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Let's talk about twisted moments in human history
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#1
The orange turd being elected as president of the US of A.
Final score:
110points
Bisexual Axolotls 1 year ago
My second grade teacher ran a mock election for the class-the spray tanned Cheeto lost the popular vote there too.
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#2
What we did to the Native Americans
Final score:
106points
#3
Auschwitz
Final score:
89points
Margaret H 1 year ago
I do not understand why some people refuse to believe this atrocity happened.
#4
Leopold's genocide in the Congo. More than 10 million Africans killed. Children and/or their parents who refused to harvest rubber for tyres had their hands amputated.
Final score:
88points
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
King Leopold II should be regarded as one of history's worst monsters, right up there - or, rather, down there - with Stalin, Idi Amin, and of course Hitler.
#5
Anti-abortion laws - all of them.
Final score:
75points
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Shout it from the mountaintop! Also the same people who howl about "baby killing" don't give a rat's bottom about children who die of abuse, neglect, hunger, malnutrition, violence, etc.
#6
The holocaust
Final score:
61points
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
Or the Shoa, to give it its preferred name. ("Holocaust" is Hebrew for "sacrifice", and as many Jews have pointed out, sacrifices are both voluntary and intended to earn a greater good. "Shoa" means "catastrophe".)
#7
the story of the radium girls from the 1920s. if you don't know, these women worked in factories painting watches for years on end. it was a very good opportunity at the time,paying as much as men's jobs and helped families who were struggling to make ends meet. but the paint used for the watches? it had radium in it to make the watches glow. the women had to lick their paintbrushes to make a fine point on them and they ingested the radium. it got to the point where it was disintegrating their bones and they would literally glow in the dark. and all that time, the companies knew what the radium would do. but they kept it a secret from the public. the girls died after putting up a fight to win their court case and won, but they still died. it honestly makes me sick that this happened.
Final score:
58points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
Side note: that licking of the artist brush is a life-threatening habit. Paint colors often rely on lead. There is no safe level of lead... not one iota. It will destroy you. And it will hurt all the way to the end. Yes, lead banned for children's paints... not adults. It's also not banned in other countries exporting paints to the world. Lost my exceptionally talented cousin to multiple cancers that were attributed to toxic paints... licking her paint brush.
#8
How Christ's teachings were twisted to serve the political power structures - and still are. For just one example, how women were pushed out of their rightful places as part of the early movement, in particular by lying about Mary Magdalene the Apostle and her teachings, which were directly derived from Jesus, so called (His real name was Yeshua). There was no hierarchy, no priests, no concept of Heaven or Hell, or the concept of "a just war" in those early days. Reincarnation was part of the early teachings, rejected centuries later for political reasons. One of the reasons the Romans didn't like these people was their extreme pacifism - which limited the intake of soldiers that the Empire depended on. The versions of Christianity that exist today are travesties of the original teachings. It's like the Pharisees won.
Final score:
57points
all 4 paws 1 year ago
Im a Christian and j f*****g hate this. Did you know there were woman disciples? But they were wrote out, and not called disciples, merely followers, its disgusting
#9
The birth of the Reality Show. Sure, it might not have had such serious ramifications as other things on this topic, but just think about how much better television would be without them...
Final score:
55points
#10
The Trail of Tears
Final score:
53points
#11
Trump being elected as president then everybody in the Republican party worshipping him. Not to mention the way he handled the pandemic and the United States in general. Piece of garbage.
Final score:
48points
Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
tbh, we have a limited view of history. What Trump did was nothing compared to what other leaders have done in the past. We were lucky.
#12
Tulsa Race Massacre.
Final score:
47points
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
This needs to be higher... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
#13
Human experiments by the Japanese in Manchuria. What Unit 731 did to Chinese and Russian prisoners was brutal. Worst thing is the American government gave immunity to the perpetrators in exchange for their results. Chief surgeon Shiro Ishi lived a comfortable life after the war, completely untouched; and a great deal of what doctors know about the human body in combat situations are because of such experiments.
Final score:
44points
#14
The things that happened in asylums. It was pretty much torture for the people who had to go through that, because of anything from autism to PTSD to being queer to even being a woman and not listening to men. It's horrific and scary. I'm glad that I live in a world where it's mostly over, although the stigma is still alive and well.
Final score:
38points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
Women in 1960s subject to husband's control. Husband could beat the h3ll out of his wife, call police and say she's hysterical, and wife would be taken straight to asylum. There, she was stripped and left naked and restrained, subject to SA, and forced electroshock therapy without anesthesia.
#15
the shooting of gay bars...
Final score:
35points
#16
the crusades
Final score:
34points
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The first person to denounce the First Crusade was the pope who sent them.
#17
Murders, genocides, isolation, and everything related to any religion.
Final score:
33points
#18
The attacks of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent "war on terror" that has merely created even more terrorists, as well as wrecked many rights of US citizens.
The Republicans and Big Business conniving for decades to destroy the working class.
Final score:
30points
#19
The rape of naking
Final score:
29points
Margaret H 1 year ago
The rape of Nanking/Nanjing was truly horrific, but whether it was any worse or twisted than any other massacre is debatable.
#20
The Spanish Inquisition and burning ‘heretics’ at the stake.
Final score:
27points
#21
The USA’s unhealthy addiction to the Second Amendment.
I understand the concept when it was introduced, there was a need for people to be able to defend themselves… but we are talking about guns that, in the hands of an exceptional shooter, could get 4 rounds off in a minute…
I’m not sure automatic weapons that can shoot hundreds of rounds per minute was what the founding fathers had in mind
Also it’s the right to “bear ARMS” not “bear GUNS”. A knife, a bow and arrow, a hoe, a pitchfork, anything that could be used as an offensive weapon was considered an armament at the time of writing.
Final score:
25points
#22
Andrew Tate, his brother and the crazy magician openly admitting, in video calls, audio registrations and on their own Webpages to be abusive towards women... openly hating on women and raping them and sending messages like " i love to rape you, the more you hate it the more i like it". But the British authorities did nothing pretending the accusations never happened... thousands of fans till following them, despite all the very real facts of them being abusive... blaming the "matrix" for arresting their semi gods.
Final score:
25points
#23
The Stolen Generation in Australia
Final score:
23points
#24
The Vietnam war.
Final score:
22points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
Oh, I've studied this half my life. LBJ did not want the war to end. His family and friends had contracts to supply troops. Beef, for instance, was supposedly contracted to his wife's cattle raising family. Troops in the field never saw it. Agents Orange, Red etc we're also contracts awarded to financial backers. Troops were told it was harmless to humans... use it as insect repellent. There are roughly 400 soldiers *known alive in the 1990s that we just left there. (Last Known Alive list). That entire war was money making scheme by a rich #%^! racist. Much like Desert Storm.
#25
The on-going rape of the environment for Corporate greed. Also the mind-boggling willingness of Politicians and citizens to aid this Corporate criminal greed. Furthermore, ignoring remedies. This might kill us all.
Final score:
21points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
This should be higher... it's not just a historic atrocity. Forests, for example: IKEA uses 25% of the world's harvested forests... just one company. Funeral industry destroys 4 million acres of forests every single year... just to make coffins that will be crushed under 2 tons of dirt.
#26
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are also the five biggest weapons suppliers on the planet.
Final score:
19points
#27
So, so many things. Jim Crow laws, abortion rights being taken away, the marginalization of minorities, the Kardashians, etc.
Final score:
19points
#28
Japanese Internment Camps durning WWII
Final score:
19points
Dizavid 1 year ago (edited)
I live in the southern US. My grandmother served during WWII, so she knew what places locally had been used as internment camps. Right down to my own high school. I live in a small city of roughly 20k, but there's a LOOOOOOT of old money here. Like...lots. Davison trucking company is based in this general area. So "being a poor parish" wasn't a viable excuse for why our high school cafeteria had ONLY those rectangular basement windows, eight to nine feet off the ground. Just really try to picture any high school movie scene in a cafeteria without at least one or two big, open to the sunlight windows. Instead, replace it with that grim "fluorescent gray" that underground lighting causes. Only it wasn't underground. It just LOOKED like it from the inside of roughly a third of the school. (Obviously they built on top of the original building, added wings as needed, etc. But the original skeleton has been kept in tact, or had been as of 2001)
#29
Idk if anyone said this already but Russia's attack on Ukraine (YOU GOT THIS UKRAINE!!!!!!!!
Final score:
19points
#30
The insane asylums 😔
Final score:
17points
#31
Rosemary Kennedy. Poor girl had seizures so they had her lobotomized so she couldn't embarrass or damage them politically. They shoved a nail in her brain then shoved her in an oubliette. A psychiatric facility actually, but even as recently as then they were places to put pesky family members so you could conveniently forget they even existed. There's so many insults to injury added here. Like...
- She was 23 years old when this occurred. Her father made the decision and she had zero say.
- Her father did not inform her mother, HIS WIFE (in case that wasn't, y'know, clear), until after the procedure had already taken place.
- She was essentially deleted from existence: She was forgotten, hidden away from the rest of the family (esp any kids who might one day get the wild a*s hair to become President). Even today, not many know of her and the Kennedy's are one of the most famous and studied modern families (infamous may be a better word). Just...deleted. For all rights and purposes, it's like she barely even existed at all.
- Directly from the performing "surgeon": I think she was awake. She had a MILD (caps mine, obviously) tranquilizer.
Final score:
17points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
At her birth, the attending nurse panicked without doctor presence. She tried holding Mrs. Kennedy's legs together but little Rosie was already in birth canal. That nurse put her hand inside on the baby's emerging head and *held that infant in place almost 2 hours. Lack of oxygen caused intellectual and psychological deficits.
#32
World War One. There was no reason for it aside from national pride and family rivalry (the King of England, the Tsar of Russia, and the Kaiser of Germany were first cousins). The disastrous 1919 Treaty of Paris guaranteed World War Two would happen. We are still living with the impacts of that treaty. As an example, the irrational partitioning of the former Ottoman Empire without regard to the distribution of religious or ethnic groups was a big driver of the chaos in that region today.
Final score:
16points
Dan Bert 1 year ago
There was no reason for WWI but it was inevitable. The Age of Empire and Colonialism in the West ran from the early 1500s to the colonial rivalries of the 'New Imperialism' in ~1875 - 1914. In the latter period there was a notable speedup in colonial acquisitions and an increase in the number of countries seeking colonies. In the early 1900s the military union of France, British Empire, and Russia became known as the 'Allied Powers'. The military union of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire became known as the 'Central Powers'. Given the: 1) Number of shared boundaries and the close proximity of the countries listed above (excepting Russia); and 2) The 'New Imperialism' competition; 3) It was inevitable some of those countries would start competing for land in Europe. Those who saw such a situation developing were predicting war among several nations in Europe 15-20 years before WWI started.
#33
you have no idea how much the holocaust affects the life of jews NOW
Final score:
16points
Awkward Lady 1 year ago
Antisemitism has never gone away! Also, there are many people who never got to meet their grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc, because whole families were wiped out.
#34
The Holodomor. The Holocaust. Past and present slavery. Involuntary human experiments (Looking at you, Nestle). Every unnecessary war. (Wars are started because 2, or more, national leaders can't compromise, share and have an open mind.)
Final score:
16points
#35
Ok, this is probably going to get buried in everything, but I saw this older TikTok, and it was about the overturning of Roe vs, Wade, and it really just caused me to take a step back and look at it from a new perspective. So the woman in the video basically said she was in one of her college classes, and the topic of abortions came up. And her professor said that abortions were first made illegal, like the law was first passed in the 1860’s. And what else happened during the 1860’s. Slavery was abolished in America. AND THAT IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE WANTED ABORTION OVERTURNED. BECAUSE THEY HAD NO SLAVES TO WORK FOR THEM, AND THEY THOUGHT IF WOMEN WERE FORCED TO GIVE BIRTH, THEY WOULD HAVE A LABOUR FORCE TO WORK FOR THEM AGAIN. Just, think about that for a second.
Final score:
15points
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Also, this was (unsurprisingly) BEFORE WOMEN COULD VOTE in most of not all states.
#36
Oh gods, there are so many twisted moments in history. Human history is full of horrific events like mass theft, rape, child abuse, Will Smith movies, and genocide.
With that, I think maybe on the strange side might be the Great Emu War. Some time between the First and Second World Wars, the Australian government decided they needed to cull the emu population. And what better way of doing this than with fully automatic assault weapons. After 6 days of "battle" and thousands of rounds of ammunition had been used, not one emu had been killed. The farmers who started the "war" made multiple requests for military aid, but were denied each time. In the end, the government used a bounty system, and while tens of thousands of emus were culled over a period of about 10 years, the emus are still considered the victors of the conflict. I'm not an Aussie, so I'm sure I'm missing important details, but I remember reading this story some years ago and thought it quite funny.
Final score:
13points
Dizavid 1 year ago (edited)
Not really a missed detail, just adding detail to show how absolutely they failed....they lost MULTIPLE attempted wars on the emus. During the conflict you're describing, they mounted guns on the back of a truck bc they couldn't keep up with the emus speed on foot. Obviously shooting guns from the back of a truck driving over open terrain worked wonders. Some emus took bullets. None died. Emus are tiny gods and we exist only so they have more fuel for their humor. Gods what is it with BIRDS being the demonic a******s. Rapist and necrophiliac ducks, murder geese (ie, all of them), and immortal emus. The dinos didn't evolve into birds; the birds f*****g absorbed their essence.
#37
People resorted to violence when another country tried to restrict their autonomy and implement policies meant to stunt their economic and social growth.
The Irish did it, they were called heroes. The Palestinians did it, they were labeled terrorists.
Final score:
12points
#39
This announcement from a streaming platform: "You can catch the latest episodes of 'The Kardashians' on Disney+"
Final score:
11points
#41
The radium girls in the 1920s
Final score:
11points
𝓠𝓾𝓪𝓬𝓴 (Submission author) 1 year ago
Yes, they also painted their teeth, nails and bodies for fun. The people at the company always knew what was going to happen but the girls were never told, they then got poisoning horribly, the radium destroyed their bodies inside and out
#42
“La Desbandá”. On 8th of February 1937 after Franco’s troops entered Malaga, thousands of refugees were killed on their way to Almeria, city controlled by the Republican Popular Army. They were attacked by air and sea and between 3000 to 5000 civilians died.
Final score:
10points
#43
I'd say the East Turkestan concentration camps are horrific, but as it's happening right now, maybe it doesn't qualify as history. Perhaps the Bosnian genocide, or everything and anything to do with Palestine.
Final score:
9points
#44
The plague.
It was definitely vampires Lol
Final score:
8points
Jennifer Callahan 1 year ago
All school shootings. Children killing children. Along with family/friends that aren't diligent about strict teaching and keeping them locked up. (NOT giving kids access, ever).
#45
COVID
Final score:
8points
#46
The dancing plague of 1518. Strausbourg. Literally what it sounded like: one woman walked outside a bar in July and began gyrating and dancing. People began joining her. They wouldn't (or maybe couldn't is a better word) stop. After the first week, the city just collectively shrugged, decided the kids just had hot blood and needed to dance their problems away. So yeah, of course they built a stage for them and even hired professional dancers to join them. Then people began suffering and dying from all kinds of obvious issues you'd have dancing for literally a week straight (imagine THAT smell). Heat stroke, regular strokes, heart attacks....and everyone just kept dancing. By August, over 400 had been sucked into the mania. In September they'd had enough and shipped the conga line from Hell off to a mountain somewhere to pray about it.
Making it worse: Strausbourg was not living it's best life at the time. The classics you'd think of for early sixteenth century: disease and famine. So, imagine you've lost your entire family. Half you watched starve, the other half you watched get sicker and sicker until they stopped moving.
Now here comes some footloosed jerkwads just dancing away in the city streets (seemingly) without a care in the world. Had to feel almost like, "Eff yo dead kids Mike! Gloria was right and the rhythm hath gotten me! It hath gotten us ALL!! 🎶🎶🤘"
Making it worser: This event was incredibly well documented, so...it happened. There's absolutely no denying that: this really, truly happened as I've written it. It wasn't even the only well documented outbreak of such phenomena. Just the deadliest one.
Finally, the worst: we really have no strong idea why or what caused it. Some say the people's belief that a particular saint could curse people with dancing and the stress of its time triggered a psychological break. Others suggested they came across some molded food. Religious cult. Again, the classics. So...we know it happened multiple times, and we have no clue why. Maybe it could happen again. After all, none of those explanations explain why it took on such a specific type of mania, and multiple times at that. So maybe the next time YOU start dancing...you just never, ever stop until you drop dead like the Sanderson Sisters had cursed you.
Final score:
6points
#48
-Japan’s Comfort Women(when Japanese Soldiers in WW2 could have sex with girls who had been sex trafficked anytime they wanted. This was the “solution” to the Rape of Nanjing/Nanking.
-When women in America could be imprisoned for having an STI because soldiers were getting STIs during WW1. Many, many women were arrested for no good reason, forced to have an invasive exam, and hopefully got released.
- The fact that the Father of Gynecology and the Mother of Birth Control were both horribly racist and used women of color as guinea pigs for their medical experiments. If you’ve ever gone on the pill and haven’t died, take a moment to think of the Puerto Rican women who did both. Or, if you’ve ever had surgery to fix an injury that you got after giving birth, remember the slaves who had to suffer through that same surgery for the first time without anesthesia.
- The Tuskegee experiment in which the US government studied the progression of syphilis in men of color without treating them even after a cure was possible and readily available.
-King Henry the 8th. Enough said.
Final score:
6points
Claire the Devils Advocate 1 year ago
Were the tortured people black (where from?) or from Puerto Rico?
#50
When people from different countries came over here from Europe and killed whole families women children of native Americans. What the natiz did.
Things the government, that has been proven that did to there own people.
History in itself is full messed up s**t. If where to go back to the begin of time there was crazy stuff happening. History in itself is messed up. The wars. Bad things happens in wars. Fame. The wild west. The gold rush. Slavery, concentration camps for the Japanese and Chinese and Germans. People that lives in American and there father's and sons helped fight, yes of course there where a few spies but very few. The people that have regined in the past that where evil kings or queens. Some of might not even been that bad but did messed up stuff.
Final score:
5points
Old Roadie 1 year ago (edited)
Japanese internment camps in California: my dad took me to see them when I was a kid, to help me understand the reality of war ... people yanked from their homes, businesses confiscated, children scared and confused. Just for being Japanese. This same area is riddled with tunnels that Chinese immigrants used for their cultural traditions. My grandpa was welcomed there, as was my dad. Tunnels sealed off by a*****e mayor who then confiscated all their artifacts.
#51
Evolution favored aggressive chimpanzee-like traits over the peaceful bonobo's, and look at us now.
Final score:
5points
#52
floyd collins’ death. it’s sad but interesting, google it
Final score:
4points
#53
The great goat war, or the war over a bucket... the goat was was the worst of them, they would send in one goat with a tracker on it to go find a nice group of lifelong friends, then would murder all except for the one with the tracker
Final score:
3points
#54
The Russian sleep experiment
Its very unknown for something so sinister. The Russian took people and made them stay awake which drove them insane after 1 screamed so loud his vocal cords were ripped out and the other ripped off his own skin (And had surgery performed with no medication) they asked the third guy who he was. He said "I am the thing that sleeps under your bed at night." Search it up
Final score:
2points
#55
Arabo-musim slaves trade. Still on now.
Final score:
2points
Old Roadie 1 year ago
Part of that world slave trade is young women missing from cruise ships, island vacations, vagabond backpacking, spring break revelers... they're sold into a different sort of 'slave' trade.
#56
When women reject men because of unrealistic body expectations. Remember that we still face several challenges in modern society today.
Final score:
2points
Ruth Harper 1 year ago
Right, because unrealistic body expectations are totally something men deal with more than woman. Hah.
#57
Ryan Reynolds making Green Lantern(this is obviously a joke)
Final score:
1point
#58
Watching secret service agent being called away from JFK's limo, over vehement protest, moments before the assassination.
Final score:
-1point
Ruth Harper 1 year ago
Okay, uh, even if that is accurate, to call it one of the worst moments of history when we have genocides and wars and other pure evil things is absolutely absurd.
#59
Communism. And the fact that it has never been judged and condemned like Nazism has been.
It should be forbidden nowadays.
Final score:
-4points
Mylène Asselin-Soucy 1 year ago
Capitalism is not much better, nor any religion-based government: humans can justify anything based on principles.
What do you think ?
Teresa Hale 1 year ago
When the Nazis looked to the racist American South to give them ideas as to how best to marginalize Jews.
K- THULU 1 year ago
And all the other genocides.... The Armenians, the Serbs,( post ww1), Rwanda, Yugoslavia, South Sudan, Burma, Yemen, ect.ect..... Never fkn ends....
Load More Replies... Ruth Harper 1 year ago
The Guatemalan genocide of indigenous people. Where the US actually helped by training and providing weapons and aircraft and other things. Because the government was right wing and that was good enough for us.
Teresa Hale 1 year ago
When the Nazis looked to the racist American South to give them ideas as to how best to marginalize Jews.
K- THULU 1 year ago
And all the other genocides.... The Armenians, the Serbs,( post ww1), Rwanda, Yugoslavia, South Sudan, Burma, Yemen, ect.ect..... Never fkn ends....
Load More Replies... Ruth Harper 1 year ago
The Guatemalan genocide of indigenous people. Where the US actually helped by training and providing weapons and aircraft and other things. Because the government was right wing and that was good enough for us.
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