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Post by Moose on Oct 26, 2016 22:05:17 GMT
I genuinely had not expected the situation in the US to be as it is at the moment. When Trump stood as a candidate I took it as a joke - I did not think for a second that he would get the nomination. And then he did and the whole thing has seemed like a complete farce since then. Yes, he's on course to lose but that doesn't mean that he necessarily will - we thought that Brexit would lose. He has effectively made racism, xenophobia, sexism and sexual assault acceptable .. certainly to those who still intend to vote for him. If he loses I am afraid that there will be violence and deaths.
I would be interested to look a hundred years into the future and see what the history books say about this period and the damage that it has done.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 26, 2016 22:56:45 GMT
History is written by the victors, so effectively you're asking who's going to win.
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Post by Moose on Oct 28, 2016 3:13:48 GMT
Are you saying that there has never been a history written of people who lost?
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Post by JoeP on Oct 28, 2016 22:48:14 GMT
Never. Exactly. Never ever.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 3, 2016 23:33:06 GMT
Sometimes it can be glimpsed in shadows and half-forgotten thoughts ... who knows what the druids actually believed, for instance. The only real data comes from Caesar's Gallic War ... which is scarcely more than a fictionalised account. Similarly, look at the Norman monastic chronicler's vivid account of Duke William's eastwards march to York - through thick forest and over the fearsome Yorkshire Alps - then look at the map of the polder-flat meadowland that it has been for aeons.
I could go on ... and often do ...
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Post by Moose on Nov 5, 2016 19:12:04 GMT
Father G! Nice to see you out of the countdown thread .. how is life?
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Post by Moose on Nov 9, 2016 23:27:22 GMT
Cancel the question - history might not be around to judge .
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