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SgtPugsly
Civilization II taught me that Gandhi likes to rush nukes.
smarthedragon
Wasnt it hitler that forced soldiers to raise puppies then kill them to prove their dedication?
ZKrock
They get PISSED if your opinion or morals differ in any way, shape or form. Also, it's a very satisfying place for a troll buffet. AYCE.
HitlersArtCritic
@OP He was also not even German, he was Austrian.
fadecomic
The Edison thing is blown out of proportion, though. He did lay the groundwork for semiconductors and organized labs.
TheManEric
It's good that we talk about people honestly. You can appreciate people's accomplishments while being aware of their faults.
Sprinkleton
Hitler, for example
notacobra
Che was a bit of a homophobe, Che was a bit of a homophoooo-obe. Tim Minchin anyone?
jsexton
Fuck. Yes. Divide the world into parrots and canaries.
eclect0
Last panel shows exactly why I take all the other shit with a grain of salt.
ZombieHugsAreBestHugs
Sad but true.
astrogeek
It's almost like they are people and flawed like everyone else.
18yearoldBlackDynamite
ThatGuyWhoThinksEveryoneIsAPineapple
Oh, Hitler! You silly pineapple!
kafkaandfriends
I can't wait to find out which historic figure will disappoint me next!
TalkingSnake
Thomas Jefferson!
JokeDestroyer
Abraham Lincoln smoked SO MUCH METH.
PotassiumLover
You heard about Christopher Columbus?
sangatster
Exciting, isn't it?!
ICarpeYourDiems
All of them. Turns out they're just people with same imperfect social tools we all have. Who knew?
Diewithasmile
I've actually read a little bit about mother Teresa...she was kinda of a piece of shit apparently
MartinLoofahKing
Hitler was a sensitive man
OfficialSponsor
It's now known that he liked younger boys. So quite sensitive indeed
TracyAllenParks
you'd be sensitive too if you only had 1 testicle
39NoodleTaker
RIP Seth Putnam.
AgentHomo
Hitler gave the poison to his dog first to make sure it would kill instead of just putting him under...
AgentHomo
He was afraid of waking up in allied custody
krapmyself
Birthday Cake is my hero. It's never disappointed me.
highstream
Stories and movies have taught us to think that people are either good or evil, but people are much more complex than that.
HighMasterLurker
That is why I love Japanese/Korean stories. People are not good or evil. They are both depending on circumstances.
LolitaBunny
Wait wait.. Mother Teresa was an asshole and Ghandi a perve? Some one please educate me...
AttackOfTheSpaceBat
Trump actually is a horrible business man, bankrupting his companies on several occasions. His father left him 2mil inheritance and made *c*
AttackOfTheSpaceBat
It easy to get out of going into the military during the conflict. He's no patriot and no deal maker, yet we still celebrate him for these.
Berethian
Teresa was a lot more than "kind of asshole-ish". She was an asshole. A huge asshole.
songbirdsweetandsourjane
Why?
weardsarsrea
Enjoyed buttsex and anal play real good
Berethian
For her own medical care, she received the best that was on offer. Her clinics received millions in donation, but horribly misused the funds
Berethian
Basically? She believed that suffering was a gift from God, and believed that people should suffer. Except for her own medical care.
ObliqueRay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKP7w9xZVl4
idiotn00b
Hitler was a most definitely not nice to dogs. He tried to impress his niece by brutally beating his dog. It worked but still.
gajillion
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them 1/2
gajillion
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood 2/2
OfficialSponsor
And pee??
Molvanian
Eh, pervy doesn't mean he wasn't wise. Look at Master Roshi!... Huh I wonder what Gandhi's finishing move was now...
Sprinkleton
Also, he was pretty racist towards Africans. Dude had some good ideas but overall was kind of a douchebag
ShadeEmberi
did you see one of the DBS eps? he was pretty much in sexual assault territory...that entire ep was very uncomfortable.
Molvanian
I actually did not. Got a link to the video?
ShadeEmberi
i recommend watching from the start of the series if you havent http://www.dragonballenglish.com/dragon-ball-super-episode-89-english-sub/
Molvanian
I hear it's better to start after the second arc.
ShadeEmberi
it depends, if you have seen the movies you can probs skip but they are slightly different, the goku black arc is pretty good though
TalkingSnake
Mormon missionaries were very popular in the Pacific islands, leading many to move to Utah, where they were segregated by the LDS leadership
BerwynBrewyn
Lol what idiots on both sides.
fatfury
LSD leadership sounds more fun
stripeypurple3
.... to play football for BYU.
IreallyMGur
They only started allowing black church members in UT a few decades ago after an 'epiphany' by church leaders.
mweyamutsvene
Factually inaccurate. Priesthood is the word you are looking for.
nerdthoughts
Always allowed black members, but couldn't hold the priesthood. Still though, shits fuckey
MetaSomma
I'm not familiar enough with LDS history, but you sound like you're being sarcastic. Can you explain?
CailetRille
Basically just that. One elementary school I went to in Salt Lake I was a minority being white with all these pacific islanders (mostly
CailetRille
Tongans). The church had felt at one point that is it had dark skin you were unclean. Part of it was that believe Africans to be the
CailetRille
Children of Cain, and they were punished for his sin of killing his brother. There are others similar, like with native Americans
CailetRille
And they were only recognized as being humans worthy of their priesthood in the 1970s.
Bleen
Can someone link me/elaborate on why mother T was an asshole? Asking for a friend..
CGWN
Baptized the dying without their permission. Allowed patients to go without treatment so that they could get to heaven faster.
CGWN
Also, she officially praised the Duvalier family, the people who basically ruined Haiti forever, because they "clearly loved their people."
NonSequiteer
Terrible bedside manner. Pretty racist from what I hear, and if you weren't a devout catholic she could care less if you were suffering.
01011000010000100110101001100111010000110110010000111001
No no. She loved suffering. She tended to the suffering. Never helping, cause that'd make the suffering stop. Was kinda creepy that way.
StonesOnTheHill
Martin Luther had some rather unkind things to say about Jews.
CGWN
And a fondness for prostitutes that would outdo Jesus.
Justarandomgiffairy
I realize this is 21 hours old but you have to say Martin Luther King, because Martin Luther was a 15th-16th century priest/ theologian.
StonesOnTheHill
Yes, he was, and he did have some very unkind things to say about Jews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_and_antisemitism
Justarandomgiffairy
Oh. I'm sorry I assumed you were referring to Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. As I assume the other commenter did
StonesOnTheHill
I'm not gonna pretend to agree that I think that's a reasonable assumption, but I see how the mistake can possibly be made.
Justarandomgiffairy
If you like I can possibly explain why it's a reasonable assumption
TalkingSnake
The Emancipation Proclamation happened because Lincoln needed more black men to enlist in the army, not for any moral reasons.
CountSnarkula
Congrats you just located our national religion and must now pay for blaspheming!
TheManEric
Some of the downvoters may feel that way, but it's not totally accurate. The emancipation proclamation happened for a lot of different -
TheManEric
reasons. To say it was motivated by one single idea isn't truthful.
CountSnarkula
The last thing a these people want to hear about is facts figures and historical truths.
TheManEric
The Union definitely needed more soldiers, but Lincoln kept the war going to get the thirteenth amendment passed. There were definitely some
TheManEric
moral reasons. Plenty of Northerners were abolitionists, otherwise the amendment that ended slavery would not have passed.
TheManEric
For some it may just have been to acquire additional volunteers, but to argue it had one explicit purpose is somewhat misleading.
Primaldirectory010
And to make it a moral war which meant europe couldnt help the south anymore because they had already illegalized slavery.
TalkingSnake
Our Civil War was maintained as police action all the way through. If a foreign power touched the Confederacy the North would have had --
TalkingSnake
justification to involve foreign allied troops. Which were needed.
TheManEric
Okay, um... When you say touched, what do you mean? And foreign allied troops? Nobody in Europe was going to send troops to fight in the -
TheManEric
American Civil War.
Sprinkleton
Really don't know why you're getting downvoted, other than people's ignorance. Lincoln literally said slavery was in no way his main concern
Sprinkleton
http://www.nytimes.com/1862/08/24/news/letter-president-lincoln-reply-horace-greeley-slavery-union-restoration-union.html
Sprinkleton
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it,...
Sprinkleton
and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."
Sprinkleton
He just wanted to preserve the Union. Slaves were not his concern at the time
TalkingSnake
So this gets downvoted?
TheManEric
Because it's not entirely accurate. I'm sure that was part of the motivation, but it wasn't the only one.
TalkingSnake
Arizona is the 48th state because the US govt. forgot to ratify the territory for decades.
VadersLesserKnownCousin
But have you hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?
GreedyJungle
I was born there. It's the best state with the best desert! You guys have the most relaxed firearms laws now too! So there's that!
TalkingSnake
Woohoo! We may be historically underrepresented and forever ten years behind the national economy, but I got a gun!
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TalkingSnake
Thank you.
TheDarkLordOfTrees
It only takes one year to get Macedonian citizenship, one of the lowest time requirements in the world.
Justarandomgiffairy
That's kind of hilarious
TalkingSnake
Our natural resources were ravaged while we had no equal representation.
Justarandomgiffairy
Less hilarious, but still funny. I live in the Commonwealth of Virginia. No matter when we were ratified we've been America since this whole
Cheomesh
I'm from Maryland. We stood at Long Island so Washington and the rest of the army could escape - somehow Deleware beats us to 1st.
Justarandomgiffairy
I love Maryland and I will live there one day, but... you don't get to be indignant. America started in Virginia, MD is just our cast offs
narwhaffle
Except the part of you that left because they weren't quite all aboard the confederacy train.
TalkingSnake
Not really. Very few Americans were in the region during the Civil War, we only just took it from Mexico.
Justarandomgiffairy
Thing started. (Except, yet not really, during that little secession phase).
TalkingSnake
Being Arizonan feels a bit like a cousin. We have a lot in common with the rest of the US but we aren't considered in family plans.
IreallyMGur
When Oregon was founded, it was meant to be, by law, a white only state.
Justarandomgiffairy
Oh American history. You and your racist little shenanigans.
LMeire
It was also a coin-flip away from being part of Canada.
TalkingSnake
Isaac Newton was crazy and tarnished the history of another great mind of his time out of spite.
Ewanator
Like 3 times.
MassiveOctopus
He also died a virgin
soulsource
He invented reeded edges on coins to prevent coin clipping. Who got caught coin clipping lost a hand while Newton was master of the mint.
mitharas
Afaik he invented modern r&d, which is very nice in the long run.
Ewanator
Afaik?
Ewanator
Good point, but you could argue Galileo could also hold that title.
MegaDeuce
Who, Hooke? You'd burn a portrait too if somebody kept claiming you stole your greatest achievement from them.
TalkingSnake
Hooke is remembered as a hunchback! He mathematically proven laws for fucks sake and he goes down as Quazymodo.
MegaDeuce
As a physics major I remember him as the guy who discovered the spring law, the guy who invented the microscope, and the guy who started
MegaDeuce
a debate with Newton that lead to Newton discovering the laws of gravity a.k.a. the largest physics discovery ever.
MegaDeuce
Oh and he designed the London asylum that came to be known as "Bedlam"
Ewanator
Hooke, Liebniz and one other
GigglesthatJiggles
Leibnez I think.
MegaDeuce
Oh, Leibnez. Yeah that actually was Newton being an asshole. They both invented a form of Calculus and there was a priority dispute?
Ewanator
Yeah. Leibniz published it first but Newton claimed to have created it first but not published. There is evidence both ways, iirs
Ewanator
*iirc
TalkingSnake
Newton also did the very same quite often btw. Every academic before him was a giant, contemporaries were fickless idiots to him.
ThisisInteresting
Also, he study alchemy as a real science.
MetaSomma
Because no one had disproven it yet, would be my guess
Ewanator
Yeah but at the time it was a significant part of chemistry.
IvnWng
Isn't alchemy an early version of chemistry?
Ewanator
In the same way that Aristotle thinking the universe was air, earth, water, fire and quintesessence (space/heaven) was physics, yes.
convixion0
It's a little more complicated than that. Alchemical processes were the foundation for a lot of the processes modern chemistry, and the 1/?
convixion0
involved tools were normal things adapted to better suit the needs of alchemists. The mysticism involved with it came later and was a 2/3
PotassiumLover
Christopher Columbus exploited, enslaved, and mutilated the friendly natives he encountered
TheConformityInCommentorsHereIsAstronomical
He's right up there, with the moistest assholes of all times.
MrFrogNo3
Lets not forget his child sex slave trafficking
MetaSomma
I think that's a pretty commonly known one these days
delpharseven
Question for Americans: why do you still celebrate him? He was so bad at geography that he went to his grave believing he had reached Asia.
orangecicle
I don't. Fuck Columbus.
TheOneTrueJoebot
But he make us not have go school for day of fun time
zeggitttttttttttt
The weirdest part is that Columbus never set foot in what would be known as the United States.
Halbeard
Because we have the worst public education system of all the 1st world countries, and the government has no intention of improving it.
SoupCanMan
History is written by the victors. Always. It wasn't until the late 80s that the movement to teach ALL of American history got a foot hold >
SoupCanMan
Strong enough to survive. Even now, the Texas publishers are in an advertising war with the California publishers on how to white wash>>>
SoupCanMan
History books, because history has always, always, always, been about image. To pretend otherwise makes you an uneducated edgelord. <<<
nietzschesdownfall
There's a push these days to make Columbus Day into Indigenous Peoples Day. Might take longer now, though, because Trump.
DemSumBigAssRidges
I think there is a movement to stop or to at least change the name of the day. It'll take time tho. Most 30- y/o know he sucked.
convixion0
American schools usually teach directly from textbooks & are too underfunded to update the books or curriculums with modern info.
Legolastic
Good question, were slowly starting to not celebrate him in some parts, due to his atrocities. Its more of a remembrance day for the indians
SquirtleSquad420
His holiday gives us a day off of work, hard to change names of holidays that do that nowadays.
TheShadowsLengthen
As someone who reads history as a hobby, nobody should be celebrated. All the heroes of the past have skeletons in their closets. All.
fatfury
yes ..but a lot of people change..grow..a learn from mistake..like ALL humans
TheShadowsLengthen
I'm not talking about your average run of the mill mistakes. For most, it's ranking from extorsion to genocide, with a sprinkle of slavery.
gingerminge
Fred Rogers. Universal Holiday
BadPornNames
Scares me a bit realising what would have happened if he did actually found Asia.
wizardblizzard
Actually though, if you trace out his voyage around the globe, he would have hit India perfectly. Great sailor, shite person
diehardlance
Do you think the invention of post-it notes should be disregarded because it was on accident?
diehardlance
Granted I don't agree with celebrating it but just because it was a mistake doesn't mean it wasn't impactful.
DarthReznor
Same reason Mongolian revere ghengis khan. Country wouldn't exist without him, so we celebrate him despite the mass murders he committed
MartinLoofahKing
It helps he wasn't white lol
DarthReznor
wut
MartinLoofahKing
Only white mass murderers are considered bad. Why is Hitler the go-to ultimate bad guy and not Mao or Genghis?
BerwynBrewyn
That's a myth.
GuntherHunter15
Do you have any good arguments against that? Because it's a fact that he was an murderer.
BarnacleBillTheBayler
THE FUCK YOU SAY
mukenwalla
He was italian. Italians were getting lynched like hotcakes in the 1920s so they came up with Columbus day to fight anti Italian sentiment
MetaSomma
Marinara?
Clelyn
How would one lynch a hotcake? Asking for a friend...
mukenwalla
So much syrup.
SirReginaldXII
Really?
mukenwalla
The largest mass lynching in american history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891,_lynchings
mukenwalla
Chinese too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871
MasterPrime
As an american, I have no idea. Once you learn the truth it's impossible to understand why it's still on the curriculum.
bumholiday
Yeah seriously. I have the same issue with Thanksgiving. It's all so much bullshit
Mankytoes
Mussolini was Hitler's bitch!
MartinLoofahKing
Oh fuck off, no it's not. If the Mongolians can still consider Genghis Khan a national hero, we can celebrate whoever we want.
EvilEkips
Probably because if someone wants to remove something historical over there, it ends in people driving a car into a bunch of people.
JokeDestroyer
He still needs to be mentioned because his "discovery" led to Europe grabbing at every piece of the Americas that they could.
MasterPrime
That's not what's taught
JokeDestroyer
It is though? American colonization was kickstarted by Columbus landing in what is now Hispaniola.
mitharas
It's not? Then what is taught? Europe came to bring peace and enlightenment to the poor savages?
GalacticToast17
I coulda sworn last time I was in a history class, we all learned what rly happened. But it didn't rly surprise us; slavery was everywhere
MasterPrime
Did you learn that Columbus kept a journal detailing him giving young indigenous boys as gifts?
GalacticToast17
TheOneTrueJoebot
Yeah but we all love Tesla
CondescendingCunt
...and ol' Musky.
Memes4Cheap
dont forget our god and savior steve jobs
ChuckNorrisAteMySock
And Fred Rogers.
TheShadowsLengthen
From my reads, he kinda fucked himself because he was an inventor first, a pidgeon lover second, and a smart buisnessman never.
dorenavant
Not everyone can be Elon Musk; both a genius and a brilliant businessman.
PlantainSuperNova
Tesla. The eugenics advocate who was also in love with a pigeon.
turbulentlizard
https://68.media.tumblr.com/971e2f6e34ea2d49397e9ad32bd1d12e/tumblr_nc7ibeguiT1qd673co1_500.jpg
Khanaar
Overrated cars :p
Cheomesh
No, not really.
eksoskel
Idk, he fucked a pigeon.
MetaSomma
Eh, everyone's got their thing
SkeletonRecruiter
NZSheeps
Yeah, well, who hasn't if we're being honest?
potshot
That's disgusting, you fucking degenerate. Why fuck a pidgeon when you could fuck a duck?
AndroidPants
"Made love to" idk if that helps at all
SirReginaldXII
WHAT
Occasionalfunnycomment
Did you know pigeons die after sex?
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
Something something one I fucked did.
ILikeSciFi
Fuck yeah, and ol musky
Cheomesh
Nah.
Wookieoo7
Not so much anymore after his temper tamtrum from being told his sub would be useless. He went full Trump & called a guy a pedo on twitter
alfaz
I think they meant Nikola Tesla
astrogeek
Nobody calls him that.
captaingrump
I call him that.
GreedyJungle
Literally everybody calls him that
ThenILickItOff
Ol' musky
ChancellorMatt
His real friends know he likes to be called Musky
SnackOverflowError
PotassiumLover
Classic musky
SnackOverflowError
I do.
FlareonTheFalseProphet
didn't tesla go crazy and try to build a death ray
Satherian
Tesla had about 10 years of greatness in the public eye, but after a while genius tends to turn to madness and the public will forget you.
Mentallyhorsestable
Haven't we all though
spuds31
He didn't try to build a death ray. He succeeded. And then made sure to never let it fall into the wrong hands.
nohumansallowed04
He was probably just bragging, we're 100 years after and we are not even close to something like he described with all the modern technology
Whenyouhavenocluewhatthefuckyourtalkingabout
And hate trump
questionableanswers
As a german I dislike his voters more than Trump. His behaviour during the votes was taken right out of the Pre-ww2 naziparty playbook 1/2
questionableanswers
And almost half of those who decided to cast a vote fell for it. 2/2
questionableanswers
PS: The nazis actually delivered on their promises tho: infrastructure, social security and welfare programs, animal protection, etc.
TheOneTrueJoebot
I Love Trump & think he's perfectly justified using gov resources to search for mentions of him and compile a list of those who spoke badly.
Xerosese
Congrats, you are now next in line for White House Press Secretary.
MetaSomma
May God have mercy on your soul
chrisluissanc
They are also already in line to be fired and investigated for ties with Russia about 10 seconds after being hired.
MetaSomma
Nah there's plenty of them around, but like his voters, they're the minority
AurikNecal
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/19/noncitizen-illegal-vote-number-higher-than-estimat/ He lost popular vote by, what? 800k?
MetaSomma
Peer-reviewed sources: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/36150
AurikNecal
When the lying is this deep it's very difficult to know what's true or false. All of those sources are left wing. Yes, fox is left wing.
AurikNecal
Actually, when you remove illegal's voting, he won the popular vote. XD
MetaSomma
Jeez I always forget to account for that
AurikNecal
Wait, you're actually accepting facts without getting pissy and denying them with random "facts" ... That rarely happens. Thank you <3.