this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm from the other side of the world, and when I was a kid, we were taught the story of Abraham Lincoln in school... how he never gave up. Lincoln grew up poor, his business failed, his wife died, and he lost elections again and again. But finally, he became the president. So, what lesson do we learn from this, kids? - like that.

Now it feels like we’ll be teaching kids about Trump—34 felony counts, 6 bankruptcies, 2 impeachments, 1 violent insurrection, and a couple dozen rape accusations... but hey, he didn’t give up either! xD

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

i don't think posts about him are appropriate here. the kind of dystopia wants to bring is not the boring kind. it's straight up cartoonish shit, like the government from v for vendetta

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A few thousand years ago the ancient Greeks said:

"δὶς ἐξαμαρτεῖν οὐκ ἀνδρὸς σοφοῦ".

Roughly meaning: A wise person doesn't make the same mistake twise.

But again some people keep doing it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

I think you're understanding it the wrong way. It does say "A wise person"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago

Those of us who gave it our all don’t deserve this.

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