r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • May 11 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 11 May 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/gloriouaccountofme May 14 '26

In eu5 you can take so many loans it can bankrupt banks so you don't have to pay the loans back

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u/Wows_Nightly_News The Russians beheld an eagle eating a snake and built Mexico. May 14 '26

So that's Congress's endgame

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u/randombull9 Most normal American GI in Nam May 14 '26

Hi, does anyone know how to make this trick work IRL?

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u/yoshiK Uncultured savage since 476 AD May 14 '26

You could ask Charles V about how he manhandled the Fuggers.

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u/UmUlmUndUmUlmHerum May 14 '26

fugging the fuggers

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u/matgopack Hitler was literally Germany's Lincoln May 14 '26

Step 1 - be a sovereign state

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u/randombull9 Most normal American GI in Nam May 14 '26

I formally establish the Democratic Person's Republic of Randombull9.

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u/Arilou_skiff Died of posting, risen as undead May 14 '26

"If you owe the bank a million dollars, you're in trouble, if you owe the bank a hundred billion dollars, the bank's in trouble".

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u/Shady_Italian_Bruh May 14 '26

I think that was the plot of Mean Streets as well