History Repeats

A 5-post collection

Challenge #03778-J125: Listen to the Echoes

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again, and expect a different result. Dereggers have that layer of insanity down in spades. These dereggers keep trying to find out why dereg empires keep falling. And then absolutely refuse to accept the results. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Because doubling down on bad decisions and ignoring replicable data is what that side of the political spectrum does best]

"Obviously our brothers in righteousness allowed themselves to become soft and corrupt. They let the so-called Alliance of perverts and moral polluters have too much contact. They let their standards slip," concluded the CEO, Corbyn Mundrakt. "The people lost their work ethics. They refused to earn their rights and subsist on handouts. We need to re-enforce the ethos of rugged individualists pulling themselves up by their bootstraps!"

"Do we?" asked Tandarl, who was reading a bit more than a proper man should[1]. "Of all our -ah- lost allies, they seem to be following the same plan you announced. There were strict laws regarding enforcing those morals."

"They failed because those laws were too lax! Strict enforcements! Punish the wrongdoers for the rest of their short lives. Execute anyone who even looks at a Galactic! Restrict. All. Travel!" This last point was hammered home by Mr Mundrakt's fist on the table. "Maintain our strength, maintain our moral fortitude, and we will surely prevail!"

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Long Monday, History Repeats

This time, we have ample warning of a new rash of plague threatening to sweep the nation. And this time, there's absolutely no motion to try and quell the tide.

Everyone's fucking given up and it's going to kill so many people.

Grr.

I'm going to have to spend even more time in isolation because of those maskhole knomiras who don't care what happens to anyone else so long as THEY don't get consequences. Well, my dearies, Death doesn't have a manager

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Challenge #02622-G065: One More Lesson

The Great Chinese Famine (from Wikipedia)

"I went to one village and saw 100 corpses, then another village and another 100 corpses. No one paid attention to them. People said that dogs were eating the bodies. Not true, I said. The dogs had long ago been eaten by the people."

(Yu Dehong, secretary of a party official in Xinyang in 1959 and 1960)

It is widely believed that the government seriously under-reported death tolls: Lu Baoguo, a Xinhua reporter in Xinyang, told

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Challenge #02012-E188: Human Inhumanity

Spies are sent to earth, disguised as historians, to find earth’s weaknesses and strengths. Know thy enemy and all that, but they who know the past control the future.

To see what these people have done to each other... They are horrified at what they find. -- Anon Guest

So far, Terran colonies were the only civilisations interested in any kind of negotiations with Earth. And even then, those negotiations were lawsuits. Some of the bolder civilisations were starting to wonder

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