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Who remembers a red-faced Bill Clinton getting outed for his extra-political shenanigans with then-intern Monica Lewinsky? Or the unrelated "Deep Throat" controversy that saw Richard Nixon resigning from office? Rewind to the 1800's and you'll come across what's been dubbed the "Petticoat Affair."
This goes to show you that there's no shortage of scandals throughout the ages. And they aren't always confined within the walls of the White House. Human beings have been rocking the boat since long before tabloids were invented. Maybe it was Adam and Eve who first broke the moral compass and paved the way for the rest of us to veer off the path of righteousness. Who knows...
Either way, hundreds of scandals have gone down in history as fodder for the masses—leaving eyes wide open and jaws on the floor. When someone asked, "What do you think is the biggest scandal in human history?" it opened the gates to a rabbit hole of sordid tales of people, and companies, behaving in less than savory ways. The question clocked no less than 1,300 comments. And Bored Panda has put together a list of the best.
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#1
Religion.
Scott Rackley 7 months ago
You have to admire the elegance of the long con though, I guess
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Nikki Sevven 7 months ago
I would specify organized religion. I don't have an issue with people who are privately religious, as long as they don't push it on me. But the ones who try and legislate their personal religious beliefs are dangerous.
Alewa 7 months ago
I disagree. Yes, organised religion is scandalous and has committed/continues to commit atrocious crimes. However, I believe that there is an inherent need for spirituality in most humans. Spiritual/religious systems have evolved across cultures and time. If they are not abused to gain power or money, most of them boil down to a core set of values that most humans can agree on.
Tamra 7 months ago
Those values you speak of are achievable, if not inherent, without religion at all.
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Crystalwitch60 7 months ago
100000000000% it’s all fiction ok the best ever written fiction !! All written to control people in to doing it how they say ! But fiction non the less !!
Joe Bloe 7 months ago
Even without religion, people still fight. Viewing only the bad part is shortsighted. I'm atheist, but you need to be unbiased and objective when you view history. Many times it helped people. Personaly, I think monarchy and nobility based on nepotism is far worst than any religion...
CP 7 months ago (edited)
Just because people will likey still fight without religion, that isn't a good reason at all to keep it. Why unnecessarily create more division to fight about?
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michael Chock 7 months ago
All religions and philosophy share the same approach to positive change. They just add a bunch of extra stuff so they can claim to be the only "correct" path. https://www.amazon.com/Framework-Change-Freeing-Finding-Meaning/dp/B0DV4CFXQH
B 7 months ago
Also the greatest single source of human pain and suffering, and has caused the most wars.
Lotekguy 7 months ago
Especially when living in countries that have separation of church and state as part of their constitutional foundation. .
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Our dear friend Wikipedia defines a scandal as "the strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way a social norm."
And boy have we seen our fair share. But not all scandalous acts result in a scandal or produce the same consequences. Some people suffer a fall from grace while others remain unscathed. Seemingly immune to scandals despite their blatant scandalous behavior. Experts believe it has a lot to do with the media.
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#2
Stupid people tearing down what smart people fight for and achieved also for them. Like democracy.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
Yes, the uni-party and the totalitarian woke are both anti-democratic.
The media are more likely to create a scandal when transgressions disrupt established norms, notes an article published on the University of Alberta's website. "When public figures who hold themselves up as paragons of morality are revealed to violate the social order they purport to uphold, a scandal is sure to follow," it reads.
So basically, if you paint a picture of yourself as someone with a squeaky clean image, and a moral compass that always points in the right direction, don't be surprised if the house of cards comes crashing down when you're caught in a compromising position.
#3
The concept of trickle down economics.
That when you take care of the top, they'll take care of you, because that's what's holding them up.
Dave Van Beurden 7 months ago
As Wanda Sykes once said: the only thing that trickles down is sh*t
Littlemiss 7 months ago (edited)
It's like the story of jobs, the monkeys (ceos, managers, high ups) sit at the top of the tree and see blue skies, sunlight, canopy and trees. The monkeys at the bottom of the tree (low wage workers) look up and see a*arseholes.
Enlee Jones 7 months ago
The rich get richer while I'm an ungrateful, entitled brat for wanting more than five pencils.
michael Chock 7 months ago
Business ethics 101. If you CAN make a profit, you ethically MUST make a profit. Any CEO trickling down anything would be immediately fired.
The university adds that media coverage of wrongdoing only activates a scandal when it speaks to powerful and interested social groups.
"Audiences are not homogeneous: what is egregiously offensive to some is unremarkable to others," explains the site. "Those who operate at the intersection of multiple, diverse interest groups may seem immune from scandal because only some constituencies find a particular behaviour objectionable."
A scandal is only likely to emerge if the most powerful audiences are willing to act upon the transgression, say the experts.
#4
Douglas Adams — 'In the beginning the Universe was created.This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.'.
#5
Oil companies have data as early as the 1970s that their emissions were the primary driver of global climate change and then covering up that data for decades. They knew that they were k*****g the environment and didn't care. because profits.
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
And fossil fuel burning being a problem was known all the way back in the 1860s, where they thought "if we keep burning at this rate, it'll get much hotter with a few hundred years"... and then gas cars were invented
Mook The Mediocre 7 months ago
"k*****g". OK PuritanPanda. What does it mean? kacking kayoing keeling keening keeping kenning kerning kicking kidding kílling kinking Kipling kipping kissing kitting kneeing knifing knowing ? Please tell me.
Scandals often come to light on social media but they don't always blow up to the point of damaging reputations, unless a well-known or prestigious media outlet picks up the story. But the status and credibility of a media outlet also plays a part.
"The media not only publicize transgressions but also shape scandal narratives," reads the site, adding that any attempts to delegitimize the media could help someone caught in a scandal to escape bad publicity.
For example, an outlet is often attacked and accused of producing "fake news," as certain individuals (follow my eyes but don't look now) may remain unjudged, and untouched, despite their blatantly scandalous behavior.
#6
The pharmaceutical giant Bayer sold a d**g for hemophiliacs that ended being contaminated with HIV. Once learning of the contamination, instead of ceasing sales entirely, the company choose to only discontinue the d**g in the US (where the evidence of the contamination and associated deaths had come from) and proceeded to market the product in Asia and Latin America. Many patients contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS because of this decision. To my knowledge, no one from Bayer has ever been prosecuted.
SouthernGal 7 months ago
Corporations always end up getting a fine that is like a slap on the wrist but the people who made the decisions resulting in grave harm are never held accountable. Unacceptable!
Joe Bloe 7 months ago
"always" Fortunately no. More and more face justice nowadays.
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Sue 7 months ago
That's why corporations should NEVER have been counted as people. Corporations can't go to prison.
geezeronthehill 7 months ago
Corporations have the privileges of citizenship without the responsibilities.
Load More Replies... Mook The Mediocre 7 months ago
"d**g" ? Dámn you, Panda. Can't adults have reasonable discussions without getting your knickers in a puritanical twist?
Huddo's sister 6 months ago
There was a Canadian tv series about this, I can't remember the name of, but it was very heart wrenching.
Rahb in Oz 7 months ago
Why on earth would you sell something which kills your customers, so that they stop buying it? Absolutely stupid and disgusting.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
No one from the UK's NIH or Canada's blood services was ever prosecuted either.
Tamra 7 months ago
This post should have specified it was a blood product that Bayer disseminated, rather than a d**g. But yes, that blood product was contaminated and transmitted HIV. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24785997/
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Some public figures are politicians who are purely able to weather the storm, and resist creating a scandal better than others.
"Political figures have status, authority and legitimacy that can protect them, but also visibility that can pull them down," notes the University of Alberta article. "Corporate leaders answer to a different set of stakeholders but the activation and fallout from corporate scandals are similar to those in politics."
#7
One of the biggest scandals in human history has to be the Panama Papers leak in 2016. It exposed how world leaders, billionaires, celebrities, and corporations were hiding wealth in offshore tax havens. The scale was mind-blowing—11.5 million documents revealing financial corruption on a global level. Politicians resigned, governments were shaken, and it confirmed what many already suspected: the ultra-rich play by different rules. And the craziest part? Hardly anyone faced real consequences.
#8
Well..i can't say much on human history due to how broad it is...so ig i can pinpoint on some points in history
In the world of Medicine: Its gonna be the awarding of Nobel Prize of António Egas Moniz, the proponent of Lobotomy.
Also Andrew Wakefield. the guy who proposes that vaccine causes autism. the dude created fraudulent results. this guy single-handedly puts everyone in jeopardy.
Crescent 3 7 months ago
It's interesting that RKF, Jr. is connected to both of those examples. His anti-vaccine stance is well known and based on junk science. But also, his Aunt Rosemary was lobotomized at the behest of her father, Joseph Kennedy, Sr., because she had some sort of developmental delay and may have been bi-polar or suffered from depression.
Load More Replies... Atom Bohr 7 months ago
The tragedy of lobotomies is that as awful and abused as they were, the way many psychiatric inpatients were treated before lobotomies was barbaric, too. I can understand people at the time seeing lobotomies as the lesser of two evils, even if I find them sickening
Sue 7 months ago
A lot of them weren't even crazy before they were committed. They just pissed off the wrong person.
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Auntriarch 7 months ago
I wouldn't say Andrew Wakefield put lives in jeopardy exactly single handedly
Sue 7 months ago
He legitimized it, or there wouldn't have been so many more people believing it.
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Probably the idea than a man owns a woman and controls her right to reproduction. It has existed in one form or another in all societies, and in some countries it still exists today (think ISIS). I have always been impressed with recent female leaders and I wonder would a matriarchal society have been more peaceful and prosperous.
Bookworm 7 months ago
Boudicca says no. From what I've read matriarchal societies are more egalitarian in regards to gender roles within their own society but not necessarily more peaceful than patriarchies.
Sue 7 months ago
Probably because they had to keep fending off the patriarchies.
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Earonn - 7 months ago (edited)
The whole idea of men being somehow better and more valuable than women. It's not just about ownership. How many female Einsteins and Newtons never got a chance to contribute? How much suffering, ra*pes, sui*cides, pain, tort*ure, over thousands and thousands of years, just because of this one sentence "a man is worth more than a woman"? And men suffered, too. Yes, this IS the biggest scandal, because 100% of Humans suffer from it.
Sue 7 months ago
But if you try to show women who actually did something important but no one even mentioned it in school, then you're discriminating against men because they don't have their own day, week or month. I'm a woman & am just finding out how many women contributed to our society but we heard NOTHING about it in school or elsewhere.
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Sven Horlemann 7 months ago
I am pretty sure not more peaceful. Not because I am a man. But because I believe people are driven by ego, greed and whatnot. The gender will not make a difference.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
Margaret Sanger, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and Indura Ghandi can answer your question.
michael Chock 7 months ago
Anyone who thinks men are more rational, has never competed on a professional level.
#10
Plastic is good for the environment because it is recyclable.
Cuppa tea? 7 months ago
Well, in theory it's true. The problem is - we didn't really managed the recycling part, instead opted for cheaper solutions -burn it, just throw it away in landfill or dig a hole and cover it.
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
Depends on the plastic. There's often a type of indicator on plastic that tells you if it's recyclable.
#11
Current day f*******s thinking Hitler is cool.
Obviously Hitler was a bigger scandal overall, but these a******s have had time to reflect.
Awkward lady 7 months ago
STOP the bloody censoring, BP! Facists, Nazis, yes the truth hurts, but censoring them isn't going to make it right!
Ben Aziza 7 months ago (edited)
Also how stalin flew under the history radar... That dude was pure evil.
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Not to mention Stalin was in league with Hitler until the moron decided to double cross him and attacked the Soviet union
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
What got Hitler in was what got Mussolini in and he-who-must-not-be-named as well. The economy wasn't great, some guy says "I'll fix this in some way!" and people vote him in. Then, they find a group they don't like, make it legal to be jerks to them, and then stuff happens.
Keith Grean 7 months ago (edited)
Especially relevant today when so many people in Canada, the UK and USA want to abolish opposition thought and opposition parties, have a uni-party system, and want to abolish national borders in favour of internationalism, just like Hitler.
#12
Pharmaceutical companies patenting life saving medicine and charging people a fortune for them in the name of shareholder profits.
Torben Møller-Nielsen 7 months ago
No, the biggest scandal is that governments are not researching and producing life saving medicine for free.
Charlie the Cat 7 months ago
All my medication is free. I don't pay for prescriptions as I have diabetes. Everyone else pays a fee of £9.90 per prescription in the UK
Auntriarch 7 months ago
Mine is free because I'm a pensioner. Well, for now at least...
Load More Replies... michael Chock 7 months ago
You are literally sentenced to death if you cannot profit the wealthy.
SouthernGal 7 months ago
This one is a double edged sword. If pharmaceutical companies didn’t make good profit, they would never go through the expense to develop new medications, which save and improve so many lives. However, some are just plain greedy.
Sue 7 months ago
Then you deny them government funding. Why are we funding so many corporations (banks, mortgage companies, d**g companies, insurance companies) who then turn around & knife us in the back?
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Lead in fuel. Many people know about it and why it was partly outlawed, but not enough people know that the dangers and health problems were known right from the beginning. It's the biggest scandal in terms of loss of human life in existence. Estimated at hundreds of thousands of deaths per year still to this day.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
Boomers value democracy because we remember the decades of socialist and oligarchial famines that the uni-party systems, puppet dictators, created in various parts of the world. CIA and other US and Russian agencies toppling democracies to put in place friendly puppet dictators. A huge tragedy in South America, East Asia, and Africa.
michael Chock 7 months ago (edited)
The key word is "dictators" not socialists. You can have a socialist democracy. Capitalism allows single people to control methods of production. Socialism means if you produce it, you own it (think stock options and family farms)
Load More Replies... tori Ohno 7 months ago
The boomers voted for Trump because they want the dark ages to come back. Misogyny, racism, hatred, no freedom from religion, women not being allowed to work or vote, oops I already mentioned that. You get it. They want the hateful darkness back that they were raised in.
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#14
Bailing out failed banking system and damning an entire generation to austerity
Could argue the events that lead upto said bank failure was a scandal aswell.....but when it emerged they weren't subject to same rules as rest of business,it was a scandal.
Sue 7 months ago
How many homes were stolen from people. I know several who lost houses because their mortgage companies "lost" documents, forged documents, & and basically ran out the clock until they lost their houses. There were even two female attorneys, HIRED PURPOSELY TO LOOK INTO THIS IN FLORIDA, and when they found corruption & forgery, they were fired. Obama should have just paid a couple of years worth of payments instead of handing the money over to the mortgage companies, money that was taken from the people who bailed out those mortgage companies & still had their houses stolen. NOTHING was ever done.
michael Chock 7 months ago (edited)
Billionaires (including Trumps friends) were handed failed banks and all their assets at no costs because "the assets where a risk". But then the government turned around and insured all those "risky" assets. Literally a straight wealth transfer.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
Give people easy mortgage loans they cannot afford, then foreclose on those loans. Use US taxpayer money to bailout banks for their loses on those loans so they can buy up the homes and rent them out. The US government should have bailed out homeowners instead of the banks. AI Overview The "US mortgage bailout scandal" generally refers to the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis, specifically the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which involved bailing out failing financial institutions.
#15
May not be the biggest scandal - but the renowned General Amherst of the "Indian" wars during the time of Manifest Destiny (whites overrunning native lands) used to distribute blankets knowingly infected with smallpox because it would decimate the indigenous. IOW biological warfare.
Crescent 3 7 months ago
Add in the bounty on American Bison, primarily because they were a main food source for the plains tribes. The US had them hunted to near-extinction, leaving the carcasses rotting on the plains to starve the indigenous people out and force them to migrate or die.
michael Chock 7 months ago
You forget the man on the US $20 had the US government pay cash for the scalps of native Americans.
Load More Replies... Joe Bloe 7 months ago
Both peoples tried to k**l each others, but europeans had a technological advance, so they succeeded.
michael Chock 7 months ago
Yes. But one side was genocide, the other was home defense.
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So many but Epstein island. Still no one brought to justice on behalf of those children.
General Anaesthesia 7 months ago
The family that plays together: TrumpIvan-...28cb73.jpg 
Sue 7 months ago
She's still alive because she has the goods saved somewhere.
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H*******t. The idea of making human k*****g factories is so surreal my brain tries to protect me and I'm not realizing what was really going on when thinking about it
So
Instead of k*****g people in war or shooting them THEY MADE SLAUGHTER MACHINES. A WHOLE CAMPS TO K**L PEOPLE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT!!!
Angarade 7 months ago (edited)
Impoverishment of language is a f@scist tool. Edit : f@scist is censored too
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Realistic Expectations 7 months ago (edited)
This still happens. Funny enough, 'they're' the ones doing it now
Chuck the Cat 7 months ago
Pandemonium, what’s your problem? I can’t be bothered with all of you grammar police. So pathetic.
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Peeka_Mimi 7 months ago
They got that idea from what the colonizers did to my people in Amerikkka. They killed 90-110 million Natives thus far in this ongoing h*******t.
Son of Philosoraptor 7 months ago
My great aunt died in one of those. Never let the b@stards win.
#18
“This is premium grade copper.”
-Ea-Nasir.
The Scout 7 months ago
I am not sure a 4 000 year old customer complaint really amounts to a huge scandal... Although that seemed to have method in it, as the customer allegedly named Nanni was not the only one complaining: "Other tablets have been found in the ruins believed to be Ea-nāṣir's dwelling. These include a letter from a man named Arbituram who complained he had not received his copper yet, while another tablet said that he was tired of receiving bad copper." (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir) So Ea-Nasir's business practices seem at least questionable.
Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
There's a theory that since around that time one copper source city in the area got destroyed, that Ea Nasir got his copper originally from there and he couldn't get premium copper after that. Of course the dude could have told his customers that, but he went and sold some scrap instead
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#19
The biggest scandal, and the oldest, is that no-one on God's green earth has yet worked out how to stop the five or so percent of the human race from preying parasitically on the rest of us.
As a result, we all need locks on our houses, businesses, cars, you name it, and passwords on our devices. We have parasites from pickpockets to dictators, from cyber criminals to Ponzi scheme promoters.
We arrest some, we jail others, and nothing stops them. They are the scourge of our species, just as Covid was and whooping cough still is. The wide ranging harm they cause is immeasurable.
In the name of whatever supernatural entity you believe in, can *someone* please come up with a truly effective deterrent, because I can't.
Earonn - 7 months ago
There ARE methods at least to lower their numbers. Proper education, housing, support for the poor, free (at point of receipt for our right wing nitpickers) health care, less inequality. However, all this means that the superrich earn a million less than a year additionally to the 5 billion they already don't need - and that people need to stop begrudging others the black under the fingernail. Both is very unlikely to happen.
Uncle Panda 7 months ago
The question is interesting in reverse too. We have had some form of community policing for at least 8,000 years. Why do we still have thieves?
#20
The Russian intelligence operation that resulted in two US administration changes.
Cathy Null 7 months ago
How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaign https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/05/08/how-putin-s-oligarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/ NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article195231139.html
michael Chock 7 months ago
US impeachment trial of Trump ruled "collaboration but no collusion with Russia" second trial "11 counts of obstruction, contemp of congress is not a crime, let the voters decide". But Faux news told the parrots Trump was found innocent.
#21
I don't have the biggest but I have the one that makes me laugh. In Ancient Rome Julius Caesar as the head of Rome had an enemy in the senator Cato. During a meeting when Cato was denouncing Caesar for being treasonous and many other things, a messenger came in and slipped Caesar a note which Caesar read supposedly smiling. Cato thinking he had a gotcha moment yelled something along the lines of "see?! He is so bold as to plot and conspire against us here in the senate house. Read your letter aloud!" ...It was a raunchy love letter from Catos sister who Caesar was having an affair with. It was read aloud in front of hundreds of the most powerful men in the entire Republic.
Earonn - 7 months ago
I mean, yeah, Caesar seduced her and used her letter to create just this situation. And everyone laughs and thinks "what a cool guy this Caesar is". But in truth Cato saw through Caesar's charisma and realised that Caesar wanted to become a king, basically, and that's why he fought him. If anything, this story shows that the one with the witty remarks and the "cool and funny jokes" isn't automatically the good guy.
Ace 7 months ago
Caesar rode roughshod over a lot of the established principles and indeed laws of Rome. He just did not give a toss, if he didn't like the rule he would just break t and dare anyone to try to call him out.
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#22
Big oil companies creating the term “carbon footprint” to make individual people feel worse about their own pollution than pay attention to how much fracking was destroying our earth. I did a whole project on it in high school and I will forever feel duped.
iseefractals 7 months ago
They also focus grouped shifting terminology from "Global warming" to "climate change" with the intent of leaving the public less concerned. "Warming is bad, but change is all around us!" But....i will never, ever tolerate this notion that individuals shouldn't be aware of their impact. That study that was floating around a few years ago, concluding that 100 companies were responsible for 70% of emissions....that study attributed all downstream emissions, emissions created by individual consumers, who chose to buy and use the product, to the corporation. The top 20 spots or something on that list were oil companies....but here's the thing, while retrieval and refinement do bring their own emissions, 85-90% of emissions tied to fossil fuels are from individuals burning them. The US is 4% of the human population, but accounts for 15% of global emissions, 29% of those emissions are cars, 10% from agri, 25% electricity, 13% residential and commercial, 23% industrial. Screenshot...03-png.jpg 
iseefractals 7 months ago
There are 8.2 billion people on the planet, it's insane to pretend that the cumulative action of all of them isn't impactful. Yet for all the people that claim to care so much, they do things like zero in on "private jets" The global emission total for 2024, was 41.6 BILLION tonnes. All private jets combined have an output of 10 million tonnes. Or no, it's china's fault! China. Yes, china had an emission output double that of the US in 2024....but china also has a population 4.35x higher than the US....and 10-12% of china's emissions can be directly attributed to american companies, building products for american consumers. Absolutely EVERYONE bares responsibility for this problem, trying to attribute blame to a single thing, that never seems to include "you" is what people do to make themselves feel better, not to actually try and solve the problem.
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#23
#exxonknew
Reports as early as the 1960s knew that burning fossil fuels would cause global catastrophe, all of which are playing out today. Alot of people underestimate the link between rising temps and our growing political instability worldwide. .
iBlank 7 months ago
and if you live in the US and listen to the radio, you get to hear ads about how green energy is a scam. Paid for by the Republican party (big oil). Honestly I'd be more likely to vote for the Empire, even though they're spending all our tax dollars on a death star to destroy other planets.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 7 months ago
A fair point. And Darth Vader is at least cooler than a big orange baby with strangely piggy puckered lips.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 7 months ago
It's worse than that. Eunice Foote was an amatuer sceientist and the first to observe that air with higher concentrations of Co2, such from burning coal, absorbed heat faster, reaching higher overall temperatures, and held on to the heat for longer....in 1854. No one disputed this, in fact she spent years traveling around giving lectures on her findings, and the rest of the scientific community built off her research, with prediction models as to the long term consequences (which have since proven true) being published in the early 1900's. For more than 80 years, this fact was treated as a dire problem in need of solving....it wasn't until after WWII was over, and gas guzzling cars began being marketed as "freedom" highways began construction, and oil companies realized just how much money they could make that science began to take a back seat. The Exxon study in the 70's, was just confirming what had already been known for 120 years.
#24
Organized religion will prove to be the biggest hoax of all time.
Jude Corrigan 7 months ago
Organised religion is the biggest and most successful pyramid scheme to date. For example, the Catholic church has an estimated wealth in the 'billions of dollars'. Yet they still ask their congregation for donations at every mass, whilst not paying any taxes because they are classed as a charity (UK). It makes you wonder what they are collecting all that money for when they obviously aren't using it to help those in need.
Sven Horlemann 7 months ago
Unfortunately, it cannot be proven. As everyone can just believe what they want. Regardless of any state evidence.
#25
Maybe the Opium Wars (1839-1860) – The British Empire deliberately flooding China with opium, leading to mass a*******n, all to maintain economic and colonial dominance?
Or the Colonial & Slave Trade Atrocities – The transatlantic slave trade and European colonial exploitation of Africa, Asia, and the Americas shaped global inequality and caused suffering on an unimaginable scale?
The H*******t?
Or the generalized oppression of women and children (and also men who are poor?) in every continent every century?
Or the concept of war, just in general?
So many to pick out form!
BarBeeGirl 7 months ago
Why are they censoring h*******t ? Trying to pretend the murder of >six million Jews didn’t happen?
Keith Grean 7 months ago
And don't forget the Holodomor (5 to 10 million) and Chairman Mao's 25 million dead.
Joe Bloe 7 months ago
There is, but you can never abolish hate, unfortunately...
Load More Replies... Atom Bohr 7 months ago
All the famines caused by the British that no one ever really talks about
Chewie Baron 7 months ago
Don’t forget all the other Colonial powers. They caused Famines too.
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#26
Diamonds.
tori Ohno 7 months ago
They're so boring. Give me a tanzanite instead. Or an emerald. How about amethyst? Shall I keep going? Colored stones are so much more beautiful and rare.
Bi.Felicia 7 months ago
I love Sapphire and all the different color variants.
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#27
People getting very very rich from wars.
featherytoad 7 months ago (edited)
His new thing now is that the country has too many federal holidays, and we are losing billions when companies close for those days. At this point, all I can do is sigh and roll my eyes, and remember that it will end at some point.
Load More Replies... Aileen Grist 7 months ago
I think that Trump wants to have a war with some country - any country - so that he can be a war time president and not call elections in the future. Just my opinion
#28
How the greatest democracy on earth gave up on intelligence for glam and things how Americans not only closed their minds they began to barricade the door.
America doesn’t even know itself now you stopped reading you stopped writing you stopped doing THINGS and allowed yourselves to be lulled into stupor by dopamine and greedy self interest. You embraced cowardice and coat yourselves in fear.
Your only hope now is deep diving into knowledge going to libraries learning your d**n history. .
General Anaesthesia 7 months ago
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov, 1980
michael Chock 7 months ago
When you breed a religious population to never question anything that disagrees with what their leaders are saying, you are begging to be exploited.
Load More Replies... Pushcake 7 months ago
Also, I know it's hard right now to remember, but many of us are furious at what's happening in our country! Many of us saw this coming and voted against it...TWICE!
Keith Grean 7 months ago
Native English speaker here: Why is darn being censored? There are contexts where the words "thing", "deep" and "diving" are offensive, but "darn" is an officially permitted word to be used in place of bad words. Darn cannot be offensive.
Tim Gibbs 7 months ago
People forget the USA is not a democracy it’s a republic, you have abdicated these important decisions to politicians.
Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 7 months ago
That's like saying a Ford Festiva isn't a car, it's an automobile. Republic is a form of democracy. Maybe not the best form, but democracy nonetheless.
Load More Replies... #29
Well I was going to say Milli Vanilli, but I guess that plastic thing is pretty bad.
#30
The 1534 Act of Supremacy that solidified Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England in order to break England from the Pope/Vatican was WILD. The Pope wouldn't annul Henry's marriage to his wife SO that he could marry Anne Boleyn to try for a "legitimate" male heir.
The people loved his wife Catherine, and now she was being made persona non grata and on top of THAT, if you even whispered that Henry wasn't the head of the Church or showed support for Rome, you were a traitor. And I think we all know how Henry treated those he saw as his enemies, no?
Ah, those kooky royals...
Troy Parr 7 months ago
Those kooky royals? As if the pope wasn't just another "royal"... Wearing his religion as a cloak like the wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jude Corrigan 7 months ago
Some people also forget all of the people put to death in the name of religion. Op mentions Henry VIII's fondness for putting people to death but that figure (guessed at 57,000) was dwarfed by people killed by the catholic church (guessed at millions).
Load More Replies... Rahb in Oz 7 months ago
Leading to Bloody Mary having hundreds of people hanged just for not being Roman Catholic. Such compassionate, Christian behaviour.
Keith Grean 7 months ago
The Catholic Church selling "dispensations" for sins, including theft, murder, and starting wars.
Tim Gibbs 7 months ago
Best thing that ever happened to the church in England, finally the masses could get to read a bible in English and listen to a sermon in English instead of some old language they did not understand, plus many more things to numerous to mention.
Lazy Panda 2 7 months ago
And then the Welsh got a bible in their language, helping to preserve it.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 6 months ago
And most of the changes he originally wanted, he revised, so the Church of England was pretty much the same as the Catholic Church, just with him as the head instead of the Pope.
#31
The Panama Papers.
Peter Parker 7 months ago
That wasn't a big scandal. It absolutely SHOULD HAVE BEEN, but it was swept under the rug...
#32
Our debt-based monetary system.
The biggest scam in the history of mankind with the biggest implications. We would all be living much more prosperous and safer lives.
>*“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.*.
michael Chock 7 months ago
Credit is literally a pyramid/ponzi scheme. Those at the top get money from those at the bottom with no actual product trading hands.
Keith Grean 7 months ago (edited)
Agreed. Remember, socialist and communist countries run on debt-based economies too, just like capitalist ones do. And for individuals, even under communism you can get loans for things like cars.
#33
Whatever Lockheed Martin is hiding from us.
What do you think ?
Serena Myers 7 months ago
And Adam could have just said no, but thanks for the offer, Eve, but somehow the bible misses out on Adam not being able to say no and blames it all on Eve. The patriachy continues through the millenia since the non-existent fall of man.
Just me... 7 months ago
Can't have a man taking responsibility for his own actions especially if he can blame a woman.
Load More Replies... Serena Myers 7 months ago
And Adam could have just said no, but thanks for the offer, Eve, but somehow the bible misses out on Adam not being able to say no and blames it all on Eve. The patriachy continues through the millenia since the non-existent fall of man.
Just me... 7 months ago
Can't have a man taking responsibility for his own actions especially if he can blame a woman.
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