[pictured: Ronald Reagan wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt. His body is nearly turned sideways, chin lifted and grinning at the camera, resting his weight on his right elbow with his left hand clasped loosely over his resting right wrist. Italicized text upon this propaganda poster reads: “RONALD REAGAN speaks out against SOCIALIZED MEDICINE”]
>a c-list actor's career flopped so now I have to pay $1000 to set foot in an ambulance
any other examples like this?
Some dude miscalculated the year Jesus was born and now we're stuck using the resulting calendar centuries later
A Roman Emperor joined a Levantine cult, and now you can't get an abortion because the Supreme Court makes decisions based on Near Eastern mythology from the Iron Age.
To be fair, part of the popularity of the cult was that women were being forced to perform 4th trimester abortions by the pagan religions.
Well if you know a better way to end a drought, I'd like to hear it!
It was more of a population control and eugenics thing but I'm sure that happened too