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More specifically, the sandwich that he stopped to grab, in public, after having just survived MULTIPLE failed assasination attempts in a parade!

Honestly, let’s take away the politics. Let’s take away the original reasons for the assasination attempts. Let’s take away the nationality, and culture.

The fact that you sat in an open top car during a parade, witnessed MULTIPLE assasination attempts fail as you drove through the public, SURVIVED UNHARMED, and your first thought was “I’m gonna get a sandwich”? Yeah, Franz deserved what he got.

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I’d be hungry after all of that, too.

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Would you perhaps say that he was… hungarian after that parade?

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You’re next.

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It was the assassin that suposedly was getting the sandwich, but it’s a made up story.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741/

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Franz Ferdinand was not the cause of WWI. WWI was caused by numerous geopolitical, economic, and societal conditions that all drove us towards it. Can I tell you what those conditions were and how exactly they led to WWI? No, because I’m an uneducated idiot who knows next to nothing about history. But at least I’m not dumb enough to believe that killing one guy led to the killing of 40 million others.

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It was definitely a factor that, if avoided, could have changed history. He was the final nail in the coffin for many people to get pissed off really bad.

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I mean you could say the same of today though

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Well I mean Serbia is pretty proud of it having a statue of Gabril princip still standing today. The only reason they went ahead with it was because they knew if Russia was dragged in they would have their back. With the beef between HA and the other Western powers that also lead to the UK and such to pick a side.

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numerous geopolitical, economic, and societal conditions

Oh, we have those, we have many conditions!

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From what I read in some history books, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was just one of many pieces that led to WWI.

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I was taught that the consensus amongst historians is that it would have happened regardless

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As if there are no other pieces at the present time

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Yeah, but that meme implies causation, and I can’t agree with that.

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It was an action which was taken as a reason to start a war, so yes, there was causation

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The way that I often hear it described is the spark that blew up the powder keg that was Europe at the time. Obviously a spark alone would do very little without the gunpowder there to be ignited, so there’re definitely different levels of causation, but I think there is a sense in which the assassination can be seen as a causative element

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The assassination was the trigger, not the reason.

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131 points

Ever hear of Franz Ferdinand?

“I don’t listen to that hipster shit.”

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I can totally see this being some mumble rapper or some retro southern folk band.

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Wait, they died?

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Oh god, I thought they were joking.

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They were more rock if I recall correctly.

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16 points

But they are in fire!

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3 points

Out of control, I tell ya.

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Ever heard of Franz Ferdinand?

Of course I have.

They did Take Me Out.

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10 points

This fireeeee

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