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17. Wow, I wasn't even alive back then...

Fri Mar 13, 2026, 04:40 PM

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just kidding, technically I was more than just alive, just wasn't as politically attuned or awake as I wish I had been. I have to repeat the wow though. So much fascinating info in your OP and that thread. Scary that so much of this was observed and foreseen and yet not stopped (was it even stoppable?) in its tracks. Why isn't info like this in our history books for public school these days (am assuming it's not)? We need a whole separate education on the history of politics here and worldwide. Who is writing (or banning) our modern textbooks for schools? Is there a better way to educate societies? Not expecting answers to my questions, just venting and thinking "aloud".

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