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Got_Bent ,

If the GQP somehow wins out in all of this and turns us into an autocratic monarchy, there will be jobs galore smashing the history eraser button.

They’re already trying to expunge the two impeachments. Gonna be tough to globally eliminate a mugshot.

whatisallthis ,

Makes you wonder how many times in the past the bad guys won and it’s just been framed as the good guys winning in history books.

Got_Bent ,

Probably significantly more times than anybody cares to admit. People aren’t exactly nice to each other today, but holy hell the known atrocities of ancient people. Who knows what got omitted or hero washed?

Alto ,
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To a certain extent, but most those ancient societies didn't exactly shy away from actively highlighting the atrocities they committed.

LeadSoldier ,

Being a retired soldier my perspective is thus: the winners that are writing the history books aren’t necessarily the winners, but those who killed the most.

Often those who deviate from the laws of war in order to cheat and win in horrific ways then get to write about the other side being the bad guys…

Those cucumber farmers in Iraq sure didn’t seem like the Al-Qaeda/ isis that I was told they were. Afghanistan was similar. Nobody was the hero involved in that.

zkikiz ,

America still exists and writes its own history books, so (remember, good means us, not objectively more moral)

jballs ,
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Trump never got a mugshot from his first indictment, but his campaign actually created one themselves to put on merchandise for fundraising.

These fucking clowns think committing crimes and acting persecuted is a viable campaign strategy.

zkikiz ,

It worked for Hitler, and the Republican Party seems to be taking straight from his playbook. (“Mein Kampf” means “my struggle” and was written in jail in ~1924 during his 5 years in prison for a failed coup attempt. Trump appears to be trying to speedrun the whole thing.)

In order to stop Nazis you have to stop the ideology of fascism which is unfortunately sorta baked into America’s racist puritanical capitalist genocidal origins. Hitler even took notes from American Jim Crow policies and racist/poisonous border controls. We have to fight this colonialist abusive mindset at all levels, from uncles and stepdads and cops to CEOs, investors, and politicians.

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