This isn’t the first time in the last century we’ve had a big economic crash and a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment cresting into a paramilitary response. Hoover’s Great Depression and the OG Immigration Quotas system, Eisenhower and Operation Wetback along with the Recessions of '53 and '58, Nixon’s Stagflation and border closure with Mexico, Reagan’s S&L crash and closing the border with Mexico, Bush Jr’s Great Recession and border crisis…
Pretty much every Republican Presidency delivers two things.
I hate that now I have to reframe all the history stories I’ve ever been fascinated by, now that I know how easily we discard reality as an entire species just for no fuckin reason. Now that I know exactly how dumb we all are as a collective, I have to apply critical thinking to every epic story about wars and kingdoms and great deeds. Even the ones with “valid” historic records are very likely pure bullshit covering up the most stupid goddamn things imaginable.
Hannibal crossing the alps? Probably was total BS. No elephants, probably didn’t even do it himself, probably wasn’t the alps, it was probably some row of hills behind Hannibal’s golf course.
Can we take a break from daily historic events a little bit?
So now we’re on to “decades where centuries happen.” :/
This isn’t the first time in the last century we’ve had a big economic crash and a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment cresting into a paramilitary response. Hoover’s Great Depression and the OG Immigration Quotas system, Eisenhower and Operation Wetback along with the Recessions of '53 and '58, Nixon’s Stagflation and border closure with Mexico, Reagan’s S&L crash and closing the border with Mexico, Bush Jr’s Great Recession and border crisis…
Pretty much every Republican Presidency delivers two things.
Sorry, you are cursed to live in interesting times.
If only these times were actually interesting and not just a pile of stupid bullshit.
I hate that now I have to reframe all the history stories I’ve ever been fascinated by, now that I know how easily we discard reality as an entire species just for no fuckin reason. Now that I know exactly how dumb we all are as a collective, I have to apply critical thinking to every epic story about wars and kingdoms and great deeds. Even the ones with “valid” historic records are very likely pure bullshit covering up the most stupid goddamn things imaginable.
Hannibal crossing the alps? Probably was total BS. No elephants, probably didn’t even do it himself, probably wasn’t the alps, it was probably some row of hills behind Hannibal’s golf course.
Best I can do is a once in a centuries empire collapse.