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[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 hour ago
[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago

I love the Twain quote but I’m also a fan of this contemporary parallel observation; the number one thing you learn by studying history is that humans never learn a goddamn thing from history

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 146 points 21 hours ago
[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 82 points 20 hours ago

Having just come out of a Global pandemic

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago

Ending the decade with a global depression.

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago
[-] elrik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

All circles are flat.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I think that was from Mark Twain.

[-] Hackworth@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

There's always a lighthouse. There's always a man. There's always a city.

[-] skeptomatic@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

"If we could perceive time as it truly was, what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?"

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 84 points 21 hours ago

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

It's like poetry

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

yeah, the very same conflicts and tensions we had in the world back then are still here now...

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 98 points 22 hours ago

We got great things coming in the 30s...

[-] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 66 points 22 hours ago
[-] And009@reddthat.com 1 points 26 minutes ago

A glorious era that lasts 4 years

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago
[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Star Trek certainly seems to think so.

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

It's not just good, it's great depression. -Just a Thought - Gnarls Barkley

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

Remember when they called it the great war as if it'll be the only one? Good times.

[-] mtpender@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago

"All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again."

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago
[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago
[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

By your comm... I mean so say we all.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 44 points 22 hours ago
[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 37 points 22 hours ago

Those who know history are doomed to repeat it with those who don't.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Those who don't learn history well are doomed

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 26 points 21 hours ago

The only thing we learn from history ... is that we don't learn anything from history

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Robert Evans?

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago
[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I disagree.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago
[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

First season of True Detective.

One of the best shows ever, very dark and brutal at points.

[-] Zombie@feddit.uk 5 points 15 hours ago

Lemmy comments like to rhyme.

[-] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

In fact, it seems like nothing has changed!

[-] Assman@sh.itjust.works 17 points 18 hours ago

Not true, we also have climate change now

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 18 hours ago
[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

Can't wait for for the 2120s when we do all this again but the nukes have pure fusion igniters and probably some kind of pseudo intelligent AI guidance systems so their proliferation can't be prevented and they can evade anti ballistic missile systems.

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 10 points 22 hours ago

nobody changed anything, so why should have anything changed? development does not appear by pure wish or magic, nor by letting time passing by, people have to do it, or it just doesn't get done.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago
[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago
[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 0 points 18 hours ago

You don't even know what it means to be a trapper!

[-] SparrowHawk@feddit.it 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Patriarchy yet lives, and so time remains still

this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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