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I have read history almost àll my life, I used to wonder how people like Lon Nol could be president of Cambodia and now I am waiting for Trump to launch the Chenla 3 operation to invade Oman.

Tis a torment

more than knowledge we need experience. the political system has been so inwardly recursive that the ability to even get ones feet wet, proverbially speaking, has completely eroded for an average citizen. access is a drug and politics has become a cabal to protect the addiction to it.

All we learn from history is that we never learn from history. George Bernard Shaw

The Cassandras of our times 😔

Indeed. It also encourages empathy and sympathy for Cassandra. 🤔 Though it's more about frustration and aggravation than helplessness, for me anyway. Gotta do what you can when you can with what you got. 🖇✊️

and some study history with the intention of repeating it

Perfect

So true

Truth 💣!

not helpless

Those who remember that "those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it" are doomed to repeat it.

Some people study history intent on repeating it.

And often scream into the void

Except none of us are helpless in this. They just want you to think you are

In our school district,red of course,no teaching about the true history of the holocaust. My grandson is a teen going in to his junior year.He thought,Saving Private Ryan and the like was just Hollywood

Captures all my conversations with friends/clients!

*sigh* It's (not) funny because it's true. 😔

This, just this. And no matter how much you explain, how many examples you show, they are always sure, "that won't happen THIS time" 🤯🤯🤯

Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.” ― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Imperial Presidency -1973 2/2

Sure feels that way

I've not seen that one for a while...

What about all the mostly military people? They study wars, military engagement, political atmospheres, and everything about how situations developed. You can't tell me they don't know history. Yet here we are. That statement has never made sense to me.

Seems so

😄😄😄🫣😖

I would say, 'whilst enough people vote for it'.

Then don't stand by helplessly

Me thinks the producers of the 2026 movie, Nuremberg, had the goal of conveying that second thought.

😱‼️

Ain’t that the truth. 😞🚩🚩🚩

They are also doomed to working for minimum wage…..

We’re watching in real time thanks to coward republicans!

Coz we can't fix stupid?

I'm not standing by, I'm yelling it every day.

Great points

Ain't that the truth !

There are also those that read history, learn from it...and then put all the wrong lessons into action...deliberately.

Truth

Dude you're talented! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cit...

Sounds like we need a different approach. Something revolutionary, perhaps.

Is HUMANITY on the way out?

💯 + 💔

Silence and inaction are not options.

Heather Cox Richardson has an excellent historical perspective today.

History majors don't tend to inherit much influence.

I've heard that around a half of American adults don't read at 8th grade level. Literally half of the voting population can't read books like 1984 or 451 Farenheit, let alone Marx or any books about philosophy/politics/history. And then you, guys, are suprised why Trump won?

👍

This is exactly how I feel it's going.

Ummm no.

Exactly how I feel

Ugh

First time as tragedy, second time as farce, etc., etc., etc.

They don't have to stand, they could sit. Or DO SOMETHING useful!

On point…

Gah

🤣

We all need to stand by progressive politicians. The old guard has been compromised.

Right on!

History repeats itself... It has to, nobody listens first time!

Also some of those that do study history are doomed to convince themselves that we need to try it again. I don't think simply being exposed to history is enough for a lot of people when they're free to come to their own ignorant conclusions and conspiracies of it.

And others do learn from history solely in order to repeat it but without the “mistakes” they think the past maniacs made that crumpled the movement.

🤣So true

and to listen to people say "it won't happen here" or "it can't happen again"

Truth!!!

Too true.

Ain’t this the truth.

The trick is to get everyone to study history

We are still a democracy and our VOTE has power

Depends on what you read of course. A diet confirming only what you already believe is a lean diet. As Prof John Lennox learnt after his father handed him Marx's writings: if we are going to engage with people of different beliefs, we need to understand what those beliefs are.

I feel this. Its not a grand feeling.

So true!

diplomacy. How many more people would be out on the streets for a protracted General Strike if democracies around the world stopped supporting 🇺🇸 economy by trading with us, revoked access to luxuries from their countries that Americans are used to? The lesson, for me at least, of the 1930s and the

The only reason to deny history is to repeat it.

i'd vote more for exasperated vs doomed to stand by ...

Thank you. I didn't know this. I'll write this down in my book of quotes. Doubtful I'll be updating the image, though.

And then tries to erase it and replace it with their own fascist white christian nationalist nazi bullshittery.

not everyone. non-Americans are better at not putting up with much bullshit.

This one hits pretty hard.