>>>> Sure. But if you read something in a book, there is a high probability
>>>> that it has some basis in fact. If you read something off da
>>>> intertubes, it could be utter nonesense.
>>> You haven't read some of the textbooks that are in the US educational
>>> system.  Fair amount of nonsense in there, put in by religious nutjobs
>>> who want public schools to teach their particular brand of religion.
>> OK, that's quite worrying.
> 
> You're telling me.  I went to public school here. ;-)

Is that why American people are so stupid?

Or maybe it's *because* American people are stupid? IDK.

[Perhaps I should append "on average" to that...]

>> I believe the quotation you're searching for is "history is written by
>> the victors".
> 
> I wasn't actually searching for a quotation.

I know that. ;-)

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