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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The slaughter of Native Americans. The saluter 96% population drop (1492–1900) > +4 million (est. 1492-1776); 350,000 (58% population decline from 1800 to 1890);.

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Winnie the Moo 1 week ago

Such a waste of wisdom and human lives. Just because they look different from the dipshits that invaded their land

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The worst atrocity in human history wasn’t a single act but the slow unraveling of our own compassion. Every time we turned a blind eye to suffering—from the known genocides to the uncountable injustices we witness daily—we allowed humanity’s darkest impulses to fester. It’s not just the big moments that haunt us; it’s the every day decisions we make to overlook the pain of others that is the true horror of our existence. Let’s not just remember history; let’s vow to change the narrative tomorrow.

halladrigummy4 , Andrew Neel Report

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Debbie 1 week ago

I think it starts small. Treat people around you in your own bubble with compassion - don't let your world revolve around just you. It's easy to point into the distance and say: That country f****d up. It started somewhere untill it reaches boiling point. Many western countries have major polarisation - you are either left or right, being in the middle ground is unacceptable. Nuanced opinions are shot down because it's neither one of the extremes. Look at the people in your day to day live with compassion. That does not mean pity or being a doormat, but try, without words, to SEE people and their needs and wants. Today's society is very very individualistic:

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Leopold II of Belgium. Monster.

Edit: Sorry, I did not actually answer the question correctly. It should have been:

The [unaliving] of fifteen million Congolese by Leopold of Belgium. Monster.

longleggedwader , Louis Gallait Report

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Graham Chapman (He/He) 1 week ago

Unalivng?? What the hell???

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The near extermination of the bison population during the 1800’s. This was not only caused by Western expansion but the bison were directly targeted to weaken Native American resistance in the region and force them onto reservations. The bison population dropped to ~300-500 from ~30-60 million and next to disease probably caused the most deaths among the Native American tribes.

WhiteCheddaMan , Thomas Fields Report

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UKGrandad 1 week ago (edited)

I recall reading something years ago that it was done in part to make space for vast ranches for imported cattle. Also, some companies ran railroad hunts; the trains would stop wherever a herd was near the line and the passengers would just open fire without even leaving the open carriages. Once the herd had scattered too far from the guns the train would move on to the next herd, leaving the bodies where they fell.

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AchillesNtortus , Alexander Wienerberger Report

30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The Holodomor. Not in absolute terms the worst, but a reminder that Russia has never given up on its genocidal ambitions towards Ukraine.

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Joe Bloe 1 week ago

3.5 to 5 millions death genocide. Yes, it is among the worst genocide.

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty So many atrocities throughout history; Mao’s Great Chinese Famine probably took the most lives in recorded history:
between 20 and 55 million [people died], with the most common estimate being 30 million.

Trumpswells , Unknown author Report

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StarCrossedFriday 1 week ago

What happens when you deify a leader who has no idea about farming or ecology but makes rules for them anyway. I’m sure Trump is in awe of him.

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RedMarbles 1 week ago

He would certainly be impressed with such iron-fisted power, unfortunately. I see he has a few fans and/or trolls down below who love their country so much they'd like to fundamentally alter it.

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amy lee 1 week ago

I bet he'll outdo him, when he isn't too busy playing golf.

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Jaaawn 1 week ago

My word, some of you are obsessed with that man! Taking the worst famine in history and making it about the USA?!

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Joshua David 1 week ago

Sad that no one even knows exactly how many people lost thier lives.

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iseefractals 1 week ago

Current estimates range between 40-80 million, while the widely accepted estimate is now around 45 million. Considerably more than even stalin, and multiples of what Hitler was responsible for.

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Rich Black 1 week ago

FDR backed a monster.

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Greenmantle 1 week ago

Where the saying goes "never waste a grain of rice"

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Gen.Stal 1 week ago

Western sources often claim that the largest famine in history took place during the Great Leap Forward. Official Chinese documents released after Mao's death put the death toll at 16.5 million, which may be exaggerated, while bourgeois sources claim that 30 or even 38 million people died. Other sources such as The China Quarterly (a CIA funded outlet) claim 50-60 million died.

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90HD 1 week ago

ahh yes my favorite, a genocide denier

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty During World War II, Japan’s Unit 731 conducted horrific human experiments as part of biological and chemical warfare research. Thousands of prisoners, primarily Chinese civilians and POWs, were subjected to deadly tests, including deliberate infection with diseases like the plague, frostbite exposure, live dissections without anesthesia, and weapon testing. These experiments aimed to understand disease progression and push the limits of the human body but resulted in severe suffering and loss of life.

No_Cow7073 , 松岡明芳 Report

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LaserBrain 1 week ago (edited)

The Americans gave those guys a free pass in the war crimes trials after the war- and some of them passports- in exchange for the information they learned during their horrible experiments

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Technicolor_Reindeer , Giselle Bordoy WMAR Report

30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Plenty of WWII mentions already, so I will mention Argentina's "Dirty War"

Among other things, a lot of babies were stolen from political opponents, and a lot are still being discovered today having been raised by their parents' killers.

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Winnie the Moo 1 week ago

Damn

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Two words: gas chambers.

They knew they were going to murder so many people that they looked for the most efficient method possible.

ReebX1 , Jolanta Dyr Report

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Disgruntled Pelican 1 week ago

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they start with gas vans before "graduating" to gas chambers once they realized the efficiency and got their hands on Zyklon B?

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty As someone who visited Cambodia, seeing the Killing Fields firsthand changed me. There's this tree they used to kill babies by swinging them against it. I still can't process how humans could do that to their own people.

EroticLadyxv , Jwslubbock Report

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Winnie the Moo 1 week ago

Wdym ‘swinging’ them against it? How horrible!!!!

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty There are a lot of interesting answers here, and that's mainly because humans do a lot of terrible things to each other. That said, my answer is the Rwandan Genocide.

For those out of the loop, the Rwandan Genocide began on April 7, 1994 and lasted around 100 days. Tensions between ethnic groups (Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa), which had been boiling since the days of Belgian colonialism and led to several previous conflicts, finally boiled over when a Hutu leader was [unalived]. Hutu extremists, who had been whipped up with ultranationalist and racist propaganda and had been preparing this for some time, began rounding up their Tutsi neighbors, coworkers, and even friends and [unaliving] them.

There were no concentration camps. There were no mock trials. There was no war to hide these atrocities. People were simply taken from their homes, jobs, or cars and hacked to death with machetes. The Twa, primarily rural farmers, had their homes and farms burned to the ground. Tutsi women and girls (as well as Hutu women who married Tutsi men) were gang r***d by organized "r**e squads," almost all of whom were HIV positive. When the Hutu militias were stopped, almost 600,000 people were [dead]. Another 2 million people were displaced and life expectancy plummeted. In the aftermath, Rwanda's government implemented strict laws regarding the broadcasting of certain language, as much of the genocidal ideology had been spread through Hutu supremacist radio stations, and many of these laws are still in place today.

saxophonefartmaster , Adam Jones Report

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Kristal 1 week ago

Wow, sounds similar to the holocaust in terms of utter insanity and people not tolerating people that aren't like them. This sounds just horrible.

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Slave trade, hard to choose which era.

RolloTony97 , Marc Ferrez Report

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Cee Cee 1 week ago

Sadly this is still going on.

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flamingo_button , Lemon A E (Sergeant) Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Comfort women. From 1932 to 1945, Japanese imperial armed forces forced women from all over the world to be sex slaves in korea and surrounding areas. Japan still denies it ever happened today.
I found out about it from watching a kdrama called Tomorrow.

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TribbleThinking 1 week ago (edited)

There are women out there still waiting for a proper recognition and apology for this. It's ridiculous for the aggressor country to complain about bad things that happened to them during the war and be so resolute in not properly acknowledging the horrific wrongs committed against these women, many of whom ended up in ill health, childless and even dead.

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asrdo , Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The atrocity of Palestine. Why is no one mentioning that?

+78 years and counting of ongoing illegal colonialism and occupation.

Within that, there's the massacre of Tantura, a little town there. There's a documentary about it if anyone's interested. The veterans were saying that they [unalived] Arab women and children with machine guns while laughing.

That, and many other horrible crimes under those 78 years.

What's happening there right now is a complete genocide aiming to decimate that place off of the face of the earth with the people in it.

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IORN 1 week ago

Before pleading for one side of the conflict read about the pogroms in that area. Start with 1834 and go until 1948. What happens today has deep roots.

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HolyKlickerino , Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Stalin's Great Purge. God knows how many people [died] all for the paranoia of one man.

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Gen.Stal 1 week ago

The purge began on 2 July 1937, and 681,692 people were sentenced to death even though Stalin and Molotov set a limit of only 72,950 executions to be carried out by three-person tribunals (troikas) and limited these executions to known criminals, kulaks, and counterrevolutionaries. Only 300,000 people were arrested during this period because many people who had been sentenced to death avoided capture. In addition to the troikas, military courts passed 30,514 death sentences and regular courts passed 4,387. Overall, under 200,000 people were executed during the Great Purge.Several people were falsely arrested or executed due to the infiltration of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs, by traitors and foreign agents, the foremost being Nikolai Yezhov and his immediate subordinates, who had the task of causing a popular insurgency against the Soviet government by causing an excess of arrests and executions.

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The Armenian genocide.

Fun-Rush-2329 Report

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Joe Bloe 1 week ago

Turkey still deny it, because it goes against their fabricated national history. You can't deny your past.

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Colonization of Africa. Probably not the worst necessarily, but one with massive and far reaching implications.

An entire continent set back for generations socially, culturally, and economically.

Grouchy_Ad_6202 , John Thomson Report

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Joe Bloe 1 week ago

The african dictators really didn't help afterward either...

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WrensthavAviovus , Unknown author Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Ghengis khan killed so may people during his life that he is responsible for a noticeable CO2 decrease in the global ice record.

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MagicJacket 1 week ago

He was also a prolific "forced-sex" perpetrator and is estimated to have impregnated more that 1.000 women in his life. Even today, 1 in 200 men are his direct descendants.

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UniDiablo , China Incident Photograph Album Volume 2 Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The R**e of Nanking. Read the book on it earlier this year and I'm usually unphased by talks and videos of death, torture, and gore but that book... The kind of stuff they thought up doing to their victims was abhorrent and unbelievable.

Some of the worst things I remember were

>The [ending] of families including the women and infant children, forced incest of fathers to daughters, sons to mothers... People hung on meat hooks by their tongues...Cutting out an unborn late trimester baby from the mother and [unaliving] it in front of her.

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Matt Du 1 week ago

The R*pe of Nanking isn't a euphemism for the desolation of land and people it is literal. A lot of the others on this list you try to justify to yourself as war or a madman or even straight up genocide but this went beyond all that. It was just sickening, this was torture, mutilation and rape on a massive scale. Age made no difference for the 20,000 to 80,000 r*pe victims. To save bullets they would r*pe them a final time with bayonets or bamboo. Babies beheaded or burned alive while the mothers watched while being r*ped. They would tie up groups of men, soak them with gasoline or use them for bayonet practice. It was a psychological war, they didn't just want to k*ll them they wanted to break their will. The estimated 300,000 that died seems small compared to the others but this was within the first 6 weeks. That thousands of men could perpetrate that scale of depravity and enjoyment from it within that time frame is terrifying.

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The German [unaliving] of Jews during WW2. Millions dead.

CrossroadsBailiff , Bernhard Walter - Yad Vashem Report

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Greenmantle 1 week ago

And gay people, people with intellectual disabilities, people with physical disabilities, and Roma people.

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Disastrous-Net4003 , Sayf al-vâhidî et al Report

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty Siege of Bagdad. It was said that the streets ran yellow with human fat that melted from the heat. 1 million were [unalived] over a couple of days.

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30 Terrifying Moments In Human History That Prove The Past Isn’t Always Pretty The Rwanda genocide. The perpetrators and the world which abandoned Rwandans to their deadly fate for 100 days are unforgivable.

MarciaGrey254 , Dylan Walters Report

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JenniB 1 week ago

I apologize if this sounds too simple but first world countries will only send send their troops if the country this is happening in has a natural resource they can take afterwards. Unless you have something "they" want "they" won't come to save you...

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Lyop 1 week ago (edited)

OMG this "unalive' BS!! STOP!!!! When did the word "kill" become offensive? We are better than this, people.

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FROGLET 1 week ago

And then they censored Adolf Hitler with [The German Dictator]? WTF!?

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Fellfromthemoon 1 week ago

Don't worry, many of our recent, commonly used words started as similar euphemisms. In a few years, unalived will be the norm, and it'll be also censored.

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Joe Bloe 1 week ago

YouTube censorship spilling elsewhere...

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Huddo's sister 1 week ago

The stolen generation in Australia (and similar ones in other countries). So many Aboriginal people had their children taken away simply for being Aboriginal. Because obviously they can't take care of them properly /s. Add to this the unwed mothers who had their babies taken away, some being told they were still births when they weren't. So much generational trauma still being felt because of it.

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qkppyrxvfx 1 week ago

Thank you for adding this

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Cuppa tea? 1 week ago

Irish famine in 19th century caused by English. In 30 years the population of Ireland dropped by half, not recovered till today.

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 week ago

I don't think it's widely known just how many concentration camps and atrocities there were in Slovenia in WWII. My grandparents were from Slovenia. I can't recall the name of the village, but my grandmother (and her own grandparents, whom she lived with) witnessed (and experienced) many terrible things during the war. The one I will never get out of my head is when the SS locked an entire village of people, including babies and elderly, in three or four structures and set them on fire. Because someone was accused of harbouring a Partisan. Nan's best friend died that night. They found the charred remains of fifteen family members in one house, including a newborn, on their knees in praying positions. Nan and her grandparents saw it all from further up the mountains, from their own village. And there were thermal baths at a hotel in Nan's village, and the dressing rooms were used as interrogation chambers by the SS. Nan, age 12, helped to wash the blood out of them.

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Greenmantle 1 week ago

Horrendous

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Mr.Li 1 week ago

This thread was so hard to read....what is wrong with telling the truth. Killing is a normal word. Unalive sounds so ridiculous....

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Heras buddy 1 week ago

Nobody mentioned the Indian caste system. How many of the "Untouchables" have died over the years due to neglect and starvation.

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ginshun 1 week ago

Unalived is not a word and make you sound like a dipshit when you use it. Literally stopped reading after the second one. Shame, seemed like an interesting article.

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Debbie 1 week ago

I need a dog or cat post after reading this.

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Chich 1 week ago

The witch hunts in Europe

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90HD 1 week ago

Waco Texas massacre

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Mad McQueen 1 week ago

The rise of entitlement and loss of manners. No one even corrects someone that the floor in inside and the ground is outside. Proper grammar even.

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Sapna Sarfare 1 week ago

No one spoke about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine under British rule

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Charles Kormos 1 week ago

A common thread here is "one man". One man in power, millions die.

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Deborah B 1 week ago

I read things like this, and it makes me wonder how the human race has survived itself so long? It actually surprises me that it looks like it will be climate change that kills us off in the end, not just our racial tendency to murderous cruelty.

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AnnaB Premium 1 week ago

Who ever said the past was pretty?

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liam newton-harding 1 week ago (edited)

“Killed”…the word is “killed”…use it. It means something. It has connotations, and context. If you think people are going to be triggered, then put the phrase “trigger warning” at the beginning of the article. Unalive is a weak, meaningless, nonsense word.

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Gershav Manmohan 1 week ago

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RU Sirius 1 week ago

A U-ian writer to raise again attention to U-ain

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GREYNOOK 1 week ago

these are some of the atrocities that we didn't see whilst, i started by seeing the Rwandan genocide, full forward to 2023/2024, the Palestinian Genocide ongoing without a word or AN IRON CLAD FIST STOP to the continuous genocidal activities in GAZAA. We'll live with these horrific memories.

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StarCrossedFriday 1 week ago

I wouldn’t exactly call them the same, in terms of atrocities.

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StPaul9 1 week ago

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Gozer LeGozerian 1 week ago

Men....

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Lyop 1 week ago (edited)

OMG this "unalive' BS!! STOP!!!! When did the word "kill" become offensive? We are better than this, people.

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FROGLET 1 week ago

And then they censored Adolf Hitler with [The German Dictator]? WTF!?

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Fellfromthemoon 1 week ago

Don't worry, many of our recent, commonly used words started as similar euphemisms. In a few years, unalived will be the norm, and it'll be also censored.

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Joe Bloe 1 week ago

YouTube censorship spilling elsewhere...

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Huddo's sister 1 week ago

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qkppyrxvfx 1 week ago

Thank you for adding this

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Cuppa tea? 1 week ago

Irish famine in 19th century caused by English. In 30 years the population of Ireland dropped by half, not recovered till today.

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 week ago

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Greenmantle 1 week ago

Horrendous

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Mr.Li 1 week ago

This thread was so hard to read....what is wrong with telling the truth. Killing is a normal word. Unalive sounds so ridiculous....

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Heras buddy 1 week ago

Nobody mentioned the Indian caste system. How many of the "Untouchables" have died over the years due to neglect and starvation.

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ginshun 1 week ago

Unalived is not a word and make you sound like a dipshit when you use it. Literally stopped reading after the second one. Shame, seemed like an interesting article.

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Debbie 1 week ago

I need a dog or cat post after reading this.

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Chich 1 week ago

The witch hunts in Europe

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90HD 1 week ago

Waco Texas massacre

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Mad McQueen 1 week ago

The rise of entitlement and loss of manners. No one even corrects someone that the floor in inside and the ground is outside. Proper grammar even.

1point

Sapna Sarfare 1 week ago

No one spoke about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and the Bengal Famine under British rule

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Charles Kormos 1 week ago

A common thread here is "one man". One man in power, millions die.

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Deborah B 1 week ago

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AnnaB Premium 1 week ago

Who ever said the past was pretty?

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liam newton-harding 1 week ago (edited)

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Gershav Manmohan 1 week ago

This comment has been deleted.

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RU Sirius 1 week ago

A U-ian writer to raise again attention to U-ain

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GREYNOOK 1 week ago

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StarCrossedFriday 1 week ago

I wouldn’t exactly call them the same, in terms of atrocities.

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