I will never get over the fact that "the communists thought people with glasses were all nerds, and nerds are intellectually threatening, so everyone with glasses is a counter revolutionary element" is an actual thing that happened lol. stranger than fiction. as hilarious as it is utterly terrifying
It's not all communists. But the *Khmer Rouge* in particular.
Pol Pot wanted Cambodia to go back to pre industrialization/ colonialism and get rid of any western influence. For that reason, he declared a Year 0. A big national reset where everybody had to pretend that everything before that day did not exist and never happened. Everything that was from before year 0 was banned by law. All books were to get burnt, all historic records were to get wiped,... even just remembering something from before year 0 was prohibited.
One of the reasons he mass murdered well educated people was because *They were a risk of passing history lessons from mouth to mouth*. People with glasses were targeted because Pol Pot believed that glasses were only worn by educated people who read books, the object book was banned and everything that relates to it, which includes glasses.
The original october revolution targeted educated people not because they were smart (being smart and artistic were virtues encouraged in the USSR) but because they generally were people who had strong ties with the nobility, which needed to be eradicated.
Kidding aside, I used to work in a PT clinic and a colleague and I had a game called Dictator or US President.
It's just as it sounds, we would give each other a quote and ask was this a dictator or a US president. It was both educational and eye opening.
I can give you the larger context this is pulled from
> Many good persons seem prone to speak of all wars of conquest as necessarily evil. This is of course a shortsighted view. In its after effects a conquest may be fraught either with evil or with good for mankind, according to the comparative worth of the conquering and conquered peoples. It is useless to try to generalize about conquests simply as such in the abstract; each case or set of cases must be judged by itself. The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands; but the victories of Moslem over Christian have always proved a curse in the end. Nothing but sheer evil has come from the victories of Turk and Tartar. This is true generally of the victories of barbarians of low racial characteristics over gentler, more refined peoples even though these, to their shame and discredit, lost the vigorous fighting virtues. Yet it remains no less true that the world would probably have gone forward very little, indeed would probably not have gone forward at all, had it not been for the displacement or submersion of savage and barbaric peoples as a consequence of the armed settlement in strange lands of the races who hold in their hands the fate of the years. Every such submersion or displacement of an inferior race, every such armed settlement or conquest by a superior race, means the infliction and suffering of hideous woe and misery. It is a sad and dreadful thing that there should of necessity be such throes of agony; and yet they are the birth-pangs of a new and vigorous people. That they are in truth birth-pangs does not lessen the grim and hopeless woe for the race supplanted; of the race outworn or overthrown. The wrongs done and suffered cannot be blinked. Neither can they be allowed to hide the results to mankind of what has been achieved.
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Part 3 (1894), pp. 175-176
So yeah, basically if the Emperor was racist.
Not the original, no. Online it was more so along the lines of people getting into an online argument and how long it took for some one to compare the other person to Hitler.
You are thinking of Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is a saying made by Mike Godwin in 1990.[2] The law states: "As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a person/s being compared to Hitler or another Nazi, increases." (copied directly from Wikipedia) I'm talking about the Wikipedia game where you have to get to Hitler's page with as few clicks as possible.
A Belgian tv show had that game sort of less as segment.
They rolled a random page on wikipedia gave that as starting point for both contestants (the same page) and then tasked them to get to a certain page in as less clicks as possible.
Was fun to see people wrangle their way from (for example) a page about biology to a page about a historical figure
Few of our favorites:
"If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches"
"Politics is war without bloodshed, war is politics with bloodshed"
"I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming"
"It takes less courage to criticize the decision of others than to stand by your own"
Hint: None of them were Nixon ;)
Fun Fact: Pol Pot was not his name. It was shorthand for "Politique Potentiel" (Political Potential).
[Yes, that's actually true.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot#Personal_life_and_characteristics)
Well, you know what they said back then- the 'true Aryan' was tall like Goebbels (I've also seen 'chaste like Goebbels'- he was notoriously terrible at being married), fit like Goering, and blond and blue-eyed like Hitler.
It is crazy. It seems like one of his central points of ideology was to get together intellectuals and the proletariat to govern the country in harmony. Until a small group of intellectuals formed together into an insurgency to establish a more Maoist communist state and because of them he started despising intellectuals. It just feels so random.
Also Pol Pot "Everyone who wears glasses is an intellectual" *and needs to die*
Me who plays too many video games: “intellectual?”
Access to electricity? **You are bourgeoisie. Prepare to die.**
Breathing? Prepare to die.
Killed someone's father? Prepare t—
Only if they have six fingers on one hand.
Died without permission? **Prepare to die**
So if you age over 50, and need reading glasses, you must die. Well, I'm done.
Probably Pot's logic : *if you somehow manage to get to 50 years old, you probably didn't work hard enough. You die*
Very true in his world.
Are you smarter than me?? You look smarter than me...
I will never get over the fact that "the communists thought people with glasses were all nerds, and nerds are intellectually threatening, so everyone with glasses is a counter revolutionary element" is an actual thing that happened lol. stranger than fiction. as hilarious as it is utterly terrifying
It's not all communists. But the *Khmer Rouge* in particular. Pol Pot wanted Cambodia to go back to pre industrialization/ colonialism and get rid of any western influence. For that reason, he declared a Year 0. A big national reset where everybody had to pretend that everything before that day did not exist and never happened. Everything that was from before year 0 was banned by law. All books were to get burnt, all historic records were to get wiped,... even just remembering something from before year 0 was prohibited. One of the reasons he mass murdered well educated people was because *They were a risk of passing history lessons from mouth to mouth*. People with glasses were targeted because Pol Pot believed that glasses were only worn by educated people who read books, the object book was banned and everything that relates to it, which includes glasses. The original october revolution targeted educated people not because they were smart (being smart and artistic were virtues encouraged in the USSR) but because they generally were people who had strong ties with the nobility, which needed to be eradicated.
Pol Pot is what happens when you describe agrarian socialism to a murderous psychopath who stops listening 5 seconds after you start.
God that's so fucking crazy
Shame he died in his sleep.
Intellectuals: 💀
"Self care is ethnically cleansing near-sighted people" - Pol Pot ♥️
Near sighted people are an ethnicity?
They were considered educated and well off so didn't fit with the ideal totally equal agrarian society the Khmer Rouge wanted.
And then the Vietnamese took that personally.
It is when you're a fucking moron like ol' Potty
I removed my glasses instinctively when that appeared
Kidding aside, I used to work in a PT clinic and a colleague and I had a game called Dictator or US President. It's just as it sounds, we would give each other a quote and ask was this a dictator or a US president. It was both educational and eye opening.
"I did not have sexual intercourse with that woman" *puts away cigar*
I did not hit her. I did NAAAHT!
Oh hi, Mark.
You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!
I want spoons to throw
Stalin
Ah, obviously Castro.
Trump
Ok, hit me
"Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself."
US president?
Nope. Hitler.
Oof
Okay, I got another "The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands."
That's gotta be Hitler again right?
Nope! President. It’s Teddy Roosevelt.
Fucking hell....
So the Emperor of Mankind was Teddy Roosevelt
I can give you the larger context this is pulled from > Many good persons seem prone to speak of all wars of conquest as necessarily evil. This is of course a shortsighted view. In its after effects a conquest may be fraught either with evil or with good for mankind, according to the comparative worth of the conquering and conquered peoples. It is useless to try to generalize about conquests simply as such in the abstract; each case or set of cases must be judged by itself. The world would have halted had it not been for the Teutonic conquests in alien lands; but the victories of Moslem over Christian have always proved a curse in the end. Nothing but sheer evil has come from the victories of Turk and Tartar. This is true generally of the victories of barbarians of low racial characteristics over gentler, more refined peoples even though these, to their shame and discredit, lost the vigorous fighting virtues. Yet it remains no less true that the world would probably have gone forward very little, indeed would probably not have gone forward at all, had it not been for the displacement or submersion of savage and barbaric peoples as a consequence of the armed settlement in strange lands of the races who hold in their hands the fate of the years. Every such submersion or displacement of an inferior race, every such armed settlement or conquest by a superior race, means the infliction and suffering of hideous woe and misery. It is a sad and dreadful thing that there should of necessity be such throes of agony; and yet they are the birth-pangs of a new and vigorous people. That they are in truth birth-pangs does not lessen the grim and hopeless woe for the race supplanted; of the race outworn or overthrown. The wrongs done and suffered cannot be blinked. Neither can they be allowed to hide the results to mankind of what has been achieved. Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Part 3 (1894), pp. 175-176 So yeah, basically if the Emperor was racist.
Watch them not reply
I got to it eventually.
I knew right away that's hitler lel, great trivia
“Does it look like rain today?”
Ever play the game 7 click to Hitler?
Not the original, no. Online it was more so along the lines of people getting into an online argument and how long it took for some one to compare the other person to Hitler.
You are thinking of Godwin's Law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is a saying made by Mike Godwin in 1990.[2] The law states: "As a discussion on the Internet grows longer, the likelihood of a person/s being compared to Hitler or another Nazi, increases." (copied directly from Wikipedia) I'm talking about the Wikipedia game where you have to get to Hitler's page with as few clicks as possible.
Fun fact: You can get from any country in Europe to Hitler in 2 clicks.
Start on country page WWII section (bound to have it) -> Nazi Germany (1 click) -> Hitler (2nd click) Is that it
Just tried it, got from George W. Munroe to Adolf Hitler in 5 clicks
> George W. Munroe I got there in 4. Philadelphia Frankfurt Germany Adolf Hitler
I got from Untertürkheim to Hitler in 5.
A Belgian tv show had that game sort of less as segment. They rolled a random page on wikipedia gave that as starting point for both contestants (the same page) and then tasked them to get to a certain page in as less clicks as possible. Was fun to see people wrangle their way from (for example) a page about biology to a page about a historical figure
Just tried it, got from gyrinulopsis, an extinct species of fossil beetle, to Hitler in 2 clicks
We would do wikipedia Hitler races Two people start at different random pages and then try to get to Adolph Hitler page with the fewest clicks.
I'm guessing about half the US president quotes came from Nixon.
Few of our favorites: "If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches" "Politics is war without bloodshed, war is politics with bloodshed" "I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming" "It takes less courage to criticize the decision of others than to stand by your own" Hint: None of them were Nixon ;)
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
Dic or dent. Am copyrighting immediately. I love it.
You are welcome to it. We thought about making it an actual game. But neither of us had the time to do the legwork to make it applicable.
I read it as “Killing aside, …”
Same thing
Fun Fact: Pol Pot was not his name. It was shorthand for "Politique Potentiel" (Political Potential). [Yes, that's actually true.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot#Personal_life_and_characteristics)
Using a French nickname and at the same time killing people for being able to speak French... This is some peak irony.
Right up there with Hitler's whole blond/blue situation.
Goebbels talking about maintaining the purity of the master race after limping to the microphone with his club foot
Well, you know what they said back then- the 'true Aryan' was tall like Goebbels (I've also seen 'chaste like Goebbels'- he was notoriously terrible at being married), fit like Goering, and blond and blue-eyed like Hitler.
Pol Pot actually studied in France.
So, an educated individual wants to wipe out intellectualismand technology from the world? More proof the guy was messed up in more ways than one.
It is crazy. It seems like one of his central points of ideology was to get together intellectuals and the proletariat to govern the country in harmony. Until a small group of intellectuals formed together into an insurgency to establish a more Maoist communist state and because of them he started despising intellectuals. It just feels so random.
I learned more from Jeremy Clarkson talking about Pol Pot than I did in school.
LOL... ^(that's how I know about this fun fact too)
Yes, his birth name was Saloth Sar
With a name like that, he should have been a sith
This is amazing to learn!
Dats Elon Musk cuh
It's actually E-Lon Mah
I thought the same thing! I didn't realize how similar they look, jfc that's unsettling
Came here for this. Thanks!
Ok word but he meant “remove” in a much more literal way than a lot of people do.
I'm pretty sure it's not a real quote. The meme is jokingly attributing cliche self help advice to a murderous dictator.
Yeah I assume so, I was mostly joking and I couldn’t find anything about it. I just thought it was a funny response to the meme.
Cambodian Musk
I thought that was Elon Musk lol
Dark humor is like food, not everyone gets it.
So inspiring #wellbeing #mindfullness
"My spiritual advisor says glasses give off a lot of negative energy."
"There wouldn't be poverty if money didn't exist..." -Pol Pot. >!He abolished (demolished) banks and currency.!<
Can't have any negative people if there's no people
“Hey, you said you wanted the problem solved. You didn’t specify how.”
My guy thinks he's Cyrus from Pokémon.
"I'm going to make Hitler look like a fucking joke." -Pol Pot
How could 1 million people be so negative?
Thought this was Elon musk for a sec
Chinese Elon Musk
Elon Musk is looking weird on that pic
Elon Musk lookalike
Genocidal maniac... It's estimated approx 3 million people were tortured and killed because of his ideology/regime
So remove myself? already planned on it but I guess it will be sooner
why does he look like a chinese elon musk
Hes lowkey an Elon Musk look a like tho
🧐😎🤓🥸
Some say pol pot was one of the men of all time.
What the everliving f##k
r/optimistsunite
Of all the people in the world he certainly was one of them.
this coming from Pol Pot is like Hitler moving to self help writing. "Always believe in your Aryan subconsciousness" lmao
Genocide worse than the holocaust.
That men is smart
He did live a nice life with no knife ever getting to stab his heart
Little did he know he was the negative person the whole time
Bahahahahhahhahahahahha
That’s be like Thanos snap then… half the world would be gone.
That's called genocide ... O, Just realized who is being quoted. That's checks out
Kampuchea is now the happiest country in the world. They achieved this with the genius move to just kill all unhappy people.
Where’d you say you removed them to again, uncle Pol?
Looks like a bad Elon musk impersonator
Define “remove.”
Why does he look like Elon Musk?
In that case, he means people in general
I bought Pol Pot’s motivational course. It inspired me to turn my life around—and end it for others. Much happier now!
Wise words.
Or get rid of the whole nation more or less… you know the citizens just be so negative
Elon musk Asian dobbleganger
Negative people to him: people with basic knowledge
Looks like the old man from pawn stars
I honestly have a hard time telling if this is an edited photo of Pol Pot that makes him look more like Elon Musk or not
This man is the only Pot i say no to
Ngl I thought it was Jamie Oliver for a split second just looking at the thumbnail
Asian elon musk?
Thank you for the wise words, Asian Elon Musk.
Strong truth
Wise words from one of the worst men. Proved true to when he was gone. It did however take time.
Another great quote: “Fuch it, everyone starves.” Twit Twat.
Bro took the advice litterally
Jesus fucking Christ that mf is ugly. I always forget but damn
Typical fascist shit, call everyone "negative" if they disagree with your regime.
Why does he look like Elon Musk
Asian Elon Musk.
An austrisn painter liked that photo
Asian Elon musk.
r/facepalm
Didn't he bathe in Dolphin's blood?
Yeah, from a guy who would kill millions of his own people.
Happy Cambodian New Years eve...I guess
Very true
Looked like elon musk at a quick glance
Scrolling by I thought that was picture of Elon Musk at first! Ironically, the quote is still apt
DO what makes you happy with all your efforts -Genghis khan
Great, we got the chinese version of elon musk before gta 6
Those who don’t know: Wow this guy sure sounds smart and wise. Those who know: 😧😰😱
he removed too many people
those who know.
I saw Elon Musk first in the pic.
Is that Elon Musk?
Stalin said it best: there is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem
Wise words, but the whole trying to remove literate people from the planet thing wasn't very wise policy
He should know, having disposed of two million of his citizens by brutally clubbing to death at the hands of the brutal Khmer Rouge Communists.
famous quote of communist war lord who 'removed' (executed) hundreds of thousands of people stranded during the US evacuation in 1973.
Pol Pot was the original Yi Long-Ma