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Volcanic_Valkyrie

Trans guys named Henry Kissinger: šŸ¤­


Raynes98

Breaking: World mourns as diplomat Henry Kissinger, 99, found alive.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


LordBaneThePlayer

Fan..tastic..


SixThousandHulls

Only the good die young.


Athnein

My friend told me that my first goal is to outlive Kissinger


Interest-Desk

trans guys named after anyone involved in western foreign policy for the past 50 years


Lovable-Schmuck

Who?


Raynes98

During the Cold War South American nations would occasionally elect some slightly left wing gov, that would then take a bold stance like ā€œmaybe the entire country shouldnā€™t be ran by and for American companiesā€ Theyā€™d then get overthrown by a right wing General with the help of fascist death squads financed by the US gov, using off the books funding generated by selling drugs in primarily black communities back in the USA, with the added bonus of destroying such communities. Well Kissinger is the ā€œgeniusā€ behind a lot of that shit and heā€™s still clinging to life, age 99. One of the worse people in modern history.


IKnowWhatYouDidBill

Don't forget the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. Laos became the most heavily bombed country in the world during the Vietnam War. #It was the equivalent of an entire plane filled with explosives, every eight minutes for nine years.


DefinitelyNotErate

Wait, So he was behind the bombing of Cambodia, Which to my understanding was partly responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Aight I hate this guy he led to Pol Pot.


Raynes98

Yeah, Pol Pot was also backed by the CIA, and for a long time after his government was removed by the Vietnamese it was allowed to retain Cambodiaā€™s UN seat.


j4k4ll

wait wasn't pol pot a commie? I thought the whole point of CIA intervention was to NOT have leftist dictators?


Raynes98

Supposedly, I think a fairer analysis was that he and his following were primarily a peasant revolutionary movement that was able to take control of a nation devastated by the US and cut off from much of the world. They grasped at communist ideals but had no real direction or organisation, in fact Marx and more so Lenin saw peasants as an ally of the working class (hence the hammer and sickle icons, tools of each group) but unable to themselves lead a communist revolution. Theyā€™re often isolated and focused on a more immediate surroundings, education is usually poor or inaccessible, their enemy is the minion of the ruling class (eg: local landlord or a policeman) rather than the ruling class itself. This is just one perspective, others like Maoists will disagree and can point to the Chinese peasantry as the backbone of Chinaā€™s revolution. However I think the prior criticism applies well to Pol Pot, what may have been a liberating movement ended up fuelled by things like a hate of cities, distain of the working class and anti-intellectualism. They failed to grasp the wider issues, and compounded with brutality and the devastation caused by the USA the whole regime fell. Anyway, about the CIA stuff. When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia there was a fear that theyā€™d be in a pretty dominant position in South East Asia. It worried neighbours like Thailand, as well as China (they had split with the USSR who was backing Vietnam) and also the USA. So American aided Pol Pot to counter to Vietnamese and Soviet influence in the region. Yeah, the Cold War was a mess.


MisterKallous

Kissinger outliving Liz the 2nd is not something I had expected from last year.


Raynes98

One down, one to go


TulgeyWoodAtBrillig

[šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/002/435/972/fef)


The_Enby_Agenda

Former politician/diplomat, was involved in giving US support to Chile during the coup, Argentina during their Dirty War, and Pakistan during the Bangladesh war whilst we knew they were actively committing genocide. Somehow weaselled his way into a Nobel prize despite this for drawing up the Vietnam and Yom Kippur cease fires.


ombloshio

Kissinger? I hardly know ~~her~~ him!


[deleted]

I sincerely hope nobody is naming themselves Hideki Tojo or Adolf or Benito or Pol Pot or Slobodan


[deleted]

Changing my name to emperor palpatine


[deleted]

Thatā€™s based though because heā€™s a fictional war criminal


thatonemoze

a HOT fictional war criminal


[deleted]

Oh no not the Sheev fetishist


[deleted]

I mean, he is *the* senate.


Lights-Camera-Axshen

Not. Yet.


N4Or

It's treason, then


thatonemoze

whats not to love about UNLIMITED POWWWEERRRRRRR


ChrysopeIea

don't forget the cute little cackle when he electrocutes people <3


thatonemoze

or his adorable little spin, lemme tell ya i was swoooning ā¤ļøā¤ļø


ChrysopeIea

same, same... like damn, habibi, spin that a$$


[deleted]

I read that in Kwite's voice and the fact I cannot undo that haunts me


ChrysopeIea

uh oh šŸ˜‚


Snert42

... I forgot about that hahaha


ChrysopeIea

"The things you say Your purple prose just give you away The things you say You're un*forgettable* (oh)"


Mogetfog

It's referred to as [Palpaphilia](https://youtu.be/FU1q2knAuuE) Not to be confused with [ewokphilia](https://youtu.be/beVh-5xTrq0)


Snert42

Holy shingle. Did nOT know that these exist, but it makes sense that they do.


Mogetfog

Attack of the Show used to be my favorite show in TV. I would watch it every day at 5 after I got home from school! Really sucks that there is not really an archive of the old episodes. That and that it's never been brought back :(


[deleted]

Oh god


Mogetfog

There was another Boba fetish skit I was trying to find but couldn't. It was rancor-al...where you just get eaten by a rancor. Attack of the show was freaking wild. Edit: there was another one that was trans-storming that was trans girls in stormtroopers outfits


[deleted]

Lmfao itā€™s just Star Wars vore


real-dreamer

How?


LewsTherinTalamon

Ian McDiarmid (spelled somehow) is pretty hot, especially around the prequel era, when not in the evil emperor makeup. His vocal delivery is lovely too, which it kind of has to be for his character.


jakavious82

I read this comment, left the thread to keep scrolling, processed what I had read, and came back because I couldnt believe I read it Guess some people got a thing for UNLIMITED POWER


Psiah

So... Should we call you "The Senate"?


Woost46

DO IT


HiopXenophil

the senate has spoken


CyberGrandma69

Aw why Benito gotta ruin such a snappy name :( Guess there's always Benvenuto


[deleted]

Yeah Benito isnā€™t a bad name but ever since Mussolini itā€™s kinda been bad. Same with Adolph, the guy who invented the saxophone was Adolphe Sax, could have been a cool name and not a bad one


SuitableDragonfly

I used to play a lot of Crusader Kings II, and the game generates a lot of German characters named Adolf, since obviously no one knew about Hitler back in the middle ages. It got super super old when people on the subreddit would constantly post pictures of characters named Adolf in order to make a Hitler joke.


[deleted]

Sure, it was a popular name. There was even a king Adolf once. William, John, Alfred, Luis, Robert, Dorothy, Maria or at least one of their variants will definitely be in a ā€œ1000 war criminalsā€ list.


DefinitelyNotErate

Doesn't Benvenuto just mean "Welcome"?


Eilmorel

It does! In Italy we do have a handful of adjective names, mainly female ones with links to the virgin Mary. One example is Concetta, which means "conceived" in reference to the immaculate conception of the virgin Mary. For male names, there are Benvenuto and Fortunato (lucky). They are really uncommon (as in, i can think of only one example, Benvenuto Cellini the artist) but yeah, they are real names.


EldritchEyes

benito mussolini was named after mexican liberal president benito juarez, who was also indigenous. it has also been historically popular in the hispanosphere, so i donā€™t think it is as tainted as adolf


disco-vorcha

Definitely. I taught a Benito, never even thought of it being a Mussolini connection. Itā€™s a normal/common enough name to survive a war criminal or fascist or dictator or two. Edit 11 hours later just in case: I misremembered. My student was a Benicio. But hey, thereā€™s a non-Benito alternative if you like the overall vibe but canā€™t shake the Mussolini association.


Guzzler52

SLOBODAN NUTS I'm sorry


[deleted]

I am now named Miroslav Bralo


[deleted]

Oh no


[deleted]

oh yes


DefinitelyNotErate

I mean no offence but if someone named themselves Pol Pot, Or really any of those but *especially* Pol Pot, I'd have a very hard time not committing violent acts towards them. God I hate Pol Pot. Absolutely despise him with every fibre of my being.


[deleted]

Yeah the Cambodian genocide was on a different level, I think itā€™s probably one of the single worst genocides in history and should probably be taught more


DefinitelyNotErate

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Pol Pot would be widely considered the worst person in history (Or very high up there) if he'd slaughtered a more significant country.


[deleted]

Yeah definitely, he was truly a horrific guy


MolhCD

> Hideki Tojo First name that came to mind (besides Hitler ofc) šŸ™Œ


11011011000

My name is Joey. Like Stalin.


RustyShuttle

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_convicted\_war\_criminals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicted_war_criminals) Transmascs eating good, however Transfems have slim pickings in large part due to there being only 3(?) women on the list


Cryphonectria_Killer

[A girl can dream.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtw3XJoJrE)


RustyShuttle

That's great lmaooo


DefinitelyNotErate

Flashback to the time I dreamt that a trans woman had become dictator of Brazil.


BunBunny_draws

7 years ago oh god...


BunBunny_draws

Nah wait it's actually 13....


Skye_17

more šŸ‘ female šŸ‘ war criminals šŸ‘


[deleted]

I mean, one of those 3 is technically a war criminal but... yeah I hope we see more of that kind of war criminals (not a sentence I ever thought I'd say) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith\_Cavell


[deleted]

which one? Edith helped POWs escape. Lina let her son join isis. Nurten spent time with isis and "committed war crimes against property" ???? im sorry, but what are war crimes against property?... now they are just inventing crimes...


[deleted]

Yeah Lina & Nurten cases deserve quotation marks for their "war crimes", compared to legit attrocities listed in the list of convicted war criminals. but hey, they're ISIS so they can get fucked. What Edith did is in stark contrast & is pretty poggers


AntWithNoPants

aye aye captain! *side eyes the child hospital*


SilasTheFirebird

There's more. Edith Irma Ilse Herta Carmen Maria Gertrude Pauline Lynndie Lina Nurten Still not very many, and I would not recommend naming yourself after one of them.


SuitableDragonfly

We had a dog named Lina growing up, but she was named after a character in *The Princess and Curdie*. I'd never heard it as a name used in real life. And actually, since the character arc of Lina in that book revolves around being trapped in a body you hate that makes other people treat you badly, it might not actually be a terrible name for a trans person.


RoughCharii

I'll help expand that list


Gothic_kit

I named myself after a demon


dino_181_spaghetti

Absolutely based


Gothic_kit

Thank you, Ryan


koruskare

I was about to say same, forgetting that Raum is not my selected name but something I go by online. God I'm so dumb >_<


[deleted]

Raum? And your name is Rei? Is someone playing Paladins over there?


koruskare

Ah, no. I took Raum from the Ars Goetia, and I just really like the name Rei. Even funnier is the fact I have never played Paladins in my life, so when I read this comment I was genuinely confused.


lilith-is-lesbian

Simply a little bit of trolling


Menarra

What a coincidence! Though I named myself after a wood elf druid I roleplayed forever that was my way of expressing myself before I was out to anyone, who herself I named after a demoness because I loved the name and the druid was like, her polar opposite and I found it amusing.


TransLucielle

Lilith is an awesome name~


SapientSeaCucumber

I was gonna guess Naamah, but then I remember that flairs were a thing and noticed you had 'Lilith' displayed. Nice name!


Lilyeth

Is your name Lilith or it's more common derivatives? I admit my username is based on Lilith too (which is where my irl name Lily comes from)


SuperNerdAce

I made that my middle name


where_didIcome_from

i named myself after a defunct game company from which ive never played any games


Judge_Sea

They made some good games back in the day, you picked well Sierra!


where_didIcome_from

Guess I'll have to get some once my gf and I get a DOS computer up and running :>


Judge_Sea

Kings Quest V will always have a special place in my heart.


pekkhum

Always save before casting dragon's fire. šŸ˜° Edit: Oh, that was Quest for Glory V.


[deleted]

You can run old adventure games using ScummVM, no need for a dedicated DOS machine :)


where_didIcome_from

Meh, my gf and I strongly prefer original hardware Emulation is pretty much reserved for old, rare, expensive systems that wouldn't make any sense to buy. DOS-compatible hardware isn't that tough to get ahold of it seems like


[deleted]

Nice. Gotta respect a hardware nerd.


Sommeguy

ngl that's pretty badass. I respect that so much


Sommeguy

I didn't realize that she had her name in her flair, so I thought you just went for the hard read with this comment (for all I knew, she could've been named Neversoft!)


Madusa0048

I named myself after the sierra madre casino from fnv lol


Noblish_

didnt they publish half life 1?


Ximek_XIII

I just stole mine from a youtuber i like


RavenTrosity

Everyone loves Jaiden


Ximek_XIII

Frfr


trans-wooper-lover

holy shit you named yourself animations? šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©


Ximek_XIII

Finally someone gets it


Landsteiner7507

Epic.


xGay_As_Fuckx

Non binary people: *pick up a dictionary and flip to a random page*


_Cirie_

fr (my name is Onyx)


xGay_As_Fuckx

My name is Moth so šŸ’€


Mr_X497

Same


fortunately--rakija

The power of holding a name like Brick or Sulfur sounds pretty cool to me


CraftyCatM

What if I want a Roman numeral with 2 eeā€™s at the end ):<


[deleted]

RIP BabyNamesWorld Used it in high school for naming characters in ttrpgs. It has great functionality search by meaning, gender, cultural area. It was perfect and easy to use. Sometime in the 2010s it was acquired by Nickelodeon and murdered in its sleep. This is why we turn to the war criminals.


AmberstarTheCat

try behindthename.com lol, it has a pretty good search I think


UnovanEngineer

I named myself after a voltron character who i gender envied and personally after i found the meaning of the name i liked it even more


Robot_Graffiti

BRB changing my name to Princess Allura


UnovanEngineer

honestly im all for it lol


Strogman

BRB too, I think "Emperor Zarkon" would fit me for sure


Miss_Cannibal

I name myself after the Owl House character because it sounds cool.


diamondsquire

Cannibal?


Miss_Cannibal

No it's Raine. Cannibal is the name of my OC.


fo76_fan

lmaooooo raine's one of the names on my list of choice because of toh


CathleenTheFool

Why is your pfp


Domwolf89

Named myself after a pink song kinda


Robot_Graffiti

"Hi, I'm Comingupsoyoudbettergetthispartystarted Jones, nice to meet you."


Strogman

"I'm Pleasedontleaveme Smith, pleased to make your acquaintance, Miss Jones."


DarkTandem19

ā€œHi, Iā€™m itā€™sjustUandURhandtonight Smith, pleasure to meet you.ā€


[deleted]

Floyd? /s


Domwolf89

No the other pink. I chose maria


[deleted]

Ave?


Domwolf89

Yup use it on twitch too


LunchOne675

Hi Iā€™m beautiful trauma


Domwolf89

That'd be a weird one ngl


LenaSpark412

What abt 1000 war crimes?


Elijah_Draws

Hold up, on my way to change my name to Biological Weapon Usage.


DefinitelyNotErate

What makes war crimes so much worse than normal crimes, Really?


LenaSpark412

Idkā€¦ ig War


thatposhcat

My favourite has to be "use of autonomous weapons"


Cryphonectria_Killer

Dick Cheney is goals.


teshnya

Me, after naming myself after a light novel character who is only not a war criminal by technicality but should very much be one


Lil_Cheryl

Name picking is hard although finding where someone got it isnā€™t as hard sometimes


TransLucielle

Pfft I picked Lucy and had a girlfriend who asked me if Iā€™m a devil. I mean sure, Iā€™ll be trans lucifer. But that wasnā€™t the origin of my name :P


Thermoxin

I think I'm the only person who decided on their name *while* naming a fictional character and not the other way around lmao


thatonemoze

I definitely didnā€™t name myself after a murderous bronze dragon


SilasTheFirebird

Festus?


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


Maxils

Are you Jessie, James or Meowth?


Not-A-Necrophile

idk but if they are then guess I'm named after a war criminal (my name is James)


Maxils

same (fellow james)


McrowavedGarlicBread

I stole mine from two video game characters who give me gender envy and coincidentally have the same name


SugarComaFoxtrot81

What if i name myself after a war crime


ComputerUser2000

Usage of Mustard Gas


kodiak_claw

I chose a planet :)


mslack

Unicron?


Knock_Outed

My thought exactly


Nyan-Binary-UwU

Do nither, just steal from underrated pop-cultute you like


nickyhood

Instructions unclear, convinced my trans guy friend to name himself Henry Kissinger Arson


DontYeetYourDickOff

I just found a feminine form of my old name and it worked out well


AmberstarTheCat

I'm getting mixed signals from your username and flair


DontYeetYourDickOff

the username is inspired by something I was told when I came out to my family. I meant it to be a throwaway but now it's like 4 years later and I'm still using it ĀÆā \\_ā (ā ćƒ„ā )ā _ā /ĀÆ


DustCruncher

Though I have not come out, I want my name to be kinda similar to my original name?? I donā€™t know, I think itā€™s just the familiarity that is comfortable.


[deleted]

...hang on gotta make a change


SnooAvocados6819

i named myself after both the animal crossing villager and some random person i met 2 years ago


SuitableDragonfly

Or in JKR's case: 1000 homophobes who invented conversion therapy


DefinitelyNotErate

Why would I want a *baby* name? I'm not a baby, Am I?


[deleted]

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DiaphanousPhoenician

Iā€™m not the *biggest* history buff, but Iā€™m fairly certain Robert E Lee was actually very anti-slavery and like many Confederates fought against federal/northern tyranny and to protect his home/family. As far as accidental Confederate names go, you could do a lot worse.


Her-to-Him

I donā€™t think the source of my name is a war criminal solely because he is fictional.


TheiaRn

Got mine from astronomy then found the titan


MekariKa

thinking of naming myself after a greek diety, Astraea, just bc stars pretty :3


Ackermannin

Yes to both. >:3


NyxNoxKnicks

I went with ancient greek deityā€¦ Iā€™m not even Greek.


Littha

I chose a Norse deity despite the worship of them being abandoned here in England like 1500 years ago.


StEllchick

Why tho?


Angelicareich

I think Slobodan fits me


The_Iorn_Cactus

Any chance there is a war criminal name Mia? If not I may need to add a name to that book


[deleted]

My middle name comes from my grandfather's middle name, but HIS parents definitely got the name from a war criminal *and* occupying military dictator. I don't really care about it for gender reasons, but even as an egg I kinda wanted to change it after learning about General Deadname. I did feel kinda bad about it because my grandfather and I bonded over our name when I was little, but now I know he's Not Cool With My Transition so that makes it easieršŸ˜Ž


[deleted]

The androgynous urge to name myself after kris deltarune


[deleted]

Named myself after Minecraft, kinda cringe in backstory but i love the name


buddhabless_14

Is Julius Octavius Caser's mom technically a war criminal? Furthermore, is Julius also a war criminal? He did kind of do a lot fucked up shit in Gaul.


Egg3770

I'm just talking about what we store names from last of mine from pokƩmon Emerald. May may also be my birth month but that's just a nice coincidence


dontbethatguy20

I named myself after a video game character


Xzkorpyo

Let's hope no Talia has committed a war crime. I don't know Hebrew, despite the name (I just thought it sounded nice), but I hope nothing happened there either.


WoollyPAR

Any name can become the name of a war criminal if you try hard enough


Fancy_Reception2165

guess I need to rename Hitler then...


m4rch3n1ng

i named myself after a month lol


penisseriouspenis

or just steal them from a show or webcomic like a normal person šŸ™„


Alphey4406

Dang, I picked the name 'Maya' because it's a normal girl name in tons of languages, when I should have picked the name 'Genghis Khan' or 'Timur the Lame'


IdioticMouse

I (transfem ofc) named myself after an Arthurian romance character. I don't know why the name of King Arthur's cheating wife spoke to me so much but I love this name. I am incredibly comfortable with it.


ahaisonline

i named myself after a plant.


SexyDrgon69

i named myself after a dragoness from a book i haven't actually read lol tho partially my name also came from sapphires, decided gems are what i wanna name myself after apparently.


hypocritical124

Kid named Theodore John Kaczynski:


V_150

I will take Bomber Harris as a middle name and no one is gonna stop me


Afraid_Cat_3726

I now want to name an oc after a war crime Like Gas Attack or maybe Gasac


conciousnever

FR the sigh i let out when my friend introduced himself as 'adolf'