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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 months ago (3 children)

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

[–] LovableSidekick 17 points 3 months ago

I've always like this metaphor. Alexander Woolcott called striking coincidences "the universe caught in the veriest act of rhyming."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

It's like poetry

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

yeah, the very same conflicts and tensions we had in the world back then are still here now...