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   tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 08:02:34 JST tinydoctor

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   @xlrobot I think it's a stretch to posit that much in the way of history will survive for any humans alive in 200 years to contemplate or have opinions about. Myths will be made, out of confused memories, and who knows who the heroes of their myths will be.

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     gentle colossus (xlrobot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 08:02:35 JST gentle colossus

     putting my fear and anger aside for a moment, I wonder what they will say in 200 years about this moment in American history

     I think foremost a tragedy of human rights, of moral and ethical collapse. a reappraisal of money and media and what is justice, even. after two centuries I hope they have better answers than we

     21st century version of Hannah Arendt will have much to say of our failings. may her speculated work bring us closer to never repeating the mistakes we are still ardently making