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Cypher, the Cynical Historian

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The Cynical Historian on YouTube; PhD specializing in American violence during the frontier Southwest; fervent W.Wilson basher https://www.youtube.com/@CynicalHistorian

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 10d

Time to talk about the history of assassinations in the USA and what they mean. I'm a historian of American violence, and can definitely state that much of how we interpret these crimes is wrong. We need to see the bigger picture. Here's my newest episode on that: youtu.be/8eVwx7BmeJw

Scholar of American Violence Discusses Assassinations and their Meaning

This video explores the history of political violence in the USA, specifically focusing on events that constitute a political assassination. Understanding the roots of these incidents requires an…

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1h

I don't remember. Adam Ruins Everything was always kinda crap, but at least fun. The animated show wasn't fun and leaned all the way into the crappiness

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6h

Join my father (Mark Hall-Patton) and I as we discuss the disparity between academic and public history, especially in regards to museums. Most historians are not academics, but the misconception that they are leads to many problems
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Gown vs Town (w/ Mark Hall-Patton): Discussing Scholarship Beyond Academia

When speaking of historical scholarship, most people tend to immediately think of academia (academics are scholars associated with "academe" or higher educat...

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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and his cronies are great at accusing their opponents of doing bad stuff that they didn't do and then proceeding to do the exact thing bad stuff they falsely accused their opponents of doing

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 8h

Root of the problem, these depictions don't know what a museum is or how they function

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 9h

Did he do something on museums? I watched the first episode of that show and noped TF out

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 1d

There's gargantuan misconceptions about museums that need challenging. The most recent was the hilariously inept research John Oliver's team did on POTUS libraries, but Black Panther's disinfo is probably worse. What else would you like to see me debunk?

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

The cardinal almost looks like a cartoon because of its bright color

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Most historians aren't academics. More scholars work for museums, media, etc. My father is perfect example of this, being a famous non-academic historian. On Sunday 1pm PST, join our live discussion of public history's larger scope at youtube.com/live/gG66zUd...

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

I once quoted that song just before leaving a job interview that turned out to be management for a crappy MLM (CutCo) that wanted me to shave my beard off. You know which verse

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote a pun that hits you like an atomic bomb

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

I am the one, the only... THE! (a travel creator)

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Strange idea: make an AI bot trained on my episodes that spits out shorts and upload those to a unaffiliated account for a month just to see what happens

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

I'm gonna catch up on the news and then begin my weekly stream early, so that viewers can have a bit of purge party. Come laugh at the 40-ish imbeciles who exposed their own stupidity in the comments of my latest episode and then I'll play AC Odycessy on twitch.tv/cynicalhisto...

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

WILSOOOON!

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 4d

I'm working on a video about museums in Albuquerque and I'd like to make some kind of map overlay that people can access with a link in the description, pointing to all of the locations. Is there a way to do that?

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 5d

I royally screwed up the spelling of "ingratiate" there, but ho boi did I not intend for that correction, especially since I am speaking of an entire ethnicity in that section (Hispanics). Google Docs' spellcheck keeps getting worse

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 5d

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated… Everyone is scared." - The Diary of Anne Frank

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Saw the people standing thousand years in chains
Somebody said it's different now, look, it's just the same
Pharaohs spin the message 'round and 'round the truth
They could have saved a million people, how can I tell you?

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Imagination, life is your creation

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

If you've found the meaning of the truth in this old world you are a lucky man
If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

No. History proves otherwise. Furthermore, Trump as a reaction to Obama is not a pendulum swing. That would imply they're equally extreme, which they're definitely not

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

30k views in 3.5 days used to be middling performance only last year. Now it's the best in months. The view drop is very real and worrisome

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

okay. once again, what are we to make of it?

Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 7d

What are we to make of all the antisemitic conspiracy theories (like cultural marxism, white genocide, globalism, & great replacement) when their core bigotry is obfuscated away? Some even claim to defend Jews from persecution while espousing these hateful lies. Seems paradoxical

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Cypher, the Cynical Historian @cynicalhistorian.bsky.social · 7d

Yep, but this is a fundraiser