Historical causation doesn't work like that.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Too mild for the Pit, but as a historian I found this a little depressing.

The city of Newark, New Jersey will consider, on Wednesday, a new ordinance that would create an Office of Violence Prevention. I’m not really here to debate the ordinance itself, although there are parts of it that I find constitutionally problematic.

The text of the ordinance can be found here, and it’s part of the historical preamble that I wanted to point out:

Emphasis mine.

No, that’s not how historical causation works.

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Prescience.

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Is that the future pluperfect tense?

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Moderator Note

Typo in thread title fixed (Histoircal -> Historical)

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Space and time are circular.

After the death of Dr. King, the news spread so fast that it reached Newark in 1967, having gone all the way 'round the long way. Faster than the speed of quantum entanglement!

ETA: Or, as the sage philosopher hath said: Those who do not remember history are destined to get it bass-ackward.

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Or, *“Those who do not remember the Future are destined, one day, to live in it.”
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Meanwhile in LA, our brilliant chief of police has seen that the protests that followed George Floyd’s death were in fact just as responsible for causing it as were the police officers who actually crushed the breath out of him. LAPD Chief: George Floyd Death On Looters’ Hands “As Much As” Officers’ – Deadline
Time, how does it work again?

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Nice! Two examples in two days.

I like this bit from the article:

I other words, the Mayor basically said, “Hey dickhead, get back up here and fix your idiotic comments if you want to keep your job!”

Thanks e_c_g