You know, contrary to the cliché people keep spouting, I have never, ever seen any evidence that learning history causes you to not repeat it
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i like to call the counter to hanlon's razor "weyland's razor" never account for with stupidity what you can account for with lust for power
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Oh if you know history you still treat it. You’re just more likely to get the joke.
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REPEAT not treat. Damnit autocorrect
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people keep saying, oh, the police are being so stupid here, all these tactics are only escalating the violence and the protests and the damage-- yes. that's what they want. that is literally what the cops are trying to do.
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this is the part where the protection racket breaks our shit because we challenged them. the cops are out here saying "keep paying us or we'll destroy your cities." the cops are out here saying "if you even talk about police reform we'll destroy your cities."
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Arguably, though, if the field includes a lot of people who are making this assumption, then the equivalent to "learning from history" is learning how football actually works. And that's useful if most of the team in question is simply lying about where it wants the ball to go
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It might have made no difference in the long run, but it's still significant how Americans were *mis*-educated about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Studying the rise of Hitler, I find that the scariest part of it was that it happened IN SPITE of incompetence, whitewashed with state propaganda. You don’t need to be competent, you just need to have a big enough desire for cruelty and a big enough war chest behind you.
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