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History is uncomfortable. Revising it to tell lovely stories is all well and good for building a national identity.
However, sugar-coating, ignoring, or even flat-out erasing parts of history benefits no one. People started writing events down accurately because the orators of old never intended paint an accurate picture of the past. And therefore lessons learnt from the failures of humanity (lost causes, preventable catastrophies, perspectives of people on the wrong side, genocides, etc.) were also lost.
History should be uncomfortable, so we can collectively learn and have a chance to do better the next time.
Um I can think of a few differences but I think the major one is that one of the geriatric fucks actually promised to end democracy in the US.
So, maybe don’t back his team?
Well if it ends up in civil war, can you at least launch the nukes and end the whole world as well, I’m kind of done being alive and going out with everyone else is probably the best excuse for not continuing on.