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JakobVirgil  ·  4782 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski poll - Top Ten Disasters in the History of Man
I grouped things I feel are really the same event

1> the Shoah, the founding of secular Israel, The imperialisation of the United States, Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

2> The Reconquista, The Inquisition and the Spanish invasion of the new world.

3> The Slave trade to the Americas, American chattel slavery especially in Brazil

4> An Lushan Rebellion

5> Bengal famine of 1943

6> Holodomor

7> Firefly being cancelled

8> the Neanderthal genocide

9> Globalization

10> The rise of Orthodoxy in 1st century Christianity





thenewgreen  ·  4782 days ago  ·  link  ·  
#7 is fantastic. -Good call.

I felt the same way about Jericho getting cancelled. And for that matter Arrested Development

mk  ·  4782 days ago  ·  link  ·  
OMG I forgot Firefly.
cliffelam  ·  4782 days ago  ·  link  ·  
So, wait, you consider both the founding of Israel and atomic bombing disasters?

-XC

PS - i agree with you on Firefly, though without that we'd never had gotten Dr. Horrible.

JakobVirgil  ·  4782 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes both disasters I think a non-mandated Israel without a holocaust or better yet a vibrant diaspora would be much preferable to the looney bin in the Levant.