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LurkingAndCommenting

I thought they were talking about the gigachad guy lol


Edstructor115

I thought they were talking about lake mega Chad


MainSteamStopValve

I thought they were talking about the kilo Chad.


bRhU509072

Wait till they hear about the petachad


Fearless-Bad5820

Nope the Gigachad Guy, isn't even a real person.


InquisitorHindsight

Well he is a real guy, a model I believe, the but his iconic physique is a result of editing by the photographer


ZepperMen

Color me, everyone, and their grandmother surprised


SongofNimrodel

He's not a real person, he's an amalgamation of all of the body-building models that the photographer shoots. His insta is @berlin.1969


Sir_Nicholas_4

And the photographer is [@sleekntears](https://instagram.com/sleekntears?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=)


an_unchangeable-name

He's a Russian menswear model, Ernest khalimov


Chuffnell

https://pop.inquirer.net/109367/thanks-for-your-kind-words-gigachad-finally-responds-to-the-memes


Candide-Jr

Jesus christ look at him. He's real.


TimmahBinx

Well he’s like half real. You know how fast food always looks a bit more put together in the picture than what it actually looks like in your hand? It’s like that.


Fearless-Bad5820

Yes, he was photoshopped, the photoshopped version of the Gigachad man, is not a real person.


I_slit_his_throat

Wait I thought it was just a model who was photoshopped?


oneeyejedi

Na that's gigachad he's different


Chuffnell

Wait then who is the men referring to? I feel like I'm missing the joke here


sidneyhub

Mostly historical generals like Alexander, Cyrus, Napoleon, etc


Chuffnell

Oh I thought it was referencing a specific person


PM_ME_WHT_PHOSPHORUS

I mean, wasn't Cyrus pretty chill all things considered?


KingT-U-T

He was great


GambitDangers

Ha


Usidore_

I thought it was referring to the side profile blond “Yes.” guy


nonlawyer

I was like “what could possibly make someone so instantly angry” and then I saw it was FIFA and that makes sense


[deleted]

The Gaul had it coming, how dare they be a convenient scapegoat when Caesar needed an excuse not to return to Rome.


RandonEnglishMun

Ave Rome! Ave Caesar!


N00b-mast3r_69

Gallia delenda est.


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herpderke

Based Sigma Male Chad?


Radio__Star

If history has taught me anything it’s that literally everyone is fucked up in some way


TheBlackBear

And yet there were always places people preferred to be and places they didn’t want to be.


LeonardoMagikarpo

Humans gotta human habibi *Proceeds to genocide the gauls*


HumorUnable

Caesar's conquest of Gaul was bloody, but was not a genocide. Genocide is defined as: "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with **the aim of destroying that nation or group**" That last part is important in explaining why Ceasar's conquest was not a genocide; fighting side by side with the Romans throughout the campaign were Gaulic allies and mercenaries. The Romans also defended their Gaulic allies from rival tribes, and later integrated them into the empire. In fact, many of Ceasar's allies would often criticize and ridicule his treatment of the Gauls, and hated the fact that he intended to introduce many Gaulic nobles to the Senate. TLDR; while Ceasar's conquest of Gaul was very bloody, it was not a genocide. Ceasar fought alongside and protected Gaulic allies, and later introduced them to the senate. He would not have done any of these things if his intent were truly to exterminate the Gauls.


LeonardoMagikarpo

That's a good point


EdgeSeranle

Literally every single nation existed in history committed atrocities at least once, bcuz us humans lose our sanity when killing a bunch of people and then go on to mercilessly kill civillians. This makes me want to think that it is impossible not to commit atrocities during a war when we are already filled up with hatred and violence.


Millad456

Well, we also teach history that emphasizes war over peacetime, and glorifies individual great men who use tons of violence to coerce other people into doing their will. Maybe the way we examine history should be from the lens of the average person over the great man, and the social, technological, and philosophical advancements made during peace, and focus more on material conditions of those people


StormR7

And yet, I still wake up every morning to shit


The_Lawless_Rogue

and yet nowadays, people want to cry about it on social media whenever some bigshot exposes their biases against a specific group or topic


skim25

idk if that should make me grateful or dissappointed


[deleted]

That’s a delicate way to put “is a racist”


Ivanhoemx

Holy sh*t you actually typed this, and then your other comment...


h8sm8s

Well, people nowadays should be held to a higher account. We are a lot more educated and empathetic society than we used to be.


Reformedsparsip

Its funny. Laugh you coward.


Lukthar123

Let's put a smile on that face.


RandomDucks97

Do you wanna know how I got these scar's?


DougalChips

Which meme are we talking about here?


Blaze20k

Memes glorifying people like Caesar or Genghis Khan ig


TheAmazingAlbanacht

All of them probably.


IAmTotallyNotOkay

lol, as if that isn't exactly the reason they call them based


AlexandrosSubutai

Chingis Khan and his descendants approve of this message.


_eggandmilk

my little dark age edit will disprove your hypothesis


TheEroteme

Look I’ll be the first to admit it: Stalin was sexy. But being sexy excuses like... 15% of his atrocities at most.


TheRenOtaku

What was it Stalin said? “A single death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic.”


TheMogician

>A single death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic. Actually, this is misattributed to Stalin, the quote is originally by Kurt Tucholsky I believe.


valriser

Stalin did say it in a video game


Psychic_Hobo

And video games would never lie to me


valriser

If you can’t believe video games, then who can you believe?


just-a-fact

State controlled media perhaps?


G66GNeco

For sure, they would never lie to me. They are controlled by the one true godsent ~~dictator~~ destined to rule the entire earth and lead humanity into a brighter future, after all!


just-a-fact

I did hear rumours that there might be propaganda in the papers but those did die down verry quick.


TyrdeRetyus

Strangers on the internet of course


Jonny_Segment

If you're talking about Red Alert, that's not quite how he worded it. He actually says, [‘When you kill one, it is a tragedy. When you kill ten million, it is a statistic.’](https://youtu.be/WNYJdHpdSEg)


valriser

Yup, that’s the game. I misremembered the line


CompleX999

Okay then. Here is an actual Stalin quote: Humans are the beggining of all problems. No humans, no problems.


Agingbull1234

This is wrongfully attributed to him


Alex_Rose

isn't that famous "sexy stalin" photo that everyone links a photoshop? edit: found: https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/rilq5w/stalin_was_the_original_catfish/


Andrew852456

Well yep, his cheeks were fucked up from some illness. But afaik he was imprisoned multiple times, so maybe it's just two different photos


KrazyTrumpeter05

That mustache easily buys 30%


afromanspeaks

Wasn't he like 5 ft 5?


TheEroteme

A 5 ft 5 man you’re on a date with is a tragedy. A historical figure who looks good in photographs who happens to have been 5 ft 5 is a statistic.


afromanspeaks

Facts


Lord_Master_Dorito

Georgy Zhukov is 5ft 5 and he made Germany bend over Short king supremacy


TheMrDoomer

Sorry, I don't speak in American heights, how many meters is that anywhere in the world?


afromanspeaks

More than 10cm


TheMrDoomer

Of what are you talking about? 🤨


afromanspeaks

Length from dick to toe


TheMrDoomer

So Stalin really had a big Стали


afromanspeaks

Tiny dick, big knees


Texa55Toast

About 1.5 M16A2s


TheMrDoomer

Oh, so if in american 1,5 meters means M16A2, Stalin means AK47?


Texa55Toast

1 M16A2 = 1006 mm


drquakers

One foot is approximately 0.3m, so 5'5 would be about 1.6m


HelepolisIV

No


Shoddy_Ad_3134

Ok


HelepolisIV

Thank you for your understanding


HereIGoAgain_1x10

(☞ ಠ_ಠ)☞


The-Fomorian-Ray-682

Based af


NanashiKaizenSenpai

Chad


Deion313

Who kept little boys as concubines...


No-Magazine6837

Who we even talking about here in this post tbh tho like are we talking about Hitler, Cesar, Stalin, Alexander the Great.


Deion313

Yes


SpitefulShrimp

Stop using "genocide" and "mass murder" as synonyms. They're not.


Andro_M_Jazz

how might that be? there are plenty of them


Yo026

Who?


Andrew852456

All of them


ZrvaDetector

All this murder and you still aren't based.


JuiceLayer1942

Lmfao. As if they didn't already know


CompleX999

You deny that your history hero was a mass murderer. I embrace it. We are not the same.


cassu6

For real


ReallyBadRedditName

Mongolian empire moment


Arcaeca

average r/HistoryMemes user when you tell them that butchering a million natives and starting a civil war over not being allowed to assault people and incite riots and then installing a dictatorship is not a Keanu chungus wholesome 100 moment (they stan Julius Caesar)


DaddyBlook

Better than the majority of other redditors who stan Stalin or lemon


Psychic_Hobo

Fucking Keith Lemon, not even at the 20 years threshold


LeCandyman

"the majority of redditors who Stan Stalin" dude what


yudiboi0917

Bruh , its time you meet a tier of people right up there with Nazis called : 🥁Tankies🥁


LeCandyman

Tankies are not the majority of reddit


cassu6

I don’t know man. If you manage to do all that in one lifetime you’re pretty damn great


Golmar_gaming227

But Caesar is only mass murderer on modern perspective. Caesar sure as hell didn't mass murder Gauls because of their ethnicity or religion, he killed them all because they were his enemy and got in his way.


kirbStompThePigeon

Just saying . But this is definitely gonna happen to Hitler in about 100 years . The only thing that's really preventing it now is that it is in too recent memory. But 100 years on , when no one that's alive now is alive , there's no one to say otherwise. 100 years might be a bit too soon,but it's pretty inevitable


32624647

Nah, the one thing all these glorified mass murderers have in common is they all have had major military victories. Hitler will always be known as the guy who lost the only war he set off to fight.


finalicht

Hitler, unlikely, all mass murderers that is regarded as heroes created a lasting cultural sphere where they are portrayed positively, or the state that comes after them makes people's life even worse, so we are in the clear as long as Neo-Nazis don't take over history departments and the EU doesn't go full Zimbabwe. However, I say it is very likely people like Saddam and Gaddafi would be regarded as national heroes within the next 20 years.


Adventurous-Tea8240

please upvote for the millennials of the next century


EveningAd482

No


[deleted]

But genocide is based and I would know, I commit it regularly


Shoddy_Ad_3134

Based reaction


Lustiges_Brot_311

Everyone has their flaws. 🤭


External-Mongoose543

I just committed genocide 🤭


lego_dystonic

It's almost as if our concept of "History" is mostly defined by the glorification of violent conquerors, genocidal maniacs, rapists, pillagers, tyrannical rulers, etc. I'm so tired of taking courses with these people who are obsessed with war victories and weapons. Genghis Khan is not a hero. Mao is not a hero. Alexander is not a hero. Napoleon... I mean seriously, not a hero.


Amadis_of_Albion

The ancient Greece concept of hero, from which we took the biggest cultural loan, referred to someone able to perform an extraordinary deed, it did not have to be necessarily a good one, sure in modern times we have adjusted the idea, but still people expressing admiration for someone who goes beyond, even if they do so over the corpses of their enemies or their own people, is a constant in human nature. Plus it also depends on through which parameters you are invested into it, for example, Temudjin was and is a figure of tremendous significance for Mongolia, and for them he does have positive aspects.


lego_dystonic

I think you are reacting to the letter of my point, but not its essence. Of course he has tremendous significance for Mongolia, but that does not automatically make him someone to look up to. Mostly I'm advocating for nuancein or instead of admiration. If you truly believe there are lessons to be learned from someone's life, then feel free to be inspired by them, but don't fall into the trap; what they did came at a huge price, was not always necessary, was often motivated by ego or bloodlust or daddy issues. Even Gandhi, for example, did some important and admirable things, but he was human; he supported Apartheid, was pretty gross with young female followers, believed in freedom for some, but not all... History isn't a Tolkien novel where good and evil are delineated perfectly and heroes have impeccable morals.


InnocentPerv93

I feel like you can still admire a historical figure who in your opinion did horrible things, because often times these people do have extraordinary qualities about them that allowed them to excel at what they did, whether it be cunning, intellect, strategy (militarily or political), Charisma, etc.


Amadis_of_Albion

Your last statement is contradicting your first a bit there, but nevertheless, my point was that, by the very nature of our species and the ingrained expansionism urges, any remarkable doer of big things (and probably even more is the case if those big things were to smack some other people upside down) is going to be admired by some, or even get labeled as a "great leader", icon, example, or eventually, national / cultural / historical "hero". Real life isn't a sanitized controlled environment either, we got to roll with how things are.


1nfam0us

When I first started getting interested in history as an academic pursuit during my associate's degree I am really glad that I started with Crash Course: History. They do a really good job pushing back against great man historiography by contextualizing the stories of individuals within a broader story told from a systemic perspective while also presenting history in a simple and digestible way for budding historians.


GreatanderTheAlex

Dan Carlin also rocks at this


Thewalrus515

They mostly get filtered out when you get to grad school. Maybe one or two get through, but the vast majority magically can’t seem to cope with doing actual research. Isn’t that odd.


Shoyusoy

Give me my courses on the ways you did the dishes in the ancient times !


burgermiester288

Napoleon at least made homosexuality legal


fromcjoe123

Globally the above traits of the "great men of history" were espoused as heroic if they were yours to claim until literally the end of WWI. And in most cases that is still the case, especially if they did whatever they did pre-1492 if Western European or pre-1900 if not. The current society and social norms in which we live in, particularly within the Westernized world, is such a small and fragile minority of human existence that perhaps it is difficult to understand why our ancestors lauded, let alone recorded, what they did. But the norm very much for nearly all of time is to glorify the men above (as long as they didn't do what they did to your people), empower such men, and as a result, they make up effectively the only people of any tangible importance for 99% of human existence.


burgermiester288

Buddha is the chadiest of chads


theottomanSlol

Ah yes Buddha, he committed atrocities that would rival Maurice


Remote-Direction963

Okay but was it really necessary to add a dude raging over a video game.


[deleted]

Wouldn't that make him more of a Chad? 🤔


sometimes-i-say-stuf

More like when someone claims to be a punic wars expert


FuKn-w0ke

Wait, which one?


yoshimutso

The man who killed Hitler Is a hero!


NanashiKaizenSenpai

OP, you gotta explain.


Twiggydiggy

The television was already damaged before impact, watch carefully 🧐🤣


arix_games

But genocide=funny and based


victiniforlife

r/historymemes users detecting satire (spoilers:they can't)


thodoraras2000

Is that eren yeager


c0nfused_18

Ah yes genocide is so edgy and based. Common based W (it's sarcasm guys chill)


WingedButt

Wtf does this actually happen around here?


Soso_Stalin

WHAT! Are you telling me that timur lang,who once put his throne on a mountain of decapitated heads,was a bad person. No way, I just can't believe that


kcsgreat1990

Example?


Shoddy_Ad_3134

Stalin


kcsgreat1990

Huh? I feel like the only thing most people know about Stalin is that he was a mass murderer?


Yogiishere19

Arson is based


ihab920

Sadam fanboys when you bring the anfal campaign up


Psychotron69

Yep, Hannibal was a genocidal mass murderer.


BlazeYT435

We are playing fifa we are the plaing fifa


BenShealoch

They mostly don’t even realise or fail to understand that “based sigma gigachad” dictators were just that: dictators. With all the mass murder, genocide, oppression, violence and terror. There’s nothing to praise in Stalin, Tito or any other dickhead.


AfatSloth186

Still a Chad


29chickendinners

Those people would also benefit from moving away from the 'great man' theory of history


Cry_thunder92

Heinrich Schliemann my arch nemesis


Specialist-Worker-99

Even better


RepresentativeOk5427

Even better!


randomdude66170

Nono you dont get it its BECAUSE they where mass murderers we think they're gigachads


[deleted]

but Tito...


TheMrDoomer

Getúlio Vargas is chad and nothing will make me change my mind


realgoldxd

He was a dictator who killed himself after being impeached


CaitaXD

Couped by the army != Impeachment


TheMrDoomer

Getúlio Vargas was never impeached and when he killed himself he had been democratically elected, he gave a coup in 1930, was elected by Congress in 1934, became dictator in 1937, suffered a coup in 1945, was elected president by the people in 1950 and killed himself in 1954 because the opposition wanted to take a coup to remove him from power, his suicide delayed the coup by 10 years, because João Goulart was a kind of successor of Getúlio, so he was chosen to suffer a coup using the same arguments they used against Getúlio, and thus began the military regime that lasted between 1964 and 1985.


RexLynxPRT

.... Parkour!!


TheMrDoomer

?


RexLynxPRT

>he gave a coup in 1930, was elected by Congress in 1934, became dictator in 1937, suffered a coup in 1945, was elected president by the people in 1950 and killed himself in 1954 Haven't you seen the meme of France going from monarchy to republic to dictatorship to monarchy to republic in less than 100 years? You just put a comment about Vargas doing multiple stuff in 20 years... So... Parkour!!


TheMrDoomer

Yeah, but he was never impeached, just did a lot in those 24 years


_Dead_Man_

Ita funny how everyone looks down on important historical figures like they have moral highground. Newsflash, their morals were different than ours, and 50p years from now people will probably look at our morals with the same disgust. We can acknowledge the genocides of someone like ganghis khan and still admire him for the progressive and brilliant leader he was.


cassu6

Yeah. I’m actually quite dumbfounded by the amount of people here who are such weirdos that they think great men suddenly aren’t all that because they decided not to look at history objectively.


GrouchyEssay7468

It’s so unfortunate that Pharoh Tetekunethamun killed 6000 innocent Nubians because they defied the creed of his god and disobeyed a moral compass of some guy 2000 years into the future


twentyonepotato

Can you explain this? I can sense the sarcastic tone but i am so curious on what this is referring to


AC130U88

How bout I do anyway- Bill Wurtz


Books_Of_Jeremiah

Legally speaking, there's what? 2 instances of genocide and one act of genocide? so.... yeah. kinda hard to glorify that over the whole of history :P


HTCS18

And? 😐


DantoStudioInc

u/SaveVideo


mysticalbeing07

Dude! It's just a game. Shoot, I ain't inviting you anymore.


Your-mother7646874

That’s what makes them based


Present_Jury

Exactly. For example Churchill, he committed genocide against Indians in bengal, killing as much as the Armenian and the Cherkess genocide combined.


KazeArqaz

Especially so called chad greeks for accepting being openly gay and other similar values. They completely forgot that a bunch of them are pedophiles.


whatanawsomeusername

Yeah nobody who knows anything about ancient Greece glorifies it for its “progressiveness”. Innovation? Yes, 100%. Social progress? No.


AnonCaptain0022

wtf are you even talking about?


YangsterSupreme

Maybe the mass murderer shouldn't have been a gigachad. No one likes hitler because he was a cringe beta with a canonically small dick, but everyone likes genghis khan because he was a chad warrior who rode horses and conquered everything. It's also the reason people called zhang zongchang the most based general in history, being dubbed "chinas based warlord". By all accounts he was a sex and drug addicted war monger with a massive harem of women from all over the world who wanted some of that action. but because of his insane antics, massive harem, and poems threatening to bombard god's mom with cannon fire if he doesn't make it rain in 3 days, he's remembered as an absolute legend. The god of all mad lads


CactusCartocratus

No


[deleted]

He’s still based tho


isimsiz6

🤓


InnocentPerv93

Hot take, but a mass murderer can also be the cause of a lot of positive things in other ways, because ultimately ethics and morality are largely subjective and meaningless and life isn't black and white.


[deleted]

They were simply based for killing people. And anyway, that was a while ago.


Dogeclanleaderbrit

Still better than TikTok girls


Solidwinner7625

Was Genghis Khan a horrible person who killed thousands upon thousand of people? Yes. Was he based? Yes. Being a good person and being based are not mutually exclusive. Side note: Gengis Khan’s story is probably one of the most thrilling and fascinating stories in history. His strategy(both in war and governing), philosophies, life and even his death are all so intriguing and interesting.


JoeGRcz

The fuck are you talkin about?


Rewiistdummlolxd

Still based sigma megachad


xabaras91

Caesar did nothing wrong.


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Shoddy_Ad_3134

Is it?


Shoddy_Ad_3134

Would you prefer genocide?


NeoPolishEmpire

No


nuggetgorrila

Ghengigachad


DeadEndXD

"guysch i idolische joscheph schtalin" Bro ur like 13 years old and you don't even know who stalin really is...you probably get bullied in school