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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (12 children)

My history teacher used to say that over the course of history every generation faces a full scale war that directly impact them. Looking through the last couple of centuries that seems about right. I haven't been in a war yet and I'm a45 years old so, yeah, I'm kinda scared.

This same teacher also used to say that the only "good" thing about a civil war is that the country that faces it nerves goes through another one ever again. Seeing how things are good in the United States now I'm starting to think that this teacher might be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, your teacher seemed to deal in absolutes: "it always happens" or "it will never happen again". I think that events can always happen (again) but they don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ah, so this history teacher was a Sith Lord!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The Sith have been dead for a thousand years!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Darth Historious

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