>history repeats itself how did this become such a huge meme?

>>9233753
You've got the article open, OP, you tell us.

>>9233753
Because humans like to see patterns

>>9233753
Time as an Arrow, Time as a Circle, Time as a diffuse mist without direction.

I don't know if anyone sincerely holds the fourth option, that nothing changes. Heraclitus could get away with that in ancient greece when there was no sense of history or technological change, but it seems like a pretty laughable position now.

>>9234936
I'm not human.

>>9233753
Because Trump is literally Hitler.

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>>9233753
Kek wills it

I've seen this shitty thread before. I guess history really does repeat itself.

History does not - in fact - repeat itself, but all men are driven by roughly the same things, which shows itself clearly in our historical records as we see figure after figure fallen to the same vices, tricked by the same bull-headedness, and fail to recognize the same unpleasantries.

>>9234993
so what can we do about trump?