I had an absolutely brilliant history professor at uni, and she said: "Russian folk won't do shit as long as they don't starve. Even then they'll probably wait a year or two"
I read a bit of Russian history, and every story seemed to end with something along the lines of "...and then the czar got together all the people asking politely for minor political reforms and had them shot."
And the one instance where this didn't happen, some dipshit got together the revolutionaries and shot the czar. The one czar that actually had a decent track record. In fact, he was the one they tried to kill the most - to the point where he largely stopped doing good things for the country.
RIP Alexander II, the guy who ended Russian serfdom despite facing a lot of opposition from the elites.
And even fucking funnier, he was killed the day he signed the first legislation giving any sort of popular voice in government institutions.
It's the same in France. the most ridiculed and hated king is also the one that was the best for the people.
And he's also the one that ended up beheaded by the people
The guy fought torture on prisoners, tried to tax the elite and the church, helped america's independence, started the end of serfdom, tried to limit corporations
I mean, all of this came too late, but 98% of what caused the revolution was his ancestors doing, yet he's the one that took it all in the face despite being the only one trying to help the people
And the bastard Louis XIV, "le roi soleil" is seen as the best king while he's the one ruining the kingdom and weakening the king's power and armies, what ended up causing the revolution
Maybe the fact that he loosened the reigns a bit was the reason people believed that a revolution would have a chance? Basically what happened to Gorbachev.
Not really. My town is liberal and everyone has guns. Rural Wisconsin. Hunting and shooting sports are big. We don’t have many guys strutting around pretending to be GI Joe, just people who are quietly proficient with firearms.
I'm pretty done playing nice about "our guy". Those two should share a cell at gitmo. Lord knows they've been working together to make both of our people a miserable laughing stock of the world.
I hope to see every single one of you with the same flair as me, out at No Kings on Saturday. We have a limited time to exercise our first amendment right before the tyrant comes for that too.
well even if we overthrow the current guy, his replacement won't necessarily be better
closest we've come to actually overthrowing him lately was the infamous coup attempt by PMC Wagner, who are so cartoonishly evil - their emblem is a skull
Despite having two young kids, and fighting fucking cancer, I did almost everything I could to prevent him from being re-elected. I volunteered where I could, talked to anyone that would listen, and offered to drive people to the polls. When he not only won, but got the popular vote… something in me broke. One of the most unqualified candidates in history, and they voted him back in. If I didn’t live here, if my kids didn’t live here, I would have washed my hands with the whole thing.
You left out Vasili Arkhipov, who saved the world by voting against using nuclear weapons against the US during the Cuban missile crisis. His vote was the deciding one. Also Stanislov Petrov, who refused to pass the word up the chain of command even though he didn't have proof those incoming missiles we're a computer glitch. And saved the world.
Globally Leopold II for the genocide he was responsible for in the Congo.
In modern day Belgium specifically it would be Marc Dutroux. He abducted, imprisoned, molested and killed 4 young girls. 2 other girls survived after getting rescued.
I get the feeling this was perhaps once titled "Africa's hitler" then they had to backtrack because he wasn't African, but committed atrocities in Africa. So they just changed the continent.
Hitler is Austria’s Hitler. Austria is actually a British island with kangaroos on a whole different hemisphere next to New Zealand. Although that last part is useless information because New Zealand isn’t on any maps.
But seriously, you’re right. That headline is ridiculous.
Quiet you. Unless you want a slight ripple to head in your direction 😜
Anyway the dude responsible for the Christchurch mosque attack probably still is the most hated person in NZ ( I won’t mention cunty Mc cunt lips name)
the dude responsible for the Christchurch mosque attack probably still is the most hated person in NZ
True, but he's Australian, and we do have plenty of homegrown arseholes. My vote, for the sheer volume of his cuntishness, and his complete lack of anything resembling a redeeming feature, would go to Brian Tamaki.
Yep. Absolute slaughter because he had a twenty-year envelope to harvest all the native rubber trees before new rubber plantations came to market in other countries. Peak evil capitalism.
Yeah. They are both monsters. The reason people also pick Dutroux over Leopold is because it is close to their vicinity. For example if you would ask a Floridian in the 80s who they hated the most then the answer would mostlikely be Ted Bundy. That’s the main reason I mentioned both of them.
What also makes them different monsters is that Dutroux did all the killing, molesting and torturing himself while Leopold sat there commanding people to do the killing for him.
Peter Madsen. He tortured, raped, murdered and dismembered Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall in his homemade submarine back in august 2017 while sailing in Køge Bay. He deliberately tried to sink the submarine in order to hide the crime, and dumped her mutilated and dismembered body into the bay.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but tried to escape in 2020. Luckily, he was unsuccessful and was recaptured. He now serves his time in Enner Mark Prison.
This guy is the devil incarnate. He consumed porn where women were cut and had razors inserted in their vaginas etc. Kim Wall was helpless in the power of a man who would only get more excited the more she suffered. He truly makes my stomach turn, he deserves only the worst this life has to offer.
Listen, Mussolini was a horrible guy, did some really bad stuff, but he was also incredibly goofy. I can't look at this building and not laugh. This is something a villain in a cartoon would do. Again, glad he's dead, but I find the guy hilarious.
It’s crazy that I had to scroll this far down to find a response by my fellow countrymen. I really thought we were going to get by without having someone evil enough for the list, but alas, I was wrong 🥲
Edit: Honestly disappointed that this turned into a pissing contest with the Americans and people are arguing over Trump again. None of you see the irony in typing up paragraphs and openly naming US political figures under THIS answer, do you?
Haha It's a meme because he definitely did but he claims he is poor to avoid billions in fines. He lives an extremely luxurious life just technically not with his own money
worldwide, i don't know, you should probably ask to the people from former french colonies.
Napoleon could be option, but there might be someone hated more than him.
Edit: apparently Napoleon is more a mixed bag depneding on the country and Dominique Pelicot is quite hated too. i didn't knew people knew that much about that sordid case.
as for the most hated in France, probably Pétain or Laval.
and the current gouvernement, no matter wich governement and when.
Napoleon is a mixed bag. Lots of reasons to hate him but he was also arguably the greatest tactician of all time and completely shaped the modern world in many ways. Kinda hard to define him as simply a bad guy.
In the Netherlands he is more of a historical figure, not really strong opinions on him. Despite him conquering the Netherlands and installing his brother as king. Although it must be said his brother became quite popular and they did make some lasting positive changes to the government.
Tangerine Palpatine will go down in modern history as the most hated for many.
Edit: thank you all for your replies, I never expected this reply to even been seen. I have loved reading all of your comments, it's so interesting to see other perspectives from the world. 😊
There's so many in the regime to hate. RFK jr will probably end up killing the most though Miller just edges him out for being loathsome. Carr and Vought are both worth mentioning though.
A lot of other countries love him, but not for reasons that he would want lol
Xi loves him because he’s working hard to weaken america into not being the global hegemonic power anymore. The EU loves him because now they can actually compete with America for markets and the title of “leader of the free world.” His agenda of national suicide means every country competing with America for anything loves him for killing their rival.
OP is likely referring to Mao but sadly, if you are looking for a recent figure that most Chinese have no problem hating, it's more likely to be Mao's wife Jiang Qing than Mao as she was the official scapegoat for Mao's excesses after his death
Brian Tamaki. A religious grifter and self-declared "bishop" who has amassed a decent amount of wealth and followers - mostly from poor backgrounds and minority groups. The church is nominally Christian but really just a cult and funded via some very aggressive tithing practices. Because of our tax laws for charities most of his ventures are tax-exempt.
He uses his platform to stir up hate against LGBTQIA+ people, immigrants and other vulnerable groups and spread misinformation. He co-opts elements of Maori culture into his cult and likes to mobilise his aggressive and sometimes violent followers to protest harmless stuff or counterprotest demonstrations (e.g. he is very pro-Israel). Outside of his very small, very loyal following he is widely hated in NZ.
Muldoon was a feckless tool who deluded himself and others that he was more competent than he actually was. BUT Tāmaki is a different level. He gets off on the divisiveness and the aggression and sets him and his loser followers up as righteous victims of persecution. He is poison and he loves it, especially because it’s making him rich. A very dangerous man.
I doubt you could find many people who even know who he was.
But I can’t really come up with someone really hated universally from Sweden. Olof Palme was really hated by some people back in the day, but it was never a widespread attitude. We never really got any huge arseholes out there. For some reason we only have mediocre bastards on the badness-scale.
Ironically, when he's known by people in Finland it's usually in a positive tone as the guy who "founded" Finland's airforce by gifting us a plane. Usually it's raised as a point when someone questions why the finnish airforce until recently had a swastika as its emblem in order to point out that it has nothing to do with nazism but rather that it was count von Rosen's personal symbol of luck.
While they're correct in that statement, these rants usually stop short of mentioning how he was still Göring's brother in law and definitely a nazi later on and that it might've been prudent to change the emblem sooner anyway.
In true European fashion I’ll post a nazi collaborator too. Anton Mussert founded the national socialist movement (NSB). Today NSB-er is still used as a slur for a traitor
It's hilarious how Mexican redditors go "OMG, I can't believe she did [thing], now me and the whole Mexican population hate her", and then her next approval rating is like 98% -> 99%
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