The History Channel is a paramount example of fake news.
History is a consensus of empirical fact, not speculative fiction. History is heritage, conquest, victories, defeats, culture and conflict.
Not fucking teledrama and antique bargain wars.
We are living in a misinformation crisis, and the dissemination of fake or altered facts is becoming worse by the day.
Tired of the History Channel compromising the integrity of fact for profit.
All this bullshit about “Super-Germany” during WW2, it’s disgusting. Sweeping the holocaust and war crimes under the rug, shows like “Ancient Aliens” suck fascist dick by suggesting the worlds most well known hate group was “ahead of its time”. The Nazis were an abomination, a group worthy of all manner of condemnation and hate. They were technologically sophisticated, but ineffective. The V2 Rocket, Jet fighters, and other developments were impressive, but for every sound feat of engineering, there were hundreds of senseless and outright ridiculous contraptions. Curved barrel rifles, manned bombs, sun guns, all of which were either useless or impractical. And they weren’t ‘close’ to building the Atom bomb either. Heisenberg deliberately sabotaged his own work, set fire to his lab, and delayed the Nazi’s nuclear efforts. Stop glorifying that shit.
And when they’re not defacing cultural heritage, or invalidating ethnicities(Because /clearly/ insert race here couldn’t have done X without “help”!), they shove pseudo-informative reality tv down our throats. Pawn Stars, Ax Men, Forged in Fire; Entertaining, sure, but where’s the history? Ad-break trivia ain’t gonna cut it. Swamp People is a gold mine; Watch as a bunch of barely intelligible folks blast giant lizards for an hour.
And while we’re on the subject of tedium, When’s the next season of Oak Island? I just can’t wait to see two white dudes drop another two million into a goddamn hole in the ground. Speaking of boring white dudes, how about American Pickers? Lean back, relax, and watch as the dynamic duo harass senile hoarders into peddling off their memories.
Thank God some documentaries and info shows slip through the cracks. “America: The Story of Us” looks decent.
Travel Channel is just as bad, with all of the bullshit paranormal programs they put on. We spend half an hour watching grown adults jump at static and fucking shadows. Grow up.
In fact, all the ghost shows need to fuck off. People don’t want to see a bunch of idiots bark into a glorified radio for half an hour. They want to see /blood/, and /gore/, and /maiming/. Your viewers aren’t looking for proof of the afterlife! They’re watching, waiting for the episode where an 8’2 inbred (possibly from Swamp People) maniac bursts through the wall with a goddamn chainsaw! Honestly, if they want to up the ratings, set up ghost hunter prank shows, where paranormal investigators get fucked with for an hour. Squeak a rubber ducky and watch them shit themselves. Chase them with a chainsaw. At least make this shit interesting for /somebody/.
Jokes aside, I feel that the upsurge of this shit is the existential discontent we have. Desperate for a higher power or a force greater than ourselves, we plead with nature to allow the fairytale to come true, hope that there is some magic left in this smog filled world. Because if there is just a shred of pixie dust, perhaps we can ignore the smoke in our lungs and the lies in our ears. No change in human history, was made by waiting for the mothership. Be the change. Speak the truth. And maybe, just maybe, one day being human will be something to be proud of.
