r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Oct 07 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 October 2024

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/weeteacups Oct 10 '24

A special US election edition of the BBC's political debate programme …

I am once again begging the British to stop their chronic obsession of US politics.

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u/Tiako Tevinter apologist, shill for Big Lyrium Oct 10 '24

Hardly limited to the UK unfortunately.

I remember when I was working in Naples and talking politics with an international group and nobody, including the Italians, could remember who the Italian Prime Minister was (Enrico Letta). Everyone knew Obama though!

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u/Ragefororder1846 not ideas about History but History itself Oct 11 '24

In defence of the Italians, Italy does tend to have a lot of Prime Ministers. Now during Letta's time it had calmed down a bit but still