity because of identity politics >makes broad generalizations about an entire continent or region thereof >doesn't believe that history is cyclical just like economy or the weather >cannot conceptualize the theory of mind relevant to other periods of history or geographical situation
T. Known Boss
Carson Reed
>>attacks character and not argument of the coresponding discussion participant t. every protestant post I've seen on Veeky Forums.
Lincoln Parker
>is from the anglosphere >or from sinosphere >or from slavosphere >believes that something must have existed or happened in certain way because it fits his belief system even if there is no proof for it >believes that the british people and their derivatives have had a positive impact upon the world >sees ww1 and 2 as separate conflicts instead of continuation of same process >believes in noble savage myth >we wuzing over ancient egyptians, greeks, hebrews, and/or romans >uses CE and BCE instead of AD and BC
Nicholas Turner
> "I could have done better than X did"
Gabriel Wright
So you're basically saying you can't love history and historical strategy games at the same time?
Colton Watson
I keep hearing about this germanyblob meme but I've yet to see it. Dumb blobs like Catholic Ottomans or Jewish Ethiopia seem much more common.
Adam Myers
Catholic Ottomans is the easiest world conquest in the game, I have no idea why anyone would want Jewish Ethiopia though, the Jewish religion sucks in game
John Hughes
Every post I've ever seen on the internet
Ethan Gonzalez
I mean, I probably could have done better than Carlos the Vegetable. That doesn't say much about me, though.
Ian Barnes
making a thread like this is a red flag for being a smug cunt
William Mitchell
>John Green
Cooper Morris
>Racism is bad >Fuck people from these countries
Elijah Thomas
>Implying that creating a "me from the past" to challenge your views with weak strawmen that you can easily destroy isn't the highest form of historical enlightenment
Aaron Fisher
>is turkish
Wyatt Morgan
>makes retarded threads on Veeky Forums
Ayden Miller
>Uses the words "Dark Age". >Applies modern morals. >Thinks people who lived in the past walked around in filthy grey rags and lived in squalid homes/towns.