Yall the history majors have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade
Source: am history major and have been freaking the fuck out for over a decade as have several classmates and other historians
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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I am not a history major, but I got a 5 on AP US History... and have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci.
Basically, the last 10 years for me has been everyone I know thinking I am literally insane.
And then roughly 90% of what I was saying would happen, has now happened, within +/- 2 years of when I said it probably would.
None of them have bothered to apologize for being wrong, emphatically, derisivesly wrong, about basicsally everything, so, fuck em, and fuck this country honestly.
Not only do they never apologize for being wrong, they never apologize for accusing you of wearing tinfoil when what you said would happen, happens.
Then they continue telling you you're over-reacting about the current thing you're telling them.
Its like consistently predicting the lottery numbers, and then arguing with you when they keep losing even though you tell them the winning number the day before every time.
My new motto:
Suffer no fools.
It's like being Cassandra
People hate prophets especially when they are right
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I feel for you, none of us are getting apologies of any kind, nor are we likely to get any accolades for being right. Shit sucks
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I have had friends start to freak out this term. I told them that most of this same stuff happened last term, you just didn't hear about it (or listen to what I was saying) for some reason. Granted, he's become much, much worse since our conversations in February because of SCOTUS backing him, but he had concentration camps last time as well.
I remember reading about them sterilizing migrant women in camps at the border last term and just staring at the wall for a good minute.
Can't wait (/s) to see what escalations await us.
Holy fuck.
Yeah. The news broke in 2020 during the later part of the election cycle, but the incidents started around 2018.
A fourth of the population swore up and down it didn't happen ("But if it did, they shouldn't have been here illegally in the first place!"), a fourth said "I don't know who to trust so I'm going to ignore it 😔", a fourth said "I don't follow politics/I'm more worried about consumer prices", and a fourth was pissed.
Welcome to American politics. Leave your sense of decency at the door.
I mean, Trump did Jan 6th, said he wanted to be a dictator, Project 2025 outlined everything that was going to be, and is currently being done.
It was not any kind of difficult to figure this out lately, unless one just prides themself on being ignorant or has some kind of unexamined onion layers of normalcy bias at the same they are angry and worried about how not normal things are.
Oh well, cognitive dissonance is a bitch I guess, time for the Great Filter to attempt to cull that out of the gene pool.
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refreshes frontpage/new for the 60th time today to see if the other shoe has dropped
It definitely is falling though. I hope someone catches it before it hits the ground.
They will not. It's way too late.
It's never too late unless we give in to cynicism and apathy. It is heart breaking that so many people already have given up the fight.
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So anyway, now may be a good time to:
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Reach out to our foreign friends and ask to help lobby their governments to provide refugee programs before we are cut off from the outside world.
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Look into decentralized mesh internet infrastructure.
Given the general trend of far-right everything, fat chance of 1 happening before it's too late. Better hope Mexico is taking people.
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That's me, with a degree in history, and a lifetime of watching it play out. My anxiety level has never been this high. This is not normal life, and we are absolutely careening towards disaster, and NOBODY at the top has the slightest idea how to drive this car. I don't think some of them are even smart enough to know what a car is, or how it works.
I know where this all leads to. I know how many people have said "It will never happen in my beautiful country." Every German said that in 1939. In 5 years, entire cities were bombed to rubble, and millions of their fellow citizens were dead.
In 1984, Sarajevo hosted the Olympics, and showed their beautiful modern city and nation to the world. In 1992, less that 10 years later, they were under siege in the Bosnian War:
Lasting from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 (1,425 days), it was three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad and more than a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, making it the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.[11]
The Huns used to come to a beautiful city, and kill literally every single person. One day, the people are enjoying their lives, and the next day, every single one of them is dead.
The horrors of war happen to normal cities all the time, throughout history. Too many people on both sides don't understand how easily it can happen to them. Nobody is immune.
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The US has been clearly moving downhill since 2001. But the acceleration they got this year has been incredible.
And for everybody not there, remember they have the largest nuclear arsenal on Earth.
Largest conventional military as big as the rest of the world combined plus the nukes. The US is beyond scary.
Yeah, I don't know how well their supply lines would cope against basically the entire world. But it's still scary.
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2001?
Dude, it started long before that. One could argue that it was Newt Gingrich, and the Contract With America in 1994. Or the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, which allowed unregulated propaganda. Or 1986, when Rush Limbaugh's show proliferated around America, quickly becomes the Conservatives most successful recruiter and indoctrinator. Or in 1974, when the Republicans took advantage of the post-Watergate chaos, and passed a new tax code that baked in Trickle Down Economics.
Personally, I maintain that it all started in 1968, when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. He would have ended the Vietnam War earlier, saving thousands of lives, and taken America in a completely different direction. Instead, Nixon was elected, and took us down the path of evil that has led to us being occupied by treasonous, corrupt, pedophile MAGA Nazis.
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Damn, I just had the conversation with my partner saying this. The patriot act kicked all of this off. The invaded our privacy in the name of protection. We didn't get protection then and now we are being actively attacked.
Just enjoy the ride until it ends. People are worrying but there is not much anyone can do.
The true test of being here is managing to stay a good person in the middle of a world telling you to become a bad one.
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right now
I mean…
- J6
- QAnon
- Unite the Right
- Back The Blue (et al)
- Chutkan swatting
- Pelosi attack
- Whitmer plot
- Malheur
- Gamergate
- Birtherism
- Tea Party
- Patriot Act
- Snowden
- Abu Ghraib
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- John Birch Society
- Goldwater
- Reagan (and hell, the ways Carter teed him up)
- Nixon
- That whole white nationalist enclave project in the remote Northwest
- …
I think in many ways the people who paid attention are the least surprised.
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
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World Wide Financial Crisis ✅
World Wide Pandemic ✅
Fascist Take Over of a Super Power ✅
History doesn’t repeat itself but it sure rhymes.
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Me, as a Canadian, irl
There's no way this shit doesn't spill over into Canada in horrifying ways.
I am seriously considering leaving. Like, going and never coming back. Ever.
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Too bad these MAGA failed out or peaked in high school. Then lost all that was "learned"
Four touchdowns in one game.
Not just right now. For more than a year, at least, for the sweating. If they really paid attention, they'd be off packing their things and planning their escape.
Yeah, no. That was 2015. Then from 2016-2019 it was:
Then from 2020 to 2023 it was:
Then in 2024 it was:
And now in 2025, it’s:
Is it weird that I actually was taught more of the history involved with current events in English class than a history class?
Like every single essay outside of a legit book report on literature we were assigned, had to do with WW2 and/or major political issues like abortion and gun control.
I actually took AP European History as an elective my senior year because I was so sick of everything in English abd regular history class being about 1 single war my country was involved in.
I barely paid any attention and even I know it's 1936 over there right now.
For a long time now I have been saying that They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer is probably the most important book anyone can and should read. Now I feel like Cassandra.
Meanwhile I'm watching the wrongthink police in much of Europe. Things are fucked everywhere.
I am guessing that Mexico and Canada might be the winners from this in a couple of decades. If they enter a conflict together against the USA during a civil war, they can potentially annex a fair bit of territory. Plus, many world powers would likely support that fight - it is an opportunity to give a black eye and remove the US from the world stage.
The government would start an external war before it would let a civil war happen. Just like Germany, its likely the world will need to come together to stop the US.
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Nobody in North America is going to be a winner from this. It's going to be chaos. A lot of productive capacity that could otherwise have been used to make useful things or provide useful services is instead going to have to be spent on preventing the chaos in the US from spilling over the border.
I also don't think Canada or Mexico would want to annex territory. Annexing requires a strong military to hold the territory, and neither Canada nor Mexico has a strong military. What's more likely IMO is that there's some kind of a civil war and the US is split into multiple smaller sovereign states. After the dust settles, some will be on great relations with Canada and Mexico. Others will be isolated states that are closely tied to Russia or Saudi Arabia or something.
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