A lot of the stuff we call "unprecedented" has, well, happened before

We inflate what's happening around us to make it seem more important and OMG, but hasn't it all happened before?

Feb 03, 2021

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The obvious example that might pop for people is "OMG, Trump was an unprecedentedly bad President!" Maybe so, but Trump is essentially just Andrew Jackson for 2016-2020. (Or, hell, Andrew Johnson!) People with Trump would talk about Presidents and morals too, i.e. "being Presidential." Well, many Presidents had secret girlfriends. Kennedy and LBJ were t…

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