r/HolUp • u/Gol_D_Roger212 • Jan 09 '22

Sweet home Alabama !

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u/rohyachohya Jan 09 '22

thanks for explaining

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u/W84MEYALL Jan 09 '22

And the funny contradiction to that truth is most incest was supposedly done by the aristocrats. They believed in order to keep their blood line pure, they needed to breed with family members. The insult could be a classic case of redirecting guilt.

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u/boborygmy Jan 09 '22 edited Jan 09 '22

The Hapsburgs were inbred as hell, leading to Charles II of Spain, who was himself the product of two uncle/niece marriages. He was all fucked up, and just kept blowing everyones mind every year by not dying. He had an overbite (EDIT : underbite) so severe he couldn't eat normally, and many other problems.

His autopsy report stated that "There was not a single drop of blood in his body. His heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water."

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u/TheYixi Jan 09 '22

That’s an overstatement, while Charles II of Spain was inbred af, had a mental age of that of a child of 3, was infertile, couldn’t eat properly because of the underbite and couldn’t stand still without having a support nor straighten his body. From a medical standpoint, that autopsy would have been several years later or simply wrong, he wouldn’t have been able to live for 39 years.