Remember when you were a kid in elementary school studying history and thought: how could people have been so ridiculous back then? Well... - ThreadSky

charlotteclymer.bsky.social • 9 hours ago

Remember when you were a kid in elementary school studying history and thought: how could people have been so ridiculous back then?

Well...

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coffee-punk.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I know, when I was a kid I couldn't believe that people actually fell for McCarthyism, but this is so much dumber . . .

beedlemama.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Every minute of every day since he was elected. Sigh…. How did we get here?

deliamt.bsky.social•6 hours ago

I grew up in Texas. They lied then in the 60’s & 70’s. I didn’t learn truths until the 80’s and from my children, when they were in school in Cali 😵‍💫

drcjp8.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yes!

candyengland.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Most of the things I remember about history classes are those tomes when I overcame my nervousness to speak up and ask… how could people have done that or allowed that?

pjocky82.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Been saying this for a decade now

emjo198.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Yes! I can’t wait to get to the part where the resistance rises.

dave-summers.bsky.social•58 minutes ago

Why yes, yes I do!
Impeach Trump!

cofoothills.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I cried with hope and joy when Obama was elected President. I was so very proud to be American and felt our future was bright. I hope for my childrens and countries sake we can overcome this. They are blowing it up but we can fix it after the dust settles.

mitch2266.bsky.social•3 hours ago

nyxfluffpaw.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Those of us who understand history know people have always been ridiculous. These problems are not new. We are just being louder with our frustrations.

michaeljjohnson.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Yep

3cboymom.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I can remember reading Anne Frank and thinking, why are we reading this? This is horrifying and could never happen again. I was wrong.

prunchained.bsky.social•1 hour ago

People had free will and could virtually do what they wanted completely. This generation now surrenders their freedoms everyday to the govern, phones and meaningless stuff. We can’t be upset because no one is doing anything about our current situation but complaining.

angie-genxer.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It is starting to seem like there were some boomers & GenX fantasizing about it being a playbook for what they dreamed of doing.
Trumpet comes along and viola their dreams come true.

jlstudt.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Bingo. I’ve read so much about maga being ignorant. MAGA may be dumb in many ways but they are executing their playbook perfectly. This is the plan. They told us in Project 25.

geoffvster.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The problem is the kids who weren’t paying attention during history class also vote.

shriketron.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Well, we know most times it ends in war, a lot of deaths, before anything is resolved.

lethajeffers.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The whitewashed history I was taught was a joke...it's what I've learned since while living life that's truly revealed how horrible this country has really been all along....that's why the election results didn't shock me....

its-ya-boi-a-aron.bsky.social•7 hours ago

History is just doing humanity as a group project

pflagler.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Luckily that won’t be a problem in future, because soon kids won’t be learning history in school.

patriceorourke.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I'm older than you and I remember having to practice hiding under our desks in school in case Russia nuked us. Now we're handing them the keys to the White House with the nuclear codes wrapped up with a bow.
My have things changed🙄
Ugh

twinkb23.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I'm reliving this with my little guy. Every single day he's like "they did what now, but why?!".

pletchek.bsky.social•8 hours ago

This has been on my mind since November

averagemealworm.bsky.social•4 hours ago

yep

randysamples.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Look at MAGA today.

Full flight from fucking reality.

bluecow11.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Huh we can teach them plenty about being stupid, greed, how to alienate allies, destroy federal oversight and on the side obliterate the planet….

mccoy44.bsky.social•8 hours ago

For some reason, we decided to put the idiots eating paste in charge.

jlstudt.bsky.social•2 hours ago

At the core, the reasons were greed, hate & ignorance.

docjoro.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Me, a history and government teacher, feeling like I’m screaming into the void.

always4bangtan.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Struggling with this every day since the election, Charlotte. And many days for the last 10 years..

recklessbeading.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I remember reading "It Can't Happen Here," Sinclair Lewis's dystopian novel about the U.S. electing a Fascist dictator, and thinking it couldn't happen here because people wouldn't possibly be that stupid.

coachleelee.bsky.social•8 hours ago

this is my Roman Empire

breakinghappy.bsky.social•8 hours ago

2015 me was so naive

mztexblu.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yes, and I used to wonder how the Germans could have let that horror happen and …

kristajacobsen.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Literally thought there could never be a SCOTUS as bad as the one that approved of child labor and welp.....

deepstatepotato.bsky.social•1 hour ago

"Never again" isn't really working out, is it?

nanners3.bsky.social•7 hours ago

💯🤨

schasse60.bsky.social•8 hours ago

🎯

vondabraithwaite.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Welcome to the American Red Wedding.

vondabraithwaite.bsky.social•9 hours ago

How’s everybody doing?

matyd.bsky.social•7 hours ago

To be fair, I say the same thing about my fellow Americans today.

eykyu.bsky.social•8 hours ago

You might want to attend this! https://bsky.app/profile/eykyu.bsky.social/post/3ljjmqzqycc2b

eykyu.bsky.social•7 hours ago

genjibear.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I used to wonder what stupid things about our society people would look back on and think we were ridiculous for. Now I'm in a constant state of headdesk.

annallyn.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The Spanish Inquisition makes so much more sense now, as well as the Crusades. And I thought humankind had matured...

maureen2024.bsky.social•9 hours ago

And MAGA still doesn’t get it. 😡

perfectgame0409.bsky.social•7 hours ago

When our 401k’s sink to zero they still won’t get it.

infraredchris.bsky.social•8 hours ago

There was no right wing media then

gwenners.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Me, a couple decades ago: "How could the Salem witch trials actually have happened? That's just silly! Who'd believe this nonsense!"

Me, now: "oooohhhhhhhhh"

sealblue.bsky.social•8 hours ago

discovered how in 2015

gellen.bsky.social•8 hours ago

100%

juanfoxx.bsky.social•8 hours ago

!!!!!!!!

matsmagnem.bsky.social•6 hours ago

And in their defense, there was no Internet, no unlimited source of information other than radio and news papers. And they were all controlled.

A lot of media sources are controlled now, but not all. This ridiculousness is by choice.

deborahlawrenchale.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yep! I've been having the same thought you seem to be having!

unusualtimeline.bsky.social•7 hours ago

MAGA loves this one trick…

aussiedamo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Yup.

frenchie-66.bsky.social•48 minutes ago

We looked back to the 1930’s & asked how it could have happened in Germany?
Now we know.

33greenfields.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Axis powers

jimburlingame.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Bingo

smigman.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I wonder if any of our posts here will be archived and looked at in the future.

smigman.bsky.social•7 hours ago

As a sane person standing on the sidelines, I am seeing the ridiculous people in action today.

jpmegraw.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Yeah and here we are wit spoilt brat white males thinking they none the world

jpmegraw.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yeah and here you are

cppchicago.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Just like algebra. History is irrelevant to these clowns.

tungstenator.bsky.social•27 minutes ago

We have Maple Maga up here in Canada, so these idiotic, hateful ideas spread everywhere on the internet.

somewhere-in-mi.bsky.social•1 minute ago

I maintain that our biggest problem as a country is the relentless drumbeat that it "couldn't happen here" despite native genocide, chattel (or any type, for that matter) slavery, the fall of reconstruction, Jim Crowe, nearly half the country siding with Nazis in the late 30s, Dobbs... Etc. etc. etc

mrduplicity.bsky.social•26 minutes ago

It's like how fictional TV and movie characters somehow blossom into bleak reality shows

h2oecologist.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Ridiculous... fascist...
Tomato... swasticar...

azorblue.bsky.social•8 hours ago

....no, not really. We who lived in the vicinity of USSR knew what people were suffering. As will Ukraine again if they do not uphold their right to sovereignty and freedom.

skybluern.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I don't wonder about that anymore. Now, I wonder how could people who learned history be so ridiculous now!

bslkuye1.bsky.social•7 hours ago

💔💔💔

mamavon.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The problem is that the people who are maga didn’t pay attention in school. They never wondered how this could happen. Ignorance and a complete lack of empathy

jlstudt.bsky.social•1 hour ago

They paid attention. They’re using it as a roadmap but improving the areas that failed the 1st time. MAGA doesn’t believe his policies will hurt them. When they do, they’ll still blame Democrats. Yes, maga is ignorant in many ways but this is intentional. They want this.

northern-girl.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yep. People are going to look back at this part of history and wonder how we allowed it to happen. Or how half the Voters thing like rednecks

jlstudt.bsky.social•1 hour ago

Only if we’re lucky bc that implies we will win. The winners write history. We will be erased if they win.

notafanoftrump.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Ridiculous would be a step up from the version of hell we are currently experiencing

egoode.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The republic has fallen - but we still won’t take to the streets to drag them out of Washington by force.

thegcdp.bsky.social•8 hours ago

🫠 We just ran into someone on X who believes that no one would ever do a physical inspection of children to determine gender. In a country that has strip searched children over ibuprofen.

lancellane.bsky.social•7 hours ago

https://bsky.app/profile/lancellane.bsky.social/post/3ljjogj57es25

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