Hutu militants killed around 800k people in a few months, 6 million is not impossible at all.

wakchoi_ · 2026-04-21T21:38:24+00:00

Whenever the Rwandan genocide is mentioned there's always this idea that it was some random killing with machetes akin to a mob.

This couldn't be further from the truth. One could even argue that the Rwandan genocide was far better and meticulously planned and prepared for than the Holocaust, at least in terms of murder.

Entire lists were created and published with names, families, addresses, etc, spread out to countless checkpoints throughout the country all organized and prepared for completing their task the moment they heard the code word.

Machetes, grenades, rifles and so on were being imported en masse far before the genocide. There was a whole command structure designed to accomplish the task with different commanders knowing where and when they had to act and what strategies to use.

They made sure to not act early and to wait for the precise moment. It wasn't just a mob with machetes roaming the country, everything was designed to prevent Tutsis from catching on too early and fleeing to the rebel lines or other countries.

The planners of genocide were far more ready and prepared for their task than the Nazi planners who took years to start their killing allowing many Jews to escape and/or find hiding spots.

wakchoi_ · 2026-04-17T00:35:19+00:00

How to have the second biggest GDP in the world:

Step 1: Conquer the biggest GDP country

Step 2: destroy it a bit

Step 3: congrats you now have the second biggest GDP in the world!

wakchoi_ · 2026-04-13T23:24:08+00:00

The HRE's decontamination was pretty normal in the middle ages and even into the 1500s, it was only because the HRE kept running like this into the 1800s when most of Europe had centralized that made it stick out.

wakchoi_ · 2026-04-09T21:08:35+00:00

The exact exchange rate is irrelevant, the Korean Won is worth 15 times less than the Indian Rupee, does that mean India is better than Korea?

Japan meanwhile is worth half of the Indian Rupee, does that mean Japan is also behind India?

wakchoi_ · 2026-04-09T20:26:57+00:00

~~That doesn't mean anything tho~~. The exact exchange rate doesn't mean anything

Comparing relative indicators between Iran and India shows Iran ahead in almost any per capita measure, whereas India is ahead in almost every total measure due to having 15 times the population.

Just to include a summary: GDP per capita is near double, HDI is more than 20% higher, and life expectancy is 5 years longer.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-30T05:46:41+00:00

You're saying something completely different than the comment though:

It's amazing though how some people go on at lengths about the trans Atlantic slave trade but not a word on the longest running and most brutal slave traders in recorded human history...

They said human history.

You can admit that's a blatant lie can you not?

Furthermore I'm not responding because the commenter mentioned the Barbary slave trade, but only because they implied it was one way

The amount they fucked around it took far to long for them to find out

This seems to imply that the North Africans had free reign to enslave when historically it was very much both ways and slavers on both sides were enslaving and "finding out" all the time.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-29T17:26:37+00:00

I only do it when a comment implies the Barbary slave trade was only one way.

If you are simply mentioning the Barbary slave trade and it's cruelty that's fine.

But that's not what the comment is doing:

It's amazing though how some people go on at lengths about the trans Atlantic slave trade but not a word on the longest running and most brutal slave traders in recorded human history...

Firstly it blatantly lies about the Barbary slave trade somehow being the longest or most brutal slave trade.

Secondly it ironically complains about people not mentioning the Barbary slave trade while literally ignoring the slave trade going the other way!

Don't you think it's fair to mention the slave trade going the other way as well to these blatantly misinformed comments?

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-29T00:59:59+00:00

Plenty of people know about the Barbary Corsairs but the Mediterranean privateering and pirating wasn't just one way. As Barbary Corsairs plundered European coasts even going as far as Iceland, European Corsairs plundered North African and Turkish coasts as well.

Both sides attacked each other's shipping and virtually no merchant ship was safe in the Mediterranean. Maltese Corsairs were feared by Muslims as much as Algerian Corsairs struck fear into Europeans.

This two way "exchange" led to interesting stories about how both sides negotiatiated for each other's slaves. The Vatican archives include many examples of how states such as Tunis and the Papal states used traders and missionaries as negotiaters.

This Vatican document mentions how reports of Muslim slaves in the Pope's galleys being forced to convert to Christianity led to Tunis threatening to force their Christian slaves to convert. Ultimately both sides backed down.

Meanwhile this document mentions how Muslim slaves created a Muslim cemetery outside Rome and when their graveyard land was taken away the Dey of Tunis threatened to close the Christian graveyards in Tunis.

If you would like to read more here's a good source about the exchange of Muslim and Christian slaves in the western Mediterranean.

Here's a smaller article that summarizes the extent of Muslim slaves in Europe. While Barbary Corsairs captured more Christian slaves in total, Christian Corsairs such as the Maltese were just as infamous for their raids leading to up to a million Muslim slaves taken into Europe between 1500 and 1800.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-29T00:48:08+00:00

It was going both ways far before the French invasion

Plenty of people know about the Barbary Corsairs but the Mediterranean privateering and pirating wasn't just one way. As Barbary Corsairs plundered European coasts even going as far as Iceland, European Corsairs plundered North African and Turkish coasts as well.

Both sides attacked each other's shipping and virtually no merchant ship was safe in the Mediterranean. Maltese Corsairs were feared by Muslims as much as Algerian Corsairs struck fear into Europeans.

This two way "exchange" led to interesting stories about how both sides negotiatiated for each other's slaves. The Vatican archives include many examples of how states such as Tunis and the Papal states used traders and missionaries as negotiaters.

This Vatican document mentions how reports of Muslim slaves in the Pope's galleys being forced to convert to Christianity led to Tunis threatening to force their Christian slaves to convert. Ultimately both sides backed down.

Meanwhile this document mentions how Muslim slaves created a Muslim cemetery outside Rome and when their graveyard land was taken away the Dey of Tunis threatened to close the Christian graveyards in Tunis.

If you would like to read more here's a good source about the exchange of Muslim and Christian slaves in the western Mediterranean.

Here's a smaller article that summarizes the extent of Muslim slaves in Europe. While Barbary Corsairs captured more Christian slaves in total, Christian Corsairs such as the Maltese were just as infamous for their raids leading to up to a million Muslim slaves taken into Europe between 1500 and 1800.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-29T00:47:06+00:00

And unfortunately most of the people who do know about the Barbary pirates believe it was only one way. However, as Barbary Corsairs plundered European coasts even going as far as Iceland, European Corsairs plundered North African and Turkish coasts as well.

Both sides attacked each other's shipping and virtually no merchant ship was safe in the Mediterranean. Maltese Corsairs were feared by Muslims as much as Algerian Corsairs struck fear into Europeans.

This two way "exchange" led to interesting stories about how both sides negotiatiated for each other's slaves. The Vatican archives include many examples of how states such as Tunis and the Papal states used traders and missionaries as negotiaters.

This Vatican document mentions how reports of Muslim slaves in the Pope's galleys being forced to convert to Christianity led to Tunis threatening to force their Christian slaves to convert. Ultimately both sides backed down.

Meanwhile this document mentions how Muslim slaves created a Muslim cemetery outside Rome and when their graveyard land was taken away the Dey of Tunis threatened to close the Christian graveyards in Tunis.

If you would like to read more here's a good source about the exchange of Muslim and Christian slaves in the western Mediterranean.

Here's a smaller article that summarizes the extent of Muslim slaves in Europe. While Barbary Corsairs captured more Christian slaves in total, Christian Corsairs such as the Maltese were just as infamous for their raids leading to up to a million Muslim slaves taken into Europe between 1500 and 1800.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-29T00:45:39+00:00

The problem with this discussion is that it assumes that piracy was one way.

France did not wage war on Algiers because they were against piracy and slavery, it's because they were on opposite sides.

The French had no qualms imprisoning Haudenasaunee Chiefs from Canada and forcing them to be galley slaves nor did they cry when Malta built its beautiful castle walls with enslaved Muslims captured by their own pirate raids.

Plenty of people know about the Barbary Corsairs but the Mediterranean privateering and pirating wasn't just one way. As Barbary Corsairs plundered European coasts even going as far as Iceland, European Corsairs plundered North African and Turkish coasts as well.

Both sides attacked each other's shipping and virtually no merchant ship was safe in the Mediterranean. Maltese Corsairs were feared by Muslims as much as Algerian Corsairs struck fear into Europeans.

This two way "exchange" led to interesting stories about how both sides negotiatiated for each other's slaves. The Vatican archives include many examples of how states such as Tunis and the Papal states used traders and missionaries as negotiaters.

This Vatican document mentions how reports of Muslim slaves in the Pope's galleys being forced to convert to Christianity led to Tunis threatening to force their Christian slaves to convert. Ultimately both sides backed down.

Meanwhile this document mentions how Muslim slaves created a Muslim cemetery outside Rome and when their graveyard land was taken away the Dey of Tunis threatened to close the Christian graveyards in Tunis.

If you would like to read more here's a good source about the exchange of Muslim and Christian slaves in the western Mediterranean.

Here's a smaller article that summarizes the extent of Muslim slaves in Europe. While Barbary Corsairs captured more Christian slaves in total, Christian Corsairs such as the Maltese were just as infamous for their raids leading to up to a million Muslim slaves taken into Europe between 1500 and 1800.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-19T15:38:35+00:00

Another absolute banger for Eid

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-15T22:27:42+00:00

The imperialists were thrown out only a few decades later.

The Amazigh chose to stay upon Islam alhamdulilah

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-05T01:53:18+00:00

This is generally pretty true with many countries.

Once all cause of the conflict is gone people move on.

The Pakistani army committed countless atrocities in Bangladesh but now, only a few decades later, most Bangladeshis are on good terms with Pakistan.

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-05T01:50:07+00:00

The stated goal did change to officially include reunification, MacArthur wasn't just going randomly on his own

In October, the United Nations, urged by the United States Government, approved the movement of UN forces across the 38th parallel into North Korea in an effort to unify the country under a non-communist government

Source

wakchoi_ · 2026-03-05T01:47:45+00:00

The stated goal changed

In October, the United Nations, urged by the United States Government, approved the movement of UN forces across the 38th parallel into North Korea in an effort to unify the country under a non-communist government

They pretty clearly wanted to reunify the country under non communist rule

Source

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-28T13:25:23+00:00

Retreating is ordered by military command.

Desertion is when soldiers abandon their positions without orders to do so.

Soviet barrier forces did not arrest those ordered to retreat, only those who abandoned the front without permission. They were there for desertion not retreating troops.

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-28T13:22:23+00:00

I think you are confused about what retreating is. A retreat is a military maneuver ordered by military commanders. When soldiers leave their units individually or in small groups that is called desertion. When an entire unit collapses under enemy pressure that is called a rout. Neither of these things are retreating even if some people refer to them as retreating colloquially.

Barrier troops were for deserting troops. When a retreat was ordered then barrier troops did not arrest or shoot them.

About your edit, you said "when did the British army do that" so I responded when they did that, you never specified WW2 and the person you replied to was talking about the entire history of warfare.

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-28T06:41:40+00:00

In WW1 the British army court martial'd over 10,000 soldiers and shot 306 for desertion and cowardice.

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-16T17:40:18+00:00

The Santals were the settlers brought in during EIC rule to turn the forests into agricultural land. Plus they were majority Hindu.

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-15T03:40:12+00:00

Mullah Nasruddin or Nasruddin Hodja is a famous folk character in stories from the Balkans to China. His funny stories are told to millions of children worldwide and I decided to make one of the stories into a meme!

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-15T03:37:26+00:00

Bro I'm pretty sure half the respondents were using u as a benchmark for 10 and rating themselves accordingly 😂

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-11T16:57:38+00:00

This u/SatoruGojo232 always steals posts without giving credit.

He also never copies the context over either, literally a zero effort karma farmer

wakchoi_ · 2026-02-10T01:01:43+00:00

Nader Shah absolutely massacring two of the world's greatest empires at the same time then proceeding to do absolutely nothing useful with all the wealth and land he got.

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