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[FillyofDelphi]

Fanatic Manichaean-Mandean "Empire of Pure Light" leader Shargad Gielty, rallying his soldiers to kill as many infidels as possible. The terrorist threat to all other parts of the world by 2127 - the "Empire of Pure Light" controls much of the Fertile Crescent and the Levantine Coast - was to become greater than the threat posed by Da'esh 110 years earlier, and terrroist attacks were more frequent, more lethal, and more widespread globally. In the years 2126-2131 (also due to new methods of terrorism) approx. 118 million people died at the hands of the Empire of Pure Light before its capital Ctesiphon was wiped off the map with a kinetic weapon.

...the wrong type of Great Lakes..."

An extract from the diary of Menwether Lewis of The United States' Corps of Discovery expedition, within an entry discussing a situation of first contact with an isolated tribe of Native Americans from what would later become the state of Deseret. He expresses his frustration at the inability of the peoples he met to understand the concept of the "Ocean", repeatedly taking him back to a large inland lake of salt water. It is a commonly held misconception that this was the fault of their female interpreter Sacajawea.

"Drink is the ban of the Russian. We are blessed to finally be rid of it"

 

[jankmaster98]

An extract from the diary of Menwether Lewis of The United States' Corps of Discovery expedition, within an entry discussing a situation of first contact with an isolated tribe of Native Americans from what would later become the state of Deseret. He expresses his frustration at the inability of the peoples he met to understand the concept of the "Ocean", repeatedly taking him back to a large inland lake of salt water. It is a commonly held misconception that this was the fault of their female interpreter Sacajawea.

"Drink is the ban of the Russian. We are blessed to finally be rid of it"

"Drink" in this instance referring to the Russian insistence on Ukrainian Vodka in the Mongolia Pact states. In an act of supreme megalomania the Soviet Primers believed that they could enforce only one type of alcoholic beverage on millions of people. Suffice to say this led to massive revolts in the communist countries, as you can take away their freedom and capitalism, but damn it if you make them give up their booze.

Caroleans in Moscow [Stop] Surrender expected imminently [Stop] Delegation from America worried [Stop] Will keep the Home Office informed [Stop]

 

[HIM Dogson]

Caroleans in Moscow [Stop] Surrender expected imminently [Stop] Delegation from America worried [Stop] Will keep the Home Office informed [Stop]

Telegram to the British PM about the victory of the Caroleans, who supported Karolina, daughter of Tsar Constantine I, as Tsarina, against her reactionary uncle, Nicholas. The war would end with the fall of Moscow, center of Nicholas's government, and the abolition of serfdom, as well as the transfer of Russia to ConstitutionalMonarchy.

"Tell me, did you ever hear the tragedy of a President Lincoln the wise? I thought not. It's not a story a Confederate would tell you."

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

Telegram to the British PM about the victory of the Caroleans, who supported Karolina, daughter of Tsar Constantine I, as Tsarina, against her reactionary uncle, Nicholas. The war would end with the fall of Moscow, center of Nicholas's government, and the abolition of serfdom, as well as the transfer of Russia to ConstitutionalMonarchy.

"Tell me, did you ever hear the tragedy of a President Lincoln the wise? I thought not. It's not a story a Confederate would tell you."

A tourist from the Kingdom of Poland, talking to a Confederate native (Southron) in Savannah. The independent Confederate States of America (1864-1917) constantly disseminated anti-Union propaganda in schools, in the media and in public and thus, the tragedy of US President Lincoln was not widely known (and neither was Union history after that). In 1917, an international alliance of the British Empire, the French Commune, the Kingdom of Poland, the Austrian, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, Portuguese and Greek Empires, later joined by the Russian Workers' Union, could defeat the Confederato-German-Bulgarian-Ottoman alliance and assure nonexistence of the CSA.

"Your flight is delayed or cancelled? Blame it on the wrong type of volcano!"

 

[ajdb0614]

"Your flight is delayed or cancelled? Blame it on the wrong type of volcano!"

An excerpt from David Chapelle's controversial "Haiwaiian Tourism" sketch. The joke referred to the Mauna Loa eruption of 2013, when the formerly "safe" shield volcano was revealed to be a composite. While the initial eruption did not result in any deaths, the massive ash fall that followed devastated the Kingdom of Hawaii's rich agricultural industry and caused almost every flight in the Pacific to be cancelled. It's estimated that volcanic ash was responsible for about 400 deaths, prediminately through respiratory complications.

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"We are not amused"

- Her Majesty, Queen Victoria II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.

 

[severak]

"We are not amused"

- Her Majesty, Queen Victoria II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands.

The Queen to her Court Jester, Danny Brewer, on what was to be his final performance. Brewer had decided to provide a roast of the Queen's recently deceased husband, and a rather mocking one at that. This would lead to the enraged Queen ordering his execution on the spot. Brewer would be hacked to death by the Queen's guards seconds later. Many later historians pointed to this moment as the beginning of Victoria's descent into madness and senility, the final straw after the death of her beloved Husband, the loss of most of her children to the plague and a long string of humiliating military defeats. Without a proper heir remaining, and the Queen possibly insane, Lord Joseph Cromwell, a charismatic and powerful General in the Army, stepped in and declared himself regent of the realm. This would spark the English Civil War, which would rage for the next decade.


"Pure Cynicism is poison, yes, but Pure Optimism can be diabetes."

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

"Pure Cynicism is poison, yes, but Pure Optimism can be diabetes."

Ronald Reagan to the Nation when everybody was optimistic that Gorbachev and the summits between Ronald and Mikhail would lead the Cold War to an end (and some were cynical, extremely pessimistic and distrustful). He used the "diabetes" comparison mainly because, with diabetes, you can suddenly collapse due to hypo- and hyperglykemia, i.e. disappointed optimism and overshooting even the most optimist vision. The end of the Cold War did come, but German reunification was shot down by the Allies and the Soviet Union - and an European North Korea in Bulgaria under Grisha Filipov which regularly threatened Greece and Turkey with war over Thrace - continued to exist. The USSR continued as a heavily left-wing democracy with quite a few authoritarian elements. Poland, however, instead of parliamentary democracy, became a Catholic version of Iran with ultra-fundamentalist Catholicism espoused and many states in Europe feeling quite threatened. German Reunification could only be achieved in 2022 when Chancellor of West Germany Christian Ziege (SPD) tried anew and, with the East German economy having been rebuilt "at home" and the Allies now much less wary due to that Catholic Republic of Poland - and of course 30 years of non-expansionism despite free travel and de facto unification (East Germany remained more left-wing, but also leaned more towards the extreme right) - could achieve a much less costly and much more equal reunification on May 25, 2022.

"The cities are quite different... that's the wrong type of Nordrhein-Westfalen! And they say it's tridi, 3.1.226! We must find out more about this!" - Angela Merkel on the morning of September 24, 2017

 

[AltruisticHedonist]

"The cities are quite different... that's the wrong type of Nordrhein-Westfalen! And they say it's tridi, 3.1.226! We must find out more about this!" - Angela Merkel on the morning of September 24, 2017

The alarmed exclamation of Prime minister Angela Merkel upon realizing that the entire German province of Nordrhein-Westfalen was replaced with a more technologically advanced version of itself, which claimed to be from the year 2057. The data caught by sensors in the city of Cologne indicated a space time rupture, caused by an Aetheric Superlattice Bayron (ASB) event. Large effort was made to replicate this event, but after intense research, Indimensional and Subspace Orbital Techonologies (ISOT) would help bring humanity into a new phase of evolution, and laying the foundations of the Human Federation.

"I was part of it, I was part of it for 30 years. You change so slow you don't know it's happening to you. Sooner or later you become part of it. You are it. I don't know why it rejected me, but I'm glad it did. Now I can help you all fight it."

 

[ajdb0614]

"I was part of it, I was part of it for 30 years. You change so slow you don't know it's happening to you. Sooner or later you become part of it. You are it. I don't know why it rejected me, but I'm glad it did. Now I can help you all fight it."

Quote attributed Samuel O' Neil, a former member of the Irish Sociliast Republic's People's Council in 1985. O' Neil was kicked out of the Council in 1982, denounced as a revisionist, and eventually exiled to Britain. He became a major figure in the pro-democracy movement, and later became the first democratically elected President of post-socialist Ireland in 1998. Declassified docuements revealed that his "missing" father had been involved with seperatist groups in the North, a fact that had him viewed with suspicion by the Ministry of Public Security.

...

"75 years ago, France forced the Treaty of Versailles on you. We told the world that it was neccessary to maintain the peace in Europe, that it was meant to contain an 'aggresive' Germany. We lied. We wanted Germany weak, defenceless and vulnerable. We crippled you, humiliated you; took away your people's dignity and divided them. Then the Russians came in 1936, invaded your land and took away your freedom. And we did not care. We stood by and watched as thousands were sent to the firing squads. Turned away the swarms of refugees begging at our border. Did nothing as 8 million Germans were worked, starved, beaten and gassed to death at our doorstep. We did this to you. We allowed this to happen to you. We condemned millions of you to die. And we are sorry. But that is not enough. Today, we shall acknowledge our sins, and atone. Never shall we allow another people to suffer under our watch. Never again."

- Francois Mitterand's famous 1994 "Atonement Speech" at the Genocide Memorial in Berlin.

 

[Tales Weaver]

"75 years ago, France forced the Treaty of Versailles on you. We told the world that it was neccessary to maintain the peace in Europe, that it was meant to contain an 'aggresive' Germany. We lied. We wanted Germany weak, defenceless and vulnerable. We crippled you, humiliated you; took away your people's dignity and divided them. Then the Russians came in 1936, invaded your land and took away your freedom. And we did not care. We stood by and watched as thousands were sent to the firing squads. Turned away the swarms of refugees begging at our border. Did nothing as 8 million Germans were worked, starved, beaten and gassed to death at our doorstep. We did this to you. We allowed this to happen to you. We condemned millions of you to die. And we are sorry. But that is not enough. Today, we shall acknowledge our sins, and atone. Never shall we allow another people to suffer under our watch. Never again."

- Francois Mitterand's famous 1994 "Atonement Speech" at the Genocide Memorial in Berlin.

The treaty of Versailles weakened Germany so much that when russia invaded in 1936, it left them so weak. This resulted in ww2, and russian government starting genocide on germans. 6 million have been killed as a result. After the war ended with western victory, germany was allowed to keep prussia, posen, silesia, and pomerania. And genocide museum was built.

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

 

[riskyrofl]

The treaty of Versailles weakened Germany so much that when russia invaded in 1936, it left them so weak. This resulted in ww2, and russian government starting genocide on germans. 6 million have been killed as a result. After the war ended with western victory, germany was allowed to keep prussia, posen, silesia, and pomerania. And genocide museum was built.

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

Monk Bernand of Erregando writing on the mysterious raids on the coasts of Portugal and Ireland in the early 1330s. Small settlements were being raided and left in ruin with no survivors, the only evidence being strange ships sighted sailing West after the raids. Paranoia was growing in Portugal, fear that God was wiping out entire towns in punishment for sin, or invisible demons were destroying settlement grew. It wasn't until the Battle of Sangres in 1333 where knights managed to intercept the raid, discovering men in bright armour covered in jewels and feathers, speaking a strange language were responsible. Then in 1334 the Aztec Armada landed in Portugal, beginning the Sunset Invasion. Soon more fleets would land in Morocco, Castille and the British Isles in the Sunset Invasion of Western Europe and West Africa, where almost 75% of all Western Europeans and Africans would be killed, die of disease, starve or be sacrificed in the next century.

"The war will be won or lost in Yemen and the Red Sea..."

 

[XFE]

"The war will be won or lost in Yemen and the Red Sea..."

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, near death, comments on the state of the Saudi-Iranian War of 2036-2039. The war would end in an Iranian pyrrhic victory as Indo-Iranian forces took control of the Red Sea from NATO-Arabian forces and the subsequent coup and civil war within the House of Saud. Iranian hegemony in Arabia would, however slip in the 2070s with Turkish meddling in the peninsula.

"Petain was a great man: he beat back the Germans, he liberated the Rhineland, he saved France."--Charles de Gaulle

 

[severak]

"Petain was a great man: he beat back the Germans, he liberated the Rhineland, he saved France."--Charles de Gaulle

In late 1940, after the fall of Paris, the French government decided to fight on from North Africa. Petain did not initially support this decision, believing the war was already lost and that England would soon make peace, instead falling in with the Vichy Government. However, by 1942, after resounding allied successes in North Africa (and horrible treatment by their Nazi 'allies' at home), Petain began using his position within Vichy to plan a general uprising against the German occupiers, putting himself into contact with the Free French and Allies in order to supply his troops and coordinate planning. After a year of plotting, The Bastille Day Rising was launched on July 14, 1943, with thousands of French Partisans attacking the Germans all across their country. By the end of the month, the Allies had followed up with Operation Charlemagne (the invasions of Calais, Provence and Brittany), taking pressure off the Partisans and allowing Petain himself to liberate Paris, holding it against furious German counterattacks. French participation in the rest of the war was roughly on par with the other Allied powers, helping to prevent Germany from falling into Soviet hands.
The above quote was stated by de Gaulle during the 1948 French elections. While he praised his former comrade, de Gaulle also pointed out that Petain was in his 80s, and was not the best choice to the first President of the Fifth Republic.

"Oh, you Kings of lesser realms. There is so much that you do not know."
-King Cody II 'The Historian' of the Franks

 

[Timaeus]

"Oh, you Kings of lesser realms. There is so much that you do not know."
-King Cody II 'The Historian' of the Franks

The Irish-Frankish Merovingian king Theuderic-Cuidightheach II (baptized Michael) to the pagan Saxon kings of Britain, on the prelude of his conquest of the British Isles in the early 10th century.

"I am the Queen of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is the Queen of Cities. It is only fitting these barbarian generals of the west bow down to me."

 

[Sextus Munatius Piso]

The Irish-Frankish Merovingian king Theuderic-Cuidightheach II (baptized Michael) to the pagan Saxon kings of Britain, on the prelude of his conquest of the British Isles in the early 10th century.

"I am the Queen of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem is the Queen of Cities. It is only fitting these barbarian generals of the west bow down to me."

Queen Cleopatra the Great of Jerusalem summarizing the power of her kingdom.

"From Tondo to Java, from Sumatra to Papua..." — Hayam Wuruk

 

[riskyrofl]

Queen Cleopatra the Great of Jerusalem summarizing the power of her kingdom.

"From Tondo to Java, from Sumatra to Papua..." — Hayam Wuruk

"... there is merciless slaughter of innocent men, women and children" - Majapahit Emperor Hayam Wuruk XIII at a League of Nations summit, 19 May 1938. The Emperor accused the Chinese government of killing hundreds of thousands of civilians since the invasion ended in February, and that chemical weapons were being used in a similar fashion to reported massacres in Japan and Siam. While many nations turned a blind eye, the emperor was able to oversee the creation of the Anti-Chinese Coalition consisting of the Russian Soviet, Indian Commonwealth and the Republic d'Australie. When Majapahit was finally liberated after the Second Great War, Wuruk returned from exile to a divided country, many Majapahitan's felt he was a tyrant as bad as the Chinese rulers, especially after the Teraju massacre. Promised Reforms to introduce democracy to the region never materialized, and an attempted coup sent the country into civil war in 1959.

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

 

[Tales Weaver]

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

This was from the memoir by Tichiel Juspian,
Rechercher la liberté. Fighting against the Nazis as resistance fighter in 1941-1945, she has led partisan groups in france. She said this to her comrades in case of capture.

After the war, she became prominent right-wing politician. She was known as "last of the monarchists." due to advocating return to monarchy and later, founded National Front in 1955, which is now known for Marine Le Pen and her Far-right tendency.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die”
~Excerpt from Al-Azif by Abdul Alhazred

 

[severak]

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die”
~Excerpt from Al-Azif by Abdul Alhazred

This rather broken sentence comes from the journal of Abdul Alhazred, a known well known alchemist in medieval Persia. The Al-Azif (very roughly translated as 'Death Record') was exactly what its name implies: a scientifically rigorous record of his own death of a drug overdose. Unwilling to condemn another life to death in the name of his research, the aging Alhazred overdosed himself and kept as accurate as notes as possible as he began to die, hoping that his record would allow other alchemists to produce better treatments against various drug-related illnesses that were plaguing Persia at the time.


"To think, all this was done by the guy from 'Veggie Tales' and the girl from 'Google Translate Sings.'"

 

[FillyofDelphi]

This rather broken sentence comes from the journal of Abdul Alhazred, a known well known alchemist in medieval Persia. The Al-Azif (very roughly translated as 'Death Record') was exactly what its name implies: a scientifically rigorous record of his own death of a drug overdose. Unwilling to condemn another life to death in the name of his research, the aging Alhazred overdosed himself and kept as accurate as notes as possible as he began to die, hoping that his record would allow other alchemists to produce better treatments against various drug-related illnesses that were plaguing Persia at the time.


"To think, all this was done by the guy from 'Veggie Tales' and the girl from 'Google Translate Sings.'"

A snippet from the Comedy Centeral "Comedic News Show" Steven Colbert. This was following the election of the notoriously constantly sunburned president Robert Turner (Nicknamed "Bob T. Tomato" in the sketch), who's inauguration address was set to rap lyrics and run through a translator by a popular Youtuber personality.

"Paradox, why on earth do I need to buy DLC if I want to play as anyone but a European Muslim? I know the game is called "Muhjaheen Sultans 2", but it shoulden't cost 20 bucks just to try my hand at Christianity instead."

 

[Halocon]

A snippet from the Comedy Centeral "Comedic News Show" Steven Colbert. This was following the election of the notoriously constantly sunburned president Robert Turner (Nicknamed "Bob T. Tomato" in the sketch), who's inauguration address was set to rap lyrics and run through a translator by a popular Youtuber personality.

"Paradox, why on earth do I need to buy DLC if I want to play as anyone but a European Muslim? I know the game is called "Muhjaheen Sultans 2", but it shoulden't cost 20 bucks just to try my hand at Christianity instead."

An anonymous Steam reviewer for the infamous grand strategy game Mujahideen Sultans II, published by Swedish alt-right game studio Paradox Gaming as a parody of Paradox Interactive's Crusader Kings II. MS2 depicts an alternate history "Eurabia" scenario, and rather than being set in the medieval period, it begins 500 years after a "Muslim overpopulation war" wiped out white Europeans (and, in their eyes, civilization) in 2016. Its stereotypical depiction of Islam as a religion of destruction and the similarities to CK2 caused Paradox Interactive to sue Gaming and denounce the game as a "hateful, poorly-made theft of our work."

"Oh God, the Wells Fargo wagon is coming down the street! Oh, please don't let it be for me!"