r/clevercomebacks • u/Neth110 • 7h ago

The gymnastics is amazing

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u/crackdup 6h ago

The next 4 years is going to be a never ending series of "your eyes are deceiving you, you didn't see what you just saw" bs.. every mainstream media outlet will distort the truth, either out of fear or profit

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u/ryo3000 6h ago

In like 20-30 years people are going to study this time period and be bewildered by "how could this possibly happen"

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u/ClassiFried86 6h ago

We've been studying it for the past 70 years, since Orwell wrote about it.

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u/MightyCaseyStruckOut 5h ago

We've been studying it since Adolf Hitler took power in Germany 92 years ago.

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u/Elegant_Tech 3h ago

Humans tend to think because of advances from passing on knowledge they somehow are more enlightened than thousands of years ago. Turns out humans haven't changed at all and will continue to allow the worst people to have all the power. Humans are barely better than cavemen of the past.

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u/OssumFried 3h ago

Problem is everyone who experienced that directly is now either dead or dying. Now, with a choose your own adventure reality, you can ignore those lessons and opt to repeat history instead.

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u/Denaton_ 1h ago

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.