"50 Voices Reveal Humanity's Most Notorious Traitors: Who Tops the List?"
Robinhood app.
Significant_Menu_178:
At the height of the GameStop craze they disabled the buy button for that specific stock and AMC only. Since the GameStop craze was being pushed so heavily by Reddit, whose users overwhelmingly chose Robinhood as their trading platform of choice, it pretty much stopped all upwards price movement right in its tracks. That day could have been arguably one of the largest transfers of wealth from the rich to the poor in history. Ironic that an app called Robinhood is the reason it didn’t.
Really surprised that I haven’t seen anyone mention Brutus yet.
Indvandrer:
For real Caesar treated him like a son, but he backstabbed him in the worst possible way and k**led him. Literally his last words were to Brutus.
John Anthony Walker
My dad started in signals intelligence as an Airman in 1966, did that in uniform for 21 ½ years, then another 14 as a civilian executive with 2 or 3 alphabet agencies. He was intimately acquainted with the systems Walker betrayed. More importantly, he was officially “read in” to the extent of that betrayal. It literally haunted him for the rest of his life. I took care of him in his last months and he told me the amount of damage Walker did was almost impossible to comprehend.
Chaim Rumkowski
gringledoom
On German orders Rumkowski delivered a speech on September 4, 1942, pleading with the Jews in the ghetto to give up children 10 years of age and younger, as well as the elderly over 65, so that others might survive. “Horrible, terrifying wailing among the assembled crowd” could be heard, reads the transcriber’s note to his parlance often referred to as: “Give Me Your Children”.
Holy sh*t.
Rebecca from my fourth grade class. She said she was in love with me but was just lying because she and her friends thought it would be funny.
Tarring and feathering is too good for her and people like her. It took years of therapy before I could accept that someone could care about me even a little bit.
Edit: Thank you everyone so far. I’ve never felt so vindicated in my hatred for Rebecca. I wish I could show this to 9 year old me lol.
Alcibiades- Athenian general and statesman who was a foe of Sparta. He betrayed Athens at Messina during the Sicilian campaign. He fled Athens for Sparta to avoid the actions of his political rivals. He convinced Sparta to send troops to join the Syracusans against Athens. He fell afoul of the Spartans and fled to Persia.
He then worked to undermine the Peloponnesians (Sparta and allies) by advising the Persians on how to weaken them until the time was right to invade.
He then returned to Athens for several years before being forced into exile in Persia where he finished out his life.
**Robert E. Lee.** He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Instead, he k*lled more Americans than Osama bin Laden.
I mean – there’s Wu Sangui who opened the Shanhai Pass to the invading army and betrayed his entire country – is there anyone who comes close or surpasses him in the magnitude of their treachery and betrayal? We’re looking for a single person, more or less – but close-knit groups of individuals are accepted as answers too – provided they were acting entirely as one and they were not the size of an army.
Mir Jafar.
hirako97
Arguably the worst possible guy historically sending the sub-continent into 150 years of slavery and making them from one of the richest to the poorest. Guy’s impact is crazy.
Maximilien Robespierre. Betrayed the National Convention, was a leading figure in the e*******n of Louis XVI, and was himself executed for being a traitor.
Harkis, during the French colonization of Algeria.
Not only they sell their brothers to the enemy but also made themselves involved in the t*****e and interrogation of liberation militants.
Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Imperial Japanese to form a puppet state during the Second Sino-Japanese War. (WWII)
He’s basically the Philippe Petain of the East.
To a lesser extent, Akechi Mitsuhide could be considered a traitor as well. During the Sengoku Period (Warring States of Japan), he served under one of the three great Daimyos (Shoguns), Oda Nobunaga. He betrayed Nobunaga during the Honnoji Incident and laid siege to Honnoji temple, while Nobunaga was on the verge of unifying Japan.
