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minus-squareMurse@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·10 days agoWe took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen? Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.
minus-squareCIA_chatbotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·10 days agoOne of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, shit, I figured death would be more intimidating though, not just an over privileged moron
minus-squareCIA_chatbotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 days agoI thought they were death, war, conquest and famine, though maybe famine and pestilence go together
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 days agoYou are correct, apparently a lot of media/fiction authors swap conquest to pestilence because they feel like it’s too close to war. I had to look it up specifically for pestilence because I was so confused how I got the idea. So yeah I had that wrong, biblical speaking
minus-squareCIA_chatbotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoHehe no worries i had to look it up, I totally remembered pestilence being one instead of conquest
minus-squareNighed@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoPratchett does Death, War, Famine and Pestilence Thief of time spoiler (And Kaos) . Which is where my knowledge of them comes from!
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoI don’t think they are actually named
minus-squareCIA_chatbotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoThey are in the Bible, had to look it up, it looks like popular fiction often replaces conquest with pestilence since conquest and war are so similar
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoMaybe it’s a Protestant thing? In the Catholic New Testament only death is named
minus-squareZargag@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoAnd the 5th horseman, Kaos (according to Terry Pratchett anyway)
We took a personification of disease, and made him Health Secretary. Dafuq did we expect would happen?
Shitting ourselves is far from the worst case scenario here.
One of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, shit, I figured death would be more intimidating though, not just an over privileged moron
He’s clearly Pestilence
I thought they were death, war, conquest and famine, though maybe famine and pestilence go together
You are correct, apparently a lot of media/fiction authors swap conquest to pestilence because they feel like it’s too close to war.
I had to look it up specifically for pestilence because I was so confused how I got the idea.
So yeah I had that wrong, biblical speaking
Hehe no worries i had to look it up, I totally remembered pestilence being one instead of conquest
Pratchett does Death, War, Famine and Pestilence
Thief of time spoiler
(And Kaos)
. Which is where my knowledge of them comes from!
I don’t think they are actually named
They are in the Bible, had to look it up, it looks like popular fiction often replaces conquest with pestilence since conquest and war are so similar
Maybe it’s a Protestant thing? In the Catholic New Testament only death is named
Maybe, I just looked at Wikipedia :D
And the 5th horseman, Kaos (according to Terry Pratchett anyway)