• 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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    glances sideways at Florida Nazi demonstrators

    Guys I think … I’m feeling some ‘disturbance in the force’ vibes here …

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    Sometimes people want to repeat history, except for the “the Confederacy and Nazis lost” parts.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    Knowing about Napoleon’s blunder at trying to invade Russia, and Hitler doing something similar in WW2 while also being supposedly a fan of Napoleon, I always like to say that Hitler admired Napoleon so much, he emulated even his failures.

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      There’s probably a lesson in hubris to be found there. I wouldnt be surprised to hear Adolf thought he would succeed where others had failed.

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    It’s recently brought to my attention that most of history is repeated, even though many people especially those in power are versed in it. That it seems like we need to fundamentally change the way we see and pass on history in order to actually learn anything from it.

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    Image Transcription:

    A drawing of two men, sitting in a library room. The younger-looking man is sitting in a wooden chair and reading a book, while the older-looking man is sitting in an armchair, a tea cup and open book on the small, round coffee table beside him. The older man is saying: ‘“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”’

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