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[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WW1 - they hit some dude in a car and everybody was pissed.

WW2 - everybody was sick of paying for WW1

Easy!

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Idk if that's really why WWII started...

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There was more to WW1 starting than Franz Ferdinand getting shot, too. They are sarcastically skewering people's simplistic understanding of the causes of those two conflicts.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I guess so. I think it was mostly Germany tired of paying for WWI tho lol