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04-06-2025
- Politics
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17 Moments From US History That Show America Has Always Been A Bit Screwed Up, TBH
Recently, Reddit user Apprehensive_Way8674 asked, "What US historical fact/event do you tell people when they say America has never been as screwed up as it is now?" People had A LOT to say in the comments. Here are some of the best and most interesting replies: 1."We were literally minutes away from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis." —bushinkaishodan "Maybe only prevented because one Soviet Navy officer, Vasily Arkhipov, refused to consent to a nuclear torpedo launch (three officers had to consent; the other two did.)" —kurinbo 2."Hundreds of years of chattel slavery that tortured millions of people." —National_Ad_682 "And the whole Civil War." —Mooonstoner 3."The Vietnam War. Citizens were fighting each other over it. The government drafted young men against their will and sent them off to an unpopular war to be killed. Those who made it home were ignored and vilified." —ACynicalOptomist 4."The Ohio National Guard murdering four Kent State college students protesting the Vietnam War wasn't great either." —smithsapam Related: People In HR Revealed Truly Unhinged Reasons Employees Got Fired, And My Jaw Is On The Floor 5."The Japanese internment camps post-Pearl Harbor were pretty bad." —Agreeable_Cat_9728 6."I realize that the existence of Hamilton has made it kind of iconic in pop culture, but it's super messed up that an acting vice president shot and killed a former cabinet member. And all the charges were dropped!" —blueeyesredlipstick "Dropping the charges and convictions of January 6 rioters is far more shocking. Those traitorous animals were on video attacking our nation's capital!" —Blecher_onthe_Hudson "And don't forget that Dick Cheney shot a guy, too!" —CYMK_Pro 7."The Trail of Tears was all kinds of bad." —AudibleNod 8."The murder of Emmett Till. In addition to how disgusting this was, it wasn't even that long ago. Both my parents were alive at the time, and I'm only 36." —Didntlikedefaultname Related: 15 Times Someone Bravely Took A Photo Of The Very Worst Design This World Has Ever Seen 9."Red Summer, aka the destruction of Black neighborhoods in 1919 by white vigilantes (sometimes referred to as 'race riots' to downplay their destruction)." —No-Drive-8922 10."The forced Americanization of Hawaiian natives following the unlawful invasion of the Hawaiian Islands in 1893." —kalahiki808 11."I honestly believe that this country was broken from its inception. A bunch of wealthy, slave-owning white men didn't want to pay taxes anymore, so they rebelled. Before and after the Revolutionary War, people came here in the hopes of getting rich off of the new world. We expanded west and committed genocide for that purpose." —BrynxStelvagn 12."The US Army's buffalo extermination campaign in the ongoing war against Native Americans." —Walkingnerd_ 13."Many Americans supported eugenics in the early 1900s. The Nazis took many of their ideas from the American eugenics movement." —af_cheddarhead 14."The unethical and immoral Tuskegee Syphilis Study perpetrated against Black men." —satan_messiah 15."The Gilded Age was pretty bad for average people. Up until banking reforms, the economy crashed every few years." —SiegelGT 16."The Italian Hall Disaster on Christmas Eve, 1913. Someone yelled 'fire' (there was no fire) at a crowded party that was attended by striking copper miners and their families. People panicked and rushed to the exits. 73 people died from being crushed to death." "There was a lot of confusion because most of the witnesses did not speak English. It is widely believed that the shouter was wearing a badge from a local anti-union group. The anti-union group later shot and kidnapped the president of the union." —Think_Seaweed_7314 finally, one Reddit user asks an important question: "Does this context make our current situation any better?Shouldn't we be learning from our mistakes throughout history so we don't end up in fucked up situations like the one we're in now?" —GWS2004 H/T r/AskReddit Some replies have been edited for length and clarity. Also in Internet Finds: Tattoo Artists Are Sharing The Tattoos They Felt REALLY Uncomfortable Doing, And I Have No Words Also in Internet Finds: 23 People Who Tried Their Best, But Crapped The Bed So Bad Also in Internet Finds: "I've Worked In Various Prisons. I Will Take A Men's Over Women's Any Day Of The Week. Shit Is Scary": Former Female Inmates Are Sharing Their Most Disturbing Prison Experiences, And My Jaw Is Literally On The Floor
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Business
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Jimmy Kimmel Knows Why Donald Trump Really Crashed the Global Economy
Jimmy Kimmel thinks he's figured out why President Donald Trump caused so much instability on the stock market. Wall Street was sent into chaos after the president announced sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries across the world last week. The result saw the worst two-day loss in United States stock market history before the president announced a 'pause' on America's trading partners, except for China. 'Maybe [Trump] did it to distract us from all the other horrible stuff,' Kimmel said in his monologue Thursday. The late-night host continued, 'Maybe he did it to distract us from the fact that they're deporting college students and firing the people in charge of fighting disease and fires, and he's attacking judges and journalists and lawyers." 'He's taking lunch and life-saving medications away from children who need it,' Kimmel added. 'Not to mention helping his buddy Putin crush Ukraine, and menacing Canada and Greenland of all places.' Kimmel had begun his monologue by showing a string of right-wing pundits declaring that Trump's recent partial pause on tariffs (and the brief market bounce that followed) was all part of Trump's plan. 'If that was the plan, congratulations,' Kimmel joked. 'Because in one week the plan lost $6 trillion, and every country in the world hates us now.' Kimmel declared, 'We have a monkey flying the plane right now, and almost half the passengers are like, 'I think the monkey's doing a good job.'' 'Look out the windows, gang,' Kimmel told Trump supporters. 'The plane's pointing down.' Among all the 'bootlicking' pundits praising Trump at the moment, Kimmel singled out Newsmax's Carl Higbie for his particularly extreme take on Trump's actions. He played a clip of Higbie telling Newsmax viewers, 'We were just presented with our generation's version of the post-Pearl Harbor posters that went up that said ... 'I want you for the U.S. Army.' Trump wanted you to put America first and yourself second for a week, and most people couldn't do it." 'You selfish monsters,' Kimmel joked. 'You couldn't just let him drain your 401K to get those damn Norwegians in line? No?' 'That's quite a metaphor,' Kimmel added. ''This is like post-Pearl Harbor—' No, this is like if we had bombed Pearl Harbor ourselves.'
