- Proper depiction of the native tribes
- Has yet to use the term forefathers and talks about them as rich white settlers willing to break the law to take what they want.
- Displays the class dynamics at play before the war began
- Slave owners doing slave owner shit
- Showing that the idea of independence was pretty much a front for them wanting to own the land in North America.
- There was always an underlying cry for emancipation parallel to the message of American democracy.
- Land and business owners using poor immigrants as the first line of defense.
- He does blur the line of source attribution. Newspapers were rarely the “voice of the people”. Almost always they were the voice of a wealthy elite trying to shape opinion of other wealthy elite (ironically church bulletins were much more transparent of people’s opinions as they would be records of the meetings they held).
- LMAOOO they use Paul Giamatti as the voice over for John Adams!
- These rich lawyer dudes really didn’t want to play war with Britain but they saw which way the wind was blowing and decided to get behind the mob.
- A red coat takes a hatchet in the skull!
- They don’t hold back much on George Washington. He’s really America’s first neo-baby.
Ok I will watch
I feel like I saw a quote/article on my Lemmy feed where he was saying that working on this one had “opened his eyes/radicalized him a bit” or something to that effect.
Unrelated: I remember watching some of his prohibition doc, and in the first episode you come across the fact that something like the average daily liquor consumption for males between 18 and 30 in the late 1800s was like a pint of whisky… blew my mind lol.
Yeah the Temperance Movement among early Suffragettes was very real. Men would drink large quantities of alcohol and become violent on a daily basis. There’s a reason they wanted alcohol banned.
Prohibition was actually effective, too. Going back, researchers found alcohol-related illnesses (like cirrhosis) plummeted during that time period. Alcohol consumption would still remain at high levels through to the 1960s, but nowhere near what it was pre-1920s.
The main reason for ending Prohibition was corruption among law enforcement and politicians. Cosa Nostra would have higher membership and more money coming in during the 1950s than they ever had during the ban on alcohol. Yet it was harder to bribe cops and judges with money coming from heroin than it was alcohol.
Yeah I remember watching and thinking, hey I thought the suffragettes and temperance folks were just no-fun scolds or religiously motivated! Turns out, no, it was a literal public health crisis. The anecdotes about the men taking all their wages and basically living at the bar (which served them all their meals and got their mail to keep them around) while the wife and kids suffered at home was enlightening in that regard as well.
Only 12 hours? Dude has fallen off.
this sounds like a huge improvement since he did his ACW documentary where he just let a lost causer talk shit with no pushback
