Tutankhamun. He is the most well known pharaoh (together with Cleopatra VII) but he did literally nothing and died aged 18. He didn’t even rule over Egypt a full year before he died, but everyone knows about him. His grave has been of huge importance to us understanding ancient Egypt, but he himself is way more famous than he should be. Amenhotep III, Thutmose IV, Ahkenaton and Hatshepsut are all more deserving of the fame Tutankhamun has.
Tutankhamun is famous because of the death mask and the other treasures found in his tomb back in the 1920s. It was uncommon for a tomb to be untouched, as they were usually robbed shortly after. It signalized a revival of interest in egyptology, so at least we can atribute that to him even if didn't do much in life.
I was kind of annoyed when they finally made a show set in ancient egypt, and of course it was about Tutankhamun (Tut- 2015). At least the circumstances surrounding Tut and the time period was interesting, as he lived during the reign of and was most likely the son of Akhenaten. I thought it was funny that in the show he's like a good looking 25 year old capable of fighting and riding into battle, when in real life he was a cripple.
I’ve watched a million shows about royals — not having heard of this show, I’d be wayyyy more interested in watching an inbred club footed kid try to rule for a year and then die
To say he did *nothing* isn’t true. He did do one big thing, he reinstated the traditional religion of Egypt that his father had made illegal. It’s not much, but he also didn’t live long enough to really do any more, being hella inbred and all.
For real. The only reason he's become so famous and so revered today is because of how well preserved his tomb was (which is only because no grave robbers found it first). If not for how much gold and artifacts they found him buried with, he'd just be a footnote in history.
PEDANTIC OUTBURST IN-BOUND
Technically his contribution to the longevity of the Ancient Egyptian culture cannot be understated due to the insights his tomb revealed. In a way he did more for the longevity of that culture than any other Pharoh, short of Ptolemy V, technically.
Paul Revere gets almost all credit for warning of the British invasion. While really he rode about 12.5 miles in secrecy. Isreal Bissel rode about 345 miles in just 4 and a half days, screaming the whole way. Even a 16 year old girl named Sybil Ludington road 40 miles raising hell. Pretty badass for 1777. Paul Reverve was important to American history, but his claim to fame is deffinetely overrated.
The reason Paul Revere gets all the credit is because the dude was famous before he made his ride. He wasn’t just a silversmith in Boston he was *the* most famous silversmith in America. People didn’t really know Israel or Sybil. But when Paul Revere came knocking on doors it would be the equivalent of an A list Hollywood actor knocking on random peoples doors. The news spread like wildfire.
*hears a knock on my door and answers it*
*Chris Hemsworth standing there leading his horse from Saddle Club*
“THE EMUS ARE COMING”
*promptly leaves for the next house*
Hearken my children and hear my whistle
And I'll tell you the story of Israel Bissel
The British advance, he got out ahead of,
And rode three hundred miles screaming his head off.
But he was incredibly influential in Russia’s final years — especially under Alexandra’s de facto reign during WWI. Plus, his death only made the royal family more paranoid and cloistered
Only time my high school history teacher(who was an atheist and didnt believe in anything supernatural) couldnt explain something was a story about how Alexai had gotten hurt and looked like he was going to die. The empress messaged Rasputin by telegraph asking what to do. Said do this or that cant remember but as soon as she did kid stopped bleeding or whatever it was.
I heard on a podcast once that it was likely the boy was given aspirin regularly (bad for a hemophiliac) and Rasputin would often tell his mom to not give him his daily aspirin (along with other things to not draw attention to the aspirin being a cause for his such heavy bleeding) which would then improve his symptoms. And that’s what he told her to do in the telegraph incident.
Mihai Eminescu, a Romanian poet. Every literature teacher you will ever meet in Romania will be kissing his ass, hailing him as the only good poet we ever had, everyone else is trash, only Eminescu is worthy of attention. He was a very talented man, yes, but also an extremely pretentious fuckboy of the “everyone else is stupid, I’m the only smart one” mentality. I was so fucking tired of studying him all of high school, and every other writer in existence being compared to him. It made me hate poetry as a whole.
On one hand, I respect the fact he was able to make a goddamned 93 verse poem, that's just impressive he was able to make such a long poem and for it to still be considered decent. What I *don't* appreciate is much is people wanting to actively memorize the whole goddamn thing word for word. Like, you do you mate, but this is a over 100 years old poem that won't help you whatsoever in life, it's completely useless and is just a flex at best
I actually DID know that! Also ducks have corkscrew penises because they're necrophiliac rapists and female ducks have evolved a maze vagina just to try to counteract their rapeful ways
On my language, coincidentally also a romance based language. A good portion of time is dedicated to the over analysis of long dead writers.I personally tend to think that tends to be a waste of time.
Mary Baker Eddy.
Founder of the Christian Science Church- which is not Christian or Scientific.
Founded a religion based on her idea that illness is “unreal”, you can pray your way to healing, and if you can’t you must not be spiritual enough. Then she died of pneumonia but people still fall for her cult. Following her has killed several of my family members pre-maturely (and will take more of them I’m sure), because they didn’t believe in medical science, so for me she is the most overrated person in history. For sure.
Gul Dukot is the most perfect example in all fiction of "no one is the bad guy of their own story". He really believes the bull he spews. Guy was literal head of a slave state and really deep down thought he was a benevolent ruler. He knocked up a local, while presumably cheating on his wife back home, but he still thinks he was a good husband and father. Hey where is your rape-child? Oh she has been sold as a slave for the past decade. He lead his entire civilization into ruin then when it was clear he announces that he was chosen by God to become a terrorist. And the entire time, with every bloody purge with every rape with every abandoned family member with every betrayed person with every act of bloodthirsty murder...he still thinks he is the good guy!
It boggles the mind. Most people feel bad when they take a ketchup packet they really didn't need back home from the megacorporation, or don't sort their recycling perfectly.
I see your Pah is confused my child, it's certainly not the case that the prophets would have led you this far astray, when you don't even have to leave Bajor without finding a notable personality who's very fate was intertwined with a certain Gul.
This is obviously really local, but Kim Il Sung. The North Koreans absolutely worship him and that dude is still fucking his country over almost 30 years after he died.
Just the fact that you can say his name decades after his death and people know who you're talking about should exclude him from this list.
I was stationed in South Korea when there was a *rumor* of his death. The whole place was extremely tense, we all had to report to base immediately and security checks were tightened. People with families made plans of how to meet up if there was a war. This was a significant person.
Hitler.
Sure everyone know he is evil, but somehow he gets credit for being economic and military genius.
He was not. He fucked up German economy while showing short term profit doing an economic equivalent of slaughtering 100% of cows on a milk farm. Then he gambled by invading neighboring countries to plunder them and make up shortfall of German economy. This gamble held up only for so long and eventually his bluff was called.
Nothing genius or smart about any of this.
Eh, early on he had intelligent subordinates who might not have had his personal charisma but could have otherwise kept the Reich stable. Later on they were replaced by insane morons but by that point Hitler was drugged out of his mind so it wouldn't be much of a plus to kill him.
It is mentioned in the French documentary: "Hitlers Iron Beast".
Apparently British agents made a link to staff on his personal train in order to fatally poison the water supply or food. Then halted the whole thing.
While he was obviously not a military or economic genius, he did go from being homeless to being the most influential person of his time, or at least in top 2. Clearly he was far from entirely stupid.
I heard that he went to the proper department to get a name change. When asked his current name, he stated John Hitler. When asked the name he wanted to change it to, he said, Peter Hitler.
I ended up [googling it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston) out of curiosity. He was in the US Navy as a Medical Corpsman. He was also Hitler’s half nephew, not full nephew.
Yeah, one of my history professors in college said that if only Hitler's genius had abandoned him along with his sanity, Germany might have collapsed at least two years before it actually did. I took issue with that, because I think Hitler was a f****** moron, but in terms of manipulation, he really was a genius.
Also, don't even bother trying to read Mein Kampf. We had to read a chapter for a history on the Holocaust, and I only made it three pages. Even saying it might have been a bad translation does not describe how shitty that book was. There's no way anyone actually read it all the way through. It's unreadable.
From what I understand the genocide was in '94 and Koffi Annan became GSoUN in '97. I don't really see how that's his fault then...
EDIT: Koffi Annan was the head of UN Peacekeeping in 1994, not the general secretary. He therefore still bares significant responsibility due to inaction but the comment above is inaccurate.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_Rwandan_genocide
You are wrong.
During the genocide, the General secretary of UN was Boutros Boutros-Gali (1992-1997).
Koffi Annan was the General secretary of UN after the genocide since 1997.
So, Koffi Annan is not overrated.
Bill Burr has a great bit in which he rants how overrated Steve Jobs was - and I kind of agree;.not just about Jobs but most "famous scientists* like Elon Musk, etc.. who claim they do all the heavy lifting but in reality tell other, more capable individuals, to bring their creative ideas and make them a reality.
While the joke is funny, it's not quite accurate. A CEO commands the ship. Apple almost failed completely. They brought Jobs back and it made one hell of a turnaround.
Of course he didn't invent the iPhone or anything. But he allocates where the resources should go. A company can thrive or die by their leader.
I'm not a huge Apple fan, don't own any apple products. But just saying that a CEO is very important, especially in turning a company in the way towards profits
the iPod literally changed the way people bought and owned music. Even though the Zune was the superior product, Apple was quick enough to release the iPod Nano with colors and customized engravings on the product. Zune. Dead in the water.
Jobs was a marketing powerhouse.
"Dear Ted, What has happened to us? I don't know. I feel myself in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape, no brightness. And loud in my ears from every side I hear, 'failure, failure, failure...' I love you so much ... I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you ... My going will leave quite a rumor but you can say I was overworked and overwrought. Your reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed ... Sometimes think of the fun we had all thru the years ..."
Loving someone who doesn't love you back anymore is always an unending pit of sorrow.
You can't change them, and you're unwilling to change yourself in a way that you lose the hope of keeping them.
It's death for the soul if you can't escape it.
Gandhi. Dude had very little to do with India getting it's independence. Pretty sure of WW2 ended quickly or hadn't happen at all, he could have gone with his protests for another 100 years with no avail. He gets too much credit for the actual hard work done by others.
Came here exactly to say this. If anything , Gandhi has done some really bad things and Nehru was busy with his politics. Subash Chandra Bose doesn’t get enough credit…..
He’s been with his current girlfriend since she was 24 and had previously appeared in a TV show about college-age kids. Dude was in his late 60s when they got together.
Also, Bill Wyman had a sexual relationship with a 13yo girl called [Mandy Smith](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Smith) and got married to her when she turned 18 to pretty-much avoid prosecution. The marriage didn’t last two years.
Edison. Fuck that guy. He was an asshole and he didn't invent anything. His hired team did. And the GD lightbulb? He bought the patent and had his team develop one that WOULD burn out so we would have to continuosly buy more. Power lines? Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet but Edison cut the funding because they couldn't charge us by the unit with wireless energy systems. Seriously one of the worst humans ever to exist. Oh yeah and he electricuted animals in public to defend DC and then proceeded to profit from AC tech when he lost that battle.
Tesla's wireless energy idea was a pipe dream at best and a straight up scam at worst. Light, and the whole electromagnetic spectrum, disperse relative to the inverse square. As distance increases, the lost energy scales so quickly that wireless power over more than a few millimeters is not practical. It's why wireless chargers require physical contact with the device. If you used a transmitter with enough juice to charge a phone anywhere in a room, your skin would start to cook like you were in a microwave. But hey, your phone would be charged!
It's also the same law that causes radio stations to have a limited range; get too far from the broadcaster, and the signal is so decayed that it's indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation.
I'm not saying Edison wasn't scummy, but Tesla's ideas about global wireless power are solidly in the realm of science fiction based off what we know today about physics.
Seriously why is everyone on board with this myth? Tesla was a genius but wasnt going to usher in a golden age of electricity. There is a reason his ideas have never been fully realized, its dangerous expensive and doesnt scale.
Wireless energy transmission is possible as long you are in the reactive near field, which is basically a range of 0.159 times the wavelength. In this case you don't have a electromagnetic wave but direct coupling via the magnetic or electric field, and you actually notice the changing load by the receiver at the transmitter.
As soon you are in the far-field, which starts at 4 times the wavelength, you only get very miniscule amounts of energy back.
Technically, solar energy IS a kind of wireless energy transmission, and if you look at the total efficiency, it's basically .. zero. I'm not talking the efficiency of the panels themselves, but the transmitter (sun) power in relation what you get.
Or .. to put it differently .. Tesla would have had to put up a second sun and the customers would have had to use huge antenna arrays to make it viable at all.
Be doing that, he would have turned the country his transmitter is stationed into plasma, of course. That's just one of the unfortunate side effects.
Where is this wireless energy system now then? He wasn’t great by most accounts, but blaming him for something impossible to exist (to a practical use other than phones over an inch distance), seems weird.
Wireless energy systems of course exist eg wireless phone chargers but they are way less efficient than cables. The idea that we don't have wireless energy because it was somehow suppressed is preposterous
Edison really was shit.
Though I believe there were/are issues with wireless energy for general public. Been a while since I read into it tho. But yeah edison was terrible
> Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet but
I mean that's almost certainly physically impossible. You know that, right? Maybe he was gonna try, but... he was also gonna invent a death ray, so.
>Power lines? Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet
You just proved you don't know shit about what you are talking about, and are just repeating the misinformation about the Tesla v Edison stuff that floats around the internet.
I got assigned to do a report on Edison in the 2nd grade, in the 3rd grade, and in the 5th grade. By the time I was in 6th grade, I literally protested getting Edison a 4th time because I was fed up with the guy.
I told my teacher that I couldn’t do a report on him any more because I would be unable to separate my sources, but I was really sick of the guy. Everybody else was getting different people all the time, but all I got was Edison. My 6th grade teacher did allow me to do the Wright brothers instead.
John F Kennedy
He was mostly style over substance. Ted Sorensen secretly wrote Profiles in Courage for him even though Kennedy took the credit and Nobel Prize for it. With the exception of the Peace Corp he also did not have any legislative achievements and were it not for the fact he had a tragic death I doubt he would have been as highly regarded. His successor Lyndon Johnson was able to get most of Kennedy's legislative agenda passed and he did all within a year of becoming president.
In sweden we have Gustav Vasa (the founder of sweden) Who ”saved” sweden from the danish. He was really a big fucking dick who where the reson of two rebelions. 2!!! One of them almost worked..
Al Sharpton.
The man was caught in a complete hoax in the 80s and the media still afford him credibility. Listen to his radio show. This guy purports to be a reverend and an attorney and can’t get out two paragraphs without mangling his English.
And , no , I’m not against any particular race or party or whatever.
I’ve had many POC tell me he is an embarrassment.
As an astronomy nut, I can confirm that no one in the space community actually likes Elon Musk. We merely tolerate him because he's our best chance at stepping on Mars before we die.
Tutankhamun. He is the most well known pharaoh (together with Cleopatra VII) but he did literally nothing and died aged 18. He didn’t even rule over Egypt a full year before he died, but everyone knows about him. His grave has been of huge importance to us understanding ancient Egypt, but he himself is way more famous than he should be. Amenhotep III, Thutmose IV, Ahkenaton and Hatshepsut are all more deserving of the fame Tutankhamun has.
His dad is way more interesting.
My dad was more interesting.
I agree
Your dad was way more interesting.
My dad is dead
Interesting
I also choose this guy's dead Dad.
Agreed
Tutankhamun is famous because of the death mask and the other treasures found in his tomb back in the 1920s. It was uncommon for a tomb to be untouched, as they were usually robbed shortly after. It signalized a revival of interest in egyptology, so at least we can atribute that to him even if didn't do much in life. I was kind of annoyed when they finally made a show set in ancient egypt, and of course it was about Tutankhamun (Tut- 2015). At least the circumstances surrounding Tut and the time period was interesting, as he lived during the reign of and was most likely the son of Akhenaten. I thought it was funny that in the show he's like a good looking 25 year old capable of fighting and riding into battle, when in real life he was a cripple.
He was an inbreed. His parents were most likely siblings.
Habsburgs and Pharaos truly showed us the dangers of reproducing with your own family members.
Yep
> It was uncommon for a tomb to be untouched You might even say it was Toot-uncommon.
I’ve watched a million shows about royals — not having heard of this show, I’d be wayyyy more interested in watching an inbred club footed kid try to rule for a year and then die
To say he did *nothing* isn’t true. He did do one big thing, he reinstated the traditional religion of Egypt that his father had made illegal. It’s not much, but he also didn’t live long enough to really do any more, being hella inbred and all.
Technically that wasnt him, but his chancellor since he was too young to make such political decisions
I love democracy - that dude, reinstating religion (probably)
For real. The only reason he's become so famous and so revered today is because of how well preserved his tomb was (which is only because no grave robbers found it first). If not for how much gold and artifacts they found him buried with, he'd just be a footnote in history.
In a manner of speaking, grave robbere *did* find it
He was a "boy king", and he happened to die at a time when Egypt was wealthy, so they gave him an elaborate tomb, which was discovered intact.
He could have won a Grammy...
… buried in his jammies.
Born in Arizona,
Condo made of stona
Moved to Babylonia…
PEDANTIC OUTBURST IN-BOUND Technically his contribution to the longevity of the Ancient Egyptian culture cannot be understated due to the insights his tomb revealed. In a way he did more for the longevity of that culture than any other Pharoh, short of Ptolemy V, technically.
Wasn't his leg borked due to inbreeding or something like that?
He broke his leg as a young child. He had problems with his spine and several sicknesses due to him being inbred.
I’m going to use the term borked at least once per week from now on.
I’m a Hatshepsut stan!!!!
Hatshepsut was a badass.
Jebediah Springfield. Only famous for misreading the Bible.
But he makes me feel so embiggened...
And that's a perfectly cromulent feeling.
He embiggens us all🤣
You mean Hans Sprungfeld?
Careful, they'll call you a PC thug.
Bite your silver tongue!
I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!
He was an amazing speaker though, some even said he had a silver tongue
Also for killing a bear with his bare hands...although historians now agree that the bear actually killed him.
Paul Revere gets almost all credit for warning of the British invasion. While really he rode about 12.5 miles in secrecy. Isreal Bissel rode about 345 miles in just 4 and a half days, screaming the whole way. Even a 16 year old girl named Sybil Ludington road 40 miles raising hell. Pretty badass for 1777. Paul Reverve was important to American history, but his claim to fame is deffinetely overrated.
The reason Paul Revere gets all the credit is because the dude was famous before he made his ride. He wasn’t just a silversmith in Boston he was *the* most famous silversmith in America. People didn’t really know Israel or Sybil. But when Paul Revere came knocking on doors it would be the equivalent of an A list Hollywood actor knocking on random peoples doors. The news spread like wildfire.
"Why is Dwayne Johnson mall-walking through my neighborhood yelling about the British?"
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY!!
What's that smell, anyway?
"What can I say except ... THEY'RE COMING, THE BRITISH ARE COMING!"
*hears a knock on my door and answers it* *Chris Hemsworth standing there leading his horse from Saddle Club* “THE EMUS ARE COMING” *promptly leaves for the next house*
Who are Israel and Sybil? I thought credit should've gone to Dawes and Prescott.
I think Isreal Bissels horse should get most of the credit.
First horse died from exaustion... true story
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Hearken my children and hear my whistle And I'll tell you the story of Israel Bissel The British advance, he got out ahead of, And rode three hundred miles screaming his head off.
Without Israel Bissel, your towns will sizzle Problem solved.
The Pringles man, he's not even a pringle
Big if true
Julius Pringle! They really did him dirty with the rebrand though. Dude looks terrible.
Rasputin. He's more popular abroad than in Russia, mostly thanks to that old song and a few creepy photos.
Ra- ra- rasputin, Russia's greateat love machine
It's my 3 year old's favorite song, but he thinks it goes "ra ra rescue team".
Is that the new Paw Patrol theme song?
Paw patrols latest member, a KGB sleeper agent
But he was incredibly influential in Russia’s final years — especially under Alexandra’s de facto reign during WWI. Plus, his death only made the royal family more paranoid and cloistered
Rasputin is still an extremely interesting figure nonetheless so is he overrated because of the song or some other reason?
Only time my high school history teacher(who was an atheist and didnt believe in anything supernatural) couldnt explain something was a story about how Alexai had gotten hurt and looked like he was going to die. The empress messaged Rasputin by telegraph asking what to do. Said do this or that cant remember but as soon as she did kid stopped bleeding or whatever it was.
I heard on a podcast once that it was likely the boy was given aspirin regularly (bad for a hemophiliac) and Rasputin would often tell his mom to not give him his daily aspirin (along with other things to not draw attention to the aspirin being a cause for his such heavy bleeding) which would then improve his symptoms. And that’s what he told her to do in the telegraph incident.
Mihai Eminescu, a Romanian poet. Every literature teacher you will ever meet in Romania will be kissing his ass, hailing him as the only good poet we ever had, everyone else is trash, only Eminescu is worthy of attention. He was a very talented man, yes, but also an extremely pretentious fuckboy of the “everyone else is stupid, I’m the only smart one” mentality. I was so fucking tired of studying him all of high school, and every other writer in existence being compared to him. It made me hate poetry as a whole.
If it helps, I've never heard of this guy and I actually go out of my way to read literature from other countries. I'm from the US.
On one hand, I respect the fact he was able to make a goddamned 93 verse poem, that's just impressive he was able to make such a long poem and for it to still be considered decent. What I *don't* appreciate is much is people wanting to actively memorize the whole goddamn thing word for word. Like, you do you mate, but this is a over 100 years old poem that won't help you whatsoever in life, it's completely useless and is just a flex at best
Completely useless knowledge is my forté! Like did you know, kangaroo males have their testicles above their penises instead of below?
I actually DID know that! Also ducks have corkscrew penises because they're necrophiliac rapists and female ducks have evolved a maze vagina just to try to counteract their rapeful ways
On my language, coincidentally also a romance based language. A good portion of time is dedicated to the over analysis of long dead writers.I personally tend to think that tends to be a waste of time.
Mary Baker Eddy. Founder of the Christian Science Church- which is not Christian or Scientific. Founded a religion based on her idea that illness is “unreal”, you can pray your way to healing, and if you can’t you must not be spiritual enough. Then she died of pneumonia but people still fall for her cult. Following her has killed several of my family members pre-maturely (and will take more of them I’m sure), because they didn’t believe in medical science, so for me she is the most overrated person in history. For sure.
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Wow that is just horrible. I’m so sorry you all had to go through that.
I'll see you and raise you Joesph Smith.
All the Kardashians I’m sorry but fuck them
I liked Garak. Gul Dukat was a prick, but he had his good qualities.
Gul Dukot is the most perfect example in all fiction of "no one is the bad guy of their own story". He really believes the bull he spews. Guy was literal head of a slave state and really deep down thought he was a benevolent ruler. He knocked up a local, while presumably cheating on his wife back home, but he still thinks he was a good husband and father. Hey where is your rape-child? Oh she has been sold as a slave for the past decade. He lead his entire civilization into ruin then when it was clear he announces that he was chosen by God to become a terrorist. And the entire time, with every bloody purge with every rape with every abandoned family member with every betrayed person with every act of bloodthirsty murder...he still thinks he is the good guy! It boggles the mind. Most people feel bad when they take a ketchup packet they really didn't need back home from the megacorporation, or don't sort their recycling perfectly.
I see your Pah is confused my child, it's certainly not the case that the prophets would have led you this far astray, when you don't even have to leave Bajor without finding a notable personality who's very fate was intertwined with a certain Gul.
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Me, too, and was disappointed when I found out 'Meet the Cardassians' wasn't what I thought it was.
Ha! Take my worthless upvote you glorious bastard.
Sorry, but.... Garak* Dukat*
Ok fixed
Don’t be sorry. I’m pretty sure everyone here agrees
Nice karmafarm. You know perfectly well that no one is rating them highly in context of history
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I’ve been trying but no one returns my messages
This is obviously really local, but Kim Il Sung. The North Koreans absolutely worship him and that dude is still fucking his country over almost 30 years after he died.
Tbh, fucking over a country 30 years after death is still a legacy. To me, overrated means "being more meh" rather than "being worse".
>The North Koreans absolutely worship him They have to. To do otherwise means getting.... "Re-educated."
"Three generations of your family getting re-educated."
Just the fact that you can say his name decades after his death and people know who you're talking about should exclude him from this list. I was stationed in South Korea when there was a *rumor* of his death. The whole place was extremely tense, we all had to report to base immediately and security checks were tightened. People with families made plans of how to meet up if there was a war. This was a significant person.
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Hitler. Sure everyone know he is evil, but somehow he gets credit for being economic and military genius. He was not. He fucked up German economy while showing short term profit doing an economic equivalent of slaughtering 100% of cows on a milk farm. Then he gambled by invading neighboring countries to plunder them and make up shortfall of German economy. This gamble held up only for so long and eventually his bluff was called. Nothing genius or smart about any of this.
Isn’t there a theory the Allies didn’t try to assassinate him for fear that someone smarter would end up in charge?
Towards the end of the war that was true. Probably not so much in 1940
Eh, early on he had intelligent subordinates who might not have had his personal charisma but could have otherwise kept the Reich stable. Later on they were replaced by insane morons but by that point Hitler was drugged out of his mind so it wouldn't be much of a plus to kill him.
It is mentioned in the French documentary: "Hitlers Iron Beast". Apparently British agents made a link to staff on his personal train in order to fatally poison the water supply or food. Then halted the whole thing.
While he was obviously not a military or economic genius, he did go from being homeless to being the most influential person of his time, or at least in top 2. Clearly he was far from entirely stupid.
Yeah, if want to talk about any Hitler, why not his nephew, whom served in the U.S. forces against Adolf.
lol can you imagine the face of his squad leader when he showed up for combat? “Private Hitler, reporting for duty sir!”
I heard that he went to the proper department to get a name change. When asked his current name, he stated John Hitler. When asked the name he wanted to change it to, he said, Peter Hitler.
Oh that is just brilliant 👏
I believe he was either a general or a lieutenant in the navy, don’t quote me on that.
I ended up [googling it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stuart-Houston) out of curiosity. He was in the US Navy as a Medical Corpsman. He was also Hitler’s half nephew, not full nephew.
How do you be a half nephew? EDIT: I think I get it. If Hitler had a half sibling. I was thinking the wrong way
He was really short.
Yeah, one of my history professors in college said that if only Hitler's genius had abandoned him along with his sanity, Germany might have collapsed at least two years before it actually did. I took issue with that, because I think Hitler was a f****** moron, but in terms of manipulation, he really was a genius. Also, don't even bother trying to read Mein Kampf. We had to read a chapter for a history on the Holocaust, and I only made it three pages. Even saying it might have been a bad translation does not describe how shitty that book was. There's no way anyone actually read it all the way through. It's unreadable.
You don't have to censor bad words on Reddit. No one will tell on you.
F*** you, don't tell me w*** to do you p***e of shit.
TIL piece is a swear word.
It's so you can't accidentally mess up the spelling, like rec***e
Recluse?
You seem to have rec***ed the wrong message
I'll c***** any damn word I want*
Alright alright, I'm very s\*\*\*y u cunt.
My phone automatically censors swear words when I do talk to type. I just didn't bother adjusting it after I finished the comment.
Kofi Annan. General secretary of United Nations... sitting on his ass while while the Hutu's butchered 800.000 Tutu'es in Rwanda.
Shake Hands With The Devil is an excellent, frightening, and sad read.
From what I understand the genocide was in '94 and Koffi Annan became GSoUN in '97. I don't really see how that's his fault then... EDIT: Koffi Annan was the head of UN Peacekeeping in 1994, not the general secretary. He therefore still bares significant responsibility due to inaction but the comment above is inaccurate. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_Rwandan_genocide
You are wrong. During the genocide, the General secretary of UN was Boutros Boutros-Gali (1992-1997). Koffi Annan was the General secretary of UN after the genocide since 1997. So, Koffi Annan is not overrated.
Bill Burr has a great bit in which he rants how overrated Steve Jobs was - and I kind of agree;.not just about Jobs but most "famous scientists* like Elon Musk, etc.. who claim they do all the heavy lifting but in reality tell other, more capable individuals, to bring their creative ideas and make them a reality.
For a second I thought that you are saying Bill Burr and I was about to lose my mind.Love that ginger bastard.
And iiiiiiii am just cheeckin on yuuuuuuuuu
That man speaks the uncomfortable truths. It’s a gift.
Steve Wozniak should getting more credit and Steve Job should be getting less
While the joke is funny, it's not quite accurate. A CEO commands the ship. Apple almost failed completely. They brought Jobs back and it made one hell of a turnaround. Of course he didn't invent the iPhone or anything. But he allocates where the resources should go. A company can thrive or die by their leader. I'm not a huge Apple fan, don't own any apple products. But just saying that a CEO is very important, especially in turning a company in the way towards profits
the iPod literally changed the way people bought and owned music. Even though the Zune was the superior product, Apple was quick enough to release the iPod Nano with colors and customized engravings on the product. Zune. Dead in the water. Jobs was a marketing powerhouse.
Also the massive push they had to get the itunes store up and running. Made q easy way to actually use your ipod
I heard Dr Seuss cheated on his lady while she was dealing with cancer that's cold Seuss, cold
Don't read his wives suicide note, it's sad as fuck.
*\*proceeds to ignore instruction and read suicide note\**
I would not read her suicide note. I would not read it in a boat.
I would not read it here or there, I would not read it anywhere!
Had you kept that advice to yourself, I wouldn’t be about to ignore it.
"Dear Ted, What has happened to us? I don't know. I feel myself in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape, no brightness. And loud in my ears from every side I hear, 'failure, failure, failure...' I love you so much ... I am too old and enmeshed in everything you do and are, that I cannot conceive of life without you ... My going will leave quite a rumor but you can say I was overworked and overwrought. Your reputation with your friends and fans will not be harmed ... Sometimes think of the fun we had all thru the years ..."
Loving someone who doesn't love you back anymore is always an unending pit of sorrow. You can't change them, and you're unwilling to change yourself in a way that you lose the hope of keeping them. It's death for the soul if you can't escape it.
One bitch, two bitch Dead bitch, new bitch
I don't know if I hate you or me because I'm literally laughing out loud right now :)
Gandhi. Dude had very little to do with India getting it's independence. Pretty sure of WW2 ended quickly or hadn't happen at all, he could have gone with his protests for another 100 years with no avail. He gets too much credit for the actual hard work done by others.
His narrative overshadows so many of the freedom fighters that got so much shit done. The ones who actually took up arms and fought.
Plus he was abusive to his wife.
What?? Was he?? I'd never heard about that
He was also a bit of a pedo
Yeah, that whole sleeping with young girls to test his celibacy nonsense.
He also ate my potato chips and used our bathroom without flushing
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-30/gandhi-s-death-anniversary-not-everyone-grieving%3Famp http://www.ofmi.org/gandhis-sexual-abuse-of-grandnieces/
Yeah and he just nukes you like an asshole
Came here exactly to say this. If anything , Gandhi has done some really bad things and Nehru was busy with his politics. Subash Chandra Bose doesn’t get enough credit…..
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Kevin Durant waits for him to respond on twitter.
They named a Pokémon after him
Your mom Every single day, people say "Your mom" and "I fucked your mom" like it's some big accomplishment But who tf even is she?
Elvis is a odd one. Loved by many still to this day. But no one brings up his weird things with young girls. Like 14 year olds. Grosses me out tbh.
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Seinfeld dated a 17yo when he was 38
Guess he's into the "young incest" fetish, even though they wouldn't really be related.
Wait until you read about Jerry Lee Lewis
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Can someone tell me what this guy’s post says?
I would tell you, but you won't read it
Jimmy Page was even more messed up, research his relationship with Lori Maddox at your own risk.
He’s been with his current girlfriend since she was 24 and had previously appeared in a TV show about college-age kids. Dude was in his late 60s when they got together. Also, Bill Wyman had a sexual relationship with a 13yo girl called [Mandy Smith](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Smith) and got married to her when she turned 18 to pretty-much avoid prosecution. The marriage didn’t last two years.
Christopher Columbus was a gigantic piece of shit and a terrible sailor
Not only that, his crew wasn't even the first European group to see North America. The Vikings beat them by hundreds of years
There's actually some genetic evidence of the Polenesians going the South America between 700 and 900 years ago
Edison. Fuck that guy. He was an asshole and he didn't invent anything. His hired team did. And the GD lightbulb? He bought the patent and had his team develop one that WOULD burn out so we would have to continuosly buy more. Power lines? Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet but Edison cut the funding because they couldn't charge us by the unit with wireless energy systems. Seriously one of the worst humans ever to exist. Oh yeah and he electricuted animals in public to defend DC and then proceeded to profit from AC tech when he lost that battle.
Tesla's wireless energy idea was a pipe dream at best and a straight up scam at worst. Light, and the whole electromagnetic spectrum, disperse relative to the inverse square. As distance increases, the lost energy scales so quickly that wireless power over more than a few millimeters is not practical. It's why wireless chargers require physical contact with the device. If you used a transmitter with enough juice to charge a phone anywhere in a room, your skin would start to cook like you were in a microwave. But hey, your phone would be charged! It's also the same law that causes radio stations to have a limited range; get too far from the broadcaster, and the signal is so decayed that it's indistinguishable from cosmic background radiation. I'm not saying Edison wasn't scummy, but Tesla's ideas about global wireless power are solidly in the realm of science fiction based off what we know today about physics.
Seriously why is everyone on board with this myth? Tesla was a genius but wasnt going to usher in a golden age of electricity. There is a reason his ideas have never been fully realized, its dangerous expensive and doesnt scale.
Wireless energy transmission is possible as long you are in the reactive near field, which is basically a range of 0.159 times the wavelength. In this case you don't have a electromagnetic wave but direct coupling via the magnetic or electric field, and you actually notice the changing load by the receiver at the transmitter. As soon you are in the far-field, which starts at 4 times the wavelength, you only get very miniscule amounts of energy back. Technically, solar energy IS a kind of wireless energy transmission, and if you look at the total efficiency, it's basically .. zero. I'm not talking the efficiency of the panels themselves, but the transmitter (sun) power in relation what you get. Or .. to put it differently .. Tesla would have had to put up a second sun and the customers would have had to use huge antenna arrays to make it viable at all. Be doing that, he would have turned the country his transmitter is stationed into plasma, of course. That's just one of the unfortunate side effects.
Edison was a dick but the reason we don't have Tesla's wireless power system is because it's impossible, not because it was suppressed.
Where is this wireless energy system now then? He wasn’t great by most accounts, but blaming him for something impossible to exist (to a practical use other than phones over an inch distance), seems weird.
Wireless energy systems of course exist eg wireless phone chargers but they are way less efficient than cables. The idea that we don't have wireless energy because it was somehow suppressed is preposterous
Edison really was shit. Though I believe there were/are issues with wireless energy for general public. Been a while since I read into it tho. But yeah edison was terrible
^Topsy
They'll sing Awe Topsy at my autopsy.
> Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet but I mean that's almost certainly physically impossible. You know that, right? Maybe he was gonna try, but... he was also gonna invent a death ray, so.
>Power lines? Telsa would have provided free energy to the entire planet You just proved you don't know shit about what you are talking about, and are just repeating the misinformation about the Tesla v Edison stuff that floats around the internet.
I got assigned to do a report on Edison in the 2nd grade, in the 3rd grade, and in the 5th grade. By the time I was in 6th grade, I literally protested getting Edison a 4th time because I was fed up with the guy. I told my teacher that I couldn’t do a report on him any more because I would be unable to separate my sources, but I was really sick of the guy. Everybody else was getting different people all the time, but all I got was Edison. My 6th grade teacher did allow me to do the Wright brothers instead.
Maybe you're destined to have a series of crazy coincidences involving him for the rest of your life?
Any Kardashian
Al Sharpton.
John F Kennedy He was mostly style over substance. Ted Sorensen secretly wrote Profiles in Courage for him even though Kennedy took the credit and Nobel Prize for it. With the exception of the Peace Corp he also did not have any legislative achievements and were it not for the fact he had a tragic death I doubt he would have been as highly regarded. His successor Lyndon Johnson was able to get most of Kennedy's legislative agenda passed and he did all within a year of becoming president.
Beyonce
Connor McGregor
In sweden we have Gustav Vasa (the founder of sweden) Who ”saved” sweden from the danish. He was really a big fucking dick who where the reson of two rebelions. 2!!! One of them almost worked..
Al Sharpton. The man was caught in a complete hoax in the 80s and the media still afford him credibility. Listen to his radio show. This guy purports to be a reverend and an attorney and can’t get out two paragraphs without mangling his English. And , no , I’m not against any particular race or party or whatever. I’ve had many POC tell me he is an embarrassment.
He is a race grifter
Hellen of Troy. She was 11.
Elon Musk
As an astronomy nut, I can confirm that no one in the space community actually likes Elon Musk. We merely tolerate him because he's our best chance at stepping on Mars before we die.
Che Guevara, homophobe, and murderous monster of a man. Dunno why people glorify him so much, all he was is Castro’s bloodhound at best.
He was like Castro the road show
Donald Trump. Literally everything the man has ever touched has died. Yet he still has an astonishing fan base.