The worst part of living in historical times...

[malthaussen]

... for me, anyway, is knowing I won't get to see what history will actually make of these times.

History should only occur when one is young, so that fifty years later, you can read the books and say "I knew it all along."

-- Mal

[Srkdqltr]

1. May you live in interesting times.

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. The ancient curse.

Well, we are in them.

[Ping Tung]

2. One of my history profs asked anyone who chose history as a major to raise our hands.

"Welcome to the world of cynicism", quoth he.

[malthaussen]

3. Yep, it's hard to be an historian and not be a cynic...

... and frankly, I don't trust a one of them who isn't.

-- Mal

[electric_blue68]

4. I already lived through "historical times" I Didn't Need another round!.....

Back in 1968. Ghads. What a horric year that was!

I was 10 when JFK wa assassinated; so I didn't really get the loss on a larger scale.

By the time I was 14 in 1967, I'd already started to pay attention to socio-political issues so the losses, and election of Nixon were just devastating!

[malthaussen]

5. I'm hip. 12 in '68.

Just too young to have all the cool fun with the hippies. But we did okay in the early '70s in that respect.

-- Mal

[electric_blue68]

6. Glad you got to have some fun!

[malaise]

7. I just want to live long enough to watch the cabal suffer

real serious consequences

[malthaussen]

8. Hanging's too good for them.

I had a friend who was very creative at coming up with exotic tortures and ways to punish people. Just thought exercises, of course.

-- Mal

[malaise]

9. It's a moral question for me

because I am against the death penalty but there are days I do wonder…

[malthaussen]

12. Understandable. Capital punishment is too freely administered...

... especially if you're poor and black. But I do believe some people are irrevocably evil. Locking them away at State expense for their entire "natural" lives seems no better than removing them from the population by more absolute means. There are those who will recite the mantra "there is always hope," and cite examples of regeneration, but some people are just never gonna reform, and so they should be removed from society one way or another. The punch line is deciding who is unacceptably evil, and moreover, whom gets to decide.

-- Mal

[malaise]

13. There is no hope for people like Donvict

We agree on that

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. To those who serve TACO who proclaim to be Christians....

Jesus Christ is watching you!

He knows what is in your heart!

He will judge you for the LEAST you did onto His Brethren.

[Vinca]

14. I totally agree. I wish I could come back just long enough to read the history books.

If there are any history books. Civilization on planet Earth may no longer exist thanks to Taco.

[malthaussen]

15. Well, yeah, there's always that.

I personally think AI will get us first, or barring that, climate change. Which is why I don't attribute the current state of the world to DJT, but to the egomaniacal -- emphasis on the "maniac" -- billionaires who want to burn the whole world down so they can squat on the ashes.

-- Mal