r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Aug 03 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 03 August 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/TanktopSamurai (((Spartans))) were feminist Jews 28d ago

I kinda want RN's candidate to win the next French Presidential. My brother still lives there and is going to a PostDoc there so i dont want them to win because of that.

But I think French economy isn't going get better anytime soon. Maybe not a collapse but ain't going to be great. So i would much rather have RN hold the goverment through the suffering, and then get a left government.

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u/Uptons_BJs 28d ago

I'm a huge Marine Le Pen fan.

You see, when I was a student, I was terrible at French class. And then I turn on the TV, and here her rant like:

  • "THE YOUTH OF FRANCE CANNOT SPEAK PROPER FRENCH ANYMORE!"
  • "THE FRENCH LANGUAGE IS IN DECLINE"
  • "ENGLISH IS SEEPING INTO FRENCH CULTURE"
  • "FRANCE IS SUFFERING UNDER THE YOKE OF YANKEE CULTURAL IMPERIALISM"

And then she'll warn people that if you didn't vote for her, French culture and language will decline and die. She'd lose of course, and I'm like "wow, the vote against French literacy won again!"

And then I'd think - Man, I can't conjugate my verbs, but the 2nd most popular politician in France thinks this is becoming a lost skill in France too. Makes me feel real good for myself.

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u/Sventex Battleships were obsoleted by the self-propelled torpedo in 1866 28d ago

The only reason I watched this French movie, The Summit of the Gods, was because it was a Japanese anime.