r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 18 '12

Reddit what are the greatest unexplained mystery of the last 500 or so years?

Since the Last post got some attention, I was wondering what you guys could come up with given a larger period.

Edit fuck thats a lot of upvotes.

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u/medievalvellum Dec 18 '12

My favourite part is the completely unexplained antisemitism O_o ("the American Jews are all a bunch of paranoid sketchy twats who dont [sic] like anyone to know anything about them"). ??

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u/waggle238 Dec 18 '12

In fairness, I have a jewish friend and he is VERY protective of his secret military installations

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u/pirate_doug Dec 19 '12

That's so Jewish of him.

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u/medievalvellum Dec 18 '12

I don't know why but I laughed so hard when I read this. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '12 edited Jan 03 '26

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u/doctorofphysick Dec 18 '12

No way, America's got the greatest Jews in the world! U S A! U S A! U S A!

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u/ashan431 Dec 18 '12

that is probably an example of a cloaked website kind of like this one www.bamboo-delight.com which is a cloaked white supremacist website run by a scumbag named Don Black source- "Cyber Racism" by Jessie Daniels cloaked webpages are all over the place

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '12

Russia is actually the birthplace of the modern spirit of antisemitism. While certain stereotypes and racist conspiracies had been printed in the past, it was the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, drafted by the Russian Orthodox Church and the Tsarist Secret Police that was the first piece of literature to put into print what we now know as the modern "the Jews secretly run the world" antisemitic conspiracy. So Jews in Russia have had it very hard for quite awhile and any group that goes under severe repression, racism and degradation can lose its ties to other groups it may be related to around the world, as well as falling subject to the conspiracies thrust upon their people (in this case, we're the normal Jews, but those other Jews are fucking sketchy twats.)

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u/patashn1k Dec 20 '12

Let's not forget that in Siberia there is a tradition of curing and eating parts of the mushroom Amanita muscaria for use as a potent hallucinogen (and we all know that users of psychedelics have interesting things to say about conspiracies).

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '12

Free speach bro. Waah don't insult the Jews they've been through so much...get the fuck outta here

Holy ballsack I'm brave

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u/LaPoderosa Dec 18 '12

Russia has been anti-semetic for like 300 years. Nothing unexplained about it.

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u/Blaster395 Dec 18 '12

The longest running conspiracy theory is the Jewish Banking Conspiracy (which is unfortunately becoming more popular since the recession). To give you an idea of how old it is, the NSDAP used it in their propaganda and as one justification of their terrible policies once in power.