730 - The Man Who Would Be King (5/8/23)
Chapo Trap House
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Ferdinand and the Spanish Habsburgs
"I like the idea of Ferdinand visiting what would have been his royal crown bedroom on a class trip and he's just looking around going, where's the race car bed? Where's the Xbox?" "Yeah, I don't wanna get any of this shit. But yeah, he's the heir to the grandest Catholic empire that's maybe ever existed." The Habsburgs had the chance to create global Catholic hegemony because they did start the project of New World colonialism but 'they blew it' They spit the bit, the hustling, grinding Protestants of the low countries and England ate their fucking lunch.
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