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I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

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Not outside the realm of possibility; I think that was his end game (Putin’s instructions) all along…..

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Oracles tended to say things like that, and many people learned hard lessons. I wish Trump could learn his without all the rest of us being sacrificed.

"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." ---Theodor Reik

Why do you believe that history doesn't repeat?

“List Of Countries To Destroy: 1. America First…”

Our own civilization, our own humanity, has already died. We elected Trump.

🤞🏻 I sure as hell hope so because this country cannot survive another year even under this fucking regime !

Aaaand he folded.

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Cool beans, this is part of the way we are taught people misuse history, either as a way to avoid outcomes, or to declare a certain outcome as inevitable.

Ответ для Lord High 'n Low (John Entwistle stan account)

Would that he meets the fate of the Roman rather than the Lydian; the Republican was seeking the laurels to create for himself a sort of crown.

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Stop protecting your assets and promote a General Strike. Or you are complicit in what comes.

Murder - suicide

If only our president was a historian, not a bloviating ignoramus.

Yeah, well it's sure fucking rhyming.

History does not repeat itself. People do.

Let’s see if we can get him thrown out of the UN. War makers aren’t allowed to be members. He holds it in contempt anyway, but it would be a gesture. And if it fails, we could suspend our own membership.

Ответ для David Brear 🇬🇧

Given that Russia is still a member - illegally according to Ukraine - I don't think your second sentence makes much sense. But I appreciate the sentiment.

What’s really stunning about this is just how addicted Trump is to the cliffhangers of reality TV. “WHO KNOWS?” Be sure to tune in tonight to see if an entire civilization is destroyed! Ratings will be through the roof!

How does nuking a country solve the fertilizer crisis?

We elected this madman twice. We deserve to be destroyed.

Let’s hope 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Thank you, i was just about to post this Humanities, what’s it good for? Critical thinking, say it again

Ответ для Thisistheforestsuccessional

I read Herodotus for my A Level and Degree. He’s entertaining but full of shit too. Giant Ants digging up Gold indeed. Thucydides wasn’t a fan.

Ответ для Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell

He’s def full of it 🙂, but the lies he passes along can also be good and satisfying stories, prob making him popular? Lol i can’t imagine Thucydides to have been a fan, tho maybe taking some inspiration there in his distinctly different approach

Ответ для Sir Garfield De Umfreville, Baronet Bywell

So the ants thing: um we have actually seen that. As they make their tumuli they move the heavy but small granules of gold up & out such that in the anthill's foot gold is more easily found. Herodotus did what an honest inquisitor must do, take the source at their word.

Ответ для Gil the Dragon

Imagine if he'd editorialized on what he was told? If the sun had not crossed over as sailors went down the African coast; would we then believe that Phoenicians had rounded Good Hope?

That title is "The Wisdom of History "

I'm listening to "The Lessons of History" by Rufus Fears for The Great Courses. Lectures 12 and 14 made me shudder. Hubris and ignoring the lessons of history have been causing the fall of great empires *in the Mideast* since 300 BC. What fools we are.

Maybe he's just a big Bill Hicks fan. www.goodreads.com/quotes/49464...

A quote by Bill HicksDid you know that when a guy comes, he comes 200 million sperm? And you're trying to tell me that your child is special because one out of 200 million --...www.goodreads.com

"...I've come to believe that throughout history there are only a limited number of personality types going down a limited number of paths, which lead them to encounter a limited number of situations to produce a limited number of stories that repeat over time.

Ответ для mikeeoj

The only things that change are the clothes the characters are wearing, the language they are speaking, and the technologies they're using. ...because human nature doesn't change much over time. ...fear, greed, jealousy, and other basis emotions have remained constant.."

Ответ для mikeeoj

"Principles of Dealing With The changing World Order" Ray Dalio, 2021

From your keyboard to the fates.

Hubris has a far higher price in the 21st century. Well-spotted, though. I thought of this earlier today and decided irony was inappropriate at such grave moments...Herodotus is full of opinionating. You are right we should all be aware this is how civilizations fall --our own appears on the brink

Bear in mind Herodotus was writing well after the event and was infamous for Fake news.

If not repeating, it is rhyming like a mofo right now.

1. Co-sign. 2. History doesn't so much repeat itself as stupid people repeat each other.

I think about this daily.

I believe history bears witness that it does. God is not mocked in this false worship of the Deciever.

It worries me that tRump will use tactical nukes tonight. Kegbreath has fired all the generals who would stop that happening...

living under the rapidly-accelerating collapse of US empire is not fun tbh, and it's worse that so many people are dying around the world because of it

The GOD spoke!

Ответ для Unholy Moses

Maravilloso.

Marcus Crassus tried to invade Parthia, todays Iran in 53 BC and lost 7 legions, roughly 40 000 men who got lured into the desert and trapped by the Parthans in ambushes. History is a grim teacher.

Note, again, the abuser's mentality. "I don't WANT to hurt you, I only do it because you leave me no choice." So much of what Trump is and what the GOP has become makes sense once you understand that the abuser's mentality is at the core of their being.

Sadly, the senile madman plutocrat of this moment is as stupid as he is evil.

Ответ для Jeffrey A. Becker

I feel quite certain that he has never read Herodotus, alas

Ответ для Karl Jacoby

I feel quite certain that he has never read anything.

Ответ для Karl Jacoby

That man couldn’t even pronounce Herodotus let alone read his works

Der Typ ist gefährlich!

this would make a good essay, I have to say :)

Ответ для David M. Perry

Oh so you really just go around assigning essays

Ответ для Craig Harrington

I am that asshole yup

Ответ для David M. Perry

Huh, hadn't thought of that!

Ответ для Karl Jacoby

Telling academics their smart but easily legible insights are essays is … for my sins … kind of my whole vocation.

Ответ для David M. Perry

Once or twice, I did turn a string of tweets into an essay or op-ed.

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George Conway once asked ‘how long will it be before Trump turns his attention to nuclear weapons?’ Republican leaders, Senator Thune, you owe this scoundrel nothing & you owe us your oath to the last measure. Stop Trump. Speak now. Your voices can stop this.

All this shit, all stemming from the fact that Iran wanted to profit from the oil that foreign mining companies were taking from them for free fucking five decades ago now.

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Ken Jennings

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Ответ для Jay Reed

Of all people, I am proudest to have Ken Jennings on my side!

Ответ для mikeeoj

There is a comfort in knowing the host of Jeopardy! is one of the good ones.

It's so fucking on the nose that it has to be deliberate, and since I know Donald Trump didn't come up with that, it makes me wonder what ever-so-clever staffer or intern smirked as they put that reference into the scheduled war crime announcement tweet.

Second time in 2 minutes I've seen reference to Croesus. Pity no one in the Trump regime ever studied classics.