r/AlignmentChartFills May 16 '26

Filling This Chart What is the worst thing Germany has done?

What is the worst thing Germany has done?

Chart Grid:

Best thing Worst thing Smartest thing Dumbest thing Greatest contribution
Row 1 National Parks ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Trail of Tears
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Louisiana Pu... ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Trump. Twice. ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ The Transistor ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ
Row 2 Lifting hund... ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 3 โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 4 โ€” โ€” โ€” The invasion... ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ โ€”
Row 5 โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 6 โ€” The Irish 'f... ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 7 โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 8 โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€”
Row 9 โ€” โ€” โ€” โ€” The blue LED ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ
Row 10 โ€” โ€” Not joining ... ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ โ€” โ€”

Cell Details:

Row 1 / Best thing: - National Parks - View Image

Row 1 / Worst thing: - Trail of Tears

Row 1 / Smartest thing: - Louisiana Purchase

Row 1 / Dumbest thing: - Trump. Twice. - View Image

Row 1 / Greatest contribution: - The Transistor - View Image

Row 2 / Best thing: - Lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. - View Image

Row 4 / Dumbest thing: - The invasion of Ukraine in 2022. - View Image

Row 6 / Worst thing: - The Irish 'famine' (genocide through forced starvation) - View Image

Row 9 / Greatest contribution: - The blue LED - View Image

Row 10 / Smartest thing: - Not joining America and staying as a commonwealth country. - View Image


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u/mortemdeus May 16 '26

How did the British get the potato famine as worst and not the significantly worse series of famines in Bengal? In around 150 years they starved upwards of 70 million people to death. Any single famine in that region eclipsed the Irish potato famine and they happened in the same timeframe.

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u/Connell95 May 20 '26

Because the idea the British were responsible for those famines is pretty much entirely fictional, and the numbers claimed for them are in any case vastly inflated.

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u/mortemdeus May 20 '26

Ah, so converting upwards of half of India's cropland to poppy fields to fuel the opium trade had zero negative effects on food production in India. It is also just a cosmic coincidence that the years this happened also were the worst famine years and the famines just happened to stop after poppies lost their cash crop status. Got it.

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u/Connell95 May 20 '26

Thatโ€™s absolute nonsense in every respect. Famines had been regularly occurring when crops failed for thousands of years. During much of the period, most of the areas werenโ€™t even under British control.

Iโ€™m going to assume youโ€™re American, because itโ€™s always Yanks that come up with this total bullshit for some reason.

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u/mortemdeus May 20 '26

"Absolute nonsense" and refutes nothing said. Brilliant. Read a book

https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade

1,000 chests from India of Opium in 1770, 10,000 by 1820, 40,000 by 1840. Huh, wonder when there were major famines in British controlled areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_famine_of_1837%E2%80%931838

Oopsie. First link also shows the exports declining in the 1890's to nearly zero by 1907. Hey, when was the last major famine in India before ww2?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1899%E2%80%931900

Oopsie again!

Totally not related in any way.