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"History Repeats" by B.Knox
#BKnox #HistoryRepeats
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#historyrepeats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #historyrepeats, aggregated by home.social.
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My blessing / curse is that I remember shit. Especially patterns. I hope that others pay attention to those as well. Or else, we're all doomed. Seriously...
#HistoryRepeats #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #Fascism #PowerCorruptionAndLies
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Is that #StephenMiller in the shadows?
Excerpt from The Twilight Zone episode, "He's Alive," from 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQvBIyOC6Y
#MAGA #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteReplacementTheory #TwilightZone #Fascism #Fascists #USPol #WorldPol #TheBalladOfTheLittleMan #HistoryRepeats
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History is a mirror for the present and a map for the future. But what happens when that mirror is distorted? In this article, Dr. Ioannis Syrigos explores how power manipulates history, why truth matters more than ever, and what we must do to preserve it.
https://members.ancient-origins.net/articles/imperative-learning-history
#HistoryMatters, #LearnFromHistory, #HiddenHistory, #TruthVsPropaganda, #HistoryRepeats, #HistoricalFacts, #KnowYourPast, #AntiRevisionism, #TruthTelling, -
Sure, politics is fucked up right now. But remember this, roughly 53 years ago VP Spiro Agnew had to resign, and exactly 52 years ago today Richard Nixon resigned. He was afterwards pardoned by the new President who Nixon appointed as VP after Agnew left, and the country was being run by someone that wasn't elected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_resignation_speech
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Though on the flip side, being right a lot (especially about human stupidity) isn't so much boring than it is frustrating... @knowprose @n1vux
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Did history just repeat itself in the Texas GOP primary? Heather Cox Richardson reports on Trump-backed Ken Paxton's victory over Senator John Cornyn, despite scandals. This dominance echoes 1850s purity tests, suggesting extremes create openings for change. Read the full analysis: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-27-2026 #TexasPrimary #GOPPolitics #HistoryRepeats. Great work, Heather!
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@TwraSun Vielleicht denkt er: AFD bedeutet "Albig für Deutschland"?
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Why Did #Rome Fall?
June 2025
‘The [Roman] Empire was an exercise in managed #devolution’
Read more:
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/why-did-rome-fallArchived version:
https://archive.ph/wLKEp#USPol #TrumpSucks #SippyCupCaligula #EmpiresFall #RomanEmpire #HistoryRepeats
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This is crucial knowledge. One of the wisest voices in political commentary breaks it all down for you:
https://youtu.be/GFrDccrrtPc?si=l9pqB1n8W6cWPEd_
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Why #GiorgiaMeloni's '#AntiProtest' law has divided #Italy
Italy’s new security law, pushed through by PM Giorgia Meloni’s #RightWing government, is stoking nationwide outrage. From harsher protest penalties and a ban on cannabis light to legal cover for police, critics warn it criminalises dissent and threatens #CivilLiberties. Protests, international concerns and Senate drama have all followed
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June 5, 2025"A new security decree introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition government has divided Italy.
"Approved by the Senate with 109 votes in favour, 69 against, and one abstention, the legislation has sparked a backlash from opposition lawmakers, human rights bodies and legal groups, who argue that it undermines fundamental freedoms and disproportionately punishes marginalised communities.
"The decree expands legal authority for law enforcement, imposes stricter penalties on demonstrators, and introduces a variety of criminal provisions touching on #protests, public order, #cannabis regulation, and social #housing.
"While the government insists the law is a necessary measure to safeguard security, critics see it as a repressive attempt to #CriminaliseDissent and curb civil liberties in one of Europe’s major democracies."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/n6clN#WorldPol #ItalyPol #CriminalizingProtest #SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #Fascism #HistoryRepeats? #AntiProtestLaws
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This is not what the United States did to Hiroshima. This is what the United States is doing to Tehran at this very moment.
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#Secrecy seems to be the hallmark of both #DetentionCenters and #Datacenters! Sneaky, sneaky...!
Mystery surrounds #RichmondVA-area home tied to firm behind $1.2B Army #Texas tent-camp contract
By: The Associated Press
Posted 3:36 PM, Aug 28, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer."
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/mystery-surrounds-richmond-area-home-aug-28-2025#USPol #HistoryRepeats #TrumpSucks #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP #AbolishDHS #Shameful #Fascism #DetentionCenters #HumanRights #WeKnowWhereYouLive #InternmentCamp #CampEastMontana #Texas #ICE #ICEDetention
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A ‘Shameful’ Legacy: #Texas Has Officially Opened an #ICE #DetentionFacility at Site of #WWII #InternmentCamp
#CampEastMontana is now the largest #immigrant detention facility in U.S. history, but it’s just one of 19 sites that will add a total of 37,649 new beds for ICE detainment — a 105% increase in the state’s capacity.
by Leslie Rangel August 18, 2025
Excerpt: "In #ElPaso on Sunday, the #Trump Administration opened the doors to Camp East Montana, the largest ICE detention facility in the country’s history. It reportedly cost $1.2 billion under a U.S. Defense Department contract.
"The new facility is at Fort Bliss, one of five sites where Texas held detainees of #Japanese descent, as well as immigrants from #Germany and #Italy — including #AmericanBorn civilians — during #WorldWarII, according to the National Parks Service and The El Paso Times."
#USPol #HistoryRepeats #TrumpSucks #ICESucks #AbolishICE #AbolishCBP` #AbolishDHS #Shameful #Fascism #DetentionCenters #HumanRights
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How many years before we get an apology for the "failure to support and defend" today's victims? #HistoryRepeats #ConcentrationCamps #DetentionCenters #InternmentCamps #RetributiveJustice #WhiteSupremacy #HumanRights #CivilRights #Racism More in the alt text.
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Political pundits X years from now - "In early 2026, the Liberal Party looked like an unelectable rabble, but after missteps by an ageing and tired labor government, the retirement of Pauline Hanson leading to a drop in One Nation's support, and [events], the election of [Not Angus Taylor or Andrew Hastie] as leader saw it find a way back to the center of Australian politics, and to government."
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Heather Cox Richardson reveals how Senator Joe McCarthy's 1950 communist accusations sparked a legacy of fearmongering, mirrored in today's Great Replacement theory. This history, connecting McCarthy's falsehoods to President Trump’s immigration rhetoric, warns how misinformation erodes democracy. Read the full story here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-8-2026 #HistoryRepeats #ConspiracyTheories
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@ThomHartmann has mentioned this on his program. #HistoryRepeats
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Why Isn’t News of #Trump Building Vast #ConcentrationCamps Being Treated as a #NationalEmergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a #MassDetention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
by #ThomHartmann, Feb 05, 2026
Excerpt: "The British originated the term '#ConcentrationCamp' to describe facilities where '#rebel' or 'undesirable' civilians were held in #SouthAfrica during the #SecondAngloBoerWar (1899–1902) to control and punish a #rebellious population.
"They were facilities where the 'bad elements of society' were 'concentrated' into one location so they could be easily controlled and would lose access to society and thus could not spread their messages of #resistance against the #BritishEmpire.
"Future generations of Americans—our children and grandchildren—won’t ask us whether #ICE followed civil detention statutes: they’ll want to know why we allowed concentration camps to exist in America at all.
"The Germans adopted the term in 1933 when #Hitler took power and created his first camp for #communists, #socialists, #UnioLleaders, and, by the end of the year, Hitler’s #PoliticalOpponents. They Germanized the phrase into '#Konzentrationslager' and referred to the process of their incarceration as 'protective custody.'
"The first camp was built at #Dachau just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and by the end of the year there were around 70 of them operating across the country."
#USPol #WakeUpPeople #HistoryRepeats #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DetentionCenters
#PrivatePrisons #CriminalizingDissent
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Benito Mussolini promised to restore Italy’s pride, but instead, he led it into disaster. So, in the final days of the war, Italy took justice into its own hands. #historyrepeats
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ea0FPU0Ab6M&si=JgcwL1TX3-avGMI4 -
Reminders of a past time when a secret police force was permitted to snatch people off the street, and send them to a camp hidden from the public in another country.
#ice #holocaust #cpb #trump #maga #historyrepeats #historyrepeating #racism #secretpolice #nazis
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‘It’s different this time’ is the most reliable lie in geopolitics. The history is already written. Only the excuses are new.
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@dtm We will never see someone like this go to trial. he will end up in the ballroom bunker, taken by his own hand
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This is not strategy, it is recycled imperialism.
Same old regime change playbook, new year, new targets. Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, others queued up, chaos exported, history ignored. Dressing power as piety does not hide the wreckage it leaves behind.#RegimeChange
#Imperialism
#Trump2026
#ForeignIntervention
#Iran
#Venezuela
#Cuba
#Israel
#MiddleEast
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Who is Left to Speak?— A reflection on Martin Niemöller’s First They Came.
On the cost of telling ourselves it isn’t our problem.
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Hours After US Citizen Shot Dead by #ICE, #JDVance Says ‘#DoorToDoor’ Operations Are Coming
“This is starting to look disturbingly like Germany in the 1930s.”
Stephen Prager, Jan 08, 2026
"Just hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed an unarmed US citizen in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance said the agency would soon be going 'door to door' across the country to escalate the Trump administration’s mass deportation crusade in the coming year."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/vance-ice-door-to-door
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_papers,_please
#HistoryRepeats #NaziGermany #YourPapersPlease #IhrePapiereBitte?
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RW turd & frequent #FnS guest #GenKeane claimed this morning:
"The difference between [#Venezuela] and #Iraq/#Afghanistan is that THIS is not #NationBuilding."
REALLY? We decapitated their leadership, announced WE are now going to "run the country" and "rebuild their infrastructure."
EXACTLY what we did in Iraq. If THAT isn't "Nation Building", what IS??? 🤦♂️
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1-4 We cannot stay silent. Speaking up for others is not optional; it is how we prevent history from returning to square one. Adolf Hitler exited in 1945. Donald Trump entered in 1946. History said, “Hold my beer.” #NeverAgain #SpeakUp #HistoryRepeats” #TrumpHitler
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Not surprising...!
How #Patriarchy Undermined the #RomanRepublic
by Douglas Boin, Nov 24, 2025 2:00 PM
Excerpt: "The men of the republic, who called themselves their society’s 'Chosen Fathers,' enforced this two-tiered society through strict #VotingLaws and limits on women’s #autonomy. Heavily manipulated voting districts ensured that only the voices of the senatorial elite, Rome’s self-proclaimed optimates, or 'best men,' dominated, not progressive champions, freed slaves, or newly-enfranchised citizens. No woman could run for higher office. Women could neither sit on juries, nor exercise their vote.
" 'As soon as women become the equals of men,' the statesman and senator Cato the Elder said in 212 B.C., 'they will have become our masters.'
"Yet as Rome’s republic expanded beyond the capital city, beyond Italy, and gradually acquired its Mediterranean empire, stories of a different sort of woman reset women’s expectations at home. In the eastern Mediterranean, highly educated woman philosophers, avant-garde poets, and above all, the fearless Greek-speaking queens of Egypt, including #Cleopatra, held sway. Inspired by these role models across #Europe, #Africa, and #Asia, #RomanWoman began to challenge the republic’s inequities and ideologies and claim their voices in the male-dominated republic.
"Grandmothers and mothers taught their daughters to read and cultivate their intellectual talents. An educated girl, the new wave of educators argued, knew how to assert herself against a man who 'swaggers through the city acting like a tyrant.' Cato’s quotation comes from a pivotal moment when women and their allies poured into the streets to demand the repeal of a war-time-era tax on their savings. Other women were political leaders who earned the scorn of their contemporaries. Some were erased or forgotten. In one case, the life of an upper-class woman and contemporary of Julius Caesar, Clodia, saw her reputation destroyed by false claims of harlotry, home-wrecking, and husband-killing.
"#Clodia, an unapologetic champion for expanded voting rights for the enfranchised men of Italy, bravely went before an all-male jury in the center of the Roman Forum in April 56 B.C., as the prosecution’s star witness to testify against her day’s runway, endemic corruption. Instead of defending his client from the charges, however, the leading defense attorney, Marcus Tullius Cicero, turned the case into a referendum on Clodia’s character. Transforming Clodia into the trial’s villain, the speech, the Pro Caelio, outlasted Rome’s fall. It has been taught in high school and college classrooms for two millennia as a masterclass of rhetoric, from which countless men in business, law, and politics have learned to emulate Cicero’s #misogyny.
"Trailblazing women like Clodia have always, in the historian’s shorthand, been called “ahead of their time.” But history deserves to be told from another point of view: by pointing out the parade of men who have stubbornly and perennially thwarted progress. Rome’s republic might have survived a bit longer had its own people listened to, not silenced, its women."Read more:
https://time.com/7326211/roman-republic-women/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YJcBB#RomanWomen #HistoryRepeatsItself #FallOfRome #RomanHistory #USPol #HistoryRepeats #WomensRights #VoterDisenfranchisement
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@BrianJopek
Oh dear!I see the whole "#SpottedOwl" Right-Wing hysteria from the 1990's coming back over this.
(Most) #Republicans are devoid of #empathy (while extolling #Jesus... a brown-skinned Middle Eastern man who tells them to "welcome the stranger" & "care for the poor"), mocking inconveniencing people for the benefit of "some stupid birds".
Poppy #Bush even made the "controversy" part of his campaign. 😒
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History has shown what appeasement leads to. Seeing this parallel in 2025 is more than unsettling — it’s a warning we can’t afford to ignore. #HistoryRepeats #DemocracyUnderThreat #StandWithUkraine #USPolitics #Europe
