Submitted 8 months ago by Gullible@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[pictured: Ronald Reagan wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt. His body is nearly turned sideways, chin lifted and grinning at the camera, resting his weight on his right elbow with his left hand clasped loosely over his resting right wrist. Italicized text upon this propaganda poster reads: “RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”]
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?
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.
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.”
Reminds me of the “WWI started over a sandwich” thing
I had to look up the sandwich thing. Nope, these are all true, meticulously explained as the program progresses, sources quoted, everything.
Care to elaborate on point one?
Watson and Crick ends with the breach at 23andMe
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
What nation is that? I thought this was about Ronald Reagan from US.
You should probably need at least a little bit more proof than that…
That’s exactly what an illuminati would say.
Two thousand years ago this hippie protested against a brutal empire and now women aren’t allowed to have abortions for some fucking reason.
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.
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misterundercoat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
An old lady refused to retire before she died so now cops can stop me if they suspect I’m pregnant.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What does this refer to? Genuinely don’t know.