If you click the link under his message that says 'parent', you can see the comment he is replying to. I don't think there's a way to see both at once very easily because of the number of replies the parent comment has.
So from what I understand, what they're suggesting is that, nine years later, he's either done the exact same thing, is about to do it, or is in the process of doing it. It feels like a repeat of the past, almost like we're watching the same playbook unfold again.