Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was an inbred royal parasite and deserved to be shot.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Franz Ferdinand deserved to be shot, but nobody else deserved for him to be shot

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Every European country was piling up military hardware as fast as they could churn it out. The colonial periphery was already popping off across the Middle East, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. The Aristocracy wanted a World War. They were practically begging for it.

      Can't blame a guy for lighting a match when you've been filling every spare nook and cranny with dynamite for the last twenty years.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Can’t blame a guy for lighting a match when you’ve been filling every spare nook and cranny with dynamite for the last twenty years

        you can actually be very mad at someone for lighting a match in a room full of dynamite.