I know it doesn't mean best person, but most influential. Trump is certainly that, just like Hitler and Stalin and even everyone according to 2006. I'm just reflecting (and drinking heavily) to the realization that we haven't really changed at all. Day of Infamy indeed. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Can I show you something? Look at that shit. It came in the mail today. It weighed 40 lbs. I've read the first eight since JUNE. That's in addition to all this shit. And that giant fucking chronology on Israel which I'm too lazy to look up. All that to say my perspective isn't casual. So I agree with you: we haven't really changed at all. But the world has. There are horrors in this modern world. I mean, fuck. But the horrors of the less-modern world are an order of magnitude worse and the horrors of the antique world are an order worse than that and by the time you get back to the fucking Reformation you want to never hear anything about the human race ever again. But over and over? It's normal people trying to live their lives and flashes of royalist brutality. And the further we get from that the harder it is for shit to get heinous. Duterte is no joke. Dude is a mass murderer. He's gonna be tried for war crimes, it's just a matter of time. But 2,000 people in six months? Psssh. Fuckin' Pol Pot killed a million in four years. Hitler? Six million in five. Stalin? 18 million in 30. The fuckin' 30 years war wiped out 40% of the population of Germany. They reinstituted polygamy for two generations because there weren't enough men to go around. The Cathars are GONE. The Manicheans are GONE. The Carthaginians are GONE. Trump's an asshole, no doubt. But he's got no designs on racial purity, has no attention span for world conquest and has made it clear to 70 (including military school!) without any allegations of (non-sexual) violence. We haven't changed at all. But the environment for monsters to roam freely? It's changed immeasurably. Take heart. We're thirty days further away from Krystallnacht than we were November 6 regardless of how short fingered our president is about to be.
Hey, uh... what's the name of that whole collection you screenshot above??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization It has an advantage over Toynbee and Frazier in that it's still in print, isn't a hundred years old and hasn't been entirely eclipsed by post-Victorian anthropology. It has a disadvantage in that it can't be used for conjuring demigods.
It's hard to imagine any person on the planet talked about more at the moment. As Philip DeFranco notes in his video, every US President since 1934 has been on the cover of Time Magazine. Any comparisons to Hitler just compares every US President with Hitler. I also agree with him that people doing the comparing are just adding to the divide and not adding any constructive comments to the conversation.
Let's say something positive about the guy. I have seen some amazing change in Trump lately. Does the Secret Service have a make-up artist? To me his make-up, especially his eyes, has seriously looked so much better lately. Which is kinda odd since I would think he has had a barber and make-up shop in his basement for decades.
I'm afraid the smiting spree may have to wait for another day... A weird word to use? Yes. But is it a word that exists in the english language? Also yes. Let us cease this comminatory argle-bargle or it'll give me a bout of coprolalia.Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.
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