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Obligatory “the assassination of archduke Ferdinand didn’t start WW1 because the material conditions and economic systems at the time would have eventually demanded it regardless; the assassination only acted as a catalyst” etc etc

Still very cool though

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120 points

Would you say the gun only triggered it?

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20 points

Take my updoot and leave

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8 points

Haha funny

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53 points

It still started it. Just because you throw a match onto an expanding pool of gasoline surrounded by candles doesn’t mean you didn’t start the fire.

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43 points

Excuse me, I was told we didn’t start the fire.

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It was always burnin’ since the world’s been turnin’.

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That was never the issue sharkfucker. It was indeed about the fact that it went down exactly like this. Between countries with balanced military might.

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I thought sharkfucker was a rad new insult before I checked usernames.

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8 points

I will make it my mission to call lemmy users their names if they deserve it.

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WW1 started because Friedrich Wilhelm wanted to fuck his mum.

In particular, his left arm was fucked during his birth (and they basically tortured him through his childhood to try and make it right), and he had a strange obsession and wrote many letters to her about dreams where he would caress his mother’s left hand.

Learning about his life made me realise that calling someone a “mother fucker” is a serious insult because you’re saying they’d fuck their own mother - none of this step-dad bullshit.

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That’s a wild take

But also I’m so glad I learned about this thanks

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It came to me listening to the Behind the Bastards episodes on Kaiser Wilhelm. [YouTube Part 1]

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If Willy Zwo hadn’t been such an totally moronic asshole the war likely wouldn’t have happened.

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