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30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened

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There have been many instances in our history where someone warned us about something, but we didn't listen at all. It seems that before almost any major event, a doctor, scientist, or politician already knew the outcome, but was simply ignored. It seems to be a repeating pattern, so the question this Redditor asked sparked a lot of interest from internet users.

Many chimed in to share all sorts of stories that are very insightful and eye-opening. Perhaps reading through them will help us get some perspective on our world and see that having an open mind is a very good thing. It seems that in a lot of instances, great tragedies might have been avoided if only people listened to each other more.

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#1

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Isaac Asimov in 1980:

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Mahaloth , Library of Congress Report

Final score:

397points

General Anaesthesia 1 year ago

Not just the US, alas. The rest of the 'western world' is catching up fast.

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#2

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened (Edit* Colleen) Rowley--warned her FBI superiors in June 01 that names on their jihadi watch list were taking flying lessons but not interested in learning how to land

Her report didn't get read until October

occamhanlon , Slowking Report

Final score:

333points

john s 1 year ago

jesus.

88points

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We got an interview with the Reddit user MLK-K-K that asked the question. Firstly, we asked them why they created the post in the first place. They said, "I created that post just for fun, really did not expect it to blow up."

When we asked whether they found out anything interesting or new after making the post, they said that they learned a lot of "really obscure historical facts." And we think you might find that to be true.

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#3

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened “I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing-down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” -Carl Sagan

TremorX , NASA JPL Report

Final score:

328points

Phoebe Bean 1 year ago

This.

57points

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#4

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened In 2005, Courtney Love was asked what advice she'd give young, up and coming actresses. She said "If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party at his Four Seasons hotel room, don't go." And for whatever reason, you didn't see her in many movies after that.

NauvooMetro , Manfred Werner Report

Final score:

326points

Full of Giggles 1 year ago

Oddly enough, I finished watching She Said about an hour ago. I definitely know why she hasn’t been in many movies.

81points

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We also asked why they think people sometimes ignore warnings, and they said that it's probably because of "poor risk assessment." Most of these stories are connected to that, because people usually don't want to believe the worst is going to happen. We also asked what important thing, in their opinion, is being ignored right now: "Proper diet, nutrition and the importance of sleeping well."

#5

When women said that overturning Roe would lead to attempts to a national abortion ban, bans on contraception, and bans on IVF.

PuckGoodfellow Report

Final score:

291points

Hotdogking 1 year ago

Covering up a pyrimid scheme. But this comment hit the nail right on the head, unfortunately

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#6

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened President George Washington, in his address when leaving office. He warned against the danger of a two party system in future politics. He felt that several parties on equal footing would be better. Especially in presidential elections. The more legitimate choices, the better.

Scrappy_Larue , Gilbert Stuart Report

Final score:

284points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Yes. America has needed more political parties throughout its entire history.

93points

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We asked what, in their opinion, is the main reason people refuse to listen to others. Is it ego or something else? They said that it's "Not necessarily ego. Mostly just lack of time, and sometimes people just want their own individuality."

They also shared some words of wisdom as to what every person should learn in order for us to grow as a society: "Live and let live."

#7

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Ignaz Semmelweis often described as the father of hand washing. In the 1800s he discovered that ~~infant~~ maternal mortality could be drastically reduced by doctors washing their hands between patients. He was largely ignored and his book got absolutely slated. This is supposed to have contributed to him having a mental breakdown and he died in a psychiatric hospital.

dontbelikeyou , Auguste Alexis Canzi Report

Final score:

263points

Phoebe Bean 1 year ago

A very sad ending.

78points

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#8

Sinead O’Connor. Suddenly a coverup at the Catholic Church of child abuse doesn’t seem so silly.

zephyrsummer Report

Final score:

228points

Dan Bexell 1 year ago

What do you give the pedophile who has everything? A new parish.

30points

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#9

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened [Roger Boisjoly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjoly) - Engineer involved with the Space Shuttle program who warned his superiors for months prior to the Challenger disaster that launching in cold weather could cause the O-rings to fail.

Care to guess what caused the Challenger disaster?

duhvorced , NASA Report

Final score:

227points

Kristal 1 year ago

I watched that documentary, it's really sad

53points

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#10

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened David Attenborough, and I don’t think we are listening, well certainly not doing enough.

YellowCulottes , Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Report

Final score:

224points

Groundcontroltomajortom 1 year ago

This man has devoted his whole life to our beautiful planet and all he can see is it getting destroyed. Absolute legend.

102points

Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 1 year ago

Sir David Attenborough is truly a global treasure. He has done and continues to do so much amazing work to protect the environment and foster a love of the natural world.

24points

DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Sir David Attenborough is an amazing human being and deserves to live for centuries, however I feel like that would just be torture for him to see nature being exploited until it's extinction.

15points

Saxophone 1 year ago

Every comment here I read in his voice.

12points

Id row 1 year ago

Humanity won't be happy until we've destroyed the planet and everything in it like a giant swarm of locusts.

9points

Steve Robert 1 year ago

The greed and need for power, part of our DNA, will eventually wipe out homosapiens within the next several generations. And we will not do anything to prevent it.

4points

Daria 1 year ago

Nothing but respect for this great man!

3points

Lord Rimuru 1 year ago

He should be trusted more than anyone else, except the ones who also dedicate themselves to the planet

3points

Alaina Bleakley 1 year ago

*Sir* David Attenborough you got to give that respect where it is due

1point

Jill Bussey 1 year ago

I could listen to David Attenborough and his brother, Richard, (RIP) for hours. And hours.

0points

Djtp09 1 year ago

Him and his brother Richard (rip) will live on long after they are no longer with us.

0points

George Comas 1 year ago

Yeees

0points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

We've never listened. :-(

0points

JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

?

0points

3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

Sir David Attenborough is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author. If you’ve ever seen a good nature documentary, he’s probably been the one narrating it. A global treasure.

18points

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#11

Corey Feldman was on the View or something and tried to tell people that Hollywood is full of predators, and the hosts just laughed at him and tried to make him feel guilty for outing them.

alwaysmyfault Report

Final score:

214points

Ent Hugger 1 year ago

oh the Coreys... Hollywood did them dirty, kids never had a chance :( RIP Haim

77points

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#12

Ahem. UK here. Repeated warnings from anyone and everyone that knew what they were talking about that Brexit was a bad idea, and "oh look" it's massively hurting in multiple areas, and a majority of people now think it was a bad idea.

AlterEdward Report

Final score:

195points

Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago

I understand why we had a referendum, but it should have only been used to gauge public opinion not as a decision tool. Very few of us are trained economists, fiscal advisors, and whoever would have a better understanding than Joe Public. It infuriates me that then referendum was almost 50/50 and here we are, in this mess that’s wasted millions of taxpayers’ money.

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#13

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Jason Salemi, epidemiologist at USF. No one knows him, that's cool. I was working on medical ML research (glioblastoma at the time) and was asked to help analyze some data about a new virus in China. In the middle of January we had a research meeting, and Dr. Salemi said, "I don't like this one, I have a *bad* feeling about SARS-NCOV" (as it was then called). On Feb 2020 I was put full time on the SARS-COV-2 team. The rest is history.

People thought he was being alarmist, we had recently been through a pair of Ebola outbreaks in Africa, couple of bad flu seasons, etc. People thought it would blow over.

Richard_AIGuy , Jason Salemi Report

Final score:

194points

Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago

Oh, it did, blew over many things in it's path

60points

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#14

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Rick Rescorla, Director of Corporate Security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, published a report in 1990 detailing the vulnerability of the World Trade Center parking garage. He and a colleague found they were able to freely walk into the garage, which contained many structural support columns, unchallenged by any security. Additionally no ID checks or screening was done on any of the entering delivery vehicles. Three years later a truck bomb was driven into the garage and detonated in an attempt to damage the buildings structure.

Later he and his same college would correctly predict the next attack on the building would come from the air. The evacuation plan and drills he put in place are credited with saving over 2,600 lives on September 11th.

Edited for a bit of clarity: Some are saying “but if he evacuated people, doesn’t that mean we listened?” Rick worked for one company in the building, not the Port Authority who managed the buildings overall safety plan. After the first plane crashed, the announcements from the Port Authority told everyone to shelter in place, and not evacuate. He had developed his own evacuation plan for his employees and put it place before any official word to evacuate the building was given.

Shamrock132 , Jeffmock Report

Final score:

188points

alias D. 1 year ago (edited)

Wow asshat(port authority)

38points

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#15

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Pearl Jam warned us about Ticketmaster years ago. Nobody listened, now we're stuck with them...and only them.

Saggy2balls , pearljam.com Report

Final score:

185points

Hotdogking 1 year ago

F**K YOU TICKETMASTER! We should’ve listened to Pearl Jam, now Ticketmaster is still Alive today. (I’ll show myself out)

48points

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#16

Alice Stewart - in 1958 discovered the link between x-ray of pregnant women and childhood cancer. She discovered that cancer mortality was around 40 per cent higher in the children who had been x-rayed in the womb.

Her findings were considered unsound for another 25 years until after her formal retirement when they were reviewed due to her continuing to push the issue. It wasn't until the 1980's that x-ray of pregnant women stopped being commonplace.

MarnieHollis Report

Final score:

183points

Noltha 1 year ago (edited)

That's really strange. It was known radiation can harm tissues and cause cancer well before.

35points

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#17

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Nikola Tesla - there was a book he wrote(a pamphlet really) called [The Problem of Increasing Human Energy](https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Increasing-Human-Energy-Harnessing/dp/1605200956) where he talked about slowing down the process of burning carbon until we understood it better.

Relentless_Snappy , Napoleon Sarony Report

Final score:

171points

Phoebe Bean 1 year ago

Tragic that people understand it and yet couldn´t care less.

58points

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#18

The guy who predicted the leevies would collapse in a strong hurricane. Category two or three. Not five as they predicted.

He knew the tide surges would destroy New Orleans and predicted it down to one percent the deaths, damage, destruction and water damage.

No one believed him, and he had computer simulations and print-outs he tried to show Congress and tried to tell them to prepare for the worst including tents for shelter.

He was laughed at and later fired.

Two years before Katrina.

Saranightfire1 Report

Final score:

170points

Eric G 1 year ago

Who will it effect? Mostly black people? Yeah, we don't care then. Sincerely, the government.

82points

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#19

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Al Gore got an entire apology episode from the creators of South Park after they mocked him for trying to warn people about climate change

edit- [here's a clip from the episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j89KEwNBhQ4)

Badloss , Unknown photographer Report

Final score:

168points

GettingCereal 1 year ago

I laughed my booty off when watching this, and also hats off to Parker and Stone for admitting so very poetically that they were wrong.

50points

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#20

The MANY women who tried to speak out against Larry Nassar and had it get swept under the rug by USA gymnastics and Michigan State. And Dominique Moceanu who warned us about the Karolyis and the corruption in USA Gymnastics and was called a whiner by the maintstream media. Hundreds of girls were molested and there were so many places where it could have been stopped.

littleirishpixie Report

Final score:

161points

The Short Lady 1 year ago

You couldn't expect them to listen to women...just over emotional little girls. /s

63points

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#21

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened French general Ferdinand Foch reportedly called the Treaty of Versailles a “twenty-year armistice”, ie not conducive to lasting peace. WWII broke out approximately twenty years later.

MrsMaiselsBrisket , Nationaal Archief Report

Final score:

157points

Mr Red 1 year ago

Foch had better anticipated that his tactics would not work instead of loosing 200.000 soldiers in Somme-battle.

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#22

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened [Gary Webb](https://i.redd.it/ins1prnhy8x51.jpg). He found ties linking them (edit: the CIA) to the crack epidemic that wasted inner cities in the 90s, and "justified" the war on drugs, while also destabilizing the Nicaraguan government. He was basically raked over the coals for it, and wound up "committing suicide" with two bullets to the head.

Lexi_Banner , Randy Pench Report

Final score:

144points

Sean Sean 1 year ago

There was a movie made about this called Kill the Messenger with Jeremy Renner.

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#23

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Harry Marcopolos notified the SEC 3 times that whatever Bernie Madoff was doing wasn’t legit and should be investigated, and all 3 times he was ignored. He talks about it in his book *No One Would Listen*. Check it out if you want to see a real facepalm example of government incompetence.

pak9rabid , US Government TV Report

Final score:

143points

Phoebe Bean 1 year ago

There are plenty of examples and still people won´t listen.

37points

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#24

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened John O'Neill.

He worked in the FBI as an anti-terrorist officer. After the car-bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, he remained convinced that Al Qaeda would try to finish the job. The FBI convinced itself that it was over, and O'Neill, who kept at the investigation, was passed over for promotions to the point he wound up quitting the FBI. They thought he was too obsessed with it.

He took a job managing security at the WTC and lost his life on September 11.

Great doco about him and the security failures he wanted to prevent here: [Frontline: The Man Who Knew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbXPqWGGQ5U).

Mr_Lumbergh , http://www.pbs.org/ Report

Final score:

143points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

This got me in the gut.

47points

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#25

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Johnny rotten attempting to warn people about Jimmy Saville

Low_Class535 , Alex Marshall Report

Final score:

141points

Louise B 1 year ago

Jerry Sadowitz warned everyone about that too.

22points

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#26

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened 12 TRW Engineers resigned their positions the morning of the Challenger incident in protest against risking the flight. NASA launched anyway. Should have listened.

SundaColugoToffee , Kennedy Space Center Report

Final score:

138points

Sar ska 1 year ago (edited)

Reading about the Challenger always gives me extra chills because it reminds me of when a teacher I once had told me a story about the Columbia (another NASA flight that exploded). Before he retired to work as a teacher, he was a fighter pilot and worked in aviation in various ways. When the Columbia exploded he was in a position to hear communications between Houston and the Columbia. I don’t remember what subject material I learned in class that day, but I’ll never forget hearing that the coms “didn’t actually go out before the disintegration happened and the crew didn’t die immediately either. In fact, both the coms and crew members were alive as the “disintegration” occurred for far longer than any person would ever be comfortable knowing. You’ll never hear those recordings, though. The ones from when they were falling. They’ll never be released.”

69points

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#27

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened While not to the degree that it ended up being but Eddie Murphy took a shot at Bill Cosby's holier than thou attitude in his comedy special Raw in 1987 during the height of The Cosby Show.

Tydrinator21 , David Shankbone Report

Final score:

127points

UKGrandad 1 year ago

Hilarious routine by Murphy. He says that Cosby rang to lecture him on the amount of swearing in his act, so Murphy rang Richard Pryor for advice. Pryor asks him 'When you swear, does the audience laugh"? "Yes", replied Murphy. "And does anybody else complain"? "No", said Murphy. "Well then", says Pryor, "ring Cosby back and tell him to have a Coke and a smile and to shut the f##k up".

99points

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#28

They were building a big baseball stadium in Wisconsin and it was a considerably windy day. The crane operator was tasked with lifting a large structure but refused stating dangerous gusts. The site foreman dismissed the crane operator and called in one who would do the job with no pushback. Well the crane tipped over with a load and workers were killed. Foreman and second operator were arrested, and iirc the first operator won a wrongful termination lawsuit.

King-o-lingus Report

Final score:

127points

Temporary Dork 1 year ago

And the people who pressured the site foreman into prioritizing time over safety were not legally responsible, probably.

48points

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#29

About 20 something years ago, I read articles in CBC about Eve teasing in India which was basically men groping women and how it would turn into outright gang rapes if the practice continued to be accepted.

ravynwave Report

Final score:

125points

Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Disgusting misogynistic refusal to take heed that a practice that was bad enough in itself would only get worse if the perpetrators were continually allowed to get away with it.

70points

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#30

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened H G Wells said he wanted his epitaph to be "I told you so. You damned fools!"

In The Land Ironclads (1903) he had written about a stalemated war fought by trench warfare that was broken by the invention of tanks, predicting what would happen in WW1.

In The War in the Air (1907) he predicted how airplanes would be used in war, including aerial bombardment of cities, and saw his predictions come true in WW2.

radams78 , George Charles Beresford Report

Final score:

123points

Andrea Squires 1 year ago

I am not looking forward to his War of the Worlds coming true

49points

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#31

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Seth Macfarlene has made fun of sleazy people in Hollywood for years before the Me Too movement. “Help I just escaped Kevin’s Spacey’s house” says Stewie running naked through a crowd of people.

OriginalName18 , EARL GIBSON III Report

Final score:

50points

Groundcontroltomajortom 1 year ago

Sometimes rumours are just that, rumours, and then sometimes they turn out to be true...

18points

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#32

George Carlin was basically a prophet about a lot of which he says

WealthSignal Report

Final score:

46points

Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago

No, he had what SO many lack...common sense. Long range vision based on where current events would end up. If that seems prophetic to you, I agree.

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#33

the financial crisis that was given by economist Anna Schwartz in 2005. She warned that a housing bubble was developing and that it would lead to a financial crisis, but her warnings were largely ignored.

balancedmelvin Report

Final score:

42points

Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Of course the a******s would ignore all common sense warnings when they’re raking in the bucks left and right. I was working in real estate accounting in the nineties. I overheard so many realtors telling customers that yes, the price of the house is high, but the interest rate on your mortgage is so low that your payment would be the same as it would if the house was less expansive but the interest rate was higher. That was their main selling point. Made zero sense to me then, because regardless of the interest rate, the amount of the loan was overinflated to nearly twice the actual value of the home—-which was the REAL issue. It’s how people ended up “upside down” on their mortgages. They owed way more than their home s were actually worth!

8points

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#34

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Cassandra of Troy was pretty spot on about that wooden horse

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Final score:

42points

JuniorCJ82 1 year ago

But she's just a woman!!! Why would anyone take her seriously? /s

28points

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#35

[Li Wenliang](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang), a Chinese doctor who tried to warn people through his private social media about Covid-19 in December 30 2019. Was summoned by the police in China for ‘spreading disinformation.’ [The Chinese government had been the first Covid deniers](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/a-timeline-of-chinas-response-in-the-first-days-of-covid-19/)during the virus’s earliest stage and contributed greatly to the global pandemic. Li died of Covid in Wuhan on February 7th 2020.

Puzzleheaded_Time599 Report

Final score:

40points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Brave soul

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#36

Climate activists have been warning us for quite some time, and I think we as a collective will be looked down on from future generations for not doing enough. Just a thought.

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Final score:

36points

3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

The common people can only do so much individually :( I hope future generations understand that it’s the incredibly wealthy and their corporations who are the biggest part of the problem. But they should have done something by now. We’ve been trying - but so many humans are against any kind of improvement to help our home environment for some inexplicable reason. How can we as a collective couple of generations really change everything? We can barely agree on wearing a piece of light breathable cloth on our faces only in public areas to slow the transmission of possible-viral-containing moisture droplets from our lungs and mouths - some people literally call that a “inhumane disgusting violation of their human rights” 🙄 if we can’t convince humans to care about other humans, how do we convince them to care about the environment?

25points

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#37

Dwight Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex during his [farewell address](https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address):

"A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be might, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. . . . American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. . . . This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. . . .Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. . . . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

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Final score:

35points

3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

I love you Americans but your country scares the f out of me. (Please don’t downvote me)

42points

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#38

The guy in the viral video who said “leave Brittany alone”

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3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

Cara Cunningham (at the time of the Britney video, named Chris Crocker).

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#39

Gary Webb told everyone that the CIA was responsible for the crack epidemic in the US.

He got his name smeared and was hounded into suicide (or "suicide" depending how conspiratorial you want to get).

He was also right.

Final score:

33points

#40

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened In college, this was in like ‘92. Me and my Muslim roommate were watching something on tv about Osama Bin Laden. And he said, “this guy is determined to accomplish an attack on American soil. And it’s going to happen in the next 10 years.” At the time, I thought he was crazy. “That would be a death sentence for anyone.” I told him I’d give him all the money in my bank account if that ever happened. I was so sure. Yeah, we all should’ve been listening to the warning signs back then.

MenudoFan316 , Hamid Mir Report

Final score:

32points

3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

Did you give him all the money in your bank account then?

26points

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#41

Courtney Love tried to warn people about Harvey Weinstein.

Johnny Rotten tried to warn people about Jimmy Saville.

CivilMaintenance4418 Report

Final score:

31points

#42

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Harry Markopolos. He figured out what Madoff was up to, and the SEC still blew him off for *years*, presumably because the proof he was presenting required math to understand.

gbs5009 , Michael Bucher Report

Final score:

29points

Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Could’ve saved so many people so much loss. Such a shame.

4points

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#43

My mother. Of course she warned the 18 yr old me about the scum bags I had as friends were going to hurt me one day. Did I listen? No. I was just soo frightend of being alone friendless I didn’t listen. Then I got hurt badly.

Sir-Fapp-Alot Report

Final score:

29points

Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

I’m sorry that happened to you. Hope you dumped the scumbags and are way better off now.

6points

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#44

Edward R. Murrow warned us about the dangers of the television medium being used mainly for entertainment and how this would lead to an ill informed population.

DeadSheepLane Report

Final score:

29points

Dawn Marie 1 year ago

I thought that was Facebook

4points

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

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#45

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened [Turkish Airlines flight 981](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981) would never have happened if McDonnell Douglas and Convair had heeded [Dan Applegate's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Applegate) warning about the cargo doors coming open during flight. He wrote a memo after the nonfatal [American Airlines flight 96](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96) advising that the doors had design flaws which would cause them to show as properly latched even when they weren't. If nothing were done, he said it would lead to catastrophic failure that would likely result in the loss of the plane. However, the fixes would be expensive and no one agreed who would eat the cost, so proper upgrades were put off. Instead, they tried implementing cheaper band-aid solutions that would ultimately prove ineffective.

TD5023 , Steve Fitzgerald Report

Final score:

28points

Steve Robert 1 year ago

Just like GM and the Pinto.

3points

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#46

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Bismarck warned the ruling German monarch of his time that Germany's status in Europe and the relative peace of the continent would last for only a short time. After his forced resignation, Bismarck said: "Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this". Twenty years later, Germany loses WWI and almost collapses.

amymoralis , Jacques Pilartz Report

Final score:

28points

UKGrandad 1 year ago

Wilhelm II, the German Emperor (and King of Prussia) during WWI, and King George V, the reigning British monarch at the time, were first cousins, both being grandsons of the late Queen Victoria. It was reported that early in the war Wilhelm thought it all a great adventure, writing to another cousin that 'If grandmother were still alive she would never have allowed me to do this', the 'this' in question being going to war with Britain.

15points

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#47

I cannot find the clip but about a year ago at a crypto conference a guy went on stage and publicly said that FTX was a huge fraud and we would all "see".

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Final score:

26points

Jessica Wood 1 year ago

I think everybody not involved in crypto guessed the same thing.

4points

#48

Billy Mitchell. He predicted a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in the 1920s, and warned the Navy that they needed to spend more money on air defenses and less on ships.

FireFlinger Report

Final score:

25points

Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Could have avoided an awful movie too.

4points

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#49

John Kenneth Galbraith. I haven't read his book "The Affluent Society", but from what I've heard some of the warnings laid out about the direction of US society were largely on point and still relevant today. He forshadows the environment movement, the culture around frivolous consumption, and argues that there is a severe lack of investment in people. Bare in mind this was back in the late 50s.

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Final score:

25points

Steve Robert 1 year ago

Profets are always wrong, until they're not.

5points

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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#50

Sinèad O’Connor.

Then we called her crazy and mocked her for 2 decades.

biglipsmagoo Report

Final score:

24points

Trond Hermansen 1 year ago

I need more information in this. Anyone?

1point

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#51

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Mitt Romney warned that Russia was the enemy of peace. He was laughed at by both (R)s and (D)s.

GamemasterJeff , United States Congress Report

Final score:

23points

WonderWoman 1 year ago

And yet, time after time, good ole Mitt votes with those who are in bed with the Russians - his political party. Mitt isn't a do-gooder, he is an opportunistic greedy sob.

21points

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#52

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened It happens all the time.

It's happening now. In the UK we have a serial rapist and paedophile, TV and radio presenter called Jimmy Saville who was protected by his (admittedly) great charity work but it was all just to divert attention away from his decades long abuse. Lots of people complained and they were all ridiculed, abused or ignored. Institutionally. The media loved him. TV and radio loved him. He was a one man band for children's TV with a load of shows and specials.

He was a national institution.

He died and it all came out. People crawled out of the woodwork to vilify him (mostly ex-friends or colleagues) but nobody went back to the whistleblowers to admit that they were right after all.

See Also Weinstien

Remember, people will always forgive your for being wrong long before they forgive you for being correct.

Edit: Typo

Magnus_40 , Jmb Report

Final score:

21points

Susie Elle 1 year ago (edited)

There is or was a documentary on Saville on Netflix I believe, bizarre story.

7points

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

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“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

“All Three Shot Out Pink”: Triplets' Baby Shower Turns Sour, Pregnant Wife Wants A Divorce

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#53

There is usually some warning that a person is going to commit a mass shooting.

crightwing Report

Final score:

21points

#54

30 Times People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened Every single junior officer working in Afghanistan for the last 20 years who universally called the ANA a worthless POS army and their government a hallow, dead money pit.

RobbexRobbex , @USArmy Report

Final score:

20points

Untethered Universe 1 year ago

The Afghan men deserve nothing but scorn for the way they delivered their wives and daughters to the horrific ways of the Taliban. Without a fight, they just surrendered. Cowards! They should take a leaf out of the Ukraine book, who are still standing against an enemy that -supposedly- 10x stronger than they are.

16points

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#55

The CIA. "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US was the title of the President's Daily Brief prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency and given to U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday, August 6, 2001. The brief warned, 36 days before the September 11 attacks, of terrorism threats from Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, including "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for a hijacking" of U.S. aircraft." [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US#:~:text=Bin%20Ladin%20Determined%20To%20Strike%20in%20US%20was%20the%20title,Monday%2C%20August%206%2C%202001.)

UgliestDisability Report

Final score:

20points

KDS 1 year ago

Bill Clinton warned George W Bush before he left the White House there could be an attack on American Soil of course Bush never listened.

7points

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#56

"To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country — the young men."

-- Sam Houston, who fought vigorously against secession, and as governor of Texas at the time, was thrown out of office, and another pro-Confederate governor was installed by the legislature in 1861. "Fellow-Citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been betrayed by the Convention, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the Constitution of Texas, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of my own conscience and manhood, which this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, I refuse to take this oath. I deny the power of this Convention to speak for Texas. ... I protest. ... against all the acts and doings of this convention and I declare them null and void."

He was a very conflicted person, with some of the highest highs in American history, while at other times dredging up some of the lowest lows, usually entirely due to his own failings and weaknesses. Saint and sinner all in one.

Birdy_Cephon_Altera Report

Final score:

20points

Steve Robert 1 year ago

He could be talking about the MAGA movement as well.

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#57

TLC warned us about chasing waterfalls but based on my instagram feed I swear it’s fallen on deaf ears

Birdie_Num_Num Report

Final score:

19points

Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago

As specially the AIDS epidemic addressed in the song.

0points

#58

Every US President from Regan forward advised Europe against building pipelines to Russia and becoming dependent on Russian gas and oil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/climate/europe-russia-gas-reagan.html

SHDrivesOnTrack Report

Final score:

19points

DC 1 year ago

Even we europeans didn't agree entirely with that - but we were called "cold warriors", lectured about the cold war being over and Putin being reliable, while he was, on broad daylight, breaking contracts and assignments whenever he saw fit. We knew, we didn't care, and now, even now, the stubborn still defend him and blame Ukraine and "The West".

13points

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#59

Lots of experts warned about the FTX fraud. The writing was on the wall. Idiots chose to ignore the red flags and made huge investments. Common people was lured in by the perceived trust.

Daikataro Report

Final score:

17points

Steve Robert 1 year ago

When you get your financial advice from actors and professional athletes, what do you expect to happen

3points

#60

Carl Sagan. In his book 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark', published in 1995, he wrote;

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"

He knew and no one really listened.

weasel_mullet Report

Final score:

17points

3 Owls In A Coat 1 year ago

Double double chicken wubble

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#61

Bill Hicks warned us about Bush Jr and the war in the middle east. Then he died shortly after..

Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex taking over politics and we didn't listen. Now military and mega corporations have completely taken over every aspect of politics.

the11th-acct Report

Final score:

14points

Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago

My niece railed against the Government. I politely pointed out corporate america has no constitution, nor bill of rights, only return for "shareholders" and we have the best government money can buy.

6points

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#62

President Eisenhower warned the United States about the dangers of the military-industrial complex as he was leaving office. We didn't listen.

https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y

Edit: u/destro23 made mention of this in an earlier comment that I missed. Give that comment the upvotes not mine (there are quotations there too!)

rexregisanimi Report

Final score:

8points

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Hi, I'm Egle! If you made it onto this page, you may want to learn more about me. Would recommend reading works by Edgar Allan Poe much more than reading this bio, but suit yourself. I have plentiful interests, starting from the things I studied in university (Propaganda & Film, Sci-fi Writing, Psychiatry & History of Mental Illness, etc.) and ending with an addiction to tattoos, documentaries, and dancing in front of a mirror at 3am. I'm also a budding artist; I dabble in painting and drawing random bits of chaos. My favorite desert is Tiramisu.

Hi, I'm Egle! If you made it onto this page, you may want to learn more about me. Would recommend reading works by Edgar Allan Poe much more than reading this bio, but suit yourself. I have plentiful interests, starting from the things I studied in university (Propaganda & Film, Sci-fi Writing, Psychiatry & History of Mental Illness, etc.) and ending with an addiction to tattoos, documentaries, and dancing in front of a mirror at 3am. I'm also a budding artist; I dabble in painting and drawing random bits of chaos. My favorite desert is Tiramisu.

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I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

I am a Visual editor at Bored Panda, I'm determined to find the most interesting and the best quality images for each post that I do. On my free time I like to unwind by doing some yoga, watching all kinds of movies/tv shows, playing video and board games or just simply hanging out with my cat

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Old Roadie 1 year ago

Martha Mitchell. She was called crazy, warning us of President Nixon's illegal activities. She was assaulted, injected with some unknown substance, and very quickly died of cancer. She did not believe it to be an accident. There would be no Watergate Papers without this brave woman.

19points

Groundcontroltomajortom 1 year ago

Watch the documentary hypernomalisation, big eye opener for a lot of this stuff....

7points

Debbie 1 year ago

From wikipedia: "HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer." Thanks for the recommendation, it looks interesting.

12points

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Icecream Sarang 1 year ago

In 1925, Brigadier General William Mitchell wrote a book describing how Japan might attack Hawaii in an aerial strike, after repeatedly warning American Assets on Hawaii were vulnerable to air strikes from the Pacific Rim.

4points

gerard julien 1 year ago

People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened : " France knew of and told CIA about al-Qaeda hijack plans prior to 9/11 : Reports produced by the French secret services reveal that they knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks on the United States at least eight months before the 9/11 attacks and that the attack was going to involve U.S. jetliners, the French newspaper Le Monde reports. Le Monde also says one of the reports was handed to Bill Murray, a CIA agent working at the Paris station at the time, but no record of that handover has been released in the U.S. governments 9/11 commission report in 2004. "

2points

Barbara Vandewalle 1 year ago

To many high ups in the US government cannot have it known they ignored the warnings.

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Sasy 1 year ago

Very good post.

2points

N Burnette 1 year ago

A lot of duplicates...

2points

Marnie 1 year ago

I wish someone would make a movie about all these posts!

0points

Tardis42 1 year ago

Lots of people say lots of things all the time. Sometime they're ignored and nothing happens because they were wrong. Sometimes they're listened to and they were right and terrible things are averted. Sometimes they're listened to and they were wrong and there's a tremendous waste of time, energy, money, manpower, etc. And sometimes they're ignored and terrible things happened because they were right.

0points

Old Roadie 1 year ago

Martha Mitchell. She was called crazy, warning us of President Nixon's illegal activities. She was assaulted, injected with some unknown substance, and very quickly died of cancer. She did not believe it to be an accident. There would be no Watergate Papers without this brave woman.

19points

Groundcontroltomajortom 1 year ago

Watch the documentary hypernomalisation, big eye opener for a lot of this stuff....

7points

Debbie 1 year ago

From wikipedia: "HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer." Thanks for the recommendation, it looks interesting.

12points

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Icecream Sarang 1 year ago

In 1925, Brigadier General William Mitchell wrote a book describing how Japan might attack Hawaii in an aerial strike, after repeatedly warning American Assets on Hawaii were vulnerable to air strikes from the Pacific Rim.

4points

gerard julien 1 year ago

People Warned The World About Something But No One Listened : " France knew of and told CIA about al-Qaeda hijack plans prior to 9/11 : Reports produced by the French secret services reveal that they knew that al-Qaeda was planning attacks on the United States at least eight months before the 9/11 attacks and that the attack was going to involve U.S. jetliners, the French newspaper Le Monde reports. Le Monde also says one of the reports was handed to Bill Murray, a CIA agent working at the Paris station at the time, but no record of that handover has been released in the U.S. governments 9/11 commission report in 2004. "

2points

Barbara Vandewalle 1 year ago

To many high ups in the US government cannot have it known they ignored the warnings.

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Sasy 1 year ago

Very good post.

2points

N Burnette 1 year ago

A lot of duplicates...

2points

Marnie 1 year ago

I wish someone would make a movie about all these posts!

0points

Tardis42 1 year ago

Lots of people say lots of things all the time. Sometime they're ignored and nothing happens because they were wrong. Sometimes they're listened to and they were right and terrible things are averted. Sometimes they're listened to and they were wrong and there's a tremendous waste of time, energy, money, manpower, etc. And sometimes they're ignored and terrible things happened because they were right.

0points

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