Portal:Politics/DYK

Full DYK list

• ... that the Sans-culottes fought against the restrictive dress code of the day which demanded that all French people wear frilly breeches and silk chiffons?
• ... that swing states are called "swing states" after Jazz musicians, who frequently vacillate between being Democratic or Republican?
• ... that famous contemporary portrait painter George W. Bush was once a politician, and even served as U.S. President for a number of years?
• ... that the people of Puerto Rico were granted U.S. citizenship, on the condition that they never tell anyone about it?
• ... that Hồ Chí Minh was declared "most likely to ferment Communist insurrection" in his high school yearbook?
• ... that U.S. President John F. Kennedy started the Peace Corps, a secret CIA project to dump potentially troubling bleeding-heart hippies abroad?
• ... that the Republicans chose the elephant to be their political symbol because they are fat, heavy and like to trample over Black people?
• ... that the Democrats chose the donkey to be their political symbol because they are loud, obnoxious, lazy and prone to shit on the floor?
• ... that a Civil War is a form of warfare defined by its kindness and civility, in stark contrast to other methods like total warfare?
• ... that in the China, reading this website will lower your social credit score by five points per visit?
• ... that Political correctness is the state of being right about politics all the time, and should therefore be encouraged as much as possible?
• ... that the UKIP political manifesto included a section on using homeless people to save the endangered red squirrel?
• ... that Talk radio (a predecessor to the podcast) would feature political commentary interspersed with hours of incoherent screaming?
• ... that the Sunset Advisory Commission is a government agency created solely to combat the tyranny of effective governance?
• ... that the death of Muammar Gaddafi has severed the thread of prophecy, and now we must persist in the doomed world we have created?
• ... that Newspeak is double plus good, whereas Oldspeak is double plus ungood and a thoughtcrime?
• ... that the League of Nations was a competition that existed from 1919 to 1946: whoever firebombed the most schools wins?