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If you’re a powerful person, it’s going to be pretty easy to make enemies. But there’s nothing wrong with having some adversaries if you know what to expect out of them. They’ve got your worst interest at heart? Got it, no problem.
The people you’ve actually got to look out for are those who pretend to be on your side until they have an opportunity to stab you in the back. Redditors have recently been discussing some of the most infamous traitors of all time, so we’ve gathered the juiciest stories below. From betraying their own families to causing thousands to lose their lives, these double-crossers deserve to be remembered forever. Enjoy scrolling through their tales, and be sure to upvote the ones you can’t believe are true.
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#1
Donald John Trump.
DrBronxx 7 months ago
Because at this point the post is only minutes old.
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CatD 7 months ago
He definitely qualifies. Stealing classified documents and contacting Putin as a private citizen violating the Logan act would suffice.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
To anyone who voted for him, how do you feel now? You doing good or are you ready to throw yourself off a bridge yet?
Joe Reaves 7 months ago
As long as people they hate are hurting too (or they believe they are) they don't care.
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Chris the Bobcat 7 months ago
I don't just want to see the traitor trump brought down. I want to see him completely and utterly humiliated as he's being taken down. Like fvcked up the a$$ on national TV humiliated. He'd cry like a b!tch.
DowntownStevieB 7 months ago
Number 1 for sure! Next should be Hitler, Andrew Jackson, Mussolini, etc. (you get the point)
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#2
Mark Zuckerberg and most of the other big tech CEOs
Hear me out... Social media has literally destroyed a generation. Kids who went through puberty with Instagram and tiktok will have their brains permanently f****d for attention span and general behavioral impulse control.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
Parents do have some responsibility for this as well. Phones and internet access, to some extent, are within the parents grasp.
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 7 months ago
Not too mention the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal where they used people like guinea pigs to learn how to interfere with democratic elections all round the world.
General Anaesthesia 7 months ago
When asked about how he obtained the information for his newly launched social network: "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb f***s." -Mark Zuckerberg
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Plus they made their fortunes on the back of inventions made by US taxpayers via such things as DARPA and most make a significant (most?) of their profits via government contracts.
#3
Thomas Edison.
He took the inventions of the people who worked for them and published them in his name. Then, he left them broke and without any credit to be able to continue being inventors.
Nikola Tesla is a great example. The US is taught that Edison made all these things, meanwhile in Canada, we are taught that Edison stole his ideas through a contract loophole and left Tesla broke and bereft.
sbj 7 months ago
I'm happy now that it's now becoming common knowledge that he stole some of Tesla's ideas
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Edison just did what most companies and universities have always done. In exchange for the pittance salaries, one usually turns over rights
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Lady Eowyn 7 months ago
Don't forget, Marconi used 17 of Tesla's patents to "invent" his wireless radio signals.
Scott Rackley 7 months ago
I thought this was common knowledge. Same for Jobs and Musk. They're marketers not inventors.
Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
Fun fact: Elon might as well call the Cybertruck an Edison. He didn't found Tesla, but he made the Cybertruck under the Tesla brand
Italian-Swiss Panda 7 months ago
This! I also heard about this in school (Switzerland), where our teacher focussed much more on Tesla than on Edison.
Crystal Taggart 7 months ago
In Tesla's autobiography, he states that Edison offered him $50k to fix his DC motor. When Tesla succeeded, Edison told him that "he didn't understand American humor" and Tesla quit on the spot. Tesla later sold his inventions to Westinghouse who ran into financial problems. Tesla tore up the contract with Westinghouse (seeing his inventions brought to life was more important than money) assuming that Westinghouse would take care of him later (which didn't happen.) He died broke and alone (except for his favorite pigeon) in a hotel room in NYC.
#4
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
His crimes include stacking the supreme court and federal judiciary, helping to shut down the government, not removing Trump from office, and protecting insurrectionists.
Edit to add: McConnell betrayed his oath to defend and uphold the constitution. The consequences are at the least: the current constitutional crisis, a trade war, the loss of US dollar dominance and stagflation.
It’s possible that his betrayal may allow Trump to start a real war with China. We would fight alone. No one would defend us.
The worst consequence of McConnell’s betrayal is to the climate. Our lack of leadership on this will cause unbelievable damage to future humanity.
It’s possible that McConnell’s betrayal is the linchpin to humanity’s extinction.
BeesEelsAndPups 7 months ago
I'd add pretty much any Republican still in office, as Republicans have purged all their members loyal to the country, in favor of those members loyal to Trump.
Gingersnap In Iowa 7 months ago
I had an aunt who lived the majority of her adult life in Kentucky. She was a sweet lady who never had a good thing to say about Mitch.
Robert Cosgrove 7 months ago
I would argue he's a bigger traitor than Trump. Trump's loyalty has never been with the US so in a sense he's not a traitor to the US. His loyalty is to money and power. The US and most of the world are just collateral damage.
Gracie Jay 7 months ago
Exactly, Trump has always been blatantly terrible. I mean, a lot of the time he’ll tell everyone ahead of time the awful thing he’s gonna do and the awful reasons for it.
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Sven Horlemann 7 months ago
More digusting than Donald Dumb - because Mitch knows what he is doing.
#5
The Catholic Church.
They helped surviving N*zis flee to safe havens and helped reallocate/launder their stolen wealth. .
Robin Roper 7 months ago
And covered up massive child s** abuse by priests, often transferring them to different parishes where they had a whole new group of children to abuse.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
And further was instrumental in the 30 Years War which killed have the German population at the time.
Load More Replies... greenideas 7 months ago
While you are correct about them aiding the flight to safe havens (mostly done by the Vatican), I don't think that's fair to all the nuns and priests risking their lives to hide Jews. Not to mention, they were persecuted themselves. Dachau specifically housed the clergy and the t*****e they underwent was horrific.
CP 7 months ago
People who are catholic are not the same as the Catholic church.
Load More Replies... PlumBacterium 7 months ago
We cannot censor N A Z I ...its a terrible name for a terrible group that did terrible atrocities. we cannot censor their name so we never forget.
Bryn 7 months ago
Also, Pope Francis when he was the head of the church in Argentina during the Dirty War. Literally kept quiet about his knowledge of murder and abduction. Refused to even acknowledge it!
Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
just like french prime minister refused to acknowledge what happened in betharam (just like the church of course)
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Anne Young 7 months ago
I didn't think nazìs died. No I don't mean in that I thought they were immortal. Obviously I know people aren't. No but. It seems inconceivable to me that someone w/ that much power can like die, contradicting the point.
#6
I might be biased, but, Pol Pot. He turned on his own country and brought upon the slaughter of millions of innocent men, women and children. They say he preferred to use hammers on his victims to conserve ammunition.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
He was busy during his 75-79 reign of terror. Vietnam was instrumental in stopping him, according to wiki.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
And it was the US invasion of Cambodia and the disasters it caused that enabled him to take control.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 7 months ago
Wait - *gasp* - the US did something out in the world that made terrible things possible? I can't believe it!!!
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#7
Andrew Jackson’s betrayal of the Choctaw and other tribes. Ultimately resulting in the Trail of Tears.
The tribes that allied with him and fought alongside him during the War of 1812.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
And he's on the $20. WTAF? He's one of histories greatest monsters and we have him on the $20 bill.
Load More Replies... Lavern Defazio 7 months ago
400 treaties broken by the US Government with Native American Tribes. Perilous times now as well.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
US, as other dominant powers, almost always sees treaties as temporary. US has broken almost every treaty with anyone once it becomes inconvenient
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#8
Any Christian who believes in the orange man.
ucp 7 months ago
Any true Christian knows in their heart that the current US president is not one of them
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Xtianity an other Abrahamic religions are merely vehicles for cultural and ethnic dominance.
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Chris the Bobcat 7 months ago
the traitor trump is, to me, proof that no loving god exists. We're on our own.
Kat Alison 7 months ago
Christianity is sus in my mind, anyway. It always did teach weird things—-resurrection, virgin birth, trinity. Christianity has completely gone bonkers with this MAGAt b******t.
🇫🇮 Goth Nurse 🇫🇮 7 months ago
Any Christian. All believe in fairytales, llies and do some serious cherry picking.
CatD 7 months ago
Biden was a Christian who attended church and cared about ALL Americans, not just those who voted for him. Trump isn't a Christian. His only church has 18 holes and his only God is himself.
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#9
Any woman like Ghislaine Maxwell who p**ps out children.
Wild Cream 7 months ago
Thank you, not trying to be funny because she’s disgusting but my brain genuinely though this meant “poops”
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Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
People like this are worse than runny dog p*o under a shoe on a slick surface.
Rob D 7 months ago
I was waiting for an "any woman" statement... That votes anti-woman ("pro-life").
CatD 7 months ago (edited)
Unfortunately forced birthers only care about fetuses, after they're born, they're on their own.
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#10
Whoever turned in Anne Frank and her family.
Wild Cream 7 months ago (edited)
Whoever turned in any Jewish family hiding or fleeing for their lives. (Or anyone else targeted during the h*******t)
Sea Squirrel 7 months ago (edited)
Why is the word h*******t in Wild Creams post censored? H0L0CAUST, H0L0CAUST, H0L0CAUST!!! Shame on you BP! This makes me so angry! Censoring the word H0L0CAUST is highly reprehensible. We should never censor what happened during WW2! Denying the awful H0L0CAUST is something the worst traitors in human history do. You're not one of them, aren't you? Let's say it again: H0L0CAUST, H0L0CAUST, H0L0CAUST!!! (hope you made a mistake so I don't need to use the zero instead of the O next time!)
Awkward lady 7 months ago
And stop censoring Nazis as well! Show some respect for the millions of victims instead of pretending that hurty words must be banned!
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Liz Rutherford 7 months ago
80+ years later, it's still undetermined who ratted on them. I hope that person is roasting in the 7th level of H*ll.
Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
But they have. It was most likely a Jewish man named Arnold van den Burgh. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60024228
Sven Horlemann 7 months ago
All this is so frustrating. At the time I write this, Israel prevents any humanitarian help to reach Gaza. For 50 days now.
#11
* Vidkun Quisling
* Philippe Petain
* Anton Mussert
* Leon Degrelle
* Ferenc Szalasi
* Josef Tiso
* Ante Pavelic
* Milan Nedic
All the people who collaborated with the N*zis against their own countrymen.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
George Prescott, Henry Ford, Lindbergh, Fred Trump, Musk family, etc, etc
#12
A kid named Tommy who ratted me out in First Grade for calling Ms. Radcliffe “Ms. Ratsjumpingoffacliff”. It’s been over 30 years and I haven’t forgotten your snitching, Tommy, you little s**t.
Lavern Defazio 7 months ago
Yeah..same to you Edward!! For telling on me and my cousin in the 1st grade for swearing in our conversation. That's how cousins talk.
Enochrises 7 months ago
Of all the horrible stuff the world is dealing with. This post is great. How dare you tommy
Cindy Brick 7 months ago
No doubt Laura Ingalls Wilder would feel the same, for calling her future sister-in-law "Lazy, lousy, Liza Jane." And getting found out for doing it! (And yes, I'm laughing, too.)
#13
The banks, conglomerates and billionaires who are happily hoarding wealth and resources while nonchalantly watching society crumble around them.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
US has usually been and was founded as an oligarchy, with a few periods of representative democracy. Difference from today was that the previous oligarchs sometimes had some morality and some belief in laws
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It absolutely amazes me that any one of these billionaires could do so much good with their money but choose not to.
CatD 7 months ago (edited)
Well Warren Buffett has given away more than $50 billion, and the B&M Gates foundation has given $40+ billion but it's not the norm. Musk apparently donates to his OWN charity.🙄
Load More Replies... Chris the Bobcat 7 months ago
Extreme wealth inequality leads to societal collapse and the e*******n of the wealthy. Just ask Louis XVI.
Kat Alison 7 months ago
This should be higher. Fvck banks, corporations, and billionaires up the asz with a splintery flagpole.
#14
Someone who intentionally spread their HIV to other people. For this and other reasons: Roy Cohn.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
Would it surprise anyone that he mentored DJT and was his attorney from 73 to 86 when he was disbarred and died? While many won't agree, I am not shocked by this as he knows some "very fine people".
CatD 7 months ago
Another one of Trump's disbarred lawyers? What does that make, eight or nine?
Load More Replies... Gingersnap In Iowa 7 months ago
Roy Cohn was prosecutor in the Rosenberg trial and assisted Senator Joseph McCarthy in outing Communists in the federal government during the 1950's.
MsPlants 7 months ago
if you read into his politics and how he acted and treated people he is the literal blueprint for how trump acts and treats people. This guy mentored and taught Trump how to do what hes doing effectively. there is a great podcast about him on Behind the Bastards and it really opens your eyes to how this guy knew how to manipulate the masses and taught trump and the fact it freaking worked.
#15
Whoever invented the 'skip ad' button but made it appear after you’ve already watched the full ad.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago
How about when the button moves just when you click on it so you accidently click the ad?
Rafael 7 months ago
I like to believe there's a hell just for those people, where it isn't fire and brimstone or anything, just normal life but a tag inside your shirt that rubs really wrong on your neck, and you can't take it off.
R1MV4Superleggera 7 months ago
BP won't let you read comments without a pop-up telling you to disable your ad-blocker
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Recent history - Boris Johnson. He wasn't into Brexit but realised he could hitch his bandwagon to it. Illegally prorogued parliament. Under covid lockdown made people stay indoors, familes could not be with loved ones during births and deaths - meanwhile he and his cohorts partied on. I wouldn't mind so much if he believed what he said, but he just decieved to achieve what he thought was his rightful place.
James016 7 months ago
He jumped on the Brexit bandwagon for his own glory. His reaction to the leave side winning the referendum was telling. He was visibly stunned as it meant that he and his ilk would actually have to implement it and do the hard work. But somehow he was made party leader despite being sacked from the cabinet twice for lying.
les 7 months ago
fartrage is the same. he gets the racists on side first because they will vote for him everytime. he dont care about brexit or immigration really, its all about removing workers rights. he has even admitted this in his speaches to business but his media cronies dont report that.
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… and The Daily Mail supported him to the end (which tells you just how bad he is), saying that we should all move on and forget the partying during Covid lockdowns. I’ll move on when I can get the image of the late queen - not that I’m a massive royalist - doing her duty, and looking so lonely as she mourned her husband of 73 years. whilst BoJo the Clown blatantly flaunted the rules HE SET UP
James016 7 months ago
The Mail also supported Oswald Mosely, and have Richard Littlejohn as a columnist so they are worse.
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Quisling was pretty bad
LivingOk7270:
His name is literally a synonym for traitor in the thesaurus.
#18
Kim Philby the British MI6 agent turned Soviet spy. Philby knew almost everything going on against Eastern European communist countries things like agents being dropped into various countries who had already been burnt by Philby to the Soviets. Hundreds were executed thanks to him.
john doe 7 months ago
Maybe the British should have stayed out of the soviet's business and vice versa.
Kristiina Männiste 7 months ago
As an eastern european - we sure would have wished that the soviets would have stayed out of our business- but alas. We begged the western world for help against the invasion, but the few spies were all we received, most were or own nationals too...
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Robert Hanssen. FBI double agent who worked for the soviets for more than 20 years.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
His espionage was described by the U.S. Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history". That was until this current admin.
CatD 7 months ago
Remember in Trump's first term he posted a secret satellite picture to Twitter? Only one of many breaches of classified material.
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Robin Roper 7 months ago
Horrible person. Colon cancer killed him too soon, he needed to have suffered in prison many more years.
Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
but he never became potus, like the orange t**d (cry maga lurker, downvote with rage)
Johnnynatfan 7 months ago
He was a arrogant piece of s**t. People died because of what he did.
R1MV4Superleggera 7 months ago
Funny thing tho....there's this very particular individual right now, who has an uncanny problem with his skin that makes him look like a cheeto, wears a dead albino rat for hair, has tiny hands and this person has a trophy wife living in some house somewhere in the American continent AND this individual most likely is sending very important documents, classified documents compromising national security of this particular country to his Boss comrade Putin
Apatheist Account2 7 months ago
The trouble with this is that if the Soviets had won the cold war, he and his like would have been seen as heroes.
CatD 7 months ago
Well Trump is now handing Putin our country on a platter.
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Chaim Rumkowski
gringledoomOn German orders Rumkowski delivered a speech on September 4, 1942, pleading with the Jews in the ghetto to give up children 10 years of age and younger, as well as the elderly over 65, so that others might survive. "Horrible, terrifying wailing among the assembled crowd" could be heard, reads the transcriber's note to his parlance often referred to as: "Give Me Your Children".
Holy sh*t.
Multa Nocte 7 months ago
Sounds like the Republicans from Texas during COVID who said that resources for COVID shouldn't go to "old people" and that they should just step aside.
CatD 7 months ago
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who was of the opinion in March 2020 that old people, ie those most at risk, should volunteer to die to save the economy. Yep, we'll probably be hearing that again as Social Security and Medicaid go out.
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MsPlants 7 months ago
my question is it says on german orders so was he forced to do it? This is a story i have never heard of so I am curious. did they threaten his family? or did he believe in the german cause. It sounds like he had no choice but again I have no knowledge of this happening. Anyone here grow up in germany and learn about this in school?
Cindy Brick 7 months ago
I checked -- he was 65. Ahem. However, the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. Rumkowski and his family were on the last load-- to Auschwitz. He was m******d there; witnesses said the Jewish Sonderkammando beat him to death for his part in helping the Germans to do thier hellish work.
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Rebecca from my fourth grade class. She said she was in love with me but was just lying because she and her friends thought it would be funny.
Tarring and feathering is too good for her and people like her. It took years of therapy before I could accept that someone could care about me even a little bit.
Edit: Thank you everyone so far. I've never felt so vindicated in my hatred for Rebecca. I wish I could show this to 9 year old me lol.
Magenta Blu 7 months ago
I think it does. There are many Rebeccas lying, betraying and playing with people's emotions ruining their lifes. People should not need therapy to deal with this rotten world where people use, laugh and discard their fellow humans. This should be on top on the list
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#22
Corfitz Ulfeldt is not well known outside of Scandinavia, but very bad.
In a quick recap he was in a top position under the Danish king in the mid 1600's, but did a bunch a corrupt stuff (allegedly) and fled to Sweden who had been the mortal enemies of Denmark for hundreds of years.
Here he started working for the Swedish king and didn't just tell him every Danish secret he knew, but deliberate did everything he could to enrage the swedes against the Danes, so they would declare them war.
After a few years he succeeded and he didn't just help the Swedish tropes from the front lines (again with a bunch of important information about the Danish army and the landscape), he also let the Swedish king borrow insane amounts of money from him that he had stolen from the Danish treasury. Money that was then used to buy mercenaries for the invasion.
The swedes won and Ulfeldt got his own lands back and even a Danish island for his troubles. But it wasn't long before the Swedish king also started being annoyed with Ulfeldt who now fled back to Denmark where he was arrested.
For some insane reason he was eventually allowed to leave the country because he said he needed to go to a spa for his health. Of course he didn't go to a spa and fled Denmark once again. This time he went to a bunch of different kings in Europe and tried to get them in on his crazy schemes essentially. He also gave the skull of one of the biggest Danish saints to the French, another thing he had stolen.
He even tried to arrange a coup of the Danish throne, but without luck. The Danes never got him again, but his wife was famously imprisoned in a tower for 22 years, essentially in her husband's place.
Ulfeldt was so hated in Denmark that a "statue of shame" was erected for him, that people were supposed to spit on as they walked past. It stood in Copenhagen for hundreds of years.
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
I can think of one or two ... persons ... who are worthy of a statue of shame.
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Tobias Reaper 7 months ago
he looks like Ron in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when he and Harry are in disguise to infiltrate the ministry of magic
Dr Jimmy 03 7 months ago
Now, here's a concept we could expand upon! "Statue of Shame..." pay the artists & foundry workers extra for having to be associated with them.
Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago
What a manipulative coward. I'm surprised he's not more widely known historically.
#23
There's two ways to read this question, I'm going to read it in my own way. The worst traitor as in who was the worst at actually doing it.
Philippe Pétain
This dude had it all, served in WW1, had everything you could ever want from a career in the military, politics and everything in-between. He was a national hero.
His name was royalty, and he threw ALL of it away to run the French State (Vichy France) during N**i occupation.
Now, you could excuse it if he was just doing it to keep his people safe, and nobody else would step up. Fair enough.
But he didn't, he actively collaborated with the N*zis and actively sent French Jews and returned Jews fleeing Germany to their destructive fates.
He is, a traitor entirely, and a really bad one at that because there was actually no need for him to do it. France fell in 1940s, he died in 1951. He threw away his entire legacy for a m**h a****t leader in Germany and died a stain in history, imprisoned because he was too old to be shot.
>Pétain's motives are a topic of wide conjecture. Winston Churchill had spoken to Reynaud during the impending fall of France, saying of Pétain, "... he had always been a defeatist, even in the last war [World War I].
John Dilligaf 7 months ago
That's an incorrect statement by the OP. He actually was sentenced to death for treason. The death sentence was commuted to imprisonment in recognition of his World War 1 service.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 7 months ago
He was not too old to be shot. He actually was sentenced to death for treason. The death sentence was commuted to imprisonment in recognition of his World War 1 service.
QueenKittyCat 7 months ago
He still could have been shot since he was living. No one is too old to get the consequences of their crimes such as Bill Cosby. He could have stayed in jail vs being released due to his age. Another reason why crimes shouldn't be limited to a time period of being reported and thereby getting reprimands.
L Sarris 7 months ago (edited)
ok, im guessing the words in the second to last paragraph are: m e t h a s s h a t.. right?
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 7 months ago
I think a d d i c t not a s s h a t
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#24
The parents of that lobotomized Kennedy.
SouthernGal 7 months ago
Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, underwent a lobotomy at the insistence of her father Joe, who did not tell her mother about it beforehand and there was no informed consent from Rosemary, who was 23. Rosemary had developmental and intellectual delays in early life and Joe thought a lobotomy, which was experimental at the time, was the cure. The procedure was botched, leaving Rosemary unable to walk or talk and with other physical disabilities. She was immediately institutionalized. Her father never went to visit, and her mother didn’t visit for over twenty years.
Regina Holt 7 months ago
Well, speaking of the Kennedys, it seems like RFK Jr had one. He went from Environmental lawyer to now being best buddies with a guy who wants to destroy the environment.
Pencil 7 months ago
Read "My Lobotomy" by Howard Dully. He was lobotomized at 12 years old merely because his stepmother thought him a nuisance. And his father allowed it out of pure weakness. Howard didn't even know what had happened to him until he was an adult. You can listen to some of hisstory here: https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey
Liz Rutherford 7 months ago
Prince John was Queen Elizabeth's uncle. He was the youngest child of King George V and Mary of Teck. He had epilepsy with the signs that he also had autism and learning disabilities. He was sent to live at Wood Farm, on the Sandringham Estate. He was 13 when he died (from a seizure) in 1919 and the British public didn't know his conditions. My aunt had 5 children with her first born in 1953 and her last in 1968. While pregnant with her youngest, my cousin Geoff,who was kind of an oops baby, her doctor said that there was a chance that he would be born with Down's Syndrome and the doctor told her and my uncle to institutionalize him. Both of them told the doctor to F off. Geoff was with his parents until his mother passed away in 2022; his father died in 1996. Geoff now lives with his brother Jerry and is well taken care of.
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy was horribly cruel, but it was not treasonous.
#25
Benedict Arnold betrayed his own people all because he felt he wasn't getting the laurels he deserved (even though he already had plenty).
When the British learned there was a man on the inside, feeding them info, they thought it was a low ranked soldier. When they found out it was actually a decorated man, they were really annoyed, but kept face as they needed Arnold to play his scheme out.
It was seen as a massive dishonour that a officer with responsibility over other soldiers would betray his own men.
In the end when he defected to the British, they gave him a lower rank than they promised, paid him less than he expected and a lot of the British made it known they did not respect him for his actions.
When he eventually died in London, his funeral was completed without Military Honours.
Which is about as "*F**k you, you scummy t**t*" as it would get in Gentlemen terms at that time.
Chris the Bobcat 7 months ago
Here in the USA, the name benedict arnold is a synonym for traitor. The name Benedict is very uncommon here too, for obvious reasons. In time, I think the name donald trump will go down a very similar road. But it might take a little while. (and no, I didn't forget to capitalize the names. Capitalization is a sign of respect, and I have none for either.)
Bigfoot87 7 months ago
Capitalization is NOT a sign of respect, nor is it commonly thought of as such, otherwise you wouldn't have needed to point that out. Capitalization is due at the beginning of a sentence or a proper noun, and regardless of whether you like them or not, their names are still proper nouns.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
Learned about his whining on the TV show "Timeless" (which deserved more seasons).
Gabby M 7 months ago (edited)
D * A * M * N I started re-watching this show like TODAY!! Edit to SWEAR properly!!!
Load More Replies... Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Plus he had terrible hygiene, even for the time. He stunk. Literally
John O'Donnell 7 months ago
There’s a sign on a house in Gloucester Place that says, “Major General Benedict Arnold, American Patriot, lived here.”
Johnnynatfan 7 months ago
Thats really funny. His name is synonymous with traitor here in the US.
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Robyn Hill 7 months ago
Arnold was miffed - rightfully so - because he was wounded severely in the Battle of Saratoga and while he was recuperating, Horatio Gates spun the story so that it sounded like HE had won it w/o Arnold's help. (I'm condensing here.) Still, Arnold might not have turned coat if he hadn't married 17-year old Peggy Shippen, whose father was, in the words of one historian, neither a Loyalist nor a Patriot, but a Shippenist. She was friends with John Andre, who was General Clinton's spymaster, and many believe she was one who came up with the master plan and talked her husband into going along with it.
John Dilligaf 7 months ago
in all honesty he was not getting the laurels he deserved. Politics played a large role in that, he had pi$$ed off a number of important people. Still doesn't excuse his treason though.
#26
Anyone who fought for the Confederacy.
CatD 7 months ago
The Confederate Constitution explicitly protected and promoted slavery. It guaranteed the right to enslave others, both within Confederate states and in any new territories acquired by the Confederacy. It also ensured that enslavers could travel freely between states with their slaves. Additionally, the constitution included a three-fifths clause, similar to the US Constitution, which counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
And I would add anyone who has displayed the Confederate flag since.
David 7 months ago
1) Quite a few redeemed themselves. 2) you are talking about a time where people more identified with their state than the country as a whole, quite a lot only fought for their state, and refused to fight for the confederacy as a whole
Dragons Exist 7 months ago
You can't redeem yourself from fighting a war for the right to own slaves
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 7 months ago
And yet the slightest suggestion that US armed forces personnel who signed up to fight the oil wars are anything but heroes prompts immediate attack. Every single device that anyone here is using to access this site has at least one mineral or component produced by a slave. What are we doing about it? Where's the outrage?
CatD 7 months ago
They were fighting for the right to own and sell other people period!
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Campbell's at Glencoe were pretty despicable.
"The Glencoe M******e (1692) was a brutal episode in Scottish history where government soldiers many from Clan Campbell, under orders from King William III, k*lled 38 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe. The MacDonalds had delayed swearing allegiance to the king after the Glorious Revolution, and this was used as a pretext for punishment. The most infamous part was that the Campbell soldiers had been living as guests among the MacDonalds for nearly two weeks, sharing food and shelter, before turning on them in the early morning hours. It wasn’t just a m******e—it was a betrayal, seen as a chilling example of state-sanctioned violence and clan politics. The event left a lasting scar and symbolized the deep mistrust between Highland clans and the central government.".
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Add the Duke of Sutherland who was the pointy end of the stick for the typical English land grab in the Highlands.
Load More Replies... MsPlants 7 months ago
Oh SNAP you do not break the hospitality rule! back in the day if you were giving the shelter and food or if you were the one being sheltered or fed this was a kind of covenant where you where supposed to respect and not attack or do harm to each other. This would have been a huge betrayal d**n thats cold
Aileen Grist 7 months ago
They alo stopped the messenger who was carrying their agreement to swear an oath of loyalty to William as they wanted to rid themselves of the Mac Donalds
#28
Really surprised that I haven’t seen anyone mention Brutus yet.
Indvandrer:
For real Caesar treated him like a son, but he backstabbed him in the worst possible way and k**led him. Literally his last words were to Brutus.
Francois 7 months ago
Uhm Caesar turned into a dictator. For hundreds years Rome was a Republic ruled by a senate. Rome was sort of democracy, even plebs had some small degree of power. Caesar basically side stepped the senate the very one institution that controlled Rome. Some would argue, including me, that Caesar was the traitor to Rome.
LauraDragonWench 7 months ago
Only according to Shakespeare - what Caesar said as he died, if anything, is unknown.
MsPlants 7 months ago
thank you I was going to comment that the et tu brute was from Shakespeare only. no one knows what he said when he dies.
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 7 months ago
In the TV series "Rome", Ciaran Hinds played Caesar and he was awesome. After being stabbed, his character didn't say anything. I think he probably couldn't, due to all the blood he was coughing up...
#29
John Anthony Walker
My dad started in signals intelligence as an Airman in 1966, did that in uniform for 21 ½ years, then another 14 as a civilian executive with 2 or 3 alphabet agencies. He was intimately acquainted with the systems Walker betrayed. More importantly, he was officially “read in” to the extent of that betrayal. It literally haunted him for the rest of his life. I took care of him in his last months and he told me the amount of damage Walker did was almost impossible to comprehend.
#30
Ephialtes of Trachis. He allegedly showed the Persians the mountain path so that they could defeat the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Lavern Defazio 7 months ago
He gave in too the pleasures of the flesh, from what I remember. Or was that just in the movie?
#31
**Robert E. Lee.** He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Instead, he k*lled more Americans than Osama bin Laden.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago (edited)
Doesn’t negate the poster’s opinion though. And as 160 years of incipient racism, Jim Crow, resurgent K*K have shown, the peace was illusory. The Confederate generals and politicians should have been exiled and Jeff Davis should have been hanged.
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Thomas Midgley Jr., the American who betrayed humanity for the sake of profit and arguably ended being responsible for more indirect deaths than any other human being on Earth.
Ace 7 months ago
Bit harsh. They genuinely did not understand the harm their products were going to do.
Robin Roper 7 months ago
One could argue that no one knew the damage his "discoveries" would have on the environment and health.
Joe Reaves 7 months ago
He absolutely knew the dangers of leaded gasoline. I'll give you that he probably didn't know about CFCs and was trying to replace the previous system which was known to be dangerous.
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#33
Everyone at Uvalde.
CatD 7 months ago
The cops and politicians anyway. Some of the parents tried to get in, but they were stopped.
Strings 7 months ago
I would mostly say the local police on this. SOP on an active shooter is to go in as fast as possible, the local chief ignored that. Border patrol agents went in anyway
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Tropical Tarot 7 months ago (edited)
Why do you have to be a twatwaffle about our country going down in flames?
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#34
La Malinche is synonymous with traitor in Mexico due to her coordination with the Spanish during their conquest of the Aztecs. She was a Nahuatl tribeswoman who was gifted to the Spanish alongside other slaves when they defeated a tribe during an expedition into Mexico. She would go on to be a key interpreter for the Spanish as she spoke the Aztec language and would marry Hernan Cortes post conquest.
Laugh or not 7 months ago
"Let's give women as s*xtoys to appease the invaders. Oh no, they betrayed us and help their masters to survive." Someone that you sold ows you no loyalty.
Peeka_Mimi 7 months ago (edited)
I made t-shirts once that said, "Rage Against the Malinche" with Zapata on the front. I think I'll make some more. It's a dig at Latinos Para Trump.
CatD 7 months ago
If she was a slave, did she really have any choice if she wanted to survive? Remember, Catholic men thought of most women as evil back then, so I'd take any history about her with a grain of salt.
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#35
Maximilien Robespierre. Betrayed the National Convention, was a leading figure in the e*******n of Louis XVI, and was himself executed for being a traitor.
winterwidow87 7 months ago (edited)
One of his most fervent opponents was Olympe de Gouges, who wrote the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen", because the one the assembly wrote in 1789 only gave rights to male citizens, and supported the abolition of slavery. For these heinous crimes against the republic and for daring to speak out against Robespierre, she was beheãded in 1793.
#36
Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Imperial Japanese to form a puppet state during the Second Sino-Japanese War. (WWII)
He’s basically the Philippe Petain of the East.
To a lesser extent, Akechi Mitsuhide could be considered a traitor as well. During the Sengoku Period (Warring States of Japan), he served under one of the three great Daimyos (Shoguns), Oda Nobunaga. He betrayed Nobunaga during the Honnoji Incident and laid siege to Honnoji temple, while Nobunaga was on the verge of unifying Japan.
Another Daimyo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, would later unify Japan.
Fred L. 7 months ago
Over time there were a number of puppet regimes in various parts of China. China suffered immensely under Japan for over a decade.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
And immensely under the Brits, French and US for even longer.
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#37
Dermot MacMurrough, a minor king of Leinster who invited the invaders into Ireland.
CatD 7 months ago
Dermot MacMurrough, the Irish King of Leinster, did not invite the English into Ireland; instead, he sought help from the English to regain his kingdom after being ousted. This act ultimately led to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. So he trusted the wrong people.
Ace 7 months ago
Being invited in to retore order is a ploy of invaders that's been used time and again through history. Hilter's invasion of Poland is one of the better-known examples.
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#38
I mean - there's Wu Sangui who opened the Shanhai Pass to the invading army and betrayed his entire country - is there anyone who comes close or surpasses him in the magnitude of their treachery and betrayal? We're looking for a single person, more or less - but close-knit groups of individuals are accepted as answers too - provided they were acting entirely as one and they were not the size of an army.
#39
Mir Jafar.
hirako97
Arguably the worst possible guy historically sending the sub-continent into 150 years of slavery and making them from one of the richest to the poorest. Guy's impact is crazy.
#40
Robinhood app.
Significant_Menu_178:
At the height of the GameStop craze they disabled the buy button for that specific stock and AMC only. Since the GameStop craze was being pushed so heavily by Reddit, whose users overwhelmingly chose Robinhood as their trading platform of choice, it pretty much stopped all upwards price movement right in its tracks. That day could have been arguably one of the largest transfers of wealth from the rich to the poor in history. Ironic that an app called Robinhood is the reason it didn’t.
ƒιѕн 7 months ago (edited)
Blame DFV, he started the squeeze. Simply put, RH didn't have enough margin with APEX to open any more trades on gme and RH didn't have enough cash to keep getting shares. For those that don't know, RH let you have instant access to your cash as soon as your deposit is made. This deposit takes time to settle in RH's account, in the meantime thousands of people were making deposits and trying to immediately buy GME. Also it wasn't just RH that shut down trading, several other brokerages also shut down trading on GME.
#41
Krasnov.
#42
Alcibiades- Athenian general and statesman who was a foe of Sparta. He betrayed Athens at Messina during the Sicilian campaign. He fled Athens for Sparta to avoid the actions of his political rivals. He convinced Sparta to send troops to join the Syracusans against Athens. He fell afoul of the Spartans and fled to Persia.
He then worked to undermine the Peloponnesians (Sparta and allies) by advising the Persians on how to weaken them until the time was right to invade.
He then returned to Athens for several years before being forced into exile in Persia where he finished out his life.
Snazzy Smurf 7 months ago
What did people have against Sparta to frequently find ways to turn on it?
LauraDragonWench 7 months ago
They were war-mad and convinced of their superiority over other Greek city-states.
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My ex-wife Susan.
#44
Harkis, during the French colonization of Algeria.
Not only they sell their brothers to the enemy but also made themselves involved in the t*****e and interrogation of liberation militants.
#45
I have scrolled a long time and am shocked to not have seen any references to Brutus, Cassius, or Decimus? The betrayal and subsequent assassination of Caesar is likely among the most influential betrayals in history.
Nicky 7 months ago
They were loyal to the republic, killing Caesar when he tried to destroy it.
Nils Skirnir 7 months ago
Caesar and Sulla were the traitors to the republic. Sulla is most akin to Trump. US Caesar is out there and probably some megalomaniac like Mercer or Flynn
#46
Erebus. Instigator of the Horus Heresy.
Tobias Reaper 7 months ago
that's heretic talk by the emperors glory ill not have that sort of talk
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#48
Nico Harrison.
Bobblefighterman:
You don't understand, that fat Euro likes drinking beer, he's a negative asset!
#49
That rat Judas.
Rebecca Ferguson 7 months ago
But was he acting on free will or was it his destiny so the crucifixtion and resurrection would occur?
CatD 7 months ago (edited)
Didn't he supposedly commit súicide right after? Not the reaction of a traitor.
Load More Replies... winterwidow87 7 months ago
I am not Christian but i read the Bible and i always wondered why so much hatred towards Judas. Since Jesus was born it was told that he had to sacrifice himself to atone the sins of humanity: he knew it, his family knew it, and his apostles knew it too. So why exactly are we hating the guy who made it possible? I mean i understand it was a treacherous act, but is it really when Jesus knew exactly that it was gonna happen and was ok with it? Idk.
Tropical Tarot 7 months ago
I don't know if he was okay with it. He knew it had to happen. At least that's how I always read the stories
Load More Replies... Aileen Grist 7 months ago
He was doing God's work - without Judas the Jesus crucifixion and rebirth would never have happened and Christianity wouldn't exist - good or bad?
Strings 7 months ago
I've always had an issue with this. If Jesus dying to atone for humanities sins would be such a big win for God, wouldn't the Devil have found him, and surrounded him with a couple legions dedicated to protecting him?
CatD 7 months ago
Supposedly God controls the devil because it's God's creation. So everything the devil does is God's will.
Load More Replies... Sam Trudeau 7 months ago
Some stories actually say he gave the money he received to the church, hanged himself, or that he basically tripped and his guts spilled out and he died.
#50
Eve
for eating the d**n apple for all of us 😅.
winterwidow87 7 months ago (edited)
Seriously? If we believe the apple was the fruit of knowledge and God wanted humanity to stay ignorant, is Eve really the bad guy here, or did she gave humanity the gift of knowledge? Prometheus did the exact same thing in greek mythology by stealing fire, and was also punished by Zeus, but he's not as hated as Eve for some reason.
CatD 7 months ago
Paternalistic religions always blame women for bad things happening. Think of Pandora.
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Phil Green 7 months ago
Apple? The Christian god told Eve not to eat "the fruit of the tree of knowledge", he never mentioned an apple. It seems that certain folk in the US and elsewhere haven't been infected with knowledge yet, and I don't mean you OP.
What do you think ?
Corvus 7 months ago (edited)
No Andrew Wakefield - the godfather of the anti-vaxxer movement? Indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide...
Lauren Wilder 7 months ago
Can we add Christopher Columbus to this list. If he were never born the world might be a better place.
Intel Memoirs 7 months ago
Talking of really infamous spies, sleepers, moles and even the fictional Smiley, Bond and Bourne, one day Donald J Trump will eclipse them all. Why? Credible revelations from seven former KGB/FSB officers about Donald J Trump being a KGB agent or asset (codenamed Krasnov) since the 1970s were published recently on TheBurlingtonFiles website at https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.03.16.php. The following KGB/FSB officers and defectors have disclosed (at great personal risk) that Donald Trump was a KGB/FSB agent or asset decades before he first became President of the USA: Yuri Shvets (KGB Major); Oleg Kalugin (KGB General); Alexander Litvinenko (assassinated FSB Officer); Viktor Suvorov (GRU Officer); Boris Karpichkov (KGB Major); Sergei Tretyakov (SVR Officer); and Alnur Mussayev (Kazakhstan's KNB (National Security Committee) Chief). Perhaps things would have been different if Trump had read the enigmatic fact based spy thriller Beyond Enkription in TheBurlingtonFiles.
Forrest Grump 7 months ago
Bill Gates and his gang reverse engineered one of the original Apple Macintosh computers and software in order to make Windows.
Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
Gaetan Dugas. Patient zero for AIDS. Gave it to the world because he couldn't stop scr*ewing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas
Heras buddy 7 months ago
What about Sykes and Picot you have them to blame for all the trouble in the middle east. They decided the boarders of the countries.
Corvus 7 months ago (edited)
No Andrew Wakefield - the godfather of the anti-vaxxer movement? Indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide...
Lauren Wilder 7 months ago
Can we add Christopher Columbus to this list. If he were never born the world might be a better place.
Intel Memoirs 7 months ago
Talking of really infamous spies, sleepers, moles and even the fictional Smiley, Bond and Bourne, one day Donald J Trump will eclipse them all. Why? Credible revelations from seven former KGB/FSB officers about Donald J Trump being a KGB agent or asset (codenamed Krasnov) since the 1970s were published recently on TheBurlingtonFiles website at https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2025.03.16.php. The following KGB/FSB officers and defectors have disclosed (at great personal risk) that Donald Trump was a KGB/FSB agent or asset decades before he first became President of the USA: Yuri Shvets (KGB Major); Oleg Kalugin (KGB General); Alexander Litvinenko (assassinated FSB Officer); Viktor Suvorov (GRU Officer); Boris Karpichkov (KGB Major); Sergei Tretyakov (SVR Officer); and Alnur Mussayev (Kazakhstan's KNB (National Security Committee) Chief). Perhaps things would have been different if Trump had read the enigmatic fact based spy thriller Beyond Enkription in TheBurlingtonFiles.
Forrest Grump 7 months ago
Bill Gates and his gang reverse engineered one of the original Apple Macintosh computers and software in order to make Windows.
Lee Gilliland 7 months ago
Gaetan Dugas. Patient zero for AIDS. Gave it to the world because he couldn't stop scr*ewing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas
Heras buddy 7 months ago
What about Sykes and Picot you have them to blame for all the trouble in the middle east. They decided the boarders of the countries.
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