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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5566633

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MechCADdie on 2025-04-04 08:19:11+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

God let history repeating itself be a good thing for once.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How about no. The only people who will suffer is poor people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

History is rhyming. The person you're responding to is simply hoping the outcome is positive. The poorest people have already been suffering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it makes them angry, to actually do something?

Sometimes we need an example, and hypothetically I think the orange turd getting gadaffid would be a spectacular one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus says touch the stove.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Fun fact! - this is what Ben Stein is teaching in Ferris Bueller's day off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

And then the conservative brain worms convinced him to support the people who did it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe they should have been more attentive than send all the time preparing an extremely elaborate day of playing hokey.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I heard he became a MAGA though. How ironic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Surprisingly, he was actually a terrible person BEFORE MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not really ironic. The dude was part of Nixons administration. Trump is basically Nixon 2.0. Trumps whole worldview was shaped by Nixon or guys who worked for Nixon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You are not wrong..

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The Great Depression.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

something something people who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny thing the 1828 Tariff of Abomination, The Smoot Hawley Tariff and Donald’s Liquidation Day Tariff are all roughly a hundred years apart. Living memory of the consequences of such tariffs need to die out completely before a new generation tries this stupidity.

It’s the same with the nativist bullshit. Memory of the peak of Know Nothing, KKK and now MAGA bullshit has to die out before it is tried again.

My only hope is that this is viewed as the high water mark of the MAGA movement. MAGA incompetence is on full display.

As much as I disagreed with Sen. Chuck Shumers decision to roll over on the budget. Shutting down the government and giving MAGA any excuse to blame Democrats for this economic slowdown would have been a bad call. Donald and the Republicans now solely own this disaster.

For the MAGA faithful it won’t make a difference but for independents, moderates and low information voters this could be a huge turning point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Attacking Russia stops being a bad idea every 100 years or so too. Occupying government of France leading the cheerleading a common factor.

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