Following my reskeet of @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's Oprah selection, a reminder that I put Ring Shout on our spooky books display yesterday.

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While World War I was probably inevitable, the start of WWI (and thus II) had a lot to do with the personal failings of Franz Joseph of Austria, including decide to go back on fucking vacation while everything is falling apart in Vienna during the July Crisis.

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And that's three hundred years after Ferdinand II (among the rest of the ruling Hapsburgs) managed to having Catholic France allied with the Protestants against Catholic Austria in a war between Catholics and Protestants.

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Emperor Maximillian of Mexico tried to get the Confederacy to start the New Virginia colony in Mexico, so that Confederate leaders could come start some kind of Government in Exile in Mexico. But of course they couldn't bring slaves. Because slavery was illegal in Mexico.

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Because this is going around, again, for the record I don't even mean the inbreeding, I mean the political choices - which were more the result of "we've ruled everything for six hundred years, power is a thing we inherited not a thing we earned, our rule is a law of the universe."

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