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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

History never repeats itself...but it often rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i hate this quote. it just doesn't change anything. "history repeats itself" means the exact same thing. it's not like people mean that the exact same people do the exact same things in the exact same circumstances... it's just meaningless distinction without difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just assume it's a George Lucas reference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's a much older quote, often misattributed to Mark Twain, possibly because he has another quote about history not repeating. but it isn't this. this is possibly a humorous remark of some sort, but it's not that funny or clever imo. the main problem is that for it to work you need to completely misunderstand the saying "history repeats itself" to mean some sort of Battlestar Galactica's "all of this has happened before..." type mystical statement, which it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if this is satire or not, but I was making a rif of the "It's like poetry, it rhymes." Meme

https://youtu.be/bxU2eqZtYmc?si=mBtc9CrcXdb0JPAd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

yeah i didn't make the connection, i thought he probably said it somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If the quote at least itself rhymed, then you could call it an improvement, but no...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dolt rhymes with colt!