• floo@retrolemmy.com
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    7 hours ago

    If your history books did not teach you about how fucked up this world is and how fucked up people are, then you read the wrong history books. Or, more likely, none at all.

    The books, I read fully prepared me for this bullshit. None of this is a surprise, nor should it be.

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      7 hours ago

      You kinda missed the point of the post. Nothing they said implied that the history books didn’t contain monstrosities, just that the books didn’t prepare them for living life while monstrosities occur.

      • floo@retrolemmy.com
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        7 hours ago

        No, I didn’t misunderstand anything. You did, specifically my comment.

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          3 hours ago

          No your comment is clear. “I’m smart and well read but no one else is. They’re all idiots! But not me!!”

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            11 minutes ago

            I’m sorry you’re feeling that you had to hallucinate your way around admitting you were wrong.

            That’s a form of delusional psychosis. Nothing to brag about.

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          7 hours ago

          Well then you better do a better job of explaining yourself cuz I read it the same way that guy did. I think you completely missed the point of this post.

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            6 hours ago

            Holy shit what a huge amount of entitlement.

            I don’t owe you anything, nor will I ever. If you cannot figure out the meaning of my incredibly simple and straightforward comment, that is 100% on you. I bear no responsibility here.

            Pro tip: you’ll make it much farther through life if you own your own problems and overcome them rather than just blaming everyone else for every time you’re wrong

          • _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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            6 hours ago
            1. I am not Floo
            2. I can read history, sympathize, and empathize.
            3. Every cataclysmic event we faced as a species, we have faced before, and wrote at length how sureal it felt for them, and terrible it was, and would never want it to reoccur again. Yet here, we are again, repeating history, because 55+% of the population are illiterately stupid.
            4. I’m doing everything in my power to plant trees I’ll never see, free deathcamps, and continue practicing anarchism with the few years I have left.
            5. We will get through this, dying, or living, but it will end. I can at the least control how I react to revisiting fascism again again.
    • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      Honestly the post should say ‘history classes’. Classes tend to cover a broad scope as do the textbooks they assign. I certainly have read larger picture nonfiction work, but I think it’s more common for books to cover more specific periods of time.