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muriel_volestrangler

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16. Are schools teaching about 2016 in History classes now?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2026, 12:24 PM

12 hrs ago

"What happened a decade ago" is pretty much current affairs. The electorate won't have changed much, so the explanation will still be "look how many idiots and bigots there are around you".

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How will you explain this period of American history to your grandchild/great-grandchild? [View all] True Dough 15 hrs ago OP

I won't pretend to understand it The Blue Flower 15 hrs ago #1

Evil people took over the country. dem4decades 15 hrs ago #2

Well, I probably won't have to, but I would refer to it as our "Period of Intense Shame' hlthe2b 15 hrs ago #3

They are living it right along side us... MiHale 15 hrs ago #4

allow what to happen? rampartd 15 hrs ago #5

There have been many equally shameful periods of American history, we seem to have short memories. sop 15 hrs ago #6

The same way it continues to let it happen -- by refusing to dismantle the white supremacy this country is built on. WhiskeyGrinder 15 hrs ago #7

I have neither so I won't be faced with that problem, which is a good thing Ocelot II 15 hrs ago #8

We allowed the Fox Propaganda Network to go unchecked and we weren't ready to handle social media Chasstev365 15 hrs ago #9

And some people are gullible, unfortunately, True Dough 14 hrs ago #10

In Chinese Renew Deal 14 hrs ago #11

Will our plutocracy be gone then? Mysterian 14 hrs ago #12

Our ancestors killed the Nazis abroad but we were too scared to send the modern domestic ones screaming down to hell. Efilroft Sul 12 hrs ago #13

Assuming things get better, I'll say, "It was a time of multiple, grand, society-wide psychoses." Intractable 12 hrs ago #14

They won't be learning anything in school gulliver 12 hrs ago #15

Are schools teaching about 2016 in History classes now? muriel_volestrangler 12 hrs ago #16

When I was in high school in the early '90s, True Dough 9 hrs ago #19

I didn't study anything under 30 years ago when I was at school muriel_volestrangler 9 hrs ago #20

America is an internal combustion engine burning corrupted gasoline. Midnight Writer 12 hrs ago #17

Because almost 40% of eligible voters stayed at home and even though they saw what was coming.... A HERETIC I AM 10 hrs ago #18

I'd try and explain it akin to the rise of Hitler sakabatou 9 hrs ago #21

Like the Inclosure Acts, there was a lot of common property that a few individuals fenced off meadowlander 9 hrs ago #22