I did not anticipate the destruction of our history

[edhopper]

I knew the Trump presidency would be bad, worse than most said. But what I did not see coming was the ruthless carnage of our collective history for fascist, bigoted reasons. And none of this will be fixed by the flip of a switch in the next Administration. It is gone, as Kansas sang "dust in the wind".
Not since the burning of the Library at Alexandria or the shredding of the books from the Mayan Empire has the wholesale removal of written history, which has taken centuries of scholarship and research, seen such a level of barbarity.
What this loathsome Pig has done to the Smithsonian, the Pentagon, the CDC, NASA, the National Parks and every collection he and his minions can get their disgusting hands on is beyond unpardonable. He has thrown out so much, and I don't see how we will ever recover much of it.
It is not still out there only to be returned, it is gone.

[Trumpdumper]

1. I worry not

Burning books has never worked as the arc of the moral
universe inevitably bends toward justice.

[indusurb]

2. History hasn't been destroyed,

It has been saved and has gone into hiding. It will return when appropriate. The government, though a vast repository of history, is not the be all and end all of it. Our history is scattered throughout our country, and we are all part of it.

[kwolf68]

3. You are right

Nazis, fascists and authoritarians in the past probably thought taking over the world would allow them to disseminate their own version of history, but they always end up losing in the end. The current fascists are so full of their own hubris and arrogance they don't know that despite their attempts at brainwashing and sanitizing US history to bend to their whims, they too eventually will fall into the dustpin of history along with the other garbage that came before them. They simply refuse to see the same fate will happen to them.

[cachukis]

4. Reality will set in.

[B.See]

9. Yes. And so will the history of these fascist fks. Sooner or later

the TRUTH WILL OUT.

[bluestarone]

5. I really feel bad for ALL young people today

I wish i could do more to stop this insanity today. I just hate, that our courts cannot protect our country.

[yellow dahlia]

6. I share your sentiment. This is SO much worse than I thought.

And I was one of the Chicken Littles after the (illegitimate) election.

I am too old to see the repairs in my lifetime, and I am not THAT old. But I hope the computer technology will hold all the information, as some scribes did through history.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. A group was archiving government webpages

[Wounded Bear]

8. 1984 - The memory hole...

Authoritarianism 101.

[OC375]

10. This has all happened before.

It will all happen again.

[edhopper]

13. When it happened in Alexandria

It set civilization back a thousand years

[OC375]

24. We don't know what we lost

It could be much more than 1000 years…

[Figarosmom]

11. Im hoping some employees took stuff home.

To save.

[edhopper]

14. Probably some

But the shear volumes says a small percentage.

[Figarosmom]

28. Years in the future

Some of it may show up on Antiques Roadshow from dumpster divers or relatives finding something in their attic or in grandpa's trunk.

[Hope22]

12. Shades of Iraq..

.. the looting of museums, toppling of statues and more.

[BidenRocks]

15. I remember books.

Sentimentally wonderful. The feel and smell.
Also fragile.
The cloud now has the accumulated knowledge of humanity!
I hope!

[edhopper]

16. Much of what the government had

archived was not in the cloud. It is gone.

[BidenRocks]

17. I am depressed every day.

I'm happy to be close to the finish line.

[NJCher]

27. Source?

How would you know?

[maxrandb]

18. History is like your integrity

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It can't be taken from you, you have to give it away.

I am not giving shit away to these fascist asspickles.

Pharoah couldn't erase it. Alexander the Great couldn't erase it. Caesar couldn't erase it. Hitler couldn't erase it.

The Donnie Dipshit "legacy", is only going to be remembered for how quickly the worthless shit he's done is torn the fuck down.

His stupid fucking ball-sucking room. His stupid fucking arch, his fucked-up name on The Kennedy Center, his worthless fucking participation trophies...all of it is going to be fucking blown up, like the concrete swastika atop the Nuremberg Parade Grounds.

I am investing heavily in sledgehammers and pick axes.

His ignorant, fascist foreign policy. His bastardization of the DoD, DoJ, FDA, NHA, etc., his tax cuts for billionaires, his tantrum tariffs...it will all crumble like a house of cards.

It's going to take work and sacrifice, but you'll be shocked by how quickly he will be forgotten.

Oh, there will be footnotes of shame about this MAGAt shit in history books, but this asshat is going to end up as significant to mankind as a flea farting in a hurricane.

He will be missed about as much as a case of the crabs, chlamydia, or dick cancer.

He will be in hell, and as the flames are lapping around his nuts, he'll look up and realize that no one is talking about him, or gives one fuck about him.

It might be worth going to hell just to witness it.

He's a genital wart. You don't fondly remember it, you're just glad it's fucking gone.

Don't make him more significant than he truly is. We will remember him like we remember William Henry Harrison.

My hope is that he lives long enough, so that he will see the day when someone mentions his name, and we all have to go to our search browser and type; "is Donnie Dipshit even still alive?"

[mr715]

19. We still know Aristotle's Poetics despite it being burned.

Truth never is defeated.

[edhopper]

20. There might have been 100 other plays

by Sophocles we will never know.
And over 150 of Aristotle's works are lost.
There are works gone forever.

The entire written record of the Mayan civilization was burned.

Will never be seen

[mr715]

21. Well, that makes me sad.

Let me glibly submit that at least Aristotle was wrong about everything.


But, friend, yeah -- imagine if history had not burned those libraries where we would be.

... we'd be here.

[edhopper]

23. He was not wrong

about Plato being a dick.

[mr715]

25. Idk, I thought Plato came off professorial

I like Plato and Nietzsche for writing into their work their own philosophy. Aristotle figured out textbooks before they were a thing.

Socrates is my hero, but if I think about him too much, there is all this Epstein stuff...

[Jack Valentino]

22. I believe that the backlash against this administration, will be

'the greatest backlash that has ever been seen---
NO ONE has ever seen a backlash like this'---

[markodochartaigh]

26. The

English burned huge amounts of Irish books and records when they destroyed the monasteries where they were kept. I think that it is a common way to destroy a culture. "Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past." And of course, "history is written by the victor."
And what makes both of these more damaging, the modern US dictum, "I don't know and I don't care."

[lostnfound]

29. Yep. i agree. But ultimately, i guess the American people as a whole didn't deserve it.

Best to detach oneself from illusions of American grandeur. We will be going through worse.