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@GeriAQuin I predict that Japan is on his mind because he wants to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
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Opgesnord vanuit de stoffige krochten van het DA archief, de originele partituur van Scott & Lesley. Een relikwie. Analoge geschiedschrijving uit de vorige eeuw. #historyrepeatsitself
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CW: Literature, War, Used Books
My #UsedBook find for today: “Stop the War” by Allen James. Copyright 1970.
A book of quotes against the concept of war, published during the Vietnam War. Interspersed are pages with photographs by Anthony Goldschmidt of grave markers from Arlington National Cemetary.
#FuckICE #MN #History #HistoryRepeatsItself #USPol #Bookstodon #Books #BookCollecting #Venezuela #Iran #Greenland #Peace
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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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Some SC officials want to give #bonuses for law enforcement officers helping #ICE
Skylar Laird
Fri, October 3, 2025COLUMBIA — "Local law enforcement would get bonuses for helping find and arrest immigrants living in the country illegally under a grant program U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday he planned to propose.
"Nationwide, the number of law enforcement agencies signing cooperation agreements with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has skyrocketed since the #Trump administration encouraged participation in the 287(g) program — named for the section of a 1996 law that authorized it — and revived its controversial 'task force' model earlier this year, despite concerns about #RacialProfiling from advocacy groups."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sc-officials-want-bonuses-law-120044522.html
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#Nazis Paid #BountyHunters to Turn In Jews, Book Says
By Anthony Deutsch
Dec. 1, 2002https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-01-adfg-bountyhunt1-story.html
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Damn! This DDG AI summary is spot-on (I usually don't use them).
"When Rome turned its armies against its own citizens
The Roman Republic and later the Empire, saw several instances where military force was used against its own citizens, usually due to internal political struggles, civil wars, or revolts
- The nature of Roman politics: Power struggles and rivalries among powerful individuals and factions were common throughout Roman history, especially during the late Republic and periods of imperial instability.
- The evolving role of the military: As the Republic transitioned into an Empire, the army's role shifted from primarily defending the state's external borders to also playing a decisive role in internal power struggles and securing the position of ambitious leaders.
- Moral and legal implications: Using armies against Roman citizens or within Roman territory was often considered a violation of tradition and law, but ambitious leaders were willing to defy these constraints in pursuit of power."
Hmmmm.... Sound familiar?
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_civil_wars_and_revoltshttps://www.history.com/articles/6-civil-wars-that-transformed-ancient-rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Rubicon
Archived version of above:
https://archive.ph/1RUJn#TaxBreaksForTheRich #NoDictators #TrumpSucks #TrumpLies #USPol #ArmedPosses #FoodShortages #HighRents #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MakeRomeGreatAgain #NoKings
#NoEmperors #EndOfTheRepublic
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Lessons from the Late Roman Army
June 25, 2014
"As the Empire grew, successive leaders, now styled as Emperors widened the veteran benefits until the mid third century A.D. After this troubled period of revolts, barbarian attacks and #EconomicDownturn and collapse, Roman authorities gradually reduced pensions and lengthened the period of active service necessary to receive full credit for service. This appears to have been done to reduce taxes for wealthy Romans living in the provinces."
https://cimsec.org/lessons-late-roman-army/
#TaxBreaksForTheRich #NoDictators #TrumpSucks #TrumpLies #USPol #ArmedPosses #FoodShortages #HighRents #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MakeRomeGreatAgain #NoKings
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How #Rome Destroyed Its Own Republic
#Augustus told Romans he was the only one who could save Rome. And they believed him.
by Becky Little, Nov 5, 2018, Last Updated: June 30, 2025
"Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat’s personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control.
"Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.E. The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn’t overcome. Rome itself wouldn’t fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever.
"The man who played the biggest role in disrupting Rome’s republic was #AugustusCaesar, who made himself the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C.E. By that point, the republic’s political norms had been breaking down for about a century, and Augustus was in a position to take advantage of that.
"Before that century, 'there had been a really long period where the republic functioned,' says Edward J. Watts, author of the new book Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into #Tyranny. Political norms were heeded; and when the government ran into a new problem, it would amend itself to keep working. For over 300 years, the republic operated this way. There was no political violence, land theft or capital punishment because those went against the political norms Rome had established.
"Then, in 133 B.C.E., Rome experienced its first political murder in the history of the republic. Senators were angry that Tiberius Gracchus, an elected official who had tried to #redistribute land to the #poor, was seeking a second term as tribune of the plebs. During a fight that broke out between Tiberius’s followers and opponents, senators beat him to death with wooden chairs and helped murder nearly 300 of his followers.
"Political violence increased in the 80s B.C.E. when political factions started stealing people’s land and killing their enemies. In 44, senators murdered Augustus’ great-uncle Julius Caesar after he #unconstitutionally named himself #dictator for life.
"Non-violent political dysfunction increased during this time, too. During the 60s B.C.E., a senator named Cato the Younger had constantly and unnecessarily used #ProceduralDelays to block the senate from voting on legislation he did not like for years. Other senators went along with this because they considered Cato a moral leader.
"In 59 B.C.E., one of the consuls working with Cato even tried to shut down all public business for the entire year by declaring each day of the year a religious holiday. (In the Roman Republic, saying the gods were angry was an acceptable reason to declare a holiday and postpone voting.)"
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https://www.history.com/articles/rome-republic-augustus-dictatorArchived version:
https://archive.ph/YufxA#NoDictators #TrumpSucks #TrumpLies #USPol #MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MakeRomeGreatAgain #NoKings
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"Social unrest was common in ancient Rome, and the Senate often faced uprisings of the plebeian class that proved difficult to suppress. Particularly in the late Republic, assemblies of the people were so liable to escalate into rioting and city-wide chaos that the Senate was forced to enact legislation which 'authorized the use of an #ArmedPosse' (Nippel, p.51) for Roman magistrates and patricians who might be swept up in the chaos that so often followed the passing of a new law.
"When this measure proved insufficient — 'bodyguards' could be readily bribed, and often took the law into their own hands — the urban cohorts were established to deal with civil disorder. But even these experienced veterans could be caught off guard and unable to deal with extensive rioting.
"Indeed, it is almost impossible for the modern mind to underestimate the social unrest and destruction so essential to the Roman modus vivendi, especially in times of political turbulence.
"Riots in Rome had many causes: #FoodShortages; #HighRent costs for houses and apartments that were liable to sudden and catastrophic collapse; political tensions. Even the undesired result of a chariot race or a sub-standard theatre show could incite city-wide violence."
https://eidolon.pub/cry-havoc-e407e34a57fc
#NoKings #NoEmperors #EndOfTheRepublic #NationalGuard #HistoryRepeatsItself #USPol
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Yeah, piss off veterans. We know how that went over in #Roman history...
US #AirForce to deny retirement pay to #transgender #ServiceMembers being separated from the service
#NoKings #NoEmperors #EndOfTheRepublic #HistoryRepeatsItself
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MAGA wants history to repeat | @destiny
#Sayings #HistoryRepeatsItself #Realization #Ironic #Destiny
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"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943#USPol #USPolitics #fascism #authoritarianism #history #HistoryRepeatsItself #AnneFrank #Hitler #Nazis #Project2025
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“And now our nation is divided in two factions between which rages an embittered fight for political power.”
— Wilhelm von Gayl, Berlin, August 11, 1932
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Something from Ken Burns I ran across a couple years ago; unfortunately, it seems another “dark chapter” in American history is upon us.
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
--George Santayana, 1905.#ForgettingHistory #GeorgeSantayana #Histodon #History #HistoryRepeatsItself #Fascism #LearnFromThePast
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I will state ahead of time that I do my very best not to cross post from the various sites but, this video is IMPORTANT and the discussion I've been trying to have with people for a few years now. People are so unwilling to process the discomfort of reality or even look at it face on. Please give it a watch if you value the voices of disabled people and the longevity of your loved ones.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz-MIQDRktn/
#disabilityRights #longCovid #Covid #historyRepeatsItself #eugenics #fear #reality #covidPolicy
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For the folks in the back. Antizionism ≠ Antisemitism. Any questions? #IStandWithPalestine 🇵🇸 #historyrepeatsitself #settlercolonycalledisrael #Amerikkka #Apartheid #genocide #Blacktwitter
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Here. In longer form. It's really simple. 🖕🏿🇮🇱. #IStandWithPalestine 🇵🇸 #settlercolonycalledisrael #amerikkka #historyrepeatsitself #Apartheid #genocide #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree #blacktwitter #blackmastadon
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And that ladies and gentlemen is the end of the discussion. #Amerikkka #historyrepeatsitself #Apartheid #settlercolonycalledisrael #genocide #IStandWithPalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree #Blacktwitter #BlackMastadon
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The system is working as intended. #Amerikkka #Apartheid #iykyk #historyrepeatsitself #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree 🇵🇸
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I recall the Arab Spring, but the Spring of the People, the largest and most widespread revolutionary wave in European history, was news to me. Just one of those things you get out of Jules Vern.
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#yesididgotoschool #yesipaidattention #ludditescomeinwaves #whereiscaptainnemowhenyouneedhimRevolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia
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When #capitalism, #fascism and #justice intersect… “When 24 IG Farben executives were tried at Nuremberg for the slaughter at Monowitz, then argued that they had no choice but to pursue slave labor – it was their duty to their shareholders. The judges agreed: 19 of those executives walked.” https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/19/stolpersteine/ #history #historyrepeatsitself
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https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/03/14/the-endless-death-of-chartered-monopoly/
Fascinating and timely, today's essential read.
#BBCbalance
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“We are living through wild times…it is hard for the people of our generation to adapt…”
This quote from Sergi Semenov in midst of the #russianrevolution reminds me #historyrepeatsitself
#amreading ”A People’s Tragedy” by Orlando Figes for the #BowieBookClub
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We refuse to learn from our past mistakes and repeat one cycle of hate and ignorance after another. Old lies and conspiracy theories are resurrected and given a new life, hatreds and biases are nurtured, veiled calls to violence are amplified. Hate and prejudice are the result of ignorance, fear, and laziness. Confirmation bias is gratifying and easy while confronting our prejudices and preconceptions requires a degree of introspective that many refuse to nurture. #HistoryRepeatsItself
