All of them I think. What human being doesn’t suck in some way?
I can’t recall hearing anything bad about Mr. Rogers
I said humans, not angels
You hit the nail on the head.
I still hear people praising Thomas “piece of shit reason we didn’t have wireless charging a hundred years ago” Edison.
But I have to wonder if Edison’s vision of a DC electrical grid might have been environmentally better in the long run, as it would have been very, very decentralized, with a small power station necessary every couple of kilometers. It might have spurred an accelerated study into renewable sources of electricity, such as wind, even decades and decades ago.
As things turned out, Tesla/Westinghouse’s victory with AC allows these centralized and “too big to fail” behemoths to suck coal and spit out black smoke out of sight and out of mind for most people.
Bold of you to assume that wouldn’t have just resulted in a coal burning power station every couple kilometers…
At first, absolutely yes, coal smoke everywhere, creating an untenable crisis within the cities themselves. That type of crisis would have been tackled as a priority, would have been an integral part of the loudest political dialogues and arguments, decades ago.
I get what your saying, but I think the benefits of DC power plants would have been short term, rather than long term.
Once scaling was introduced there’s no way Edison DC power stations every block would make any sense materially, financially or societally.
I can’t blame Tesla for toxic capitalism any more than I can blame the wright brothers for manipulative airline ticket prices today.
Same reason we didn’t have electric cars a hundred years ago
Unregulated capitalism and undeveloped antitrust laws are the culprit with respect to centralization, not innovation.
Gandhi. Seriously. Sleeping habits aside, dude was pro-apartheid.
Mother Theresa, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan to name the first few that occur to me before coffee. I can probably think of less obvious ones later.
Edit: Y’all I miss The Before Times too and it’s great we were able to get a nonwhite POTUS; I was talking about his drone strike and deportation track record more than anything else.
The stories that Christopher Hitchens told about Mother Teresa were largely made up. For example, the reason that her hospices didn’t give opiate painkillers to their patients wasn’t a belief that poor people deserve to be in pain … it was that they weren’t doctors, so they could not legally possess opiates. India has drug laws too!
Even ceding that, she still defended convicted sexual predators. The whole Catholic church is essentially a rogue nation shielding pederasty across the globe. Anyone they would canonize is suspect in my view.
Hot take, Washington.
I liked reading about his misadventures in youth, and he did look pretty grand sitting on a horse, but yeah. Practically every president is a terrible person
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I think this is one of those times where we just aren’t in the same universe. You might as well be writing in wingdings font for all the sense you make to me.
Che Guevara.
Why is this so far down? Not a nice person
some verified, well-documented quotes from Guevara himself:
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“Individualism must disappear!”
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“I am the most important thing in the world…” (I suppose the irony escaped him.)
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“Certainly, we execute! And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary!”
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“We don’t need proof. We manufacture the proof.”
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“Besides, to execute a man we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.”
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“I’d like to confess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing.”
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“The happiest days of a youth’s life is when he watches his bullets reaching an enemy.”
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“The people’s cooperation can often be coaxed by the use of systemic terror.”
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Winston Churchill. It doesn’t take a lot of digging to realise he was absolutely a racist and white supremacist little shit. Even “judged by the morals of the time” people recognised just how aweful he truly was.
Yes, his contributions to the defeat of the Nazis is undeniably great. He was a good wartime prime minister and that shouldn’t be overlooked. This doesn’t excuse some of the more heinous things he’s said and done.
Shamefully, the British education system failed spectacularly on this point. I grew up believing he was some paragon of moral good and justice and the school system did nothing to counter this. We’d all rather believe he was a great man. If he is, as they say, “the greatest Briton”, were fucked.
“I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.” - Winston Churchill 1937
Thomas Jefferson
Nobody comes to mind.
Yeah, they are the worst.
Albert Einstein. He was as misogynistic as you can w/o committing any crime.
Someone listened to the Behind the Bastards episode on him that was put out recently!
I only listened to the one on Mark Zuck years ago. I didn’t know they did one on him, nice!
I knew about Albert from his own letters and stuff from feminist creators and scientists.
Apologies! It was The Dollop!
Part 1: https://overcast.fm/+3AMVLu8Gw
Part 2: https://overcast.fm/+3AMVNm7jw
Joseph Stalin
Me I think. You’d like me if you met me, but I don’t scrutinise too well.
