Terrible people you respect.
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I'm gonna have to go with the Great God-King Ramesses II. Though the worst thing i can think of him doing is desecrating the temples and burial sights of previous pharaohs, he did it hilariously by scratching out their names and writing in his own, then claiming it was always that way.
Coming in second would have to be Albert Einstein. Only reason - The man created nukes.
And the continent of Australia. That place has the largest concentration of the most evil brutal ass kickers nature has ever seen, and I earnestly respect that and every last human being who dwells there.
Coming in second would have to be Albert Einstein. Only reason - The man created nukes.
And the continent of Australia. That place has the largest concentration of the most evil brutal ass kickers nature has ever seen, and I earnestly respect that and every last human being who dwells there.
Quoted for truth. The guy was a moron - Mein Kampf is such a laughably goddawful misinterpretation of Nietzsche, I'd actually call it one of the top 10 most plain statements of stupidity ever published. He never 'recovered' the German economy - he simply stopped making their goddamn loan repayments, while spending the entirety of the government's coffers on war preparation. He had literally nowhere to go economically - in a few years, the country would have run out of money due to his expenditure, and given that his 'cure' for unemployment was, again, 'massive military spending to hire lots of people in the army, building tanks, etc', the country would have been in an even worse position than before.JackSparrowSucks said:
The only positive economic development for Germany during his time was that after he started defaulting on Germany's loans, the Americans convinced the French that the terms of the WW1 peace treaty had been a bit harsh, and that they should hold off on claiming on Germany's debt. That's not 'mastermind' stuff. That's 'drug-addict mom with 5 kids and no job stops making her mortgage payments, bank manager takes pity on the kids and decides not to foreclose on the mortgage'.
His military decisions from halfway through the war onwards were goddawful, supporting the Allied psychiatric assessment of him that he was in the early stages of the onset of schizophrenia, and that he was likely to start developing mild dementia. Hitler came about because under the German conditions post-WW1 some extremist group HAD to arise. Plenty of intellectuals in Germany were predicting that something like that was going to happen 50-100 years before anyone had every heard about Hitler. In the 1890s, Nietszche called it. As did Heinrich Heine as extremist political movements started developing in the mid 1800s Germany. And the Weinmar Republic just screamed 'extremist takeover', as you had a razor-thin majority of social democrats in parliament, with a morally bankrupt conservative faction (who eventually allied with the nazis to put Hitler in power - Hiter never got up on his own numbers), and communist and fascist groups who were causing riots in the streets. The social democrats found themselves in the same position that they were in earlier under the Kaiser, and later in post-WW2 East Germany - everybody to the right of them politically wanted to kill them, but rather than the radical left communists agreeing to ally with the moderate centre-left social dems they either actively opposed them or went underground and left them to get killed (literally). Same thing happened in the Russian Revolution, with the moderate social democrats running a 'everyone to the left of us is friends' policy in overthrowing the Czar, only for the Marxists to stab them in the back as soon as the revolution was over.
OT: I'd say Einstein. Wife-beating bastard who also had an affair with his cousin (while married to his first wife, as well).
I always respected jesse james. Not really sure why, but just did.
maybe it was the strong family values.
maybe it was the strong family values.
Definitely Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad the Impaler. He lowered crime in Wallachia to basically nil, greatly improved the economy and agricultural output, and opposed the Ottoman Empire. In Romania he's considered a hero to this day. He was ruthless and bloodthirsty, but he did some amazing things.
One of my good friends moved here from Romania, and she has a lot of respect for him.
One of my good friends moved here from Romania, and she has a lot of respect for him.
I was aware of what Zynga is but wow I didnt realize that the whole lawsuit and plagarism stuff. he seems kinda like a douche.Hero in a half shell said:
You gotta make decisions and stick by them if you're the leader. Even if it involves two super powers suddenly not communicating well at the end of WW2 which resulted in a cold war.Not G. Ivingname said:
And, Stalin executed a lot of his own people. Some of them just for not agreeing with him. This does not affect my opinion of him.
I didn't say exsecutions, I meant much worse.Valknott said:
Did you know their were squads of Russians who were made of run away soldiers, condememned crimminals, and Russians freed POW's (I.E. their own captured men) who were put in jobs that were to dangerous for "real soldiers." These jobs included running straight into Germany machine gun fire as a distraction, being the front line bullet shields, and clearing minefields.
If your thinking the last one wasn't so bad, if you were lucky you were told to dig up live mines with a shovel.
Not lucky? Told to run into a minefield in hopes at stepping off as many mines as possible.
Thomas Edison. He beat Tesla to a patent, chewed him out for his conflicting views on electricity and the harnessing thereof and, lived on not dying at the hands of an irate Tesla who very well could have melted Edison with a doomsday device. Edison was also generally a prick, if Cracked is to be believed.
There was also that whole Elephant thing:
There was also that whole Elephant thing:
Fairly sure that was J Robert Oppenheimer (directly, at least)... don't think Einstein was anything to do with the Manhattan Project... was he?!ScumbagEddie said:
Must disagree. Before 1876(-ish), yes, he was awesome, with the whole unifying Germany under the Kleindeutsche Losung, but the political troublemaker extraordinaire (as I refer to him) was also greatly responsible for the downfall of the German Empire (by turning the young Prince Wilhelm against his parents, which showed terrible foresight, and it came back to bite him when he was sacked in 1891).Plurralbles said:
mine really goes down to a populace of sorts, not individual. The japanese soldier of ww2; i hate them for their savageness toward the allies, due to the horrible conditions they put their captives under, the death march many of these poor should met their end on as well as the flat out immoral actions against POW's.
However, the principles of honour are what i deeply respect, as well as their absolute loyalty to their convictions and to what they believe in, even American veterans say how they conduct themselves with honour and respect their sheer devotion (to the degree that they would give their lives).
However, the principles of honour are what i deeply respect, as well as their absolute loyalty to their convictions and to what they believe in, even American veterans say how they conduct themselves with honour and respect their sheer devotion (to the degree that they would give their lives).
Don't really see what you all have against ghengis khan? he was god awful to his enemies, but from my understanding wasn't so bad to his own men.
Jo Stalin does it for me, completely unafraid to be as ruthless as was necessary to do what he believed. We should all be so fortunate.
Jo Stalin does it for me, completely unafraid to be as ruthless as was necessary to do what he believed. We should all be so fortunate.
I'm gonna go with the flow and state the obvious Genghis Khan for being the most respected and succesfull warlord in the history of man
I'm in the process of reading Nothing to Envy. It was actually Kim il-Sung who set up the DPRK's political system, cult of personality, and propaganda machine.Darkauthor81 said:
Just saying.
I remember something about how he left a gold cup in the town square, daring anyone to steal it overnight.No-one did - thats how much he had reduced crime, amnnd enemy armies wouldn't cross the fields of skeletons on spikes he had at the borders.Aetera said:
Might be a story or completely unrelated, though.
Hitler../ he pulled a nation out of the dirt only to shove it into the shit, but I respect him for pulling a broken nation together, even if he did do it with a severe case of what's known where I live as Wankerism. BEFORE YOU RAGE I KNOW THE THINGS HE DID WERE UNSPEAKABLE AND CANNOT BE FORGIVEN BY ANYONE, EVER.
Rasputin actually.
He was a "Holy man" that slept with just about anyone he could for favors, power, and pleasure.He didn't uphold his holy preachings at all. He helped those who could repay him, and never did anything for someone other than him. He manipulated the system to the point where the Russian leader could barely touch him.
But he was a man of charisma, and if he had actually attempted to do great things for the country, I get the idea that he just might have. And that *****. Just. Plain. Refused. To Die!
He was a "Holy man" that slept with just about anyone he could for favors, power, and pleasure.He didn't uphold his holy preachings at all. He helped those who could repay him, and never did anything for someone other than him. He manipulated the system to the point where the Russian leader could barely touch him.
But he was a man of charisma, and if he had actually attempted to do great things for the country, I get the idea that he just might have. And that *****. Just. Plain. Refused. To Die!