How did the HRE JUSTed itself so much? When and how did it start

The Holy Roman Empire was the greatest institution that has ever existed in the European continent.

If it disappeared, it was because it was too good for its world.

>>2467089
HRE was designed by Elohim to punish Germans for being pieces of shit. So, from the beginning

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>>2467089
>was the opposite of centralized whilst still counting as some sort of union
>hundreds of ethnically diverse states, kingdoms and independent cities that held no concern for one another
>emperor became increasingly weakened as a position
>inbreeding among royals was so bad it caused famines, wars and corruption because of handicaps
>tfw no Rome
>being the HRE was mostly a title people killed for that has no effect
>created the basterd region that is latin america and raped, pillaged and burned what little civilization there was
it was ok

I was under the impression that the Thirty Years War is really what fucked it up.

>>2467089

it was designed to be a clusterfuck in order to prevent german unification

>>2467460
This
Really bad things happened if g*rmans are united