• Gork@sopuli.xyz
    1 month

    Students learning about the Trump era gonna think we dumb as fuck

          • endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.orgEnglish
            28 days

            it can be summarised easily as you can see it today as well…

            wealthy individuals with businesses, were afraid of socialism of any kind and backed fascism, even though in the long term it would result in a loss of money as less people to sell products to or need them. as they intend to get as rich as possible, then leave the industry like real life is a game.

            if you can’t see the problem of dissociation at the wealthiest, which has been visible evident since the 2000s starting in the mid 1970s with the first of the post-ww2 generation taking power… it’s easy to lose track of human connection, when you are surrounded by people that only see the vast majority of people as annoying, needy cattle.

            • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
              21 hours

              Yeah, that’s exactly it. Economies emerged to serve the populace, not the other way around. It’s not the first time in history this kind of inversion has happened, but the systems that engage in it don’t last long.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      1 month

      It’s going to be Germany 1933-1945 all over again, except the leader is considered even more of a clown than the first time.

      • endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.orgEnglish
        28 days

        worse, with modern regulation evidence is erased as it’s created… so much survived WW2 as record keeping was easy to smuggle out and was leaked via word of mouth…

        England nearly gave in to Germany long before the bombs hit english soil, when they were invading France… we can see parallels to that now and our leaders are in lockstep as unlike Germany who’s economic power was in the toilet before the war, the countries in question now based the world’s systems of trade and economy off of them to ensure it would destabilize everyone if something happened…

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    1 month

    We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.

    Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    1 month

    Optimistic of you to be so sure they’ll be studying history at all in the future.

    • endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.orgEnglish
      28 days

      while I’m with you, we have to hope that it all falls apart. otherwise we are looking at the collapse of humanity. Nzi Germany was broke, if it would of continued without the US joining the war, the economy was doomed from the start. it was hedged on government bonds as currency and the companies went with it because of the promises of Slve labour of undersirables.

      htler was obsessed with ancient Rome and wanted to build infrastructure with a indentured servants. problem was never the labour but the supplies. even if you had control of everything, the economic system would of collapsed without trade, there was no trade, because there was no one to buy anything and nothing to buy. the moment the war ended there would be no industry needing the raw materials and the government its self was still broke, it couldn’t pay anyone anything. it was just printing money with no value.

      certain countries are heading that way. inflation like you see right now is exactly why war is being sought instead of regulation. the companies benifiting right now only care about making the profit line go up as long as possible. investors and CEO’s will just quit/sell the moment it’s about to collapse and then buy up the countries that collapse… it’s really that simple.

  • Boozilla@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1 month

    Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.