Howdy r/badhistory! It's September, which means it's time for another edition of Modmail Madness. Every time our sub is mentioned or one of the threads posted on the sub is linked elsewhere on reddit, we get a notification. While most of them are boring, we tease out the interesting (or just plain whacky) ones for your amusement (or scorn. I'm not here to tell you how to react to things.) Let's get to it!

In the news last month, Machu Picchu turns out to be 20 years older than we thought. For some Redditors, those 20 years means that the Inca definitely didn't build Machu Picchu. Must be aliens. Or maybe white people.

This guy invents an entirely new definition of socialist, insists that the Nazis definitely were that type of socialist (not to be confused with fascists, mind you, which is also a form of socialism now), and then made the entire Holocaust exclusively about capitalism. It's a rant TIK would be proud of... which is probably why TIK is the only "source" listed other than azquotes.

We had at least two posts about the bad history in this r/askreddit thread. For those of you who missed out, or are looking for things to post about, feel free to peruse.

Racism? In reddit libertarians? It's more likely than you think. Special mention to the guy in the comments who not only completely misunderstands North American Indigenous history, but also espouses ideas from the 1800s and manages to overlook the fact that Indigenous people did not, in fact, go extinct.

On a less serious note, here's an interesting discussion on how Fallout 4 could have been better, and Fallout New Vegas could have been more historical (spoilers: the Deathclaws are too big. Real Deathclaws were only about 3 feet tall)

One of our favourite punching bags, PragerU, is apparently "so thoroughly fact checked it's ridiculous" now. Oh dear.

Last month it was the Odyssey. This month, it's the Iliad that was secretly written by Albanians this entire time. What historical literature will be revealed to be Albanian next time? Stay tuned!

Finally, someone has come up with a way that the Harry Potter worldbuilding could be better. If only their argument was based on real history, and not whatever this is.

In terms of individual threads, no one will be shocked to know that Mother Theresa was most linked across the sub, mentioned uniquely 24 times. In second place is TIK, mentioned 7 times. And finally, Shaun's video on the atomic bomb was mentioned 5 times. Altogether, 35 unique threads were linked across reddit, and total thread mentions numbered 75 across the platform. Tune in next month for more Modmail Madness, and remember: if there's something you want to draw our attention to in your travels, just mention r/badhistory in the comments!