If you’re a firm believer in karma, you probably don’t worry too much about getting revenge on the person who cut in line at the grocery store or who refused to make space for you to sit on the bus. They’ll get what’s coming to them! But unfortunately, life isn’t fair. And sometimes, even the most terrible people don’t get what they deserve while they’re still alive.
Redditors have recently been discussing evil historical figures who somehow managed to leave the Earth without ever having to answer for their crimes. Whether they were let off way too easily or avoided any punishment at all, below, you can read all about these awful people who somehow “won.” Keep reading to also find a conversation with Alan Bellows of Damn Interesting, and be sure to upvote the people that you wish had seen justice!
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Mother Teresa.
Lived in luxury, and died with dignity, while the people she was supposed to help suffered, dying in agony, because she believed pain in death brought you closer to god.
A belief she didn’t have the courage to test.
Jcusack, the media still treats her reverentially. Unfortunately the truth was ignored by said media.
Load More Replies...Funny how often 'religion' and 'horrible person' go hand in hand.
Your comment implies that there are more bad religious people than there actually are, to be fair - I would have also got defensive. For every horrible person, there are literally thousands of others who are not.
Load More Replies...she was sooooo against birth control, she just wanted to help more and more people, to then have people think she was so great. She created more people that needed to be "helped" by her.
Load More Replies...She also believed that people were born into the circumstances that God wanted them to be in and so they must remain in that.
That tracks with her being located in India where the caste system and karma form the core teachings. Kinda weird though that they don't connect the dots that if you leave someone to suffer then in your next life you will also be left to suffer...strange.
Load More Replies...So fitting. Commended by the president that planted the MAGA seed. Beatified by the Pope that protected pedos. And now glorified by the most vile subhumans (Republicans) our country has ever produced. Cool.
I think Bush2 is a better candidate for the beginning of the MAGA disease we're dealing with now. He worked very hard to remove the separation of church and state. Then Sarah Palin really drove a spike through what used to be the Republican party value system. Trump just rolled in and took advantage of the Religious Right movement.
Load More Replies...Sorry it's good to be hating on MT, but there's a few thousand nazis that have done worse and retired to South America (or Moscow, or the USA, or remained businessmen in Germany) without consequences. So I feel it's a bit too much of a political choice... I'm not even sure she's the worst person in that picture (what with choosing to overthrow S-American democratic goverments, arming Iran as well as Iraq, destroying the US middle class and swinging the GOP hard-right).
No, she's equally bad as those you have mentioned.
Load More Replies...Princess Diana's death kept her death from getting a lot of media attention when she died 5 days later on September 5th.
Shirō Ishii The commander of Unit 731 and other facilities that performed medical experiments on human beings during WW2 in Japan Surgeons would cut open someone without anesthesia, ripping off limbs, or tearing out body parts. They’d sometimes tie a person to a pole outside in the freezing winter and then pour cold water on them to speed up the process of freezing their limbs. Once completely frozen they’d then smash the limbs off with a metal rod. Some of the most sickest, heinous s**t imaginable. The part that angers me the most is that he, along with several others were granted immunity in exchange for information and research. Got away free and never was punished.
There's a 1988 Japanese film about this. "The Man Behind The Sun". It's extremely disturbing and there's been accusations that the director committed animal cruelty during filming.
I was gonna watch this until you mentioned animal cruelty. Now I couldn't watch a scene like that without wondering if they really harmed the animal.
Load More Replies...Oh there's a German version of this during WWII as well, mostly on twins and disabled, I think
Are you thinking Dr. Mengele? In addition to twins, he also experimented on pregnant women and those with physical abnormalities. Reading what he did always makes me sick.
Load More Replies...There were several Nazi doctors who worked for Mengele who did similar, who all disappeared after the war, and people suspect the allies helped them in return for their research (especially since Nasa used their vacuum chamber research in the 50s and 60s)
That’s not a suspicion that’s operation Paperclip.
Load More Replies...And people s**t on the US for bombing Japan to end the war, after issuing multiple warnings and dropping multiple rounds of warning pamphlets on Japanese cities.
Read about this man's daughter and she believed that many things about him were exaggerated and he was a great doctor and man. It's very disgusting everything that he got away with.
Kim Jong Il. He lived in the lap of luxury while the vast majority of his country lived in abject poverty. He got steak and lobster every night, expensive alcohol imported from all over the world, had a film collection of 20,000 movies including Western films that were illegal for anyone else to own, f****d any woman he wanted, was infallible and worshiped by the very people he was oppressing.
That slimy little f**k enjoyed all of the luxuries imported from capitalist nations which were illegal for everybody else in the country.
I think it's valid for all the Kim family and most of the other communist monsters like Castros, Ceausescu, Honecker, and all the Soviet leaders including Putin and others.
Have a look at South Africa's Julius Malema. He has a dream of turning the country into Cuba, feeding on the despair of his people, while he is living in abject luxury. When asked about it, he had the audacity to say that he wants people to look at him and dream big. The problem is, people seem to be lapping it up.
Load More Replies...I watched a travel video by an English guy who went to North Korea recently. The current Kim's picture is everywhere, in train stations, in bus stations, in the street. Giant portraits of him literally everywhere! It's like a form of forced worship, the leader looms over every aspect of life. Its really weird and just a bit disturbing.
Staring up at his picture while they eat their bowl of cabbage stew for the third time today.
And Trump thinks people such as Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Putin, Hitler etc are great guys. Think very carefully, America.
Trump goes beyond admiration all the way to imitation.
Load More Replies...There was a film about a family that escaped North Korea on PBS. It's absolutely insane how people are forced to live. Public termination for saying anything against the regime is so common. It hurt to watch their story even though they did make it to freedom.
This is always how communism ends because it doesn't account for human nature, which is to look out for number one. Every time, every where.
Facism doesn't end any better. So extremist left and right sucks. But they both have one thing in common: dictatorship. Gee, I guess that's why it's important to have candidates, regardless of party, that acknowledge the validity of elections. In fact, I can't think of anything more unpatriotic than supporting a candidate that refutes them. Can y'all?
Load More Replies...To learn more about some of these terrible historical figures, we reached out to Alan Bellows of Damn Interesting, a site dedicated to sharing fascinating information about science, history and psychology. Alan was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and discuss some figures that he believes didn't get what they deserved.
"Most people will know the obvious examples—the ruthless dictators who relinquished mortality before justice apprehended them: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Augusto Pinochet to name a few," he shared. "There are also controversial examples, such as Christopher Columbus, who enslaved, mutilated, and executed indigenous people after discovering the Americas. And Henry Kissinger, who engaged in 'statesmanship' mostly by instigating wars and overthrowing legitimate governments."
Rupert Murdoch.
fractiousrhubarb:
No person has done more damage to Australia, the UK and the US than this despicable man… he’s done nothing but manufacture so hatred and division for 70 years.
I wonder if MAGA members and the civil war mongering conservatives will ever realize all the hatred they have was manufactured by mostly lies from FOX news. And if they do, will they even have regrets for all the innocent people they ultimately will hurt?
Those people are truly, deeply and perhaps, willfully, brainwashed. Just saw an interview with some MAGA fools recently. One man said "Trump could murder people on the steps of the White House, and I'd support him". When the interviewer asked another if they'd support Trump if he became a dictator, she said "Yes, absolutely. Why not?" Another man said "Yeah, I'd support Donald Trump as dictator, maybe that's what this country needs". Dangerous, delusional, brainwashed people.
Load More Replies...Yes, he's an evil goblin, yes. But 'no person has done more damage...' Nah.
Good grief people! Newsflash ALL politicians (speaking specifically about the USA) are crooked and out for one thing their own personal gain. It's a job to them. ALL of them. Nothing more. They don't care about constituents they care about saying what they think you want to hear to get your votes. And while you're all arguing amongst each other this party this that party that...they're doing shady s**t laughing at us for being good little worker bees keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. I hear all the time that religion is a means to control, well so is politics!
How ridiculous putting politics on here. The easiest way to tell which side is if you go to the past say bring jfk to the present day his viewpoints would be considered conservative, if you bring a "progressive" from today back then most likely they would be locked away in a psychiatric hospital.
Stupid people believed what they heard on FOX. Just like the Germans did with Hitler And it was no good telling them it was all lies and they should listen to CNN or The BBC. In fact anyothervTV station ...
And Jerry Hall married him! And was divorced by him with an 11 word email. Incredible.
Absolutely true. Yet Murdoch is "revered" for being one of the wealthiest people on earth, as if that is all that matters. The devil never sleeps!
The answer is the Sacklers.
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Did you read Empire of Pain too? That book was insane. I highly recommend it for anyone who is interested in why the pharmaceutical industry is the way it is. The Sackler family essentially created the opioid crisis in America. It's honestly a pretty wild story.
They flat out lied to doctors saying they're not addictive! Treat your chronic pain patients with opioids no one should be in pain! I'm sorry but no one needs fentanyl unless you are dying of cancer. Doctors knew some people got addicted to codeine/morphine why on earth did they think a new d**g in the same class would be any different?
It's an endless loop- opium, laudanum, heroin, morphine... All supposed to be non-addictive and less side effects than the previous one, yet no one learns
Load More Replies...Today the leading cause of opioid addiction is orthopedic surgeons. Mostly for spine surgery which only has a 60% success rate. So many people were given pain meds before they had surgery and after the surgery could not break the pain/d**g dependence cycle.
They have to use pain management though to keep the patient stable.
Load More Replies...The sacklers are despicable people and deserve whatever bad karma is coming their way.
There is no doubt that the Sackler family (Purdue Pharma) bears a heavy responsibility for the opioid public health crisis. But, blaming the Sackler family (Purdue Pharma) for the entire opioid public health crisis is being narrow-minded. Donations from opioid manufacturers to politicians continue to influence policy decisions. In addition, a revolving door of officials leaving government regulatory agencies such as the D**g Enforcement Agency regularly join the pharmaceutical industry with little to no “cooling off” periods. the pharmaceutical industry and the health products and services industry are the top lobbying spenders in the United States. Progress has been made, such as recognizing substance abuse disorder and the passage of the ACA. But, so long as powerful lobbying groups can influence lawmakers, this crisis will not be fully addressed as it deserves.
Mitch McConnell. He is one of the most corrupt, partisan politicians who ever held office. He's retiring at the end of this year and he will never be held to account for all of the harm his policies and actions have caused.
He has created the most right-wing Supreme Court in history. Denied Obama his right to get someone onto the Supreme Court, then pushed 3 folks in under trump, going against his reasoning for denying Obama. and mcconnell said trump was dangerous, until the second trump was in office, then became best buds. Evil Evil man
thats "whataboutism" not all politicians are the same. Some try to better their society, some are just out for themselves.
Load More Replies...He’s not retiring. He’s just stepping down as leader of the senate republicans. Like Trump my country will be better off when he is dead.
Be sure to add Nasty Piglosi to the list. Oh, wait, she has a "D" after her name. She gets a pass.
I get the sense there's not a lot of republicans on this app
Alan also named several lesser known evil historical figures. "Du Yuesheng, an orchestrator of the Shanghai massacre. On 12 April 1927, members of his Green Gang murdered as many as 5,000 political enemies. He was exiled, but lived the rest of his life in wealth and comfort," he shared.
"The American Liberty League, who attempted to recruit a World War I hero in a coup against the US government," Alan added. "The administrators of the Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, a study started in 1932 to monitor the progression of syphilis in a Black population. In the mid 1940s penicillin was discovered, and it was found to be an effective cure for syphilis, but the study administrators kept this a secret from the test subjects, and warned local doctors not to provide the medication. Even after the study was forced to shut down due to public outcry, none of the administrators were ever charged."
The House of Saud.
Mtfdurian:
They destroyed an entire religion from the inside out with their extremist views. Now, almost a quarter of the world is lured into believing the more extreme views that they represent, destroying vernacular adaptations of Islam, that had more room for matriarchy, for gender diversity, and a lot of other concepts that salafism does barely leave any room for, if any.
I went to school with a guy who's family are Ahmadi muslims. They came to England to escape from other Pakistani muslims after one of his uncles was murdered and threats were made on the lives of the rest of his family. Muslims can't even get on with each other.
Load More Replies...They've caused so much hatred towards the islamic religion and caused people to believe that the religion supports terrorism
Too bad not everyone reads the Quran in context without the removal or addition on verses that make it seem peaceful. It is the exact opposite.
Too bad that extremist groups in Islam use their Book as tool for terrorism against innocent people.
Load More Replies...Sorry. This has been a part of all abrahamitic religions from the beginning. It's built into the very core of all those religions. They are all created so that, when a monster like these show up, they can use it as the tool it was intended to be.
Can testify that they have a trail of unpaid debt in London because they are allowed to get away with it and we booted one as a client much to his surprise. Told him outright he was losing us money.
Taqiyya. The Koran explicitly tells muslims to "kill the unbeliever wherever you find them". Most of the more tolerant parts are abrogated (replaced) by later, more violent verses. So she was pretty close.
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Josef Mengele. The head physician at Auschwitz who performed experimental surgeries. Nick named the angel of death and was never held accountable. In fact, he was mostly unknown to the public until the 80s when one of his survivors brought his crimes to light. He's one of the many examples of why I don't believe in Karma.
BarryCheckTheFuseBox:
The Nazi ‘Doctor of Death’ who escaped Germany to South America, started a family and despite being hunted by the US, German and Israeli governments for decades, didn’t even hide his identity by the end of his life. He drowned after having a stroke in 1979.
Pretty sure he inspired the Dr. Arthur Arden character in American Horror Story Asylum.
Karma ,in the original Eastern sense, would say that the fruits of his tree of life were poisonous... and he would be reborn in the next life as a piece of s**t garbage creature, that knows nothing but suffering. I think you mean that you don't believe in the Americanised version of Karma - which involves immediate response by the universe, i.e in your life-time, to punish or reward your deeds like some kind of Disney-fied mini-deity. I can't believe in either myself... but I HOPE the former is true.
That jab at karma is spot on! There's no god(s) or spiritual energy/power, folks. There's just us humans so let's do our best to punish those that deserve it!
Just want to put it out there...drowning is a terrible way to die takes about 4-8 min. Probably terrifying and painful as your delicate lungs fill up with water...
Good, that sick bastard deserved it. Although, some people say it's peaceful, but I don't know how true those statements are as I never experienced drowning, so far.
Load More Replies...Did a school project about what Romani people (hope it's the correct term in English) had to endure in Nazi Germany (I choose this topic) One chapter was about medical experiments, on children. One thing that still makes me sick to the bones, over 20 years later, is the part about were they tried to "create" conjoined twins
Pol Pot got to die in his sleep in 1998. He deserved far worse.
Baboshinu:
Also important to note that he was interviewed a few times prior to his death. Whenever he was asked about any of his atrocities, he would play dumb about it and skirt the questions. He would say things like the classic denial technique of “oh come on it wasn’t that many people” and “okay but I didn’t kill babies. Just adults. I’m not a monster, you know”. He openly stated he had a clear conscience and had no remorse for the millions he killed all the way through to the end. He was a genuine monster.
We aren't omniscient, can we get a summary of what he did or something please?
I feel that simple google query would be more beneficial for your future abilities.
Load More Replies...The problem with being an American and having gone to public American schools is we're (gen x) learning a lot of what we were taught was either white washed or just flat out wrong. It's nice to have a place like bored panda to converse about these things with people from various countries or better yet people who lived thru it or have relatives who did.
REALLY good point. Whitewashing doesn't just happen in America, either. Google's great for filling the gaps!
Load More Replies...So many times I’ve seen photos of dictators, despots, and other miserable, evil people and been shocked at how benign they look. Pol Pot tops the list: he looks like a kindly grandfather who sits in the park, bringing treats and toys for the kids, handing out money, and beloved by all. Good grief. I’m grateful when the despots LOOK evil, like Ramzan Kadyrov of Chechnya. Then I know to stay away from ‘em. I’d have accidentally been nice to Pol Pot had I ever crossed his path.
I remember visiting the torture camp in Pnohm Penh that is now a museum. Quite disturbing
I was also taken here as part of a tour package. Our local guide spoke in hauntingly graphic detail about how they killed many babies, just in case anyone actually believed he was "not a monster" when he claimed to have only killed adults.
Load More Replies...The hardest part for them is managing to spell out the word "Cambodia".
Load More Replies...As far as i know he did not die in his sleep. There is no reliable source of when and how he died, however, common believe is that he fell victim to some of his higher officers alltough no one openly admitted it.
This sort of self-delusion really reminds me of Donald Trump. It’s dangerous.
Thankfully, however, some people who have committed atrocities did get their comeuppance. "One example that comes to mind is Thomas Midgley," Alan shared. "One of his inventions was leaded gasoline, which caused the whole planet to become polluted with neurotoxic lead."
"He knew about lead's ill effects, even suffering some of them himself due to his close contact with it. Nevertheless he deliberately misled the public about the danger. He later invented CFCs, the spraycan propellants that famously damaged the ozone layer," Alan continued.
"Midgley received nothing but praise for these inventions during his lifetime, the ill effects did not become evident until later. In his middle age, he was disabled by polio, so he invented a system of motorized pulleys to help him navigate his bed. He was later found strangled to death by a malfunction of his own invention," he added. "While he never faced true justice, one could argue that he did receive poetic justice."
Jimmy Saville. One of his victims once escaped him, ran into the lobby and shouted that Saville was attempting to assault her. The people there simply laughed and mocked her.
Kleptorgazt:
Definitely one if the most sickening travesties and injustices in my opinion. So, so many people for decades knew, they just had to, yet the was allowed to continue being left alone with and abusing countless children because of his celebrity. F**king disgusting that he died happy, beloved, and without facing any repercussions for his abhorrent actions.
The floodgates opened very soon after his death, so quickly that there had not been enough time for any investigation to have been completed. It just showed that too many people knew and did nothing. Anyone who spoke out during his lifetime was blacklisted from the BBC.
... after his death... There are hundreds of people still alive who should be held accountable!!
Load More Replies...We had a hotel guest once, hiding from her partner. She never came out of her room, afraid to be seen by anyone he might have sent to spy on her, or the guy himself. She was in a really bad place, with a giant purple proof of his abuse on her face. He showed up once or twice but we lied to him about her being here and the only reason I didn't call the cops was that he accused the girl of stealing his money (to get away from him, probably, if it even happened). So I didn't want to get her in more trouble. To think people would laugh at a woman trying to get away from someone who tried to assault her? Mock her? Disgusting.
Not to diminish his victims in ANY WAY, but the people who knew and did nothing also deserve a fresh slice of Hell alongside him.
Back in the late 80's/early 90's i think; That tw@t came to our town, the Queen was there too albeit just to drive thru the town. He was driven round town like a fxkin hero; My mum turned to us and said "fxkin pxdo bastard". We (my brother and i) said "it's jim'll fix it" and she says" "you'll find out later" . Jonny Rotten had it right way back in the 70's
He was even given a set of keys and his own room at Broadmoor (highly secure mental health hospital in the UK) giving him free access to the female wards which just shows how influential he was. The way he charmed and his way into a position of power and made himself untouchable is truly shocking. So many people not just at the BBC but in Government turned a blind eye to behaviour and excused it as being 'a joke.'
He also volunteered in hospitals being left alone with patients and was known for disappearing down to the morgue for long periods don't even want to know what was happening there!
Load More Replies...When the BBC started Children in Need, Terry Wogan made sure Saville was never ever involved in any way.
As an adult, I’m now relieved that Jim didn’t fix it for me to spend a day working in a pet shop. I’m beyond sad that so many children and women were abused by him, when so many people knew that he was a predator.
I wrote to Jim'll fix it too so glad mine wasn't chosen
Load More Replies...Can’t remember whether it was an article or a documentary, but whatever it was, I learned that nurses in the hospitals he visited tried warning kids away from him. My guess is that this happened pretty much everywhere he went, folks trying to protect the kids. When I was growing up, a pedo uncle took off with my little sister. The grownups all tried to think of things to say to him to get her back. Yes: up until recently, that’s how it was. Every time I think of it, I wanna scream! NO ONE thought it was appropriate, apparently, to shriek “BRING MY DAUGHTER BACK THIS VERY MOMENT, YOU SICK ANIMAL!” Never mind calling the police. This was the uncle who jammed his tongue down our throats and ground us against his erection. Bleah. People were weird in the “olden days”; no one apparently called Saville out to his face. 😰
I've haven't seen Nestlé.
Like giving free baby formula to new mothers so their milk drys up and they have to depend on Nestle formula....that they can't afford ...
Telling mothers in areas without clean water supplies that baby formula is safer and more nutritious than their own milk... Trying to make water a commodity and trying to limit access to natural water supplies
Load More Replies...The CEO once said, access to water is not a human right, to give you some idea how despicable this company is. Meanwhile, they were getting free water from many states in the US they had made deals with. Also, their chocolate is made by child slaves.
Other than the obvious candy and chocolate chips, here’s a convenient list on Nestle products to boycott. Purina (dog and cat food), Carnation, Boost (nutritional drinks), Buitoni, Cheerios, Coffee Mate, DiGiorno, Drumstick, Gerber, Hagen Daaz, Hot Pockets, Lean Cuisine, Maggi, Natures Bounty, the NES-es (Nescafé, Nestea, Nesquick, Nespresso), Nido, Perrier, Pellegrino, Stouffers.
Cheerios? I think you'd better check again. That's made by General Mills, not Nestle.
Load More Replies...abusing water rights, saying regular people don't deserve water, what's up with their CEO with that red eye?
Not to be confused with Nestle England. They are two different chocolate companies all together
They are the exact same company: https://www.nestle.co.uk/en-gb/media/newsfeatures/nestle-150-years-timeline
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Leopold the 2nd.
Reasonable-You8654:
He is one of the few people who truly make my blood boil with seething rage when I read and think about what he did, and that’s only to start with the fact that they held conferences preying on African countries with permission of absolutely nobody to go and treat human beings like animals.
He is one of the few people that I would’ve genuinely wished to dig out of his grave only to spit on him and throw him to some vultures. He will never have been able to suffer enough for the disgusting acts of horror he ordered and committed towards Congo, to this day in 2024 they haven’t recovered.
The West is only in it's current form as a result of the murder and theft it has committed in the global south and against indigenous peoples. And then some have the gall to say that the African continent has benefited from the genocide committed against them and that Africans should be grateful for the aid that western nations "give" them.
Similar circumstances are commonplace in all of human history, on all continents. Imperialism far predates Western society.
Load More Replies...The Heart of Darkness could have been an appropriate name for Leopold. He was the worst monster until a few others took that title.
well if we go by sheer numbers he's outdone by Mao Tse Tung only, I think.
Load More Replies...He treated Africans worse than animals, cutting off their limbs if they didn't fulfill his quotas.
My girlfriend is Belgian and we’ve discussed this. Belgium did horrendous things, but they like. Own up to it, they have museums and have officially apologized. Americans don’t acknowledge the trail of tears, Japanese internment camps, etc…
US Congress issued a Trail of Tears apology in 1993, although it was buried in an unrelated spending bill. In 1988 Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, a bill that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.
Load More Replies...The Catholic Church during the Inquisition, The Spaniards in Central and South America, destroying everything in their path through blood and disease, courtesy of the church, the Europeans that destroyed Indigenous culture in North and South America because of "God's will" , the Roman's, Marco Polo, etc.
Speaking of which: State senator of Oklahoma, Tom Woods (Republican), spoke during a meeting about members of LGBTQ and said this: "We are a religious state, and we are going to fight to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma, because we are a Christian state". Typical: thumping a bible while spewing hate.
Load More Replies...Which religion is free from atrocities? Not defending any, but get real!
The Catholic Church during its entire history and still continuing now.
It's truly amazing how much press a bad priest gets, and yet all the good religious in any religion is ignored - not news I guess. But the majority good are still there!!
Load More Replies...The "honour" of being a suppressive, brutal and bloody religion now goes to Islam.
Any religion. All of them. Even now the world is reeling from their foul practices.
The guys that tortured Junko Furuta.
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It’s terrible that just reading reading the name Junko Furuta immediately conjures the most gruesome upsetting and imagery in my mind. That poor girl, I can’t believe her killers are all walking free.
Wow. Just read the Wikipedia article. That poor girl, I can’t imagine the mental torment and physical pain she was put through. Shocking that her torturers and murderers got such short sentences and horrifying that the parents in the house where she was held were complicit in it.
Hopping on the top comment, so you don’t have to search it, they sexually assaulted and gang r*ped her in many ways, forced her to perform for them, tortured her, and deprived her of food over several weeks before torturing her to death. And the kicker? The longest sentence for any of the perpetrators was only 20 years.
Load More Replies...For anyone wanting to read the Wikipedia entry, please be aware that there are graphic descriptions in it which may be incredibly upsetting for some. I chose to read it, and now I wish I hadn't. These young men had a history of rape. And then to do what they did to this poor woman... I'm sorry, but I fully support the death penalty for people like this, when there is no question of guilt. What they did to her...there is no redemption for this. They deserved a painful death.
People, DON'T READ IT! I did, and haven't been able to get the disgusting, sickening, vile images out of my mind ever since... Well, I was warned, so it's my own fault. It is horrific.
Load More Replies...This part really pisses me off: Ogura's (Ogura was one of the murderers) mother allegedly vandalized Furuta's grave, stating the dead girl had ruined her son's life. WTF lady???
Don't read the wiki article unless you are prepared for graphic details. I just did and they go into more depth than they do on the Jeffrey Dahmer page
She and Sylvia Likens were tortured at length, both of their stories are horrifying, and in both cases, justice was not really served.
I just looked her up and read an article, and I haven't been this infuriated in a long time. I never could have imagined that so many people could do those things to another person. The worst part is, 3 of 4 of them spent less than 10 years in prison (the 4th got 20 years). They all have been released, and from what I read, 3 of the four of them have offended since their release. She didn't deserve that, they deserved worse than what they got, and the whole thing makes my skin boil. To everyone out there, be safe, guys, girls, everyone look out for yourself, for others, never stop fighting for justice.
The fact that anyone is capable of that kind of heinous behavior is...beyond my vocabulary.
Iranian theocrats. Almost half a century later still in power and causing a lot of trouble in the region, in addition to oppressing their own people.
Not just in the region.... and not just oppressing their own people, but especially their women. It is still strange though how so many Iranians (women and men) are willing to be religious police.
Swap out Christianity for Islam and this IS EXACTLY WHAT REPUBLICANS WANT in the USA. For all their fear of Islam, and love of freedumb, they would love an evangelical caliphate. Patriots my f*****g a*s.
It's nutty see pictures of Iran from the 1970's and then seeing what it is today.
I hate it alotttt like dont force people to follow a religion! Let them decide (Im a muslim btw )
You forgot the Shah, fascist dictator who ran a secret police (the SAVAK) that made the East German Stasi and Soviet KGB look gentle by comparison. He got away with his crimes, dying in a French luxury resort instead of at the end of a hangman's noose.
Surprised to see there aren't more comments about how much of this is the fault of the US. Immortal Technique puts it best, "We f*****d the Middle East and gave birth to a demon".
And Conservative pols in the US want a "Christian nation" aka Christian Taliban. There is a REASON our founders decreed no establishment of religion.
Stalin. Terrorised his way to controlling one of the largest empires of all time and wielded absolute, despotic power.
Sure, nature eventually got him but she gets us all. So I think he got away with it.
I don't think he's at the same level.... Yet. Though maybe? Russia is gigantic, who knows what happens in some of its farthest corners.
Load More Replies...Thinking the same with Putin. I don't believe for a second he'll ever pay for his war crimes as well as crimes against everyone who opposed him
I would watch anything with Steve Buscemi so thanks, I’ll check that out!
Load More Replies...I recommend watching the film ‘Mr Jones’ (about a Welsh Journalist) for an introduction to the atrocities of the Holodomor (the Ukrainian famine caused by Stalin).
Except the families who get their sons and daughters back in body bags .
Load More Replies...Any politician that walked out of office with billions more than they had when they took office.
And then turns around to schmooze their former colleagues as a lobbyist for the interests that paid them off while in office
All donations to parties should be put in a common pot and shared out equally. The rich and corporations should not be able buy polititans or influence votes.
This is a really good idea. Sadly, the ones getting all of the donations now would never allow such a thing.
Load More Replies...Nasty Piglosi is walking out with over $100,000,000 more though she hides it in her husband's name so she can continue to exercise insider trading that would put the rest of us in prison. Yay, CONgress!
It used to be that presidents and Vice Presidents divested themselves of their business interests, not to purposefully enrich themselves. D**k Cheney changed that, and made billions off the war in Iraq.
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Reagan. Had the CIA sell crack to black neighborhoods to raise secret funds to give to Iran. Destroyed black neighborhoods and families, gave rise to the projects and has overshadowed U.S. black culture for decades to come. Also, helped get rid of insane asylum funding which flooded the streets with mentally ill homeless. Economic depression causing stock buy backs legal again, which is why we have a short term investor driven economy resulting in massive layoffs without any real notice.
This sounds conspiracy theorist. But, Reagan did have the ASININE theory of 'trickle down' economics. Blithering idiot. He is a huge reason why the middle class is disappearing in the US
Conspiracy theory implies lack of facts. Literally everything in the post is 100% true. The "short term investor economy " is the trickle down you refence manifest.
Load More Replies...And his handling of the AIDS crisis when it first started. Thousands of people had died before he did anything. It took children to start dying before he and his 'moral majority' stopped acting like the people catching it deserved it. Arsehole. If there's a hell, I hope he's burning in it.
People who do not know their history are making ridiculous comments how this wasn't true. Reagan was a horrible person, through and through. He was racist, senile, stupid among other things. Trickle down economics DOES NOT work!
I absolutely can't imagine how anyone thought it would work. And yet economists -ECONOMISTS - praised the hell out of it when it was first introduced. Which tells you all you need to know about economists.
Load More Replies...Reagan paved the way for the rise of open racism. He had toured the country opposing the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in the 60s. As part of the GOP's Southern Strategy, he refused to meet with any civil rights leaders during his eight years in the White House. He publically speculated the Martin Luther King Jr. might have been a Communist.
The rising tide lifts all boats….but only the rich can afford boats so the rest of us drown.
Load More Replies...Don't forget doing absolutely nothing about the AIDS epidemic because it's "gay disease"
His vice president George Bush was responsible for the murder of 73 civilians on Cubana Flight 455. It was blown up in midair by a bomb placed by the CIA, an operation which Bush approved and signed off.
the rise of the projects predates reagan. you can thank robert moses for that.
Goebbels, his propaganda still runs strong today, 90 years later.
I've recently seen a scary number of people directly quoting him unironically.
Probably because he was incredibly good at what he did. What he did was evil, but he was exceptionally talented at it, probably more so than any of the other leading Nazis. So if you're also a terrible person, he's who you're going to want to learn from. And we have a lot of terrible people who want power at all costs.
Load More Replies...Should have used the "eyes of hate" photo https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/goebbels-eisenstaedt-1933/ It's a photo taken of Goebbles when he was told the person photographing him was Jewish.
Just read "They Thought They Were Free." Trumple Foreskin is pulling his c**p directly from Hitler's playbook.
It's rather fitting that he kinda looks like an orc from Lord of the Rings
Joseph Smith. Died a "martyr" but that led to the creation of one of the largest and wealthiest cults in modern history that's filled with abuse of women and children, a long history of racism, and continues to profit off the poor and needy.
Ohhhhh boy…. I live in Utah which is literally Mormon central. They call Joseph Smith a profit and there are just as many pictures of Brigham Young as there are of Jesus in churches and seminary buildings. One thing I find very interesting about Joseph Smith is that after his death, his (first) wife and their children did not go with Brigham Young to Utah, they stayed in the east. NONE of his children took over or followed in his foot steps or even went to Utah. I think maybe his wife was just done his s**t or something, but I think it’s very strange.
I like how you spelt "prophet" as "profit", because profit they do.
Load More Replies...Brigham Young took what Joseph Smith started and went running with it. Named the 'Father of Mormon Polygamy', he supported slavery and banned African Americans from priesthood. He was governor of Utah, stepping down only after getting a pardon for getting state militia for fighting federal forces supporting non-Mormon officials. Died very wealthy.
https://www.letterformywife.com/the-letter makes fascinating reading. Written by a man born into the church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon) having researched the truth behind the teachings of Joseph Smith.
He was a con man though and through. He moved from one con to the next until he found one that caught on. Before he was a “profit” he was telling people he could guide them to buried treasure through divination. Got sued for it a few times.
dude, actually fact check BEFORE you accuse otherś faith, because if you did you would realise that when he ran for president he fought against racism and slavery and that money is to help others, don´t just listen to tabloids
Andrew Jackson basically orchestrated a genocide and a lot of folks sing his praises to this day.
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Andrew Jackson - The Indian Removal Act
>The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the "Trail of Tears,...
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>In the 21st century, scholars have cited the act and subsequent removals as an early example of state sanctioned ethnic cleansing or genocide or settler colonialism
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 squeaked through Congress with the support of the Democratic Party against the opposition of the Whig (conservative) Party. Cherokee tribes and others fought it in the courts to no avail. The Seminoles and others fought it with weapons, also to no avail. Andrew Jackson's implementation represented the consensus of white settlers at the time, many of whom still believed Native Americans to be savages.
The Whig Party was not the conservative party of the time - the Democratic Party was. The Whigs were for a strong national government, large government spending on infrastructure, and staying out of imperialist ventures like the Mexican War. The Democratic Party of the time was conservative and held the reverse positions on these issues.
Load More Replies...I'm not a scientist or a historian. But from this portrait, I can confirm that Jackson was a vampire.
There's a musical called Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. You can guess what it's about.
Exactly what is happening in Palestine. Such people who are perpetrators of settler colonialism are evil. Take Balfour for instance who came up with the Balfour Declaration that is the reason of settler colonialism in Palestine today and all the horrible things Israelis are inflicting on the indigenous people of the land they are illegally occupying. A few days there was a news piece on a group of pro-Palestine protestors vandalizing Balfour's portrait at Cambridge.
Richard H. Pratt who was the driving force behind Indian Boarding Schools. Read "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" by Ward Churchill.
Kissinger.
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The blood of countless millions is on his hands, and he remained an accepted and welcomed part of American politics until his death.
Even the devil didn't want him. That's why we were stuck with him for so long.
Load More Replies...I don’t know what he did so I Googled ‘Kissinger’ and found a mobile phone that has a robotic pad you and a ‘friend’ can use to kiss each other remotely. Reckon your talking about the guy who carpet bombed Cambodia and supported all those dictators across the world though.
In Cyprus, the little island he almost destroyed, they don't call him Kissinger. They call him Killinger.
Classic case of an arrogant intellectual with zero compassion for any fellow humans, unless those humans were wealthy.
When Kissinger got the Nobel Peace prize, Mort Sahl said it represented the end of satire.
In Germany we have Aribert Heim, the butcher of Mauthausen who was on a level with Mengele but never got prosecuted by the allies. Worked as a gynecologist after the war till 1962 when he got tipped off about police at his home so he fled to Egypt.
over 150 wanted Nazi war criminals fled to the Arab world, the majority going to Egypt. They lived as heroes in those countries until they died
Land many more fled to south America. With the help of the Vatican
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Augusto Pinochet. Died in 2006 under house arrest, in the lap of luxury, without being tried for multiple charges of human rights violations (including wrongful detention, physical torture, sexual abuse, psychological repression, and just plain murder) and illegal enrichment.
He managed to pull this s**t off with the very help of Kissinger and the CIA. They should trial his whole family and take all that money they made through his dictatorship. Chile has their own 9/11 thanks to the USA. Downvote all you want but this is true.
Shocked Kissinger himself isn't on this list... what a vile human being.
Load More Replies...His coup was supported by the USA, just so you know. Nixon wasn't a big fan of feeding and educating the poor as it turns out...
Not just this coup. There are many, many dictators and terror-regimes helped into the saddle by the USA, not to mention enabling political assassination (Lumumba, for example) and active d**g-deals and weapon-deals. The taliban was put into position to be the terror they are now by the US government. It's honestly wild what that one country has f*cked up in the name of "fighting communism".
Load More Replies...Thatcher also wanted to grant him 'asylum' in his old age and ill health. More than he granted his victims or come to that, more than she granted the people who elected her.
Load More Replies...Supported by the US. It is a funny thing when people think the USA supports democracy around the world. That only happens when communism is involved. We love our far right leaders that do our bidding over democratically elected ones that will do what is best for their country instead of ours.
Steve Bannon and Roger Stone were both sentenced to prison for their federal crimes, but had their convictions pardoned by fellow criminal buddy Donnie Jon.
Maga-Lardo is still at Large wreaking havoc wherever he goes! He should be at the top of this list!
The film ‘a storm Foretold’ shows just how disgusting and criminally anti democratic Roger Stone is.
Mao Zedong. Killed as many as 80 million people as a direct result of his policies. The communists still enshrine him as a great leader and national hero and idiots in the Western left take his writings seriously.
He also tried to sell 2 million "excess" Chinese women to America, and had to be talked down by his officials from systematically killing another 50 million "excess" peasants. The Great Leap Forward led to such widespread famine that people resorted to cannibalism, and the Cultural Revolution cost priceless antiquities and lives.
He certainly is responsible for more deaths than Stalin.
Load More Replies..."...and idiots in the Western REPUBLICAN PARTY THINK THE PEOPLE ON THE left take his writings seriously." There. Fixed it for you.
People in the west do take his writings seriously though, I've known a few.
Load More Replies...Murder is just as wrong when done in the name of capitalism.
Load More Replies...Daughters of the Confederacy… they pushed a revisionist view of the Civil War in the south and this idea that it was about states rights and not slavery… also took part in building statues of confederate soldiers and glorifying them. It’s why so many conservatives and people from the south have a positive outlook of the confederacy and that it’s a part of “southern heritage”.
I grew up in the North, and even our High School American History textbooks had this revisionist nonsense about the Civil War being over States' Rights and "socio-economic differences." Google "The Cornerstone Speech," and you'll hear the real reason straight from the horse's a$$.
The Daughters of the Confederacy are cunning and play the long game. They have had a deep influence over the history and social studies text books used by the majority of public schools due to their large sphere of influence in Texas. Since Texas has a very large number of schools, text book companies try to meet the state standards so their books will be bought. They don't print different books for different states, so the points the Daughters want made are spread further as more influenced text books are sold nationally.
Remember during the early stages of Black Lives Matter when people were freaking out about statues of Confederate 'heroes' being pulled down? ("Nooooo!!!! They are destroying history? How can BLM be so denialist and disrespectful?!?!?") Total B.S. Most of those statues were NOT put up in the aftermath ofthe Civil War by a grieving South mourning their loss. (Not that would have been a good thing anyway.....). NOPE. Many of those statues were put up by the DAR during the Civil Rights movement as a way to intimidate and sneer at black leaders like MLK. ('Nice civil rights you're asking for there. Be a real shame if we went back to celebrating slavery and Jim Crowism.'). So, DAR -- a bunch of Gone With the Wind cosplayers -- were creating privately paid propaganda pieces that are about as historical as my grandpa's used boxer shorts.
Well, you're right and you're wrong. The overall reason the war was declared was because wealthy people, who also just happened to have all the power, owned and wanted to keep slaves, in order to maintain/grow their wealth. But, those folks were rarely doing the fighting. Instead, less affluent people with no slaves or a very small number of slaves fought. If they lost the right to keep slaves, it wouldn’t much change their way of life. So, they were made to feel that the northern states were being disrespectful of the rights of the southern states to determine their own destiny, in other words: states rights. Also, many Southerners have positive feelings about the Confederacy because they are either racists, idiots or have watched Gone With the Wind too many times. I LOVE the South, but our early chapters were barbaric and shameful. Still, this is the past we’ve inherited, so it IS our Southern Heritage. Wether we like it or not.
States rights at that time included the use of slaves as being 'established state policy.' So the reality was hidden under the term rights of states to make the decision.
there should be a national campaign vilifying them and educating the south about how they were lied to/ had the wool pulled over their eyes by butt-hurt Daughters of the Confederacy
Except the American Civil War WAS about state rights which included slavery. Slavery was a HUGE driver for the war, but not the only one.
Let's take all the statues down & get ride of all the books/pamphlets that signify anything about the "Southern Way Of Life", once upon a time. Sure - that will erase slavery.
A lot of these comments aren't people who won, but people who lost and just didn't get the punishment people thought they deserved. But a real evil winner? Try the Dole company and what they did with Hawaii.
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Pretty much any company found on the tropical fruits aisle or sugar aisle of your local supermarket.
There’s a documentary about Dole where they sued a film maker who exposed Dole’s practices in Central America. Do,E lost and it’s a great watch. Think it’s on Netflix?
I feel ashamed on behalf of the U.S. when I think of Hawaii due to how it was forced to become a state
There's a nice documentary on a dole documentary (trust me it makes sense), it used to be on Netflix.
I imagine you're unpopular in any number of ways - and will be if you live to be 100.
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Mobutu Sese Seko, president of then-Zaire. He died in a luxurious exile in Morocco at age 79.
He would have meals flown in from Michelin-rated restaurants in Paris on chartered flights of the supersonic Concorde, because regular airliners weren't fast enough to deliver it fresh enough to his liking. He even spent millions to build a new airport, as none of the existing airports had the 3-kilometer long runway to handle the Concorde.
The average citizen under his rule had an annual salary of less than $150, roughly 50 cents a day.
A single passenger ticket on the Concorde is about $20,000 in today's dolars.
Maybe he was making a satirical point about what Belgium first did to his country? Nah, probably not...
The Marcos family.
This family plundered almost the entire Philippine treasury during Ferdinand Marcos’ two decade rule.
They were exiled to Hawaii for a few years, but they were able to go back to the Philippines nevertheless. They (Imelda (the wife of Ferdinand Marcos), Imee (the daughter of FM), and Bongbong (the son) were also able to run for politics again.
Despite the records being unequivocally clear that the Marcoses plundered the Philippine government, (Imelda was actually convicted, but was never jailed for “humanitarian reasons”) the Marcoses are now back.
Imee is a senator, and Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is now the president of the Philippines.
Imelda is also still convicted but has still not, and it looks like will never in her life, taste jail time.
Trillions of pesos and tens of thousands of lives lost.
To be fair Imee and Bongbong had nothing to do with it because they were kids. But Imelda Marcos left behind hundreds of pairs of unused tights and many shoes and clothes. They had everything
Imee and Bongbong were not children when their parents regime ended, by that point they were fully grown adults in government positions accruing their own fortunes
Load More Replies...My mom is obsessed with shoes and we still tease her by calling her Imelda. :)
Load More Replies...It’s a common Filipino name, I have a two cousins (not blood related) Bongbong and bingbing who are twins 😂 other fantasticly creative names in my Filipino family are ‘lovely’ ‘darling’ ‘babe’
Load More Replies...Op has obviously never been directly exposed to Philippine culture. You might be surprised to see how Philipinos actually view Marcos and family.
Idi amin of Uganda.
Just the mention of Idi amin of Uganda is all that is needed to say. We all know of him.
We sure should. We sure don't (all). I prefer a sentence or ten about the reasons people are listed to enlighten the uninitiated.
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General Francisco Franco, after the end of the Spanish Civil War. Through him, the country endured all manner of brutal unchallenged fascism (and over a decade of near total isolation from the rest of the world) until his peaceful death in 1975.
His death wasn't peaceful, though. He never faced judgement, but because his succession wasn't clear, they kept him alive through multiple hospitalisations and operations for months. In my family (in part Spanish) we like to say he died by pieces and it was well deserved.
I was living in Barcelona when he died in 1975 (was a toddler). I do remember a huge party that went on for days, as Catalan was being spoken for the first time in public since 1939.
Agony of Franco made a great cartoon in Charlie Hebdo in 1975: ''Franco is getting better, he walked to cemetery''
Koch Brothers.
All rich contributors to politics are evil - unless they are supporting your side.
I disagree with your second point. Anyone seeking to manipulate the system for personal financial gain is evil, regardless of what causes they support on the surface.
Load More Replies...The US -- and maybe many other countries -- need to massively overhaul their lobbying, corporate regulation, and financial laws. I'm not necessarily anti-business, but the way money buys political access and favors is incredibly anti-democratic. The way some rich dude or impersonal corporation is essentially politically worth the same as thousands and thousands of actual voters utterly breeds corruption and minority rule. Basically a bought and paid for oligarchy where your vote isn't worth the ballot paper it is printed on.
They purchase politicians and force bad public policy to enrich themselves, the politician can't get out from them as they are being blackmailed.
I had to look this up. Owners of Coca Cola and funders of the Republicans.
I don't think they own coke, but they do own some of the largest oil refinery works in the USA.
Load More Replies...So many of the politicians opposing gay marriage and trans rights and advocating US intervention were elected due to campaign donations from those same Koch brothers.
Load More Replies...Dr. John Money's theory behind gender has reached mainstream acceptance in much of the civilized world, despite the unconscionable experiments he performed on innocent children. A truly evil man whom history does not vilify anywhere near enough.
As an intersex woman who was "altered" to be male under Money's crackpot theories, it sickens me that to this day there are firm advocates of his idea of forcing a sexual identity on a child through surgical alteration. To the point that it's considered standard practice to write loopholes in transphobic laws to allow the continued mutilation and gaslighting of intersex infants and children. The pain he caused is still ongoing, and heavily supported by conservatives in nearly every nation on the planet.
Thankfully the majority of transgender activists and people in the community whole heartedly reject his b******t. It's mostly the medical industry that is still behind so far that they believe in that (and enforce it).
Issei Sagawa. A small, frail, and loner of a Japanese guy, with some demonic mind. Was obsessed with cannibalism, had a failed attempt at doing so, when he stalked a German woman in university and broke into her place with the intention of killing her to eat her buttocks. Later he unfortunately succeeds during his stay in Sorbonne, France, when he murdered a Dutch woman whom he befriended (the only one who befriended him I might add) in his apartment after having invited her, performed necrophilia and cannibalism over the span of a few days. He came from a wealthy family that afforded him an expensive lawyer and got off essentially scot-free on insanity plea. He returned home back to Japan where then he became a superstar. He wrote a bestselling book that detailed the murder and his experience, guest starred in many TV shows to further talk about it. Later died at 73, in 2022.
I laughed when he died, I couldn’t believe he got to live that long to be honest, he didn’t deserve anything that happened when he got back home to Japan
Genghis Khan.
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Was waiting for this. Few people in history, let alone this list, come close to the level of civilisational and cultural death and destruction this man caused. Not only did he get away with it, he died an emperor and spawned a dynasty.
Workin_Ostrich:
He would starve out entire cities because his army was so big, they would enslave or kill everyone and he would marry his daughters off to kings and whatnot then his daughters would kill them and take over the ruled lands to give to Kahns armies. Throughout his reign Kahn and his armies killed over 40 million people and enslaved twice that many.
Nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire today carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical to that of Genghis Kahn.
The Mongols wiped out 40-50% of Hungary's population in the 13th century (1.5 million out of 3 million), with losses of up to 80% in some areas. They carried out horrific executions, e.g. archaeologists recently found an oven containing the skeletons of a mother and her two children.
But he treated the people who were willing to betray their wives and children and friends well, once they had joined his minions, so obviously he's actually a good guy (/idiotic modern internet meme-guys)
Load More Replies...The Hardcore History of the Mongol Empire is a pretty excellent podcast. Genghis definitely was responsible for a lot of death, but I don't know what he was any more evil or brutal that other people of the era, he was just better at it. We are talking the 1100's and 1200's here. There is some evidence that he was less so actually. That he allowed religious and pretty much general freedom for conquered people, and that people were allowed to join his army instead of just being killed.
Genghis Khan is actually one of the 'greenest' historical figures. In that he killed so many people he actually lowered carbon emissions (from fires, etc).
Doesn't Mongolia like him still? Expedition Unknown did an episode on him, I think. I don't recall the details though.
yes. They have songs about him etc. Google chinggis Khan throat singing.
Load More Replies...You're conveniently forgetting he was the one ruler who allowed females to lead troops and hold various positions of power; left towns and villages in peace if they didn't fight; let the people he conquered maintain their religions, customs, and social structures; and he adopted many customs of the people he conquered.
On the bright side, he's probably responsible for as much life as he is death! What with all the sex.
It's very naive of you to think it was entirely consensual. I personally find the 8% fact horrifying.
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Casey Anthony.
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Casey Anthony's crime says more about the American legal system than it does about her.
Caylee Marie Anthony was an American toddler who lived in Orlando, Florida, with her mother, Casey Marie Anthony and her maternal grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. On July 15, 2008, Caylee was reported missing by Cindy, who said she had not seen the child for thirty-one days. According to Cindy, Casey had given varied explanations as to Caylee's whereabouts before eventually saying she had not seen her daughter for weeks. Casey was charged with first-degree murder in October 2008 and pleaded not guilty. It was alleged Casey wished to free herself from parental responsibilities and murdered her daughter by administering chloroform and applying duct tape to her nose and mouth . The defense stated that Caylee had drowned accidentally in the family's swimming pool and that George had disposed of the body. Casey was found not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter of a child, but guilty of four misdemeanours. (Wikipedia)
She murdered her young daughter and got away with it. I believe she now works with children or something like that
Load More Replies...She’s guilty. She murdered her beautiful toddler girl and got away with it. Pure evil.
Says something about the incompetence of the cops too. They didn't check her Firefox history, only internet explorer.
This one is a bit of a stretch. Nobody really knows what happened to her daughter and nobody every will. It's entirely possible that she was telling the truth and had nothing to do with it. I don't think that, but that doesn't really matter, that's basically what the jury agreed on.
We had OJ Simpson before her. He did everything but write "OJ DID THIS" in his victims' blood at the scene and still got off.
Not sue what it says about the American legal system. I guess Anthony got off after spending $400,000 on lawyers, supposedly "pro bono." Some think she paid with sex.... maybe that someone without access to so much lawyering would've been found guilty? She claimed her child was murdered, then accused of committing the murder, and claimed she had actually just panicked after a terrible accident. The media made the case that she was a terrible person, not that the state knew how the child died. The big screw-up to me seems to be that the prosecution neglected to consider lesser charges if she was found innocent of the giant ones: mishandling a corpse, for instance, could have gotten her five years, comparable to a manslaughter charge.
Just as Lindy Chamberlain's crime says more about the Australian legal system than it does about her?
The only crime Lindy committed was being a 7th-Day Adventist. There's heaps of evidence that she was innocent.
Load More Replies...Wernher von Braun, engineer of the v2, opportunistic nazi, denied his involvement, awarded by Hitler twice in person, used Jewish slave labour denied he knew about it, however there were many accounts of him visiting and encouraging violence to slaves, feared execution at the end of the war, surrendered to the USA and then after the war was lauded and celebrated for getting America to the moon even meeting the president and later being awarded a medal.
Don't look too closely at the early years of NASA unless you're prepared for lots of Nazis.
It's not just NASA, medical science took a huge leap because of the atrocities carried out by Nazi doctors.
Load More Replies...There is a song called "Werner von Braun" by Tom Lehrer. The song itself is about Werner von Braun's time at NASA sung in a way that is very humorous and morbid. The song came out in 1965 as Tom Lehrer was a popular musician/satirist during that time, while also a mathematician at Harvard.
Who cares where they come down, not my department says Werner von Braun!🎶
Load More Replies...This is brought up in the alt-history series "For All Mankind". When Margot asks him if he knew he says, "Progress is never free." Sure, that makes it okay!!
And it's cheap/easy to say if you're not the one paying. Cynicism at its best/worst.
Load More Replies...“When rockets go up who cares where they come down / That’s not my department says Wernher von Braun” — Tom Lehrer
General Franz Halder, chief of staff of the German Army (Wehrmacht) from 1938-1942 reporting directly to Adolf Hitler. Halder oversaw the planning for the invasions of Poland, France and Russia (Operation Barbarossa). Among other abominations, he added language into the Barbarossa battle order giving German officers the right to destroy Russian villages and massacre their civilian inhabitants. Thus Halder sanctioned some of the most heinous atrocities committed in all of human history. Despite Halder’s complicity in war crimes of the greatest magnitude, he wasn’t tried at Nuremberg and was instead allowed to join the U.S. Army as a historian. Recognizing an opportunity to rewrite history, he manipulated the official Army account of the war to elevate the Wehrmacht into a force fighting for a noble cause. In 1961, the Army, on behalf of President Kennedy, awarded him the Meritorious Civilian Service Award. Halder died in his bed in 1972 at age 87.
The latter stages of WWII were less about the Allies vs. Germany than they were about the western sphere of influence vs. the Soviet sphere of influence. There was significant technological development on all fronts and the end goal was to take as much of Germany's development for themselves as possible.
Load More Replies...Why isn't Hitler himself anywhere on this list? Can you people seriously say that you actually believe that Hitler, A: wasn't completely evil, or B: was ever actually punished for his multiple atrocities? There's something wrong with the world if Adolf Hitler doesn't make this list; he should be very near, or at, the top.
He didn't "get away with it" as the title said. He got away with far too much, for far too long, and in the end far too easily, but he didn't "win" and die of old age.
Load More Replies...Eh. The ussr was on the Nazi side when the war started. I'm not saying this dude was cool. Just... don't get it twisted. The Russians were cool with the Nazis until they broke the treaty and invaded them. Then the Russians switched sides. All this "they helped us beat the Nazis and were heros" stuff is...thin when you realize had Hitler not attacked them they'd have been fine staying allies.
I believe that he was forced to or else he would be killed and he valued life more than innocence.
looks like they took lessons from the Daughters of the Confederacy.... Recognizing an opportunity to rewrite history, he manipulated the official Army account of the war to elevate the Wehrmacht into a force fighting for a noble
I'll get down voted for this...but...we wonder why Russia hates the West so much?
They do have valid reasons - but they'd have valid reasons to hate Stalin, too, and he still gets idolized to this day. I doubt many Russians know about Halder in particular, and I doubt their curricula include a lot about the millions of Russians who fell to Stalin's ambitions, and paranoia.
Load More Replies...The terrorists definitely won when you realize they got our entire society to change because of what they did.
They must be wrong if you can come up with such a powerful counterargument.
Load More Replies...What terrorists? IRA? ISIS? There is more than one terrorist organisation, please specify.
We comfortably give up freedoms for the sake of security. Thank you Patriot Act !
Yes, Marie, where is Ben Franklin when we needed him?
Load More Replies...Neither is Nestle or Dole, at least as spoken about in this list.
Load More Replies...America (gov't) needs to be added to this list, genocide of the native americans, the foreign policy(s) regarding the middle east, supporting banana republic dictators, etc.
Did we change in the way they wanted us to change? They won in the fact that we ended up electing a president who groveled so wantonly to the fascists' coreligionists that they gave bin Laden an honorable burial at sea, gave Afghanistan back to the Taleban (with tens of billions of dollars of equipment), and funded an ISIS revolution against the relatively moderate Syrian government.
I guess you forgot about the "patriot" act. People were scared stupid so the government took it as an opportunity.
Load More Replies...Yasser Arafat. Sabotaged the peace process in the Middle East, died a billionaire after stealing unfathomable amounts of money from his people.
Made a business out of terrorism. I lived in the ME when he started his little enterprise. A monster.
Nobusuke Kishi, r*pist of Manchuria and twice Prime Minister of Japan.
You mean the Nobusuke Kishi who served in Tojo's cabinet and who was the grandfather of Shinzo Abe, who often openly stated that he admired his grandfather and hoped to rule in similar ways as him?
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Still blows my mind that people don't know one of the founders of the Liberal Democrats, still one of the largest parties who effectively controlled the government for half a century in Japan, was literally a fascist.
Christopher Columbus. He’s absolutely evil.
Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, during his governments, since he changed the constitution to be reelected, he implemented a narco-policy for the military that killed at least 6500 innocent people to pass them off as members of the guerrillas and d**g clans while he himself organized large para-military groups that were responsible for razing entire villages in order to expand their estates and his political friends and family could appropriate millions of hectares of land of peasants to expand their own d**g plantations.
More than 80 of his political supporters have been captured, charged, but he only says that "it was all behind my back", after 20 years he still has almost 200 bodyguards paid by the Colombian taxpayers and lives in the greatest of luxuries at the expense of the government coffers. EvilUribe-...6-jpeg.jpg
Yes, the Spanish and Portuguese colonisation of the Americas must be considered broadly evil. The greed, the slavery and insane religious persecutions are just the beginning. But Columbus personally? Nope. I had professional reason to make a very deep, far reaching study of him. He was a man of his time, meaning he was a medieval Christian. He was a truly incredible seaman. I mean, amazing. He probably also had several undiagnosed mental and physical disorders. But evil? Nope. I'm not saying put the statues back up! But he shouldn't have to carry the can for all of European 'exploration'.
Oliver Cromwell.
Executing a dead man sounds more idiotic than dumbest Tiktok video.
He shipped an awful lot of Roman Catholics from Ireland to the USA as slaves and then repopulated Ireland with Puritans from Scotland - my mother's family included.
Fidel Castro.
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It's glorious to see them undoing his life's work as soon as he died. Died in 2016, changed the constitution in 2019 to roll back socialism, de facto abandoned socialism in 2021.
Mao, Cromwell, and Castro (all on this list) prove that whoever leads the revolution should not necessarily end up the one in power. Moses never even entered the Promised Land.
Fidel Castro was an inevitable outcome of the US owning much of the business' and manipulating Cuba into providing cheap oil. The reason he is so hated is that he took rich American white men's Cuban property and gave it back to the Cuban government and American politicians just couldn't stand for that. Read his autobiography, he was terrible but much of the suffering under his time was because of corrupt capitalism controlling American politics. Rich people hate socialism because it takes away their ability to exploit people.
William of Orange. Still a hero in the Netherlands but he was a ruthless power hungry backstabber. He used religious extremists to gather his army, first the lutherians, but later the radical calvinists. They were comparable to IS nowadays. Brutal attacks on churches followed by mass killings of catholics in Belgium and the Netherlands. It changed the Netherlands into a state of anarchy and later a puritanical state.
He also had the backing of the Pope for what he did in the Northern Ireland.
The man who killed Renée Hartevelt.
Augustus.
He was actually a pretty good emperor. He wasnt evil in the sense that he killed tens of thousands for his enjoyment but if it was advantages for him to kill thousands he wasnt thinking for a second.
So once he was on top and everyone did whatever he wanted anyway he became a good leader.
His way to the top however was covered in blood. The only reasons he is remembered as a good leader is because he outlived almost everyone who was already adult when he made his way up the roman ladder. If he had died after 10 years or something he would be hated.
Winston Churchill, starved millions in Bengal. Sent the black and Tans to terrorise and murder Irish civilians. An evil man who is widely regarded as a good guy because of the evil of those he fought in WW2.
Wanted to break the National strike in the 1920s by using aristocrats to dive buses and so on and shoot anyone who was on strike. Was MP to Oldham and Rochdale and borrowed so much money from the USA that they were still paying it back over 50 years later - and I'm not sure anyone could say what he'd built - for the good of the people - with the money
Not to mention spearheading a disastrous campaign in WWI at Gallipoli that caused 100,000s deaths, setting the army on striking miners, Spearheading another disastrous campaign in Norway in WWII, and another a year later by sending battleships to the far east, causing another few hundred deaths, and another in 1944 at Arnhem. Then after the war opposing the creation of a universal healthcare system. He was pig-headed, hubristic, and often downright incompetent. But nowadays it's almost impossible to criticize him- he's the "greatest briton of all time" and to point out any of his failings is seen as unpatriotic.
Why isn't Hitler himself anywhere on this list? Can you people seriously say that you actually believe that Hitler, A: wasn't completely evil, or B: was actually punished for his multiple atrocities? There's something wrong with the world if Adolf Hitler doesn't make this list; he should be very near, or at, the top. There's something even worse wrong with the world if people actually believe that Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan were worse than Hitler.
It's one list on social media. It's not the final word nor is it set in stone. The title and description make it clear that it's not a complete list.
Load More Replies...Why has no one mentioned Bugs Bunny, and the hundreds, if not thousands, of characters he has beaten and humiliated over many tears ?
I agree, but he also is a transgender hero so we must be balanced.
Load More Replies...I'm going to add J. Edgar Hoover to this list. Owner and curator of the world's largest collection of child pornography, and other illegal porn. Blackmail specialist, honey traps and all that. Numerous presidents wanted him gone but didn't dare move against him. Sacked the honest people in the FBI to turn it into a secret police force to rival Göring's Gestapo. And got away with it.
I hope we never add Putin to this list - that is he needs to answer for his despicable crimes!
The Conservative Government in the UK. They've almost completely decimated the NHS by years of underfunding ensuring that people who can't afford private healthcare can't access treatment. They've ensured that poor people stay poor while letting their rich friends get richer. Misled the public about how much better the UK would be if it left the EU. The lack of action during covid needlessly led to the deaths of many people. They had parties during lockdown at a time when people couldn't even visit their dying relatives in hospital, and when it all came to light, none of them showed any accountability and made a load of excuses as to why it was ok for them to do so. In 14 years of Tory rule, we've seen five prime ministers as they've all been forced to resign. There is another general election this year though so here's hoping. 🙏 I don't really see how their crimes are any different from many others on this list.
Also their endless cycle of scapegoating of everyone not them as either causing the problems they cause or somehow being a bigger problem than they are. I half-wonder what minority group will be the next in their crosshairs.
Load More Replies...Netanyahu and Ismail Haniyeh.. Both keep hatred going strong and peace impossible..
Union Carbide CEOs. They told India, "remove ALL your safety regulations or we won't build a plant in Bhopal", so the corrupt Indian government did that. As many as 16,000 innocent people died during a chemical leak on December 2, 1984, and over 500,000 suffered permanent long term injuries and disability. None of those responsible were held accountable (they were allowed to flee India instead of held for trial), and the company paid only a pittance in "compensation", NONE of which the victims and their families received. The Indian government stole the money. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster ]
The "architect of apartheid", Hendrik Verwoerd. Quite a few years ago a radio show were discussing whether to let his assassin out of jail (they never did). One person called and said, "Never mind let him out, they should give him a medal!" So say we all.
Belgium. Separating the Rwandan population simply by their skin color and width of their noses, into the Tutsi and Hutu. The Belgiums put Tutsi in charge of the region. When Belgium left the region, the Hutu extremists began killing all perceived Tutsi. Over the period of 100 days, over 200,000 Rwandans were tortured, raped and killed. No one, that I've heard ever held Belgium accountable for causing the uprising.
So my take from this is that most evil people are in government, business, religion, or Japan.
I'm going to add J. Edgar Hoover to this list. Owner and curator of the world's largest collection of child pornography, and other illegal porn. Blackmail specialist, honey traps and all that. Numerous presidents wanted him gone but didn't dare move against him. Sacked the honest people in the FBI to turn it into a secret police force to rival Göring's Gestapo. And got away with it.
I hope we never add Putin to this list - that is he needs to answer for his despicable crimes!
The Conservative Government in the UK. They've almost completely decimated the NHS by years of underfunding ensuring that people who can't afford private healthcare can't access treatment. They've ensured that poor people stay poor while letting their rich friends get richer. Misled the public about how much better the UK would be if it left the EU. The lack of action during covid needlessly led to the deaths of many people. They had parties during lockdown at a time when people couldn't even visit their dying relatives in hospital, and when it all came to light, none of them showed any accountability and made a load of excuses as to why it was ok for them to do so. In 14 years of Tory rule, we've seen five prime ministers as they've all been forced to resign. There is another general election this year though so here's hoping. 🙏 I don't really see how their crimes are any different from many others on this list.
Also their endless cycle of scapegoating of everyone not them as either causing the problems they cause or somehow being a bigger problem than they are. I half-wonder what minority group will be the next in their crosshairs.
Load More Replies...Netanyahu and Ismail Haniyeh.. Both keep hatred going strong and peace impossible..
Union Carbide CEOs. They told India, "remove ALL your safety regulations or we won't build a plant in Bhopal", so the corrupt Indian government did that. As many as 16,000 innocent people died during a chemical leak on December 2, 1984, and over 500,000 suffered permanent long term injuries and disability. None of those responsible were held accountable (they were allowed to flee India instead of held for trial), and the company paid only a pittance in "compensation", NONE of which the victims and their families received. The Indian government stole the money. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster ]
The "architect of apartheid", Hendrik Verwoerd. Quite a few years ago a radio show were discussing whether to let his assassin out of jail (they never did). One person called and said, "Never mind let him out, they should give him a medal!" So say we all.
Belgium. Separating the Rwandan population simply by their skin color and width of their noses, into the Tutsi and Hutu. The Belgiums put Tutsi in charge of the region. When Belgium left the region, the Hutu extremists began killing all perceived Tutsi. Over the period of 100 days, over 200,000 Rwandans were tortured, raped and killed. No one, that I've heard ever held Belgium accountable for causing the uprising.
So my take from this is that most evil people are in government, business, religion, or Japan.
