This one is broad, but it can be about anything from a fandom or historically or just in general.
The Montreal Screwjob in the WWF. This is the most over-covered subject if you’re a wrestling fan. Story goes, Bret Hart was to face Shawn Michaels in the 1997 Survivor Series in Montreal Canada. Tensions were high leading up to the match and Vince McMahon was afraid Bret was going to take the championship belt to WCW if he retained. So, about several minutes into the match, Shawn Michaels was about to lock in the sharpshooter on Bret when the bell prematurely rang, initiated by Vince and called by Earl Hebner, refereeing the match. There was a flurry of confusion at first but it came clear as day to everyone that Bret was screwed right then and there.
And for 29 years since, there had been constant interviews, constant coverage, wrestling content creators bringing it up a lot and treating it like there’s one bit of information left out. By this point, it’s been so covered, that we have most of the pieces. Shawn and HHH themselves knew it was a screwjob (it took Shawn years to admit it, HHH is still adamant about it for some reason) and WWE has their own revisionist telling about what happened and the aftermath.
At this point, we get it. For a sport that relies on choreographed moves and fluffed up gimmicks, it was a huge deal that just went on and on.
Climat change and yet still people denie it!
WW2 especially with “the nazis could have won”. No they couldnt. The only way they could have won would have been with them not being nazis!
In germany: the danger of the nazi party AfD and how fucked we would be if they came to power. Yet still people act supprised when AfD is revealed again to be corrupt, working for russia, is a nazi party and would ruin everything. Yes keep talking about it but discussion of if they really are all those things is obsolete. They are! The media ofc isnt helping and neither is the CDU (conservatives and current ruling party) that openly starts talking about collaborating with them. Ugh.
Or the classic: violent video games discussion. SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT!
Small brain discussion: the Nazis could have won if…
Big brain discussion: the allies could have won with fewer casualties if…
Nazis had all of western europe except the UK. If UK had become nervous and negotiated peace, they could have won.
Except the UK didn’t because you don’t negotiate with nazis
Also brits fighting all of europe, that is a very common situation for them. Standing alone (with the colonies) defying against all odds, is a national culture icon for them. Just like the freedom fighting ragtag group is for america.
And the people were ready to fight that beast with all their wallice and gromit tech they could’ve come up with! They knew what was at stake
Probably more due to their geographical advantages compared to their European peers and other non-ideological factors… but I’m not a WW2 history buff, TBF.
Britian was being starved out and had lost a lot of supplies when France fell. One major factor was the nazis shifting focus from RAF bases to cities, aiming for the public instead of tactical military targets, probably expecting the brits to wave the white flag due to morale being broken faster than they couldd wipe out the airforce. I don’t think any of us living in these countries in modern times can truly comprehend how the people of the UK held it together during this.