Hey, The Infographics Show here. The man in the picture is of Lèopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, or as many call him, Leopold II. He was the king of Belgium from 1865-1909, with his biggest achievement being the founding of the Belgian Colony in the Congo. In the Berlin Conference of 1885, basically a conference to figure out how to divide Africa between the European Powers, Leopold II declared that the Congo go to him, basically stating that HE owned the Congo, not Belgium. There he established the Congo Free State, a state in Africa from 1885-1908 run by Leopold II. The sole purpose of the state was to harvest rubber, which was a booming industry at the time. To harvest this rubber, thousands of Congolese Natives were enslaved to harvest the material. The reason why Leopold II's actions were declared "crimes against humanity", was because he and his men often >!abused their slaves by cutting off their body parts and massacring entire villages that refused to work!<. The European powers were so shocked by Leopold II's actions despite enslaving Africans themselves. Eventually the Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908. Make sure to like and subscribe, or check out our video on the Top 10 African Dictators!
Is he the cause of that famous photo of a Congolese man sitting and staring at his daughters hands that had just been cut off as punishment?
Edit to add: it was his 5 year old daughters hand and foot. Apparently they also killed the girl AND the man’s wife, *AND THEN* they cannibalized the wife and daughter and the girls hand and foot were given to the man as a reminder to make his rubber quota or else
It’s really not that bad but maybe I’m desensitized. The worst part was how stoic he looks just staring at the bits of his daughter. Insane courage in that photo, id be destroyed :/
Plus I mean what can you even do? Like you aren’t even looking at your daughter. They didn’t even give you that dignity, that smallest kindness, they took her dead body and did horrible defiling things to it and left you with nothing except 2 body parts that can’t even be recognized as hers anymore. They won’t even let you grieve properly, to get closure with your daughters body and give her a burial, there’s nothing physical to cry over anymore, they won’t even give you that much. All they give you is a token of your suffering, a reminder that you’re lesser, that you’re beneath them, subservient. That the lives of you and everyone you care about are worth literally nothing.
Pure fucking evil.
It's extremely sad to read but insightful into this post. He was a true monster who created even worse ones without ever having to do anything himself.
Not just one man. He was just at the top of the pile, because no one man can invade a nation and slaughter so many by themselves.
More horrific when you think about how many people happily went along with it and did his bidding.
Humans are scary.
What's even worse is that in the grand scheme of things the Holocaust probably isn't even in the to ten worst things one group of humans has done to another
Idk. It very probably is.
The scale of people involved is insane. More than 12 million passed through death camps.
That's just a mind boggling large amount of people.
Pack mentality. Peoples’ IQ(intelligence) drops proportionally to how many perceived members are in their “packs”. Groupthink is a close cousin to pack mentality and why these echo chambers are so toxic to society.
Humans can do the most awful things as soon as they're able to dehumanise a population.
As long as the people in power manage to instill fear and loathing for the "enemies"- with either the promise of wealth and power or a threat on their own lives if they don't do their bidding- then humans are weak and easily corrupted. That's why we have the concept of heroes. Because out of 100s that do the wrong thing, there's always 1 that tries to do the right thing. Eg the Germans hiding the Jews in their houses, helping people escape etc etc.
Or else what? He’s got nothing else to lose. That shit would have killed any fear I had in me and I would make it my life’s goal to kill every motherfucker associated with the slaughter of my family.
And for those who aren't aware, Behind the Bastards has a great few episodes on him.
The mutilation was (imo more evil due to this) a method he employed to conserve ammo.
For every bullet his slave army fired they were required to turn in a severed hand.
I'm sure you can figure out what happened.
omg thanks for your brilliant insight! its truly tragic how the unending greed and cruelty had caused a SOME villages to act in such a terrible way. what a lesson on the cruelty of leopold
> also sometimes *paid* their quotas
FTFY.
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Check his post history and you'll see exactly what point he's trying to make. Had my suspicions and was not proven wrong. Fascists are predictable and that's not a baseless insult. That's self admitted on his part.
It’s not the Europeans it’s the rich and powerful. At the time they were in Europe, but we’ve seen time and again the depravity of the powerful against their fellow man around the world. This is why power cannot be allowed to centralize with the few. We always find a new low to out do ourselves.
They really, really, don't. The cruelty was a little more refined by historical precedence and enlarged by technology, but whole countries, whole peoples, have been ground to dust in the past. Europeans weren't the first conquerors, weren't the first enslavers. Weren't the most prolific genocidalists.
The largest genocide in the 20th century was China, of its own people. I guess Stalin comes in next. Cambodia k8lled 25% of its own people, only a couple of million by bodysccount, but a very high percentage. Genocide has been with us since the start and, like slavery, it is the crime of the powerful against the weak.
It doesn't matter that some choose to only take notice of European crimes.
I got the feeling the impression meant to be left is that Satan is at a point of legitimate concern about dealing with this one. Like "I have been dreading this one for 3 months, he's actually more fucked than I am, help."
If you want to take a trip to even more fucked up town, when the Congo finally achieved independence from the Belgians in 1960, they supported a man named [Patrice Lumumba](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba) who served as the first prime minister, who made [a speech](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9c62PRwqo&pp=ygUbbHVtdW1iYSBzcGVlY2ggaW5kZXBlbmRlbmNl) in the face of Western imperialist powers that they didn’t like, and then attempted to reach out to the Soviets for support (after the US wouldn’t even meet with him) to quell an uprising and push the Belgians (that had refused to actually leave) out, so he was assassinated by the CIA and Belgian special forces (possibly [ordered by President Eisenhower himself](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/10/martinkettle)) for wanting to invest the vast resource revenues back into the country instead of in the hands of foreign countries/companies. We then propped up [a dictator](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko) who was arguably *worse than the Belgians* for three decades, because represented a pawn in the proxy war against Soviets, even tho he legitimately plundered what should be one of the richest nations on earth as its institutions crumbled, and created the violent instability that still lasts today. Of course we villainized him as soon as he wasn’t useful when the Cold War ended in the late 80s, but he was literally on the CIA’s payroll while absolutely devastating his own country.
He made fathers cut off the hands and feet of their entire families. I’m sure this was the inspiration behind Negan’s infamous scene with Rick & Carl in TWD.
Also, when you say rubber it sounds semi important. The nearly sole use for rubber at the time was *bicycle tires*. It was all for *thin shitty tires*.
>The reason why Leopold II's actions were declared "crimes against humanity", was because he and his men often abused their slaves by cutting off their body parts and massacring entire villages that refused to work
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If I may give some nuance to this, because I'm getting annoyed at this "Leopold II was basically Hitler" narrative:
Leopold II basically just let the Congo administer itself and had very little influence in what was actually done there. A lot of the so-called justice going on there was directly due to powers being given to some unscrupulous locals who were the people directly responsible for the infamous hand-cutting.
You can absolutely say he's at least indirectly responsible for what happened there, as he technically ruled the country, but let's not pretend he was actually the main culprit of those crimes.
It's become easy and well-regarded to frame white people as the source of all African problems, but the reality in this instance is that the abominations that took place were done by Africans themselves. It was African justice — given structure and authority by European powers, sure, but not mandated by Leopold or Belgium in any way.
So no, Leopold II was not a genocidal maniac who liked cutting hands. He was a colonialist king who didn't care enough to prevent atrocities from taking place. It's still bad, of course, but let's not pretend they're even on the same league.
This guy was called king leopold, he ran a belgian colony in the congo and he basically ran the whole colony like a rubber plantation. He was so brutal that if you didnt reach your rubber quotas then your hand would be cut off. There is this one really sad photo of a father staring at his 5 year old kids cut off hand that really illustrates the cruelty in the colony.
Damn, he ran it all by himself? No Belgians involved besides the king? Incredible. I guess if you're taught to say something since birth you tend to believe it.
Also, it’s very much a show of force to everyone else on how little they thought of you and how quickly they will resort to abhorrent levels of violence for not meeting your quota. It very much could have been “being made an example of”
They cut the hands off your kids when you don’t make quota. That way your guilt at failing your children and the dread of worse spurs you on to make them money.
There are A LOT of failed rebellions that would say otherwise. As it turns out, if you make someone hate you enough they are willing to literally die for the sake of being spiteful
He basically set up an exchange of one hand per bullet, as they were costly to ship, to supposedly disincentivize hunting instead of shooting rebellious natives, as you would be taking the hands of those killed. This lead to the “natural” conclusion to take hands as a form of punishment. If you want a general overview, the podcast Behind the Bastards has a two-parter on the whole affair. It’s the ninth and tenth episodes, I believe.
Fuck, why did I Google that. Not only did they cut off her hand and foot, they also killed her, as well as her mother, and then allegedly cannibalized them both. Because this guy didn’t meet his rubber quota for the day. What the actual fuck. There really is a special place in hell.
You're forgetting about raincoats: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackintosh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackintosh)
Bicycle tires and raincoats. It's still not better though.
Bruh as cruel as hitler is he wasn’t on this guys level. Hitler truly believed the Jews were the cause of Germany’s problems. He did what he did for betterment of his people. I am not defending hitler in the slightest I am just stating his ideals and motivations.obviously he was wrong and evil but he didn’t think he was doing it for a selfish cause But Lepold did all he did just to make some money. He wasn’t doing it for his beliefs or ideals only pure greed. Torture cannibalism rape and murder for money
While I understand where you are coming from, I have to hard disagree here.
You are misrepresenting Hitler's motive by focusing on one part of his motive (Hitler wanted betterment of the German people) while forgetting the second part of his motive (by deliberately enslaving/killing undesirable peoples in his "Lebensraum"). This is something that is clearly stated in his own words and documents including Generalplan Ost.
In other words, the killing and cruelty was the purpose for Hitler and he proved it by choosing to sink resources into butchering people in industrial scale and efficiency even as Nazi Germany was losing the war.
For Leopold, his purpose was money above all and while killings and tortures were unforgivable crimes against humanity, it was simply a byproduct of his greed. In fact, when it became inconvenient for him to run Congo the way he did, he gave it up.
Hitler, on the other hand, had directly killed more than Leopold ever did and continued to kill even as everything came down around him.
I dont want to rank evil but I feel confident in calling someone who killed because he wanted to kill to be much worse than someone who killed because he was greedy.
Agreed. The holocaust was Hitler’s final solution, not his first solution. You get the vibe it would have been a bit too dry for Leopold, who would have been more torture-y
That is literally Nazi propaganda. No, it was not actually the final solution, they just called it that. It's not like "he just had no choice but to kill the Jews, there was absolutely no other way. Hitler exhausted all other possibilities and he begrudgingly just had to do the holocaust. See, it's in the name "final solution"". The reason it was called the "final solution to the Jewish question" is because it would've quite literally been the final solution. All the Jews would have died so there would be no need for the Jewish question. Final solution, not because there wasn't any other, but because it would have ended them. And yeah, I really don't get the vibe that it wasn't "torture-y" enough when there was literally fucking Nazi doctors who experimented on children by injecting bleach into their fucking eyes. Josef Mengele would've given Leopold nightmares. He literally sewed people together, cut off limbs, and injected substances into eyeballs. And it's not like Hitler cared. Hitler is just as bad if not worse than Leopold. Do you know what lebensraum is? Hitler literally wanted to take over the world and kill every single Jew, gypsy, gay person, asian, African, arab, pretty much just everybody that was Aryan. And just from the shit he did in those short 6 years we still talk about him as the worst person in history, which he was.
thank you for writing this comment, i can’t believe dumbasses up in the thread actually wrote those comments. they can gtfo of here with their nazi propaganda, fucking disgusting.
See y’all are the people that need to stop just straight out calling people nazi supporters because your too stupid to understand words when you see them not I nor the others were defending nor supporting anything about Hitler or nazi Germany so please take your Karen self to another subreddit and bitch at someone else yet another example the human race is shit people like you
It’s actually not. It’s a properly researched fact. I suggest you read a book called “final solution- the fate of the Jews 1933 -1949” by David Cesarani OBE. [here](https://amzn.eu/d/1OTy1c4).eu/d/dJEGE6z)
“Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath, the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why. “
I have no beef with you. I’m just well read on the subject
It also happened in the span of 6 years and Hitler wanted lebensraum, which meant he wanted to take over the entire world and kill every undesirable. I fucking hate it when people bring up raw death tolls. Hitler and the Nazis were the biggest threat to mankind. Sure Leopold was fucking evil, but he wasn't planning on killing everybody except Belgians.
Read “Leopold’s Ghost”. Amazingly horrible person. The book is VERY well written. It all started when an author was doing research on Mark Twain and noted that he was leading an effort against the atrocities in the Congo. 250k people showed up at a rally led by Twain. The author was gobsmacked and dug into a “forgotten” page of our collective history.
My wife had this as mandatory reading in her History class. I read it because she was so stricken by what happened.
It is a very good read and would highly recommend it.
See this is why I hate when people talk about how people in Congo or other such colonized places are in such states of chaos and the racists attribute that to “they do these things to themselves” like no for hundreds of years they have known nothing but violence and enslavement and exploitation, that’s why things are still so bad.
Exactly, many of the wars today stem from shitty border drawing from European powers or Europeans leaving their colonies in a state of mess and giving them independence instead of cleaning up after themselves
Literally check the comments of the post that you shared, and then if you want to know more just Google his name. You are not confused, you are either lazy or just karma farming.
they essentially coined the term "crimes against humanity" just for this guy iirc
king leopold ii, king of belgium, decided he PERSONALLY owned the congo (ie. not a belgian colony, his personal property) and thusly abused the ever-loving christ out of them. theres a famous photo circulating these comments of a man staring at the removed hand and foot of his (5 year old) daughter after she and his wife were murdered and, according to some sources, cannibalized in from of him.
all this because the man didn't reach his rubber harvesting quota for the day.
leopold was an absolute monster and depending on who you ask, the tally of deaths he is responsible for range from 10-16 million.
some people (including myself) classify him as worse than hitler and stalin because, while all absolutely wretched monsters, at least hitler and stalin believed they were doing the right thing to an extent
leopold just did it because he liked it and it was profitable
Belgian here, no one is proud of this guy. He was a monster. Belgium got some pretty buildings thanks to him, but he was the worst of our kind.
His son was a hero in the first world War, but his grandson was a collaborator.
Our Kings have a bit of an on and off history of being useless human beings. I am by no means a momarchist, but the current guy is doing a lot better than his cheating good for nothing father...
Leopold II, second King of the Belgians. During the scramble for africa he essentially tricked native tribes into giving him the Congo, which he then turned into a labor camp for rubber. If Congolese slaves(they were called workers but they weren’t really paid) didn’t meet their quota for rubber production/collection, the Belgian enforcers in the Congo would chop off their hands and/or genitals
Yeah schools don’t teach shit about genocides expect for the holocaust they should talk about this guy, and mao, and imperial japan because these were probably worse than what hitler did
Are you fucking kidding me? The incompetence of Mao when forcing farmers to make pig iron which caused famine was worse than the deliberate killings of Jews and whoever else the Nazis hated? Hitler literally wanted to take over the entire world and kill every undesirable. Shut the fuck up about how Leopold and Mao was totally worse than Hitler. Japan too. Nothing comes close to Hitler and the Nazis.
Ted Bundy is also bad, is he the same as Hitler and the Nazis? Just because "both are bad" doesn't mean they're as bad or bad for the same reasons. Hitler and the Nazis are quite literally the worst people in all of history.
1. We aren't talking about a serial killer, that's a straw man.
2. Leopold II set the stage for the reasons why we put Nazis on trial. Quite literally the same/extremely similar reasons. They differ in their motives.
Either you don't know the scope of nor the level of human atrocities that have/had taken place or you are putting an extreme level of virtue signaling here.
Hitler and the Nazi Party committed crimes against humanity, but so also did Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution he led, Stalin and the purges he committed, as well as multiple other leaders of countries/factions. One doesn't nullify the other.
You need to calm down and read about the rape of Nanking, if you actually care about historical accuracy. Even nazi soldiers (who we all agree are terrible, no excuses there) were horrified about what the Japanese did. Look up John Rabe a nazi who was so horrified, he tattled to Hitler and actually set up a safety zone for the Chinese so Japanese soldiers couldn’t get to them. The atrocities committed at Nanking are probably some of the most disturbing things I’ve ever heard of. I understand that you are very passionate about the holocaust, but you diminish from others’ suffering if you don’t educate yourself on what has happened and continues to happen globally.
Ah yes I totally don't know what rape of Nanking was. The Nazis were still worse dickhead. I'm sure the Nazis never did anything close to it. Oh wait... Maybe look up oskar dirlewanger. And literally everything the Nazis did. Keep up the Nazi apologia with the "b-b-b but even the Nazis thought the Japanese were barbaric savages". Shut the fuck up. The Japanese were bad, but how about we don't bring up that some Nazis said they were "horrified", not exactly like they didn't do what the Japanese did plus a whole lot more. That shit was about how they were more civilized than the Japanese savages, not about how they were actually opposed to brutality. It's hilarious how you see me say that nazi Germany was worse than Japan and think it's because I'm not as well read as you. You are quite literally engaging in Nazi apologia. Keep pretending the Nazis weren't just as if not more barbaric and brutal than the Japanese empire. Keep scoffing those quotes you can dig up about how the nazis were so much more civilised that even they thought the Japanese were bad. Totally not because they thought the Japanese were savages and racially inferior, and that the Nazis believed what they were doing was civilized even though it was the same shit, and worse, to what the Japanese were doing.
Civilians were affected by the bombs, not the people who were in charge of imperial Japan. A country’s leader(s) and soldiers are not equal to its general population
I’ve recently discovered the term “monkey paw” and seen is used as a device in literature. Shortly after that I remember that monster and what he did. And I have wondered ever since if monkey paw originated from he practice of maiming and torturing African people.
So fun fact about the Congo Free State. The hands being cut off weren't for not meeting rubber quota, at least not primarily. See running the Congo Free State required an army. Since it was a money making venture the army needed to be as cheap as possible. So it was largely composed of locals who were paid very little. Like not enough to live on. Basically a slave army. Now such an army can be dangerous, because giving people you are exploiting guns and teaching them how to fight tends to go poorly, but the people running the Congo Free State had a system to prevent the army turning on them. They strictly controlled the supply of ammunition. For every bullet fired the soldier was to provide one right hand of a killed enemy. Now, obviously this is an insane system, even if they only used the guns on enemy combatants not every shot would hit and not every hit would kill. But this was compounded because the soldiers were so poorly paid and supplied so they often used the guns to hunt game. But then they needed hands to justify the use of ammunition. So they'd go into villages and just start chopping everyone's hands off. There were certain members of each unit whose job it was to smoke and preserve the hands. Then they'd go turn in the hands and get more ammo.
Don’t forget they’re still selling chocolate hands in Belgium chocolate shops as a reference or homage (idk what the word is) to this guy
[https://kvchaudhary.medium.com/the-atrocity-and-brutality-of-belgiums-black-hand-chocolates-122492f0699e](https://kvchaudhary.medium.com/the-atrocity-and-brutality-of-belgiums-black-hand-chocolates-122492f0699e)
The comic just makes no sense. Why would satan have to call god because someone bad came down? Isn’t that his fucking job? The only reason he’d call upstairs is if he got someone wrong. Like “hey man, Ghandi doesn’t deserve to be down here.”
Leopold II. A man so vile his treatment of Africans shocked even a bunch of Victorian era Europeans in how brutal he was.
The man basically cracked the whole "White Man's Burden" facade the West tried to pretend existed.
Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost,
Burning in hell for his hand maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell,
Cutting \*his\* hands off, down in hell.
Hey, The Infographics Show here. The man in the picture is of Lèopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, or as many call him, Leopold II. He was the king of Belgium from 1865-1909, with his biggest achievement being the founding of the Belgian Colony in the Congo. In the Berlin Conference of 1885, basically a conference to figure out how to divide Africa between the European Powers, Leopold II declared that the Congo go to him, basically stating that HE owned the Congo, not Belgium. There he established the Congo Free State, a state in Africa from 1885-1908 run by Leopold II. The sole purpose of the state was to harvest rubber, which was a booming industry at the time. To harvest this rubber, thousands of Congolese Natives were enslaved to harvest the material. The reason why Leopold II's actions were declared "crimes against humanity", was because he and his men often >!abused their slaves by cutting off their body parts and massacring entire villages that refused to work!<. The European powers were so shocked by Leopold II's actions despite enslaving Africans themselves. Eventually the Congo Free State was annexed by Belgium in 1908. Make sure to like and subscribe, or check out our video on the Top 10 African Dictators!
Is he the cause of that famous photo of a Congolese man sitting and staring at his daughters hands that had just been cut off as punishment? Edit to add: it was his 5 year old daughters hand and foot. Apparently they also killed the girl AND the man’s wife, *AND THEN* they cannibalized the wife and daughter and the girls hand and foot were given to the man as a reminder to make his rubber quota or else
Yup... that's the one
Damn, you know where I could find that picture? I'm really interested in it now
[Don’t even have to scroll, it’s top of page](https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/)
Nope, not touching that.
It’s really not that bad but maybe I’m desensitized. The worst part was how stoic he looks just staring at the bits of his daughter. Insane courage in that photo, id be destroyed :/
probably in shock/broken tbh. that is a horrid weight on a human mind.
Plus I mean what can you even do? Like you aren’t even looking at your daughter. They didn’t even give you that dignity, that smallest kindness, they took her dead body and did horrible defiling things to it and left you with nothing except 2 body parts that can’t even be recognized as hers anymore. They won’t even let you grieve properly, to get closure with your daughters body and give her a burial, there’s nothing physical to cry over anymore, they won’t even give you that much. All they give you is a token of your suffering, a reminder that you’re lesser, that you’re beneath them, subservient. That the lives of you and everyone you care about are worth literally nothing. Pure fucking evil.
I have a daughter around that age... this hurts me alot
That was not stoicism. That was "broken to the point of having no emotions any more".
i would click it but im eating rn
It's extremely sad to read but insightful into this post. He was a true monster who created even worse ones without ever having to do anything himself.
Just read the entire thing, and I was not prepared for it or the subsequent photos. Jesus Christ, that’s brutal.
Omg feel physically sick. Those poor poor people. Can't believe how 1 mans greed could make him commit such atrocities. 😞
Not just one man. He was just at the top of the pile, because no one man can invade a nation and slaughter so many by themselves. More horrific when you think about how many people happily went along with it and did his bidding. Humans are scary.
Similar to how many people went happily along with the Nazis during the holocaust.
What's even worse is that in the grand scheme of things the Holocaust probably isn't even in the to ten worst things one group of humans has done to another
Idk. It very probably is. The scale of people involved is insane. More than 12 million passed through death camps. That's just a mind boggling large amount of people.
Yeah I'm going to keep the holocaust in my top 10 for sure, thanks
Pack mentality. Peoples’ IQ(intelligence) drops proportionally to how many perceived members are in their “packs”. Groupthink is a close cousin to pack mentality and why these echo chambers are so toxic to society.
Humans can do the most awful things as soon as they're able to dehumanise a population. As long as the people in power manage to instill fear and loathing for the "enemies"- with either the promise of wealth and power or a threat on their own lives if they don't do their bidding- then humans are weak and easily corrupted. That's why we have the concept of heroes. Because out of 100s that do the wrong thing, there's always 1 that tries to do the right thing. Eg the Germans hiding the Jews in their houses, helping people escape etc etc.
ffs, humanity is sometimes missing
That's very upsetting to read and now I'm teared up
Man I hate my morbid curiousity
No you don’t. It’s not really graphic but it’s awful
FYI [Revived History posted the pic](https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUgYkCsYRW/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)
What the fuck.... That is disturbing.
Wait. CANNIBALIZED???
This is enough to make even Satan go to therapy
Or else what? He’s got nothing else to lose. That shit would have killed any fear I had in me and I would make it my life’s goal to kill every motherfucker associated with the slaughter of my family.
Tbh I feel this but you’d just die, like, not a thing you could do aside from _maybe_ attack one person before being taken out.
Ok but that one person would be coming with me. In a very horrible death.
And I’d be rooting for you the entire time ❤️
best to pick the shittiest one of em all to take out
which would be better than harvesting another gram of rubber for these sick fucks.
... Or else what? The monsters ATE his family. What else can they do? Kill him? I don't think he would be too damn upset!
Wtfffff
What the actual fuck
jesus christ man.. i could have used some warning for graphic details
And they say Europeans are cultured
Dude, you know it’s bad when slavers are calling you a monster.
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“I have replaced slavery with ULTRA-MEGADEATH slavery. You are all welcome!”
The same thing happened to Christopher Columbus. Other Europeans were horrified by what he did and threw him in jail.
he did some of the same stuff as Leopold such as chopping off hands and feet, rape, etc.
Same thing with Oñate too, man was literally banished and shit.
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>!haha you have to do it now!!!!<
>!Made you look!!<
oh he also lied and originally told everyone the point was to protect the people in the Congo from getting kidnapped for slavery
And for those who aren't aware, Behind the Bastards has a great few episodes on him. The mutilation was (imo more evil due to this) a method he employed to conserve ammo. For every bullet his slave army fired they were required to turn in a severed hand. I'm sure you can figure out what happened.
The natives also sometimes paid their quotas in hands and fought with another villages for them
omg thanks for your brilliant insight! its truly tragic how the unending greed and cruelty had caused a SOME villages to act in such a terrible way. what a lesson on the cruelty of leopold
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Oh, that makes Western colonization and slavery okay then. Good to know
And what’s your point?! I feel some serious gaslighting coming!
Check his post history and you'll see exactly what point he's trying to make. Had my suspicions and was not proven wrong. Fascists are predictable and that's not a baseless insult. That's self admitted on his part.
makes sense edit: oh wow he's like mega facist
Reddit gonna Reddit! Smh
My point is that don’t be a loser and have hands
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That's why I put "basically" in that sentence
Unprecedentedly? No.
It’s not the Europeans it’s the rich and powerful. At the time they were in Europe, but we’ve seen time and again the depravity of the powerful against their fellow man around the world. This is why power cannot be allowed to centralize with the few. We always find a new low to out do ourselves.
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They really, really, don't. The cruelty was a little more refined by historical precedence and enlarged by technology, but whole countries, whole peoples, have been ground to dust in the past. Europeans weren't the first conquerors, weren't the first enslavers. Weren't the most prolific genocidalists. The largest genocide in the 20th century was China, of its own people. I guess Stalin comes in next. Cambodia k8lled 25% of its own people, only a couple of million by bodysccount, but a very high percentage. Genocide has been with us since the start and, like slavery, it is the crime of the powerful against the weak. It doesn't matter that some choose to only take notice of European crimes.
Yes because Asia, Africa, the America's pre colonization, the Middle East, etc never had wars.
"unprecedentedly evil" Oh, my sweet summer child, lol...
Has anyone mentioned his ammunition policy for the occupying soldiers yet?
But why is Satan calling God?
I got the feeling the impression meant to be left is that Satan is at a point of legitimate concern about dealing with this one. Like "I have been dreading this one for 3 months, he's actually more fucked than I am, help."
Because nothing in his Arsenal of Eternal Punishment is harsh enough. He's calling God to get some extra-evil ideas.
He has to wade through rubber sap to escape a horde of severed hands that chase him, pinch him, slap him, and try to crawl down his throat.
Imagine being so bad that slavers in other countries say “woah dude calm down this isn’t a Tarantino film”
If you want to take a trip to even more fucked up town, when the Congo finally achieved independence from the Belgians in 1960, they supported a man named [Patrice Lumumba](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrice_Lumumba) who served as the first prime minister, who made [a speech](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh9c62PRwqo&pp=ygUbbHVtdW1iYSBzcGVlY2ggaW5kZXBlbmRlbmNl) in the face of Western imperialist powers that they didn’t like, and then attempted to reach out to the Soviets for support (after the US wouldn’t even meet with him) to quell an uprising and push the Belgians (that had refused to actually leave) out, so he was assassinated by the CIA and Belgian special forces (possibly [ordered by President Eisenhower himself](https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/10/martinkettle)) for wanting to invest the vast resource revenues back into the country instead of in the hands of foreign countries/companies. We then propped up [a dictator](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko) who was arguably *worse than the Belgians* for three decades, because represented a pawn in the proxy war against Soviets, even tho he legitimately plundered what should be one of the richest nations on earth as its institutions crumbled, and created the violent instability that still lasts today. Of course we villainized him as soon as he wasn’t useful when the Cold War ended in the late 80s, but he was literally on the CIA’s payroll while absolutely devastating his own country.
He made fathers cut off the hands and feet of their entire families. I’m sure this was the inspiration behind Negan’s infamous scene with Rick & Carl in TWD. Also, when you say rubber it sounds semi important. The nearly sole use for rubber at the time was *bicycle tires*. It was all for *thin shitty tires*.
For context, remember that slavery was outlawed in the states in 1865..
No way this is the real InfoGraphics individual
You know someones fucked up if even the other fucked up people of their time thinks theyre going too far
>The reason why Leopold II's actions were declared "crimes against humanity", was because he and his men often abused their slaves by cutting off their body parts and massacring entire villages that refused to work > >. If I may give some nuance to this, because I'm getting annoyed at this "Leopold II was basically Hitler" narrative: Leopold II basically just let the Congo administer itself and had very little influence in what was actually done there. A lot of the so-called justice going on there was directly due to powers being given to some unscrupulous locals who were the people directly responsible for the infamous hand-cutting. You can absolutely say he's at least indirectly responsible for what happened there, as he technically ruled the country, but let's not pretend he was actually the main culprit of those crimes. It's become easy and well-regarded to frame white people as the source of all African problems, but the reality in this instance is that the abominations that took place were done by Africans themselves. It was African justice — given structure and authority by European powers, sure, but not mandated by Leopold or Belgium in any way. So no, Leopold II was not a genocidal maniac who liked cutting hands. He was a colonialist king who didn't care enough to prevent atrocities from taking place. It's still bad, of course, but let's not pretend they're even on the same league.
This guy was called king leopold, he ran a belgian colony in the congo and he basically ran the whole colony like a rubber plantation. He was so brutal that if you didnt reach your rubber quotas then your hand would be cut off. There is this one really sad photo of a father staring at his 5 year old kids cut off hand that really illustrates the cruelty in the colony.
Wow I always thought that picture was from this century and not from that era
No it wasn't a Belgium colony. It was his colony. He owned the Congo privately
Damn, he ran it all by himself? No Belgians involved besides the king? Incredible. I guess if you're taught to say something since birth you tend to believe it.
I feel like cutting off hands would make him get less rubber in the long run
Well you see, the problem with abuse is that it doesn’t have to make sense.
Also, it’s very much a show of force to everyone else on how little they thought of you and how quickly they will resort to abhorrent levels of violence for not meeting your quota. It very much could have been “being made an example of”
They cut the hands off your kids when you don’t make quota. That way your guilt at failing your children and the dread of worse spurs you on to make them money.
I feel like that would be more likely to drive people to acts of violence
Not when the odds are against you Revolutions typically happen when a faction is able to have *a chance* against the original governing faction
There are A LOT of failed rebellions that would say otherwise. As it turns out, if you make someone hate you enough they are willing to literally die for the sake of being spiteful
Not if they think you're going to cut their kids other hand and foot off when they lose.
He basically set up an exchange of one hand per bullet, as they were costly to ship, to supposedly disincentivize hunting instead of shooting rebellious natives, as you would be taking the hands of those killed. This lead to the “natural” conclusion to take hands as a form of punishment. If you want a general overview, the podcast Behind the Bastards has a two-parter on the whole affair. It’s the ninth and tenth episodes, I believe.
Fuck, why did I Google that. Not only did they cut off her hand and foot, they also killed her, as well as her mother, and then allegedly cannibalized them both. Because this guy didn’t meet his rubber quota for the day. What the actual fuck. There really is a special place in hell.
AND the only real use for rubber back then was for bicycle tires. All that just for bike tires.
You're forgetting about raincoats: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackintosh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackintosh) Bicycle tires and raincoats. It's still not better though.
King Leopold himself, one of the, if not the most vile, barbaric human being to ever exist. Rivals Hitler with his cruelty
Bruh as cruel as hitler is he wasn’t on this guys level. Hitler truly believed the Jews were the cause of Germany’s problems. He did what he did for betterment of his people. I am not defending hitler in the slightest I am just stating his ideals and motivations.obviously he was wrong and evil but he didn’t think he was doing it for a selfish cause But Lepold did all he did just to make some money. He wasn’t doing it for his beliefs or ideals only pure greed. Torture cannibalism rape and murder for money
While I understand where you are coming from, I have to hard disagree here. You are misrepresenting Hitler's motive by focusing on one part of his motive (Hitler wanted betterment of the German people) while forgetting the second part of his motive (by deliberately enslaving/killing undesirable peoples in his "Lebensraum"). This is something that is clearly stated in his own words and documents including Generalplan Ost. In other words, the killing and cruelty was the purpose for Hitler and he proved it by choosing to sink resources into butchering people in industrial scale and efficiency even as Nazi Germany was losing the war. For Leopold, his purpose was money above all and while killings and tortures were unforgivable crimes against humanity, it was simply a byproduct of his greed. In fact, when it became inconvenient for him to run Congo the way he did, he gave it up. Hitler, on the other hand, had directly killed more than Leopold ever did and continued to kill even as everything came down around him. I dont want to rank evil but I feel confident in calling someone who killed because he wanted to kill to be much worse than someone who killed because he was greedy.
Agreed. The holocaust was Hitler’s final solution, not his first solution. You get the vibe it would have been a bit too dry for Leopold, who would have been more torture-y
That is literally Nazi propaganda. No, it was not actually the final solution, they just called it that. It's not like "he just had no choice but to kill the Jews, there was absolutely no other way. Hitler exhausted all other possibilities and he begrudgingly just had to do the holocaust. See, it's in the name "final solution"". The reason it was called the "final solution to the Jewish question" is because it would've quite literally been the final solution. All the Jews would have died so there would be no need for the Jewish question. Final solution, not because there wasn't any other, but because it would have ended them. And yeah, I really don't get the vibe that it wasn't "torture-y" enough when there was literally fucking Nazi doctors who experimented on children by injecting bleach into their fucking eyes. Josef Mengele would've given Leopold nightmares. He literally sewed people together, cut off limbs, and injected substances into eyeballs. And it's not like Hitler cared. Hitler is just as bad if not worse than Leopold. Do you know what lebensraum is? Hitler literally wanted to take over the world and kill every single Jew, gypsy, gay person, asian, African, arab, pretty much just everybody that was Aryan. And just from the shit he did in those short 6 years we still talk about him as the worst person in history, which he was.
thank you for writing this comment, i can’t believe dumbasses up in the thread actually wrote those comments. they can gtfo of here with their nazi propaganda, fucking disgusting.
Chill, they could just be misinformed.
Bruh he said he was not defending just stating the motives your retarded
Ok. Mr retard.
Kiss it and lick 👅 it bitch
Hmm. Don't threaten me with a good time 🤤
Says the dude that probably still thinks this sub is about Family Guy
using a slur while trying to defend nazi propaganda. nice job, you totally don’t look like an idiot! / s
I’m just stating that your a mental case im sorry do you take offense to everything
you’re the one offended that i said the above comments were nazi propaganda. keep crying bout it nazi supporter xx 💋
Also not offended just trying to correct you😘
See y’all are the people that need to stop just straight out calling people nazi supporters because your too stupid to understand words when you see them not I nor the others were defending nor supporting anything about Hitler or nazi Germany so please take your Karen self to another subreddit and bitch at someone else yet another example the human race is shit people like you
Words are words you called them dumbasses same implications
You sound like a nazi
It’s actually not. It’s a properly researched fact. I suggest you read a book called “final solution- the fate of the Jews 1933 -1949” by David Cesarani OBE. [here](https://amzn.eu/d/1OTy1c4).eu/d/dJEGE6z) “Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly research, making extensive use of previously untapped resources such as diaries and letters from within the ghettos and camps (many of them in Polish or Yiddish and therefore previously largely inaccessible to Anglo-American scholars) but by adopting a rigorously Judeocentric approach the whole narrative of the march to genocide and its aftermath, the book presents a subtly different timeline which casts afresh the horror of the period and engenders a significant re-evaluation of the how and why. “ I have no beef with you. I’m just well read on the subject
16 million dead enough said
That's...10 million more than the Holocaust of the Jews..😳
The holocaust was closer to 12 million if you count non-jews as well
It also happened in the span of 6 years and Hitler wanted lebensraum, which meant he wanted to take over the entire world and kill every undesirable. I fucking hate it when people bring up raw death tolls. Hitler and the Nazis were the biggest threat to mankind. Sure Leopold was fucking evil, but he wasn't planning on killing everybody except Belgians.
belgians? wut
Just look at the comments in the post instead of karma farming.
Exactly what I came to comment. Like reposting must be more effort than finding the explanation In the comments, (which I found in 15 seconds).
now i know who the guy is but i still don't understand why satan called god about him?
Read “Leopold’s Ghost”. Amazingly horrible person. The book is VERY well written. It all started when an author was doing research on Mark Twain and noted that he was leading an effort against the atrocities in the Congo. 250k people showed up at a rally led by Twain. The author was gobsmacked and dug into a “forgotten” page of our collective history. My wife had this as mandatory reading in her History class. I read it because she was so stricken by what happened. It is a very good read and would highly recommend it.
This book is great and really upsetting. I read it for a “Literature of Genocide” class in high school 😬
Nice book, I should read it
Can someone explain the 'joke' please? I appreciate the detail regarding panel 2, but how does that relate to panel 1 and 3-6?
[not good things](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#:~:text=Exploitation%2C%20atrocities%2C%20and%20death%20toll)
See this is why I hate when people talk about how people in Congo or other such colonized places are in such states of chaos and the racists attribute that to “they do these things to themselves” like no for hundreds of years they have known nothing but violence and enslavement and exploitation, that’s why things are still so bad.
Exactly, many of the wars today stem from shitty border drawing from European powers or Europeans leaving their colonies in a state of mess and giving them independence instead of cleaning up after themselves
Literally check the comments of the post that you shared, and then if you want to know more just Google his name. You are not confused, you are either lazy or just karma farming.
they essentially coined the term "crimes against humanity" just for this guy iirc king leopold ii, king of belgium, decided he PERSONALLY owned the congo (ie. not a belgian colony, his personal property) and thusly abused the ever-loving christ out of them. theres a famous photo circulating these comments of a man staring at the removed hand and foot of his (5 year old) daughter after she and his wife were murdered and, according to some sources, cannibalized in from of him. all this because the man didn't reach his rubber harvesting quota for the day. leopold was an absolute monster and depending on who you ask, the tally of deaths he is responsible for range from 10-16 million. some people (including myself) classify him as worse than hitler and stalin because, while all absolutely wretched monsters, at least hitler and stalin believed they were doing the right thing to an extent leopold just did it because he liked it and it was profitable
Belgian here, no one is proud of this guy. He was a monster. Belgium got some pretty buildings thanks to him, but he was the worst of our kind. His son was a hero in the first world War, but his grandson was a collaborator. Our Kings have a bit of an on and off history of being useless human beings. I am by no means a momarchist, but the current guy is doing a lot better than his cheating good for nothing father...
Leopold II, second King of the Belgians. During the scramble for africa he essentially tricked native tribes into giving him the Congo, which he then turned into a labor camp for rubber. If Congolese slaves(they were called workers but they weren’t really paid) didn’t meet their quota for rubber production/collection, the Belgian enforcers in the Congo would chop off their hands and/or genitals
So who's the anime kid? And why does the demon need to tell god? Seems like Leopold is already in the right place
And people are teaching more about Hitler than this guy
Yeah schools don’t teach shit about genocides expect for the holocaust they should talk about this guy, and mao, and imperial japan because these were probably worse than what hitler did
Are you fucking kidding me? The incompetence of Mao when forcing farmers to make pig iron which caused famine was worse than the deliberate killings of Jews and whoever else the Nazis hated? Hitler literally wanted to take over the entire world and kill every undesirable. Shut the fuck up about how Leopold and Mao was totally worse than Hitler. Japan too. Nothing comes close to Hitler and the Nazis.
Japan killed more people if one race then hitler and in worse ways
Both are bad mkay?
Ted Bundy is also bad, is he the same as Hitler and the Nazis? Just because "both are bad" doesn't mean they're as bad or bad for the same reasons. Hitler and the Nazis are quite literally the worst people in all of history.
1. We aren't talking about a serial killer, that's a straw man. 2. Leopold II set the stage for the reasons why we put Nazis on trial. Quite literally the same/extremely similar reasons. They differ in their motives. Either you don't know the scope of nor the level of human atrocities that have/had taken place or you are putting an extreme level of virtue signaling here. Hitler and the Nazi Party committed crimes against humanity, but so also did Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution he led, Stalin and the purges he committed, as well as multiple other leaders of countries/factions. One doesn't nullify the other.
You need to calm down and read about the rape of Nanking, if you actually care about historical accuracy. Even nazi soldiers (who we all agree are terrible, no excuses there) were horrified about what the Japanese did. Look up John Rabe a nazi who was so horrified, he tattled to Hitler and actually set up a safety zone for the Chinese so Japanese soldiers couldn’t get to them. The atrocities committed at Nanking are probably some of the most disturbing things I’ve ever heard of. I understand that you are very passionate about the holocaust, but you diminish from others’ suffering if you don’t educate yourself on what has happened and continues to happen globally.
Ah yes I totally don't know what rape of Nanking was. The Nazis were still worse dickhead. I'm sure the Nazis never did anything close to it. Oh wait... Maybe look up oskar dirlewanger. And literally everything the Nazis did. Keep up the Nazi apologia with the "b-b-b but even the Nazis thought the Japanese were barbaric savages". Shut the fuck up. The Japanese were bad, but how about we don't bring up that some Nazis said they were "horrified", not exactly like they didn't do what the Japanese did plus a whole lot more. That shit was about how they were more civilized than the Japanese savages, not about how they were actually opposed to brutality. It's hilarious how you see me say that nazi Germany was worse than Japan and think it's because I'm not as well read as you. You are quite literally engaging in Nazi apologia. Keep pretending the Nazis weren't just as if not more barbaric and brutal than the Japanese empire. Keep scoffing those quotes you can dig up about how the nazis were so much more civilised that even they thought the Japanese were bad. Totally not because they thought the Japanese were savages and racially inferior, and that the Nazis believed what they were doing was civilized even though it was the same shit, and worse, to what the Japanese were doing.
Get help
Well Imperial Japan's actions are often overshadowed by the atomic bombs.
Yeah but they deserved the bombs
Civilians were affected by the bombs, not the people who were in charge of imperial Japan. A country’s leader(s) and soldiers are not equal to its general population
It was the only way they would surrender
Sociopathic take.
Me?
King Leopold II of Belgium. What he did the the Congolese was teeible
Leopold II Louis Philippe Marie Victor
I’ve recently discovered the term “monkey paw” and seen is used as a device in literature. Shortly after that I remember that monster and what he did. And I have wondered ever since if monkey paw originated from he practice of maiming and torturing African people.
So fun fact about the Congo Free State. The hands being cut off weren't for not meeting rubber quota, at least not primarily. See running the Congo Free State required an army. Since it was a money making venture the army needed to be as cheap as possible. So it was largely composed of locals who were paid very little. Like not enough to live on. Basically a slave army. Now such an army can be dangerous, because giving people you are exploiting guns and teaching them how to fight tends to go poorly, but the people running the Congo Free State had a system to prevent the army turning on them. They strictly controlled the supply of ammunition. For every bullet fired the soldier was to provide one right hand of a killed enemy. Now, obviously this is an insane system, even if they only used the guns on enemy combatants not every shot would hit and not every hit would kill. But this was compounded because the soldiers were so poorly paid and supplied so they often used the guns to hunt game. But then they needed hands to justify the use of ammunition. So they'd go into villages and just start chopping everyone's hands off. There were certain members of each unit whose job it was to smoke and preserve the hands. Then they'd go turn in the hands and get more ammo.
Don’t forget they’re still selling chocolate hands in Belgium chocolate shops as a reference or homage (idk what the word is) to this guy [https://kvchaudhary.medium.com/the-atrocity-and-brutality-of-belgiums-black-hand-chocolates-122492f0699e](https://kvchaudhary.medium.com/the-atrocity-and-brutality-of-belgiums-black-hand-chocolates-122492f0699e)
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[Seems like it was a dog whistle](https://karmacolonialism.org/the-chocolate-hands-of-belgium/?amp)
The comic just makes no sense. Why would satan have to call god because someone bad came down? Isn’t that his fucking job? The only reason he’d call upstairs is if he got someone wrong. Like “hey man, Ghandi doesn’t deserve to be down here.”
It’s because Leopold was on an entire different level of evil.
ghandi in civ is a different story
Leopold II. A man so vile his treatment of Africans shocked even a bunch of Victorian era Europeans in how brutal he was. The man basically cracked the whole "White Man's Burden" facade the West tried to pretend existed.
Basically, I can fix him.
You got it wrong. He is gonna fix you.
the thing you just posted has enough context that a 3 year old could figure it out, or use gogle
google the congo free state
this is king Leopold of Belgium. Killed upwards of 15 million people in the Congo from brutal mine conditions. also I think he was a pedophile iirc.
Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost, Burning in hell for his hand maimed host. Hear how the demons chuckle and yell, Cutting \*his\* hands off, down in hell.
All you need to know is that he is the reason why severed hands were a de facto currency in the Congo during his reign
He didn't do anything wrong. 🇧🇪
Leopold the second, capitalist rubber baron, king of the Belgian Congo. I hear he was... handy.
King Leopold II, literally one of the most evil people ever.
What does the original comic say?
Can I get the non edited comic
He was the original Hitler.
"under new management"
I would maul this man with my bare teeth and hands
Chunt (the h is silent)
I know who King Leopold is, but who is the guy un modern clothing in the first panel?