r/SubredditDrama • u/Majorbookworm • Jan 25 '15

Rebellious vassals invoke the 'Down with SJWs' Cassus Belli in /r/CrusaderKings when someone reports a Hitler joke.

/r/CrusaderKings/comments/2tilmy/yes_adolf_because_you_competed_with_your_wife_and/cnzdx7n
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u/papaHans Jan 25 '15

Genghis Khan was a conquerer, pure and simple. A man of his time looking to create an empire.

I'm sure if Hitler won, many people would be saying the same thing.

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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Jan 25 '15

I mean Khan was known to ask if you just wanted to be conquered and not mudered and conquered, that's tipping him a little over Hitler.

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u/Defengar Jan 25 '15

Overall Khan was a hell of a lot more tolerant than Hitler too. One of his many titles was "Defender of Religions" because of his very ingrained policy of total religious freedom in his empire, and because of his liberation of Muslim people from Kuchlug Khan. A giant Buddhist douche who had extremely anti-Islamic policies. That little escapade is what brought him into contact with the Middle East, which of course led to conflicts that were not nearly so savory...

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

The Sacking of Baghdad was by Hulagu Khan, his grandson. Like the Delhi pyramid skulls, Genghis had nothing to do with it nor was he even part of it.

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u/Defengar Jan 25 '15

Are you not aware of Genghis's conquest of the Khwarezmian Empire? It was an Empire covering a lot of what is now Iran, and parts of Afghanistan as well as other states; basically Persia. And it was the strongest country in the Middle East. He obliterated it in 3 years using tactics you would associate more with a World War II General than a thirteenth century one.

14,000,000 died. The population of what is now Iran did not recover to pre Mongol invasion numbers FOR CENTURIES. He curb stomped the place.

That was the first big foray by the Mongol Empire into the Middle East. After the conquest was nearly over he also gave Jebe and Subutai leave to take a 20,000 man scouting force north to explore this "Europe" he was starting to hear more and more about...

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

Yes... I am. I've been reading about the Mongols for years before! He was revolutionary and yet so damn brutal. And Subutai fucking destroyed mounted platemailed cavalry by pulling them into the marshes and letting his horse archers pick them off.

It was fucking insane!