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Flavius Aetass posted:What's so interesting about this rebellion, you ask-- well, Hong Xiuquan declared himself to be the younger brother of Jesus, that is, Jesus Christ of Christian fame. Hong did not know a whole lot about the Bible, nor did his followers, but they knew enough to establish what would be known as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, of which Hong was the king by divine right. It sounds like this is the opening of a story, if it is just ignore me But somebody started a series of good effortposts over here a few years ago https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3585027&userid=127245&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post454915546 I have no idea if this is a thing, but I'm halfway convinced Xiuguan and Emperor Norton had the same psychological event, where they had enormous pressure to think of themselves as one way (Xiuquan as a civil servant, Norton as a businessman) and when life dealt them some incredibly harsh cards denying them their identity, their sense of self underwent a radical transformation to save itself from the crushing, un-processable shame Or maybe both just were like that one Simpsons episode where the Michael Jackson impersonator started doing it and to his surprise found others and himself liked him better that way and just leaned into it
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This is new to me: meet the actual radical feminist terrorists who bombed the US capitol in the 1980s. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1980s-far-left-female-led-domestic-terrorism-group-bombed-us-capitol-180973904/
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