media; "comedy"; dictatorships; scary scary history; humans are fucking crazy; uspol-adjacent
I knew the "Gurpgork" joke from Archer (where an insane Central Asian dictator changed everything from the name for "Tuesday" to the words for "dog," "bread," and "snake" to "gurpgork") had some basis in reality.
I had no idea JUST HOW LITTLE THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE FACTS.
CW: for scary uspol adjacency. I'll bet one quantum hop over from this universe, today is the 9th of Ivanka, 3 A.T., the 79th element is "Trumpium," and a well-done steak with ketchup costs 100 Trumps. 😱
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhnama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaming_of_Turkmen_months_and_days_of_week,_2002
re: media; "comedy"; dictatorships; scary scary history; humans are fucking crazy; uspol-adjacent
@001zlnv Oh wow, thank you! This is basically the sort of stuff I follow instead of soap operas. :)
re: media; "comedy"; dictatorships; scary scary history; humans are fucking crazy; uspol-adjacent
the entire series is pretty great. it's what I have on my headphones at work while waiting for people to break things
media; "comedy"; dictatorships; scary scary history; humans are fucking crazy; uspol-adjacent
@zebratron2084
if you haven't tried this yet I recommend the episodes of behind the bastards on turkmenbashi
https://www.behindthebastards.com/podcasts/part-one-turkmenbashi-the-dictator-who-declared-himself-jesus.htm