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Howdy r/badhistory! It's time for another installment of modmail madness. Every time our sub is mentioned or a thread is linked to, we get a notification. We compile those for your entertainment (or enragement).
First up, a very special notification: we got our 160th accusation! r/badhistory is the "embodiment of the Ackchyually meme." We're honoured to be recognized as such!
We'll leave you to decide whether this AskReddit thread is more good history or bad history, but there's certainly some interesting takes floating around.
While we're on the subject, here's another AskReddit, this time about bizarre historical events.
Everyone is just LARPing Rome, who are the only people who invented civilization ever. The amount of casual Eurocentrism (and racism) is astounding.
The Titanic Conspiracy is making a comeback (or at least, people on Reddit are talking about it more) and this guy linked the badhistory post debunking the conspiracy... as proof that the conspiracy happened. Someone isn't reading their sources! (That's probably why they're on r/conspiracy...)
This r/askhistorians thread is a deep dive into the odds that Dua Lipa would survive the sinking of the Titanic. We're in awe of the pedantry on display here.
Breaking news! TIK is a real historian now , and we'll ban you for mentioning him, because we don't like that he says the Nazis were socialists (because they're not...) No one has ever debunked any of his arguments either, so we'll ban you just for mentioning "objective facts." If only OP knew the meaning of either "objective" or "facts".
r/veganism debates whether or not socialists are in accordance with veganism (or are they all inherently human supremists who are also terrible people?)
This user managed to perfectly identify the r/AskReddit History Question Starter Pack.
Move over The Chart: there's a New Chart (meme) in town. In true Chart fashion, it is wildly, wildly wrong.
And finally, let me congratulate us all for being self-important and pedantic! One day, we'll convince the rest of reddit how much fun we have with our meaningless pedantry.
The sub's patron saint Mother Theresa was mentioned the most across Reddit this month, but slowed down a little with only 15 links. In second place this month was the Titanic Conspiracy, mentioned 5 times. And finally, the Myths of Conquest was mentioned 4 times, good for third place. Overall, 31 threads were mentioned, across 65 unique Reddit threads. That's all for this month, and we'll see you in December! Remember to mention the sub in your comments or drop us a line if there's something you want us to see!
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