Howdy fellow badhistorians! It's time for another monthly installment of Modmail Madness. Every time a thread (or the sub generally) is mentioned across Reddit, we get a notification. We compile the best ones so you can enjoy them (or rage about them). This one is a little shorter--maybe when everyone goes back to school, they don't make as many bad historical takes on the internet? Onwards!

Firstly, China is still collapsing (any minute now), and also, all of Europe is one homogenous single place--whether that's a country or a civilization or some third semantic term is up for debate.

This debunk of some wild statements about the Aztecs wasn't posted on r/badhistory, but it's so good, we've put it here anyways.

Who's the correct person in this debate about Communism? Hint: it's not the guy saying r/badhistory.

Apparently, in some countries, time moves differently, and the reason you don't understand what's happening in China right now is because you didn't study a battle from 751 CE.

An old comic about colonialism caused an uproar, as several people insist that the colonialism of x or y country was actually just not as bad as that other country over there.

And finally, r/forumla1 debates about Spanish fascism, instead of whether Hamilton or Verstappen will win the championship this year.

Our most mentioned thread across Reddit was Mother Theresa (are any of us surprised?) with 16 mentions. Mark Felton was in second place with 7 mentions, and TIK rounds out the top three with 4 mentions. Altogether, 32 r/badhistory threads were mentioned across 63 unique Reddit threads. That's all for this month; we'll see you again at the end of October! If you stumble across something you think is worthy of Modmail Madness, remember to mention r/badhistory in the comments, or send us a modmail about it!