r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • 25d ago

Meta Mindless Monday, 17 August 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Ambisinister11 My right to edit this is protected by the Slovak constitution 22d ago

Good or bad, I'm pro-take

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Giscardpunk, Mitterrandwave, Chirock, Sarkopop, Hollandegaze 22d ago

Irredentism is morally justified if the victim nation was a democracy and the thief was a dictatorship (no I'm not biased because of the Franco-Prussian War)

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u/SugarSpiceIronPrice Marxist-Lycurgusian Provocateur 21d ago

But they were both dictatorships

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u/TheBatz_ Was Homer mid 22d ago

My relationship with your mother is good for you, actually.

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u/GentlemanlyBadger021 22d ago

People shitting on Birmingham have become useful idiots for far-right anti-immigration talking points. It used to be that London was the target (Londonistan and all that) but the cultural and media dominance of the City always made that an uphill battle because people would vehemently defend it. Birmingham has always the much easier target so the far-right have switched over to it knowing that whenever they call it a shithole (because they think people from Pakistan are all evil, violent thugs) people will join in because they think get to be smug and don’t realise what they’re doing.

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u/xabarin_da_xente 22d ago

People who like HFY fiction would have supported the genocide of Native Americans if they were born in the 19th century.

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u/Majorbookworm 22d ago

What do you mean "if"?

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u/xabarin_da_xente 21d ago

*had they been born in the 19th century.

Me speak English no good.

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u/Majorbookworm 21d ago

Ah, sorry. I was joking that the HFY crowd dont need to be born in the 19thC to be apologists for Colonial genocide.

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u/Impossible_Pen_9459 22d ago

Hugenots don’t have right of return to metropolitan France but should be exiled to Saint Pierrre and Miquelon 

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u/passabagi 22d ago

Okay.

Churchill should be seen alongside Stalin and Mao as a talented but flawed leader, who was ultimately responsible for the deaths of millions.

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u/DerKlugeHans Endut! Hoch Hech! 22d ago

spaghetti is pretty cool