the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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All the benefits of hindsight without any of the practical application when it comes to current events. "It's obvious this was going to happen" yeah, what were the events that happened prior to the topic of discussion, and how does that relate to it being an inevitablility? Nothing happens in a vacuum, explain how we got here.
What gets me is that these people think that it's just obvious how history was always going to play out (it really isn't) but the also have a tendency to think that some small intervention or minor adjustment would dramatically change the course of world history (most of the time it probably wouldn't have.)
It's a weird sort of doublethink where they believe that history is just so but at the same time they believe that it's also extremely mutable.
I guess that's what zero materialism does to an MFer.
I think it has to do with the drive of needing both the "right" answer and also the "easy" answer. People like us don't derive any pleasure from conclusions such as this, because as we know, history does not particularly enjoy "right" or "easy". That's why we tend to get bogged down into the details, because there's so much nuance in basic historical issues.
I know for myself, I always find myself browsing through obscure historical facts for all hours of the day, because some of them may be relevant to stuff i might be asked. And constantly struggle with my knowledge, because i don't have all of the pieces to a puzzle, i don't feel qualified to respond. I think this is another reason why i have no debate bro tendencies, because i hate walking into situations that i'm not prepared for.