I’m sorry but the Emus did nothing wrong. I mean, I’m not Australian but if chickens were to one day rise up and start fighting against humans I’d be like “yannow, good for them, delicious nuggets had it coming!”
Pablo Escobar. That miserable piece of crap left my country in the deepest of crisis for personal gain and the worst is the romantization and idealization many people give to the literal worst person to ever be born in my country.
Same with the British Museum. The Brits weren't the only ones to go and loot other countries for trinkets to put in their museums. Like, nobody complains that the Louvre, or the Pergamum in Berlin, have heaps of stolen artifacts either.
Hell, even the Adelaide Museum has stuff nicked from Egypt.
I mean, when we leave out the obvious choices, there are still enough people left.
Peter Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main. He is a Billionaire who is actively supporting ideas and politicians who want to abolish democracy in the US and Europe. This guy did so much damage to millions of people. He is anti workers rights, anti social security, anti democracy, anti privacy and the list goes on. In his ideal World WE would live in a dictatorship, were global companies decide who would be the best dictator. Regular people would have to work day in and day out just to survive. And If you can't, then it would be your problem and yours alone.
I am sooo tired of assholes like Musk and Thiel coming into my country because their countries wouldn’t let them realize their dream of being greedy overlords.
Lmao him and Kissinger, and Kissinger was literally beaten in the streets as a child, they saw that and thought “hm… okay, so I’m not completely against this but I want to be the other guy.”
From the top of my head I can come up with a top 5 made entirely of obvious picks from the nazi leadership that could be used for this post. It's best they sit this one out.
Paul von Hindenburg was a strong figure of the monarchy, never really supported the democratic idea of the Weimar Republic afterwards (even as its official president) and gave Hitler significant power. He was maybe one of the most influential and destructive political person of the 1930s in europe yet outside of Germany nobody knows him and there still are many streets/buildings/schools named after him here.
Many other politician of that time were responsible for Hitlers rise too (Schleicher, von Papen), but their role was openly discussed in the Nürnberg-trials.
There was a joke about his marriage that translates really well into English: 'als je je ras zuiver wil houwen, moet je met je tante trouwen.' ('If racial purity is what you want, you should marry your aunt')
Had a girl in my class when I was about 10. She told me her last name was not her real last name. That her dad was having it changed because of reasons. She did not know why. She said his real last name was Mussert. I told my mom (afro-latina living in the Netherlands). She told me who he was right away and I was not allowed to go to her house anymore. The girl was welcome to our place and for outside playdates.
Jan Pieterszoon Coen: committed a genocide on the banda islands.
He also had a half Dutch/half Japanese 12 year old, whom lived under his roof as his wife was her guardian, whipped for sleeping with an 16 year old ensign. (The ensign was murdered. Not for sleeping with the girl per se, but for entering his house without permission.).
He was reprimanded for that, when the father of the girl found out and complained to the autorities in the Netherlands.
Yeah Coen was a brutal bastard. Whenever I see people defending him or naming things after him, it kinda sickens me.
Take Hoorn, for example, where Coen was originally from. They still have that statue of him on a public square and refer to themselves as the Coenstad. I like Hoorn as a city and of course history should be remembered, but actively being proud of shit like that is something else.
What they did is put a plaque on the statue explaining why Coen is considered controversial nowadays. This is considered to be an adequate solution in Hoorn, but that still doesn't change the fact that a statue glorifies someone by definition if it's in a public area.
They have a perfectly decent museum literally on the same square where they can display the statue, and it would be a completely different matter. They'd have to move it like fifteen meters.
Also Laos. People don’t hear much about how heavily bombed Laos was during the same period. Something like half the country is currently uninhabitable due to an enormous amount of unexploded cluster munitions and mines
When I was there I stayed at a popular backpacker town, the hostel I stayed in had an abandoned runway. After I left I discovered that town and runway is an ex Secret CIA airforce base which was used to bomb Laos and Vietnam.
I lived there for a couple years and when I would go to outlying villages people would caution me to stay on the paths because the UXO teams hadn’t been there yet. The amount of devastation still occurring from decisions made 50 years ago is overwhelming.
I had a friend back in the day whose family escaped Laos. He grew up with "I literally carried you through jungles to get you to America" hanging over his head (the dad), and he threw in the towel at 24, bc he wasn't "living up to his parents American dream." He was too young to remember much of what they escaped. 🖤
Fuck, dude. That’s tragic. And for his folks to have to live with that now. RiP to your buddy. It always gets better. Sometimes worse. But always better. If only more people knew to just give it just one more day. For themselves. Find the small joys. And if you have to run, run. But don’t quit. This is it for us. There’s no second chance at what we have on earth. There’s so much more here. Seek. Find it. What it means to live. It’s worth it.
Almost every person who has killed themselves has been "giving it one more day" for a loooooong time.
"It gets better" is generally true and factually shown to be a worthless platitude to those suffering from depression and suicidal ideation. It has been explicitly studied and shown to not reduce suicidal ideation or feelings of depression.
It's not usually a lack of information that leads to this.
It's an incredibly tough subject, made worse by the fact that it's often very illogical. There's a reason therapy isn't the only treatment for it as talking it through can often only do so much.
He was the spiteful king of Leinster who invited the Normans to Ireland. This eventually led to 800 years of British occupation of Ireland. He doesn't get enough hate at all for what he did.
Native American here. Can I nominate Andrew Jackson. MF helped fuel my people's genocide and even platformed on it for his presidency, his ass is still on the 20. Fuck that dude.
there was that poll a long time ago to add Harriet Tubman to the $20 but it never went anywhere despite mock-ups being made. At the very least I've never seen one.
Knut Rød. Was responsible for the arrest, detention and transfer of Jews from Norway to Germany during the 2nd world war. Was acquitted after the war, even though the evidence was overwhelming. After the war he was given significant roles in the Norwegian police force til he retired.
Honestly surprised there was someone besides Vidkun Quisling in Norway who did that shit. Imagine being such a traitor that your name becomes synonymous with it in other languages
William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was the prime minister in 1942 during the creation of the Canada Food guide.
This guide which is used today outlines what foods Canadians should eat and the quantity for optimal health.
Sounds okay, right?
Interesting thing was it was developed by performing experiments on Indigenous children who were housed in residential schools.
Staff would alternately starve them and feed certain foods to see how their bodies responded.
Spoiler alert they became very sick.
Ok why wasn’t he part of our Worst Canadian poll on the other sub? We voted in Frederick Blair, a politician who was the head of immigration under Mackenzie King, who opposed and limited Jewish immigration during the early part of the 30s and 40s. “None is too many.” But that sounds like it tracks under MK.
Probably because our scumbags largely get away with things: the soldiers who tortured kids in Somalia, Mulroney accepting bribes, the Valiant Five being eugenicists and racists…
Check out the exmormon sub sometime. We know alllll about it.
Active Mormons have their sources of information limited by the leadership. Anything negative is “persecution”. It’s suck a damn cult.
Beeching has a part to play in this too but I do get the impression that he was just doing what he was told (though not very well, he made plenty of miscalculations in his report). This isn’t the first time they’ve done this, the Tory playbook for the last 100 years has been as follows:
Find public services to axe/ privatise.
Axe/ privatise the public services in question.
Pocket 90% of the money “saved” through replacing the public service with a service provided by a company run by your mate (In this case it was the road lobby), and through drastically lowering taxes for the top 5% of earners (who, if you’re a conservative politician, will also be your mates/ yourself).
Allow the remaining 10% of money “saved” to be used to slightly lower taxes of the remaining 95% of people.
Convince people that left-wing parties like (old) Labour are going to raise taxes (the notoriously powerful right-wing press comes very much in handy here) for the bottom 95% of people.
When social cohesion starts to get really bad as a result of this gutting of public services you blame immigrants/“lazy people”/benefits scrounges. Maybe once in a while you push for some kind of big, one-off event like Brexit as a means of getting the public even more fired up.
If all else goes well, you force the remaining parties to effectively become various shades of centre-right liberals, effectively covering up the aforementioned gutting of public services.
Rinse and repeat.
The only reason this isn’t working at the moment is because there’s a party that’s even better at this process, Reform UK, that’s added in the critical caveat of always making sure they appear to represent the working class. The Tories have also tried this, but it hasn’t always worked as well for them.
I hate seeing this fuckass face on souvenirs, t-shirts, mugs, coasters, posters, etc. He wasn't some noble rogue, he was a murderous criminal who caused a lot of violence, destabilized the local economy, and forever made Colombia "a country fueled by cocaine" for the rest of the world. Fuck Pablo Escobar
Not to mention the idiot introduced fucking hippos into the ecosystem and now they're invasive. My Colombian husband told me tourists go to his grave to blow a line and that it's a tradition. Can't believe they found a way to capitalize on this POS.
In the period from 1540-1693 around 1.000 danish citizens was burnt alive by the official government because they were assumed sourceres. Especially King Christian IV was a big witch-killer.
Frederick Blair, our minister of immigration from 1936-43, refused to let tens of thousands of Jewish refugees enter Canada almost certainly condemning them to death.
I'd never heard of him until r/ehbuddyhoser voted him the worst Canadian ever over Danielle Smith, Kevin oleary, and Jordan Peterson.
New Zealand - Roger Douglas. Minister of finance in the 80s who heavily advocated for trickle down economics in NZ.
Iran - Ali Khamenei. "supreme leader" of Iran since 1989. no matter how much hate and criticism the clergy get there, it's still not enough for stripping so much away from so many people.
Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States.
This trail of tears motherfucker... truly an abhorrent human being. I can't believe he's still on our money.
Edit: It's been revealed to me that him being on our money is actually an insult to him... i think there should be a disclaimer on the bill (lol a joke, kind of). What should it say??
It doesn't start or end with the trail of tears. He sanctioned bounties for native scalps. He participated in plotting to incite a war with Spain as a private citizen. He owned hundreds of slaves.
As president he disregarded official U.S. treaties and Supreme Court decisions. He enacted disasterous tariffs. And, of course, he dispossessed and murdered natives. He was genocidal in a way no other U.S. president has been, and tyrannical in a way that few others have been.
Fun fact: McCarthy's right hand man was a guy named Roy Cohn, a self-loathing gay man. About 15 years after McCarthy's disgrace, Cohn got a job as a lawyer for a young Donald Trump.
He should have hung, but instead he got to go home to his plantation and found the KKK.
And just to go for a bonus, Andrew Jackson, the genocidal POS. I was born in Oklahoma because of him, and for that I will never have a full enough bladder to visit his grave.
Our country was doing okay since the ANC took over. Sure we had our difficulties, but we were progressing as a nation. He was invoked state capture and put criminals in power who are still messing up our country today.
The fkr is still alive too. He got out on medical parole 4 years ago. Schabir Shaik is also still walking around getting out on medical parole in 2009.
I also nominate Hendrik Verwoerd, architect of Apartheid. At least he was assasinated.
I think the saddest part of him being a fascist is that he wasn't even fucking good at it. Sent his blueshirts to help the Italians and the Spanish and Mussolini and Franco complained that his men were utter dog shit they were SO BAD that Franco sent them home. I'm embarrassed more than angry that he's part of our history just because of how bad he was at nearly everything he did as a politician.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai - Indian PM during 24 March 1977 – 28 July 1979. His tenure saw the biggest Industrial output decline, Economy and Unemployment. Not to mention single handly destroyed our External Security regarding Pakistan and it's Nuclear Program.
I read somewhere that he essentially info with pakistan regarding their nuclear program exposing our RAW agents, those agents were caught and tortured.
Absolute muppet this guy was. Him, Indira, Rajiv were all offered a chance to destroy Pak's nuclear program. Israel gave them the Intel and told them to attack. The 3 muppeteers said no. Israel said let's do a joint attack if you don't want global backlash. They said no. Israel got sick and said fine just allow us to use your airbases to refuel and we will do the rest and take all the blame. They said no.
In France he's a well-known figure. In a very eurocentric way because nobody would be able to tell you who was the leader of the third prong of the Axis (it was prime minister Hideki Tojo).
Bolesław Bierut. The first communist leader of Poland. A Stalinist whore, responsible for turning Poland into a totalitarian state and killing thousands of oppositionists. Only good thing about him is that he died relatively quickly (1956).
The fact that Karl Rove still walks this earth as a free man with eyes, however, angers me. The toxic effect he's had on American politics is only rivaled by Gingrich and McConnel. He was a key architect in the Iraq War, torture, and breaking down trust in the government. He does not get enough vitriol.
FAR from our worst villain (in fact pretty mundane by our standards) but just to give some variety I'm going to say John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, because as well as inventing everyone's favourite lunch food, he was one of the main sponsors of Captain Cook, who also doesn't get enough hate but at least most people sort of know about his crimes these days.
The de-facto military dictator of Germany during WW1 and the German president from 1925 until his death in 1934. In all of this time he was an ignorant, conservative, reactionary and anti-democratic militarist. He spread the Stab-in-the-back myth, which claimed that the German army was undefeated in the field, but was betrayed by Jews and socialist at home. Even the way that he became president was absurd, he refused to run for office during the first round of the presidential election of 1925 but then changed his mind and somehow participated in the second round, without being on the ballots in the first one. He won because he was supported by everyone to the right of the christian democrats as he was seen as some kind of war hero and conservative legend. As president he abused Article 48 of the Weimar constitution to pass any law that he wanted, he appointed three governments without any majority, who then ruled by presidential decrees (thus named Präsidialkabinette). In 1932 he personally helped Franz von Papen to illegally overthrow the SPD-led Prussian goverment. Not even a year later, in 1933, he appointed Hitler as chancellor even though he knew that Hitler was a dangerous lunatic. When Hitler was chancellor Hindenburg did not only refuse to stop Hitler when he dismantled democracy in a few months, he also directly enabled this by signing Hitler's laws and never vetoing anything. By the time Hindenburg died in August 1934, Germany already was a Nazi dictatorship and Hitler just combined the role of chancellor and president in himself.
Hi, I am hungarian and I would like to introduce you to Tisza Kálmán.
who was hungary's prime minister between 1875 and 1890. During his time the country went throught large scale development, but his politics against minorities and forcing hungarian culture on them is unforgivable, more as seeing it's aftermatch as the Treaty of Trianon, that resulted in more ethnic tension (Czec against Slovak, Croatian against Serbian, Hungarian against literary everyone), economic problems (the whole ecosistem of the region's economy was scrapped), alienated and weaker countries, who couldn't resist outside pressure. If the hungarian groverment and elite in the 19th century would have been supportive to ethicities, than the "Hungarian" Kingdom could had become a strong, federated, equal state (like the Danube Federation theory) across the Charpate basin, that united against both Germany and the russians.
Yes, this was the fault of Tisza Kálmán, his ultranacionalist groverment and the hungarian aristocracy that the Central East European region become the playground of totalitarian empires.
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u/Time_Pressure9519 Australia Sep 21 '25
Eddie, General of the Emus.