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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
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
IIRC there was a funny tale ... in christian medieval times, it was illegal to tell the future. (like, fortune tellers and such)
in the text i read, people predicting the future was seen as a "real" thing, i.e. they believed it really worked. they still didn't like it though. i wonder why.
Hey, uh, great wizard, perhaps you shouldn’t throw stones? ;)
For real, though, witch hunts were always adventures in scapegoating. People are always easier to placate when you can redirect their fear and anger away from the establishment (whether that’s your chieftain, congregation, parish, fiefdom, governor, or king) and onto someone who can’t defend themselves. That’s usually the marginalised – the homeless, disabled, religiously ‘deviant’, or just annoying – because they can’t fight back. Bonus points if they have property or assets you can seize.
It’s never been about beliefs, and it’s always been about taking from people who can’t defend themselves – and making them that way by separating them from their community. This is what sociopaths have always done when we put them in charge.
Yes this! There's literally no space for them between treating you insane and then freaking out.
No one could've known!