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>a c-list actor’s career flopped so now I have to pay $1000 to set foot in an ambulance
any other examples like this?
any other examples like this?
A WWI veteran got kicked out of art school and now Israel is bombing Palestinians.
I don’t think he was kicked out, he just never got in.
Jesus…
Jesus…
An unfertilized egg was forced into existence by an angry deity and now TikTok.
More like someone had an affair 2000 years ago and now, alabama
Nah he was in Palestine back when it was under a different foreign occupation.
You’ll find it was called Judea/Judah.
Fun Fact: Palestine is derived from Philisitine. Longest turf beef ever.
(Btw, one of Israel’s propaganda points is that Palestine has never been a sovereign state therefore they don’t deserve to be one now, I think this handily demonstrates one of the reasons why that’s a bunch of bullshit)
Hitler is to be blamed for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of gnarly shit, but I think there’s been fighting going over on in the Middle-East a bit before him.
Technically, yeah. It went downhill when the Ottoman joined WW1 and lost.
An old lady refused to retire before she died so now cops can stop me if they suspect I’m pregnant.
An old lady with terminal cancer
But she works out!
Ask Justice Garland how that would’ve changed anything.
A C-List actors career flopped, now I have to pay 30% of my check in taxes so the ultra wealthy can go tax free in the hopes that their prosperity with reflect positively on me, instead of just making them ritcher as they horde their wealth.
A c list actor’s career flopped and now the state he was governor of catches fire of a regular basis
Wrestling moderator had to legalise bankrupt shady business practices of his, American rule of law now under scrutiny
Castillian second-row aristocracy ran out of land to conquer, wiped out half a double-continent.
Pirates sack ship with proposal about measurement units, spaceship crashes hundreds of years later.
Some Englishman invents a machine, climate dies.
Patent bureau clerk discovers science to overkill humanity, build cameras/solar cells and dictates speed of light as speed limit to everyone
Army command sends rebellious guy to enemy state in a train package, link aggregator gets build.
I’ll give it a try.
Wrestling moderator had to legalise bankrupt shady business practices of his, American rule of law now under scrutiny
I have to pass on this one. Trump has dabbled in wrestling but not as a moderator? Other shady wrestling personalities have dabbled in politics, but not with much effect?
Castillian second-row aristocracy ran out of land to conquer, wiped out half a double-continent.
This is about the conquistadores, the Spanish and Portuguese fighters who devastated South America. The “spanish” had spent centuries (re-)conquering the Iberian Peninsula. Aristocrats are warlords. If they don’t inherit wealth, they have to earn it through fighting in war.
Pirates sack ship with proposal about measurement units, spaceship crashes hundreds of years later.
At least 1 space probe has crashed because of failures to convert between metric and some regionally used unit. Metric was, as everyone knows, invented during and by the French Revolution.
I had to look up the pirate thing. Snopes rates it as false: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/metric-system-pirates/
Some Englishman invents a machine, climate dies.
James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. That, more or less, kicked off the age of fossil fuels.
Patent bureau clerk discovers science to overkill humanity, build cameras/solar cells and dictates speed of light as speed limit to everyone
Albert Einstein. He made physicists understand that there was a lot of boom in nuclear reactions with his famous E=mc^2. He also explained the photoelectric effect. But I think the speed limit thing is Emmy Noether, an absolutely badass woman.
Army command sends rebellious guy to enemy state in a train package, link aggregator gets build.
Lenin. He was in exile in Switzerland. During WW1, when things were revolutionary but Russia was still fighting Germany, the german army let him travel through their territory in a sealed wagon to Russia, so that he would knock Russia out of the war.
Wait what’s the last one about?
For bigger-pictures examples of this, I think you’re looking for the TV series, Connections, hosted by James Burke. It’s old but still VERY good.
Each episode started with James Burke showing you something cool, and tracing how it got here/got that way, often in unusual circumstances.
“I’m standing next to a nuclear reactor. This single building generates power for the city below, 50,000 people. And today every one of them would be sitting in the dark, or at a pitiful small fireplace, if it weren’t for an Italian peasant whose mother forbade him to play the lute, in 1032.”
B-list actor refuses to take a car ride with US president.
Now the second best army in the world is on day 814 of a 3 day war. Putin has less tanks, jets and hair than when he started 3 years ago and they’ve achieve exactly 0 of their stated objectives.
I created a Lemmy account just to answer this…
2,000+ years ago a historian wrote a poem and now your mail carrier has to risk life and limb to deliver mail in blizzards/hurricanes/etc.
The fact that the greatest nation on earth had such dumbass actors presidents, is the only proof I need for the existence of the Illuminati, and their desire to pupeeteer some tv-personality they put on the throne
I think unfortunately the “illuminati” is a lot more boring than that. It’s just a group of career ladder climbers hell bent on staying close to power and/or those who wield it.
We like to think the only people that would do something like that would be evil men and women part of secret societies with global ambitions but it’s just these greedy fuckers who need validation in a way none of us could ever dream of.
