• @ummthatguy
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      3 hours ago

      These things are usually a string of discordant events that eventually get lumped together. A particular moment is often cited. The assassination of Sir Francis Drake Archduke Franz Ferdinand for WWI is the most well known. What do you think instigates the start?

      Edit: My dumbass mixing up names

      • @grue
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        23 hours ago

        …what? Did you mean Archduke Franz Ferdinand, or is there some sort of in-joke going on here that I’m missing?

        • @ummthatguy
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          23 hours ago

          Nah, just me mucking up my historical figures.

          Now I wanna play Uncharted.

      • MaggiWuerze
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        37 hours ago

        If everything continues like it does probably Ukraine or Israel? Depending on which escalates first, so probably the latter

      • IninewCrow
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        26 hours ago

        I think you may be confusing the assassination for Vasco da Gama when he suddenly and unexpectedly died in India.

        • @ummthatguy
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          26 hours ago

          Or we could go full blown 'merica and say it didn’t “start” until the sinking of the RMS Lusitania well after shit got going.

            • @ummthatguy
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              35 hours ago

              I really should give Airplane II another chance.

              • IninewCrow
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                45 hours ago

                All those films … the Airplane Series, Hot Shots, Naked Gun Series … they should be required viewing for a Memeology Education Program

                An additional program would be everything Star Trek

                • @grue
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                  32 hours ago

                  I fear for the younger generation, and how much pop-culture they’d have to catch up on in order to understand tier 4 memes.