Not easy to keep track of those anti-spectacle guys, It's a big movement of oppression ya know... research has shown that an estimated 80% of all male 4th graders world-wide has a gripe with people with glasses. With the female population under13 it's even sadder as this demographic has a large portion of self loathing glass-bearers that hide their own poor eyesight identity and join in the oppression of other girls with spectacles.
Late President Marcia Nguema was also an anti-look gang and he ordered the execution of those who looked at him during presidential tours around the country.
I am both shocked and confused... The boats, the glasses, the pesident for life things all make a sick sort of sense, but the santa claus executions baffle me.
Do Phillipe Pétain next, he was a pretty controversial figure, as he once was a national hero for we did for France in WW1 and then became the most detested person in France
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Franco have million of pounds in his pocket. Petain realigning him wont matter. Spain also imports stuff from the Allies and recovering from the 4 year long civil war. He eliminated every single threatening faction in his goverment. He is not into the conquer more land, but he's into Autarky though. For 20 years
You know those playing cards where you compare stats of things like tanks or cars and the one with the higher specific stat wins? I feel like that would work perfectly for dictators. You could have stats like "people murdererd" or "crazyness" i'm sure somebody could come up with more stats it'd surely make for a fun game.
Some guys on a stream actually did a card game with dictators. There was crazyness, kill count, competence and even style points (Gaddafi was a 10 in this category).
Bring this series back! This was made a couple of years ahead of it's time. Brilliant series. At 5:00 this guy earns his place.... What were the fate of the Van Damme pillows Sir??
Despite the fact I've been a Timeghost subscriber since the 'Great War' days, I only just stumbled on this series and am now indulging in a glorious binge-watch...Well done to all.
Nguema campaigned on an ultra-nationalist platform. His opponent in the 68 presidential election Bonifacio Ondó Edu had been the prime minister (Nguema's boss) during the last years of colonial rule. Edu was from a privileged family and was a moderate, campaigning on a liberal platform. It was a tight election that went into a run-off where Nguema won by a narrow margin. Edu was either imprisoned and 'committed suicide' a few months later, or he went into exile and was murdered when he returned in 1969 - there are no definitive records.
@@TimeGhost Don't joke like that considering how Trump's Brownshirts have already made many Americans life hell, as you are spreading bad ideas to the far corners of the internet...
I didn't know this guy(RUclipsr) had such an interest in history. I watched some of his baseball videos years ago but I'm glad he has interest in it nevertheless.
This makes no sense. I am actually going to forward this to my friend, who just completed his PhD thesis on the Marque de Sade, for his analysis of the implications of being killed by Santa Claus, to the sound of 'Those were the Days' by Mary Hopkin.
Thank you Time Ghost for following Corned Beef's suggestion and making this episode. It's so incredible that all this happened, and pretty recently, yet with most people (well, me at least) not even being aware Equatorial Guinea existed. Sadly life still seems like crap there. Link to a recent Australian 90 minutes episode: ruclips.net/video/2UqmiENLnqQ/видео.html Would a few episodes on crazed dictators be a possibility? (yep, a whole new way of ranking would be needed). Might be safer to keep that to dead ones too...
Equatorial Guinea just made headlines again when a group of mercenaries tried to coup the current regime. Something that could only come up from Frederick Forsyth novel actually became true.
Well the people did vote him that first time. There is a saying that "Every vote counts." Perhaps a better one is "Be careful who you vote for." It still pertains today.
To be fair the island was named Fernão do Pó (Ferdinand of Dust, if you want a literal translation), after the 15th century portuguese explorer. I don't know where the poo came from. :)
I know you were just using it as a transition but actually Obiyang did not continue the policies of Nguema, beyond his brutality and dictatorial nature, as Obiyang leads a classicalist regime, albeit one with leftist biases (kind of like the Myanmar Army), whereas Macias was a revolutionary Socialist/Communist
I- Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat- This man's story is the impersonation of "WTF" This makes me wonder about how many more stories like this are hidden in History.
Now for the "why" part. In the 16th century anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, declared Münster the "New Jerusalem". They expelled all catholics/protestants, which was not well received by the rest of the church/Holy Roman Empire. Soon they assembled a large army and besieged Münster. Jan Matthys thought nothing of it and on Easter Sunday 1534 he rode out with twelve of his best men to end the siege. While his men were cut down and his own manhood was nailed to one of the city's gates, Jan of Leiden rose to the occasion and declared himself King of Münster. He established polygamy, decapitaded one of his 17 wives, burned all the books, killed naysayers and lived happily in his Kingdom of Zion. That was until 1535 when Jan and his fellows were captured, imprisoned, tortured, killed and exhibited in a cage hung from the church's steeple. You can still see the cages today.
Thing is that Reddit won't allow us to start subreddits ourselves. It falls under the ban on self promotion at Reddit. They already slapped us on the wrist for merely posting a DicKtionary video in another subreddit (a relevant one at that) and we got also got slapped for sharing brand new reddit links on FB so that they got votes before they were fully visible on Reddit. For us to do it, we'd have to start faking accounts and stuff like that, and that's not our style. We like to keep it straight. As a result we've backed off from Reddit on their suggestion waiting for our community to do it organically. So if you would, we would be most grateful.
Carmiña (little Carmen) was the Spanish brand chocolate made in Rio Muni. Also ColaCao and chocolate covered peanuts Conguitos. The production completely dissapeared at the time of this guy sworn in. It was the only place left in "Spain", were interracial relationships were allowed. When he got in power, he threw all white people from the land and interracial couples were separated by the black ones forced to stay there and the white ones, thrown out. Spain sent boats and planes to pick up every white person there. My mixed friend Maria Josa, was only 2 months old, her white mother was able to take her out of there by hiding her in her hand luggage. Her African husband, was killed by Macias thugs because he worked for the Spanish government. In a fascist regime like Franco's in Spain, no one really cared much about what a crazy African man was doing to his own people, but at the time of his execution, it was all over the Spanish news. Spain hoped to restore good relations with its former colony, but to no avail. At the end of the 1980's Spain started accepting native African refugees from E.G. with a speedy path to citizenship. Amazing that they were so deprived of culture, because from all the Spanish ex colonies, they are the only ones who speak perfect Castilian Spanish, even the poorest of the poorest. Imagine people from Nigeria, speaking the same way the queen of England does? That's how E.G people speak like, in perfect academic Spanish.
There have been cruel and crazy people in every generation in every part of the world. Some are popular while others are not. That doesn't mean that Caligula or Nero were sane. They are just popular for the history books.
Haven't played the video yet, But there better be a damn good explanation for the Astros jersey in a video about horrible people. EDIT: OK, so this guy was SLIGHTLY worse than guys who cheat at baseball.
Colonial Rule: usually the lesser evil. The only colonial administration I can think of as bad as a lot of decolonized administrations was the Belgian Congo and the only long term colony I can think of to wind up a free nation under native rule is India. It's almost like the colonial government was usually removed in a rushed fashion before the native civil service was properly established.
Haven't Europe went through centuries of violent dictators during its early period? Every nation must go through violent stages before reaching stability. No need to remark that colonial rule was better, that is just silly and condescending as if Europeans are better.
Hunter deja I don’t claim to know why countries tend to be very violent during their early stages, nor do I by no shape or form think it’s an excuse for dictators. I am simply pointing out a common rhythm that every nation state seems to go through. France went through some extremely bloody stages where sick dictators would inflict horrible tortures on their citizens. Some of them have even written that they receive enormous pleasures from watching people suffer. At last, look at France now, a peaceful, beautiful country.
brett knoss Yeah I’m very aware of what the British have done to India during that famine. They also forced the country to pay 450,000,000 pounds to maintain the British Troops in India and an additional $1,000,000 to British bureaucrats in India. But the gentlemen apparently felt colonial rule was « better ». Colonization is a sick thing but thankfully humans will outgrow that behavior.
I didn't know Nguema was in the anti-glasses gang.
Not easy to keep track of those anti-spectacle guys, It's a big movement of oppression ya know... research has shown that an estimated 80% of all male 4th graders world-wide has a gripe with people with glasses. With the female population under13 it's even sadder as this demographic has a large portion of self loathing glass-bearers that hide their own poor eyesight identity and join in the oppression of other girls with spectacles.
I bet he'd be great friends with Pol Pot
Late President Marcia Nguema was also an anti-look gang and he ordered the execution of those who looked at him during presidential tours around the country.
"...it only took the one time to be successful." Golden.
This is the greatest series on RUclips.
Thank you
I disagree, that would be The Great War ;) but this is a good second
maybe Leopold II of Belgium in a futur episode?
Brent Willems Maybe R for rubber?
I am both shocked and confused... The boats, the glasses, the pesident for life things all make a sick sort of sense, but the santa claus executions baffle me.
Is it April fools already? Seriously you cannot make this stuff up.
Nobody would believe it if it wasn't true
He is not making it up. I just scaped from that prison called country.
Childhood trauma indeed turns people into serial killers.
S is for Spymaster Lavrentiy Beria
Holy Hannah _hell yes_ that guy was a real son of a bitch.
Moe Berg
Or Saloth Sar.
Had people executed by people dressed like Santa Claus whilst playing Those were the days....... What in the actual fuck
Shocking doesn't even start describing it...
Sjinnie_ Boy sounds like he was fun at parties
oh no not you,why are you everywhere!?
I don't keep helicopters reserved exclusively for communists, my friend.
Ah I see, that's seems wise
Do Phillipe Pétain next, he was a pretty controversial figure, as he once was a national hero for we did for France in WW1 and then became the most detested person in France
Which is ironic since he tried to get Francisco Franco to turn against Hitler.
@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 Franco have million of pounds in his pocket. Petain realigning him wont matter. Spain also imports stuff from the Allies and recovering from the 4 year long civil war. He eliminated every single threatening faction in his goverment. He is not into the conquer more land, but he's into Autarky though. For 20 years
Not that I'm a fan of Petain, but his prime minister Pierre Laval was bigger dick.
You know those playing cards where you compare stats of things like tanks or cars and the one with the higher specific stat wins? I feel like that would work perfectly for dictators. You could have stats like "people murdererd" or "crazyness" i'm sure somebody could come up with more stats it'd surely make for a fun game.
Some guys on a stream actually did a card game with dictators. There was crazyness, kill count, competence and even style points (Gaddafi was a 10 in this category).
Its available here in Germany for sale at least - I have a deck: www.amazon.de/Tyrannen-Despoten-Quartett-Kartenspiel-Spielkarten/dp/B01CD061TI
Mehmet Talaat Pasha (1874-1921) (also known as Talaat Bey) was the principal architect of the Armenian Genocide.
Bring this series back! This was made a couple of years ahead of it's time. Brilliant series. At 5:00 this guy earns his place.... What were the fate of the Van Damme pillows Sir??
3:13 I’m dead. 💀😭. First they stereotype us and then they kill us! Us poor eyeglass wearers!
Despite the fact I've been a Timeghost subscriber since the 'Great War' days, I only just stumbled on this series and am now indulging in a glorious binge-watch...Well done to all.
Thanks! Enjoy!
Wait, how was the island managed if there were no boats?
His goons were allowed boats.
I guess only the military were allowed boats (also the capital is on the island)
The capital was located in the Island and the island itself was far more developed in comparison to it's mainland half
This guy makes Pol Pot look like Roosevelt.
Wait, how did he get voted into all those offices? Was he a populist, what was his appeal?
Nguema campaigned on an ultra-nationalist platform. His opponent in the 68 presidential election Bonifacio Ondó Edu had been the prime minister (Nguema's boss) during the last years of colonial rule. Edu was from a privileged family and was a moderate, campaigning on a liberal platform. It was a tight election that went into a run-off where Nguema won by a narrow margin. Edu was either imprisoned and 'committed suicide' a few months later, or he went into exile and was murdered when he returned in 1969 - there are no definitive records.
#MEGA - Make Equatorial-Guinea Great Again ;-)
Interesting, I wonder why no other country tried to intervene in this madness. Guess the oil was found too late for the West to care ;)
@@phloebs When the west would have intervened you would be complaining they were colonial slavers. ;)
@@TimeGhost Don't joke like that considering how Trump's Brownshirts have already made many Americans life hell, as you are spreading bad ideas to the far corners of the internet...
V is for vampire Elizabeth Bathory
I didn't know this guy(RUclipsr) had such an interest in history. I watched some of his baseball videos years ago but I'm glad he has interest in it nevertheless.
I think calling this guy just paranoid is a massive understatement. lol
This makes no sense.
I am actually going to forward this to my friend, who just completed his PhD thesis on the Marque de Sade, for his analysis of the implications of being killed by Santa Claus, to the sound of 'Those were the Days' by Mary Hopkin.
Dude just straight up made himself a king
Thank you Time Ghost for following Corned Beef's suggestion and making this episode. It's so incredible that all this happened, and pretty recently, yet with most people (well, me at least) not even being aware Equatorial Guinea existed.
Sadly life still seems like crap there. Link to a recent Australian 90 minutes episode: ruclips.net/video/2UqmiENLnqQ/видео.html
Would a few episodes on crazed dictators be a possibility? (yep, a whole new way of ranking would be needed). Might be safer to keep that to dead ones too...
@Luke John Thanks for watching, glad you liked the episode
All 25 Equatoguineans with access to the internet disliked under fear of death.
Equatorial Guinea just made headlines again when a group of mercenaries tried to coup the current regime. Something that could only come up from Frederick Forsyth novel actually became true.
The fictional African nation of Zangaro is based-on Equatorial Guinea:
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/equatorialguinea/4682356/Equatorial-Guinea-hit-by-Dogs-of-War-attack.html
mercenary-wars.net/equatorial-guinea ft.com/content/1629e210-ff5d-11d8-be93-00000e2511c8
nytimes.com/2008/06/18/world/africa/18mercenary.html
weeklystandard.com/mark-hemingway/destination-malabo books.google.com/books?id=hLQuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=zangaro+is+equatorial+guinea#v=onepage&q=zangaro%20is%20equatorial%20guinea&f=false
books.google.com/books?id=NJdFDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT214&lpg=PT214&dq=zangaro+is+equatorial+guinea#v=onepage&q=zangaro%20is%20equatorial%20guinea&f=false tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDogsOfWar
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dogs_of_War_(novel)
he's not just a dick, he's a super-villain
I'll never again be able to listen to that song in the same way.
Tropico, anyone?
*Swiss account intensifies*
Well the people did vote him that first time. There is a saying that "Every vote counts." Perhaps a better one is "Be careful who you vote for." It still pertains today.
You know if there is a world Dicktionary there should be a dictionary about good people
Kinda expected Conrad von Hötzendorf. Missed him ad C, missed him ad H... there is still V
How about Elizabeth Bathory? You know you're hardcore when Ghost B.C makes a song about you.
The only non-royal who's been in charge of a nation longer than his successor is Paul Biya of nearby Cameroon.
How about O is for Orphanage, Nicoli Ceausescu. Or one on Pol Pot
It’s tiring to hear he did this and that, one person can’t do much without a whole system behind him: Period
Maybe Shiro Ishii of Unit 731 fame. I believe he will be a 3.0 or maybe have a special category for him 4.0.
To be fair the island was named Fernão do Pó (Ferdinand of Dust, if you want a literal translation), after the 15th century portuguese explorer. I don't know where the poo came from. :)
Vudú is from Francoise "papá doc" Duvalier. Former dictator and a doctor in Haití. He has plenty of stuff in his biography.
Someone needs to make a dark comedy about this man.
I love this side of Indy.
Would have thought you'd go for H.H. Holmes for "homicide" but that might be too on the "H"
WillTheMallet that would have been awesome.
Ask the remaining population, how bad they want the Spanish colonists back?
Unfortunately this list hasn't been updated for a long time
Biden, Trudeau, would be top tier
Good video; thank so much
Thanks for your support, Gilbert!
This guy broke the chart
You forgot to mention that the guy is rumored to be also a big time cannibal
Nice Sandman omnibus
Jesus Regalado he has nice taste in comics.
I know you were just using it as a transition but actually Obiyang did not continue the policies of Nguema, beyond his brutality and dictatorial nature, as Obiyang leads a classicalist regime, albeit one with leftist biases (kind of like the Myanmar Army), whereas Macias was a revolutionary Socialist/Communist
I-
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat-
This man's story is the impersonation of "WTF"
This makes me wonder about how many more stories like this are hidden in History.
This is coming to a country near you soon enough 😉
So glad my parents moved to Canada instead of Africa (their first choice) after the war.
Astros jersey aged well
WOW!That guy was as nutty as all 3 of the N.Korean Kim's put together!Why have I never heard of this fruitcake before?Thx for another great episode!
How the hell did he get into power?
He was democratically elected in the only election the country ever had to date.
P is for Polygamy - John of Leiden. “N is for New Jerusalem“ would work as well.
Now for the "why" part.
In the 16th century anabaptists, led by Jan Matthys, declared Münster the "New Jerusalem". They expelled all catholics/protestants, which was not well received by the rest of the church/Holy Roman Empire. Soon they assembled a large army and besieged Münster. Jan Matthys thought nothing of it and on Easter Sunday 1534 he rode out with twelve of his best men to end the siege. While his men were cut down and his own manhood was nailed to one of the city's gates, Jan of Leiden rose to the occasion and declared himself King of Münster. He established polygamy, decapitaded one of his 17 wives, burned all the books, killed naysayers and lived happily in his Kingdom of Zion.
That was until 1535 when Jan and his fellows were captured, imprisoned, tortured, killed and exhibited in a cage hung from the church's steeple. You can still see the cages today.
OMG seriously, I really loughed and cryed pretty hard the same time. Humans suck so much.
Maybe do Douglas MacArthur.he certainly was a controversial figure for Korea and the bonus army.
You should do one over Pol Pot or Elizabeth Bathroy.
Nice shirt Indy!! If you miss that trophy you can always come up to Beantown and check it out 😉!! JK bud your shows are awesome
Do king leapold II next
also are there any plans to make a subreddit
I'll do it for a bag of Skittles.
You can have the bag of skittles!
Thing is that Reddit won't allow us to start subreddits ourselves. It falls under the ban on self promotion at Reddit. They already slapped us on the wrist for merely posting a DicKtionary video in another subreddit (a relevant one at that) and we got also got slapped for sharing brand new reddit links on FB so that they got votes before they were fully visible on Reddit. For us to do it, we'd have to start faking accounts and stuff like that, and that's not our style. We like to keep it straight. As a result we've backed off from Reddit on their suggestion waiting for our community to do it organically. So if you would, we would be most grateful.
Alright here it is
www.reddit.com/r/TimeGhostChannel/?st=JESG6C49&sh=0016d7fc
Hope I did it right
Cool, looks right... now it just needs some posts ;-) for the same reasons as above we can't post until others post...
1:29 - 1:37 The Birth of Evil. I think there needs to be a film about this story.
love your work mate
Love that jersey Andy!
The narrator's jersey choice didn't age well in light of recent revelations 😅😅
... Is Indy everywhere?
You should do a DicKtator scale.
Saparmurat Niyazov would be another good dictator to cover.
Such a sad story.
It turns out Nguema was right about the whole glasses thing. Someone with glasses did overthrow him.😂
Carmiña (little Carmen) was the Spanish brand chocolate made in Rio Muni. Also ColaCao and chocolate covered peanuts Conguitos. The production completely dissapeared at the time of this guy sworn in. It was the only place left in "Spain", were interracial relationships were allowed. When he got in power, he threw all white people from the land and interracial couples were separated by the black ones forced to stay there and the white ones, thrown out. Spain sent boats and planes to pick up every white person there. My mixed friend Maria Josa, was only 2 months old, her white mother was able to take her out of there by hiding her in her hand luggage. Her African husband, was killed by Macias thugs because he worked for the Spanish government. In a fascist regime like Franco's in Spain, no one really cared much about what a crazy African man was doing to his own people, but at the time of his execution, it was all over the Spanish news. Spain hoped to restore good relations with its former colony, but to no avail. At the end of the 1980's Spain started accepting native African refugees from E.G. with a speedy path to citizenship. Amazing that they were so deprived of culture, because from all the Spanish ex colonies, they are the only ones who speak perfect Castilian Spanish, even the poorest of the poorest. Imagine people from Nigeria, speaking the same way the queen of England does? That's how E.G people speak like, in perfect academic Spanish.
Francisco Macias Nguema loved playing God, didn't he? No wonder many people love to hate him.
....these ppl make Caligula n Nero look quite sane.
There have been cruel and crazy people in every generation in every part of the world. Some are popular while others are not. That doesn't mean that Caligula or Nero were sane. They are just popular for the history books.
Do you even know how nero was?
The Aerys II Targaryen of Africa
Apparently, insanity runs in his family.
Equatorial Africa is a great paradox but then again the whole world is the same .
Haven't played the video yet, But there better be a damn good explanation for the Astros jersey in a video about horrible people.
EDIT: OK, so this guy was SLIGHTLY worse than guys who cheat at baseball.
Are you ever gonna tell us about that strangely shaped guitar behind you?
Thanks man, I had heard of Burns, but never seen that model, looks really interesting ;-)
King Leopold II of Belgium please! :)
How do people keep getting so easily fooled and tricked and swayed by charismatic psychopaths? Both in personal relations, workplaces and in politics.
I’d vote for him
Colonial Rule: usually the lesser evil. The only colonial administration I can think of as bad as a lot of decolonized administrations was the Belgian Congo and the only long term colony I can think of to wind up a free nation under native rule is India.
It's almost like the colonial government was usually removed in a rushed fashion before the native civil service was properly established.
It's not like the colonizers care what happens once they no longer need it.
Haven't Europe went through centuries of violent dictators during its early period? Every nation must go through violent stages before reaching stability. No need to remark that colonial rule was better, that is just silly and condescending as if Europeans are better.
Hunter deja I don’t claim to know why countries tend to be very violent during their early stages, nor do I by no shape or form think it’s an excuse for dictators. I am simply pointing out a common rhythm that every nation state seems to go through. France went through some extremely bloody stages where sick dictators would inflict horrible tortures on their citizens. Some of them have even written that they receive enormous pleasures from watching people suffer. At last, look at France now, a peaceful, beautiful country.
Durring World War 2, the Bengal famine killed 2.1 to 3 million people, while food was exported to the British war effort.
brett knoss Yeah I’m very aware of what the British have done to India during that famine. They also forced the country to pay 450,000,000 pounds to maintain the British Troops in India and an additional $1,000,000 to British bureaucrats in India. But the gentlemen apparently felt colonial rule was « better ». Colonization is a sick thing but thankfully humans will outgrow that behavior.
Can you also do a video on the current dictator?
How about Idi Amin? Overthrew his government in a coup and was known as "The Butcher of Uganda".
I think Margret Thatcher should make this list
this man is a James Bond Villain
You didn't mention his disgust on hearing aids
Wow....
How about Angola?
Obiang was a nephew of Nguema. What sort of nephew was he? Can you share a family tree?
Love the shirt
I really like the shirt
Dicktionary playing cards...when??
Are those JC van dam pillows ??????😀👍
9 minutes 39 secs of roasting.
What about Robert Mugabe, don't know if you have done him?
Am I the only one who sees the Nigel Tufnel references in this video....?
Did him in my first year in African politics
Is that Van Damme in Street Fighter: The Movie on those pillows?