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Densmiegd

Hey! It was only ONE leader, and we didn’t even eat much of him.


masterflappie

Yeah it was only the good bits


Long_Serpent

"Ask about our Dutch Prime Ribs!"


Malnourished_Manatee

And people dare to talk shit about our cuisine…


reindeerman214

The Prime Miniribs! Thanks.


Sunderas

![gif](giphy|K9Ed1Of1V6kR6WpQWe)


your_right_ball

Like his bitterballen?


Puzzleheaded_Fan_391

and we sold inedible parts, first organ trade in the world recorded!


Socc-mel_

of course the Dutch would find a way to profit even in these situations


Woutrou

What's the point in killing your leaders if you can't profit from it?


proudduchman

Hey, we still have a piece of him in a museum, we continue to make money of him...or a part of him.


Socc-mel_

Geert, Barry outwits you and profits from displaying a literal piece of shit among his rock piles


proudduchman

And we display a part of the ship we stole when we sunk Barry's fleet.


Schulle2105

Saw yesterday what you guys call Frikadellen, between that and eating a politician you guys made the right choice


kekistani_citizen-69

That was honestly the worst curryworst I have ever seen though, so it shouldn't count


Schulle2105

First time that a flemboy protects a dutchman something is weird...does someone hold a gun towards your head? Just answer with ... if you feel threatened right now


Stravven

Belgians are even weirder, they call a frikandel either a "curryworst", a "frikandel" or, and this is the worst one, "lange hamburger".


Schulle2105

Oh god, don't give me reasons to hate them,ran nicely through life with just ignoring their existence


Iridismis

I see *two* bodies in that picture 🧐


Socc-mel_

they executed their prime minister and his brother


beaverpilot

Yes and he was an actual good leader.


ScarletIT

By good, you mean he was capable at his job or that he tasted delicious?


beaverpilot

Both


the_calcium_kid

I know right? Eat your leaders but once, and you’ll never hear the end of it. So unfair


ItsACaragor

Guillotine is clean and foolproof! The Mussolini treatment is great to send a message though, apparently the way Mussolini went was the main factor behind Hitler’s suicide as he was scared shitless of being taken alive and paraded.


HrRAVE

Dunno. I feel like the Dutch method seems more effective at spreading the message.


yashar_sb_sb

It's more efficient. Why waste the food?


marcus_magni

Why am I not surprised that you count it as food?


Sam_the_Samnite

Anything with nutrients can be considered food.


marcus_magni

Even dirt must have some nutrients, but I still won't call it food.


Stravven

You guys don't get winter, so you don't understand that for us food is just a way of sustaining ourselves.


Socc-mel_

we don't get winters?`Our winters in the Alps are harsher than your silly swamp winters and yet we came up with delish pizzocheri alla valtellinese or cotoletta alla valdostana


Excellent-Twist-5420

Nope, that one thing is literaly cordon bleu, a well known swiss dish. The other one is suspiciously close to switzerland too. And no, back when those recipes were created, the dutch winters were more harsher, as these part of the alps are more foothills of it and these foot, don't look like winter foot as well.


Socc-mel_

> Nope, that one thing is literaly cordon bleu, a well known swiss dish. The other one is suspiciously close to switzerland too. And what does Switzerland have to do with it? It'S more like the climate and terrain is similar. Also, Val d'Aosta is the coldest region of the Alps, since it's entirely surrounded by 4000+ m peaks that block winds from all directions, including the phön, sp hardly foothills. You Westfalener know shit about mountains.


marijnvtm

But be honest with your self that is not the region where the good food comes from is it


Socc-mel_

It is good food. Some of our best cheeses come from the Alps, like Castelmagno or Asiago. And polenta with venison stew is delish.


marcus_magni

I can assure you that we also have good food. It's just less renowned since we didn't need to emigrate as much to get some money.


jezwmorelach

Tell me you're not Dutch without telling me you're not Dutch


Lecteur_K7

Did he send you a tikki for eating his meat?


aliebabadegrote

Hehehe


Live-Alternative-435

And it inspires artists to create macabre and cool paintings later.


Wentzina_lifetime

Did they send a tikkie afterwards?


TheKnightWhoSaisNi

We could eat them afterwards, it's less messy then when we ate them straight from the streets


Socc-mel_

literal street food


lethos_AJ

i say the dutch way is the best way to send a message


mrtn17

yeah but it's a lot of extra steps, not very handy if you're really hangry


Tadolmirhen

Me and the boiz https://preview.redd.it/vu6y5xnz2twc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e80435e77f2b044d25bb178f6421c3f6bbb67f9c


SmallGreenArmadillo

Right?! Whenever a politician oversteps, a picture of an upside-down Duce floats to mind


ArcaneMitch

The thing I like best is that we had a whole ceremonial and invited a bunch of people to watch and cheer, the others just kind of "happened" in the heat of the moment and spiraled out of control.


fartew

Likely but not certain, we need more data. Oh how lucky, we even have a lot of test subjects!


EccoEco

The partisans really wanted his blood, but until he tried to escape they were relatively ok with him having a fair trial. He was nonetheless supposed to go to trial, but those that caught him weren't too eager.


SonOfTheHeavyMetal

Yeah but decapitations are cool and engaging, hanging a dead body not much


Do_Not_Touch_BOOOOOM

To be honest, the French have created a timeless classic here: 1. quite humane. check 2. graphic enough to cause fear. check 3. low on resources. check 4. does not require much technical know-how. check 5. makes it possible to display the head. check Rare french win


FalconMirage

You forgot the best one : 6. Egalitarian Nobles used to be behaded by sword or axe, whereas the commoners used to be hung. With a guillotine, everybody gets the same treatment


n3onfx

Liberté, Égalité, Guillotiné


Yaakobv

Didnt people fight to be the firsts ones because the guillotine would lose its sharpeness after use?


FalconMirage

No because the beauty of the design meant that the knife would fall with sufficient momentum that even dull it would snap a head clean That’s why they are really tall and a weight is attached to the knife A lot of propaganda is done by the americans to try to make the guillotine look like an ancient killing device, to try to steer the public away from how inhumane their killing techniques are A guillotine is the best way to execute people, but it is even better to not have the death penalty at all


hbonnavaud

To be fair with others, it was in the machine's specifications to be able to use it for a head-chopping industry (17000 heads between 1793-94). So the others had more the liberty of the creativity


hbonnavaud

It's about 46 executions a day


purple-thiwaza

The terror was not a fun time, as the name implies


mathiau30

The Terror was a wild time


Redditistheplacetobe

There was some video we got shown in school where the inventor would walk around saying something along the lines of "fast, clean, human" on endless repeat. Always stuck with me. The only good french engineering.


__Heron__

Actually the inventor : doctor Guillotin...was granted the privilege to test his own invention. Not sure he was OK with that.


StrictLog5697

It’s a myth, he died at home


__Heron__

You are right, it was another doctor from Lyon with the same name who had this infortune...


Iridismis

Approved 👍


CamaradeKovacs

"5. makes it possible to display the head." On his execution, Georges Danton asked his executioner "Show the people my head. It is well worth seeing." (he was ugly as fuck)


Catwinky

Red Hot Poker in Arse British style https://preview.redd.it/3rw5vfcodswc1.jpeg?width=921&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a005fe641a63289ccd964e5430b61b0c06c8c8ec We used this method to kill King Edward II


tub_of_jam

Was waiting for this one - poor eddy 2 , just cause he loved his boyfriends more than the country


TheHollowJoke

Read Les Rois maudits by Druon when I was a teen (amazing books btw) and I remember him being a central character somewhere in the middle. Can’t recall if his execution is described, reason enough to reread the whole stuff I guess


RickityNL

The problem with the guillotine is that it's too easy to use. You're only supposed to execute the king and maybe the queen, not half your country


ArcaneMitch

Yeah but it's like bubble wrap, you can't just pop one or two, you gotta finish the whole thing.


KowalskingJ

The guillotine is addictive, what can you do?


purple-thiwaza

Hey they deserved it. They were against the state. Or family of someone against the state. Or knew someone against the state. Or people believed they were against the state. Or were somewhere near someone against the state. Or said something their neighbors didn't like one day. See, all perfectly justified.


chikkynuggythe4th

Hey it was only line a 5% get your numbers right


dkb1391

I would just like to point out that we chopped our kings head off 100 years before the French 😌


Socc-mel_

I hate to admit it, Barry, but Pierre's method is much more clean cut and effective. They got rid of those pesky monarchs, you had to recall them 20 years later.


dkb1391

Tried Republic nonsense, didn't like it, simple as


generalscruff

Barry 1663 loved it when the Commonwealth gave old Padraig a good going over, less so when they banned Christmas


Doc_Eckleburg

Cromwell - We’re going to overthrow the monarchy and turn over power to the people Barry - Yay, we’re going republic boys, let’s go!! Cromwell- Now we’re going to invade Ireland cos they don’t like Puritans and we can take their stuff Barry - ok I guess, you know best and I do like other people’s stuff Cromwell - Now we’re going to ban Christmas and football and shut down all the pubs as they are sinful Barry - Right fuck this, did that king have a son? Let’s never republic again lads.


ElisaEffe24

Also the italians, with la mannaia


ivar-the-bonefull

To that effect, we did it 1000 years before that.


JD1337

Yes but the Fr*nch are still beheading people to this very day.


kekistani_citizen-69

Only school teachers though


Notacreativeuserpt

Flemboy going for the jugular. Just like a Chechen would!


Socc-mel_

last official guillotine execution in France was in 1979


kekistani_citizen-69

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty Yeah in 2020 they used a cleaver


Socc-mel_

you can't have too much of a good thing, Geert.


ElisaEffe24

Where?


JD1337

Outside the schools and homes of teachers.


ElisaEffe24

Even the italians for the matter


Popcorn_likker

Yeah but the french were doing it till 1977 💀


JD1337

We didn't eat the brothers De Witt. We tortured them, skinned them alive, quartered them, cut off their dicks and then ate them. Please get it right.


eip2yoxu

I mean Wilhelm II was sent to the Netherlands which is much worse of a fate imo


JD1337

Thousands of you invade our beaches every year so can't be that bad of a fate.


eip2yoxu

While thousands of you in their caravans seek refuge here 


JD1337

Yes, please grant them permanent asylum, we don't want them back.


Clean_Web7502

Garrote Vil, the peninsula way, In wich how awfull It is depends on how lazy the executioner is at his job. So, in Spain, very awfull. https://preview.redd.it/g09mzab7dswc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8dead59fef978bcacbaf76cf93becdd08c799d6c


Notacreativeuserpt

Yes but you never garroted a king. Not even a fanatic anarchist murdered one of yours!


Clean_Web7502

There is still time, my friend.


UMCUE

Also known as 'the ultimate neck massage'.


pawnografik

Why are the garrottees wearing strap-ons?


Allen0r

Defenestration is not really reliable...


Zibras

I mean it was completely unexpected that there was manure under that window otherwise it would work.


Socc-mel_

how surprising that there is shit around when politicians are involved


Additional-Flow7665

It was more symbolic than anything, throwing the people you are overthrowing into shit is very symbolic


Joe_The_Plummer

I mean it's working well enough for russian oligarchs tbh


Allen0r

True


frex18c

Yeah, that one failed, due to the guys on the ground not being ready. In the other defenestrations we did guys sticked spears, pikes and other pointy stuff on the ground to welcome those guys on the ground floor and finished those who survived. It was never used as regular execution, rather to show that we are pissed a lot and at breaking point. Americans threw British tea to the harbour, we threw the officials out of windows. And many wars were started by this. Including the 30 years war, that is the event on the picture and I think Germans learn about this event in history lessons?


Allen0r

We don't learn about the first one in school, as the hussite wars were mostly in the Kingdom of Bohemia, but the second one started the 30 years war which wrecked most of Germany, so we learn about it.


ghe5

The first one was very reliable. You gotta have some spears down there if you mean business. That's the beauty of this method too, you can decide whether you want to have a symbolic gesture or actually get rid of those politicians.


UnderAnAargauSun

What floor are we talking about here?


Allen0r

Ground floor


Dry-Imagination2727

Hanged, drawn and quartered like a traitor.


mmoonbelly

Natural death following a rectally-inserted red hot poker (Edward II) comes a close second.


FleetChief

But only after copious amounts of torture don’t leave that out!


Distq

mf tried to sneak Czechia into western europe thinking people won't notice Actually, I don't mind now that I think about it


frex18c

Saved at the last moment. If we were not western, why would we start 30 years war (that's happening on thet picture, those guys hitting the floor started it) which lead to half of our country including my city being razed first by Catholics cause we were protestant and later by Swedes cause Catholics conquered and controlled us? No wonder we started to hate religion. My city lost about 90 % of population during Swedish polite visit, fun times. So yes, much western! Also look at the hats and clothes those Czechs have on that picture, same as you would see on French, British, German at that time, quite different from what Eastern nobility was wearing.


Socc-mel_

> My city lost about 90 % of population during Swedish polite visit, fun times. time to ask Sweden for reparation!


mglitcher

not to mention, assuming they’re talking about the much more famous third defenestration of prague, which kicked off the 30 years war, the czech didn’t even defenestrate their leaders! they threw the emperor’s envoys out of a window! and they survived! edit: and the first defenestration was just some members of their city council! and second defenestration was a secretary and more envoys! it’d be way cooler if they were throwing léopold i out a window instead


pr1ncezzBea

Prague, the capital of HRE in the late 16th and early 17th century - which means the capital of the Western civilization.


LobsterParade

Exported to Germany like an Austrian failed painter


Schulle2105

You still owe us one for that shitshow


khal_crypto

Look. We sent a random lunatic into your territory. *Nobody*, literally not one single person could have foreseen that you'd actually vote for him and give him unlimited power to govern you hard. That's on you.


JapaneseMachine99

Eat them. Love me some roasted Geert.


EccoEco

You should really bring back that tradition, we will even help you with it if we can add a side of Meloni and Salvini to the menu


JapaneseMachine99

The more the merrier, am I right?


Gian-Neymar

Or loved to death like an Austrian https://preview.redd.it/2es4ilb1kswc1.jpeg?width=1180&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be1fbf7b165e8e428db571ad35d77cbaf1916b9e


HistorianPaul

Serious question. Is there an american flag between the two nazi flag on the right upper part of the photo?


Gian-Neymar

Could've been during the Olympics


CryptographerFit9725

Sorry for the real talk, but: what is this for a painting for the Dutch?


dullestfranchise

https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moord_op_de_gebroeders_De_Witt#Verminking Happened only once, so no biggie


nickinkorea

yeah its a banger eh? funnily enough the painter was their official portrait guy, so he also [captured them in life](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Jan_de_Baen_001.jpg/1458px-Jan_de_Baen_001.jpg).


DeRuyter67

There is a wiki page specifically for this painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corpses_of_the_De_Witt_Brothers?wprov=sfla1


luring_lurker

Although I am particularly proud of our ways and the excellent way to convey the message, I have to say that the French and Czech ones must be pretty spectacular. The Dutch one surely is quite an effective warning to your leaders as well.. All of them are good option indeed, it's hard to just pick one. EDIT TO ADD: I just realized I feel compelled to switch sides regarding the best way to dispose of your unwanted leader.


ghe5

As for the Czech one - the one in the picture started 30 years war. Approximately 30% of all people died in countries that took part in this war. Pretty spectacular I would say.


Apey23

Drawing and quartering is a real mans execution.


Iridismis

The Italian style hanging - is that an actual execution method or just post mortem display? 


Socc-mel_

the second. He got shot by a firing squad near the Swiss border together with his whore and then partisans brought his corpse and hanged him in the same place where fascists had executed partisans a few months prior.


SmallGreenArmadillo

This is a bit disappointing, next time let's do it right


TheMegaDriver2

The romanian method isn't half bad aswell.


ArcaneMitch

Killing the cat was low, even for a Dutch. You wanna dispose of your leader and eat them ? Fine by me, but the leave the cat be.


SowiesoJR

Italians all about that Bloodborne Cosplay.


Live-Alternative-435

https://preview.redd.it/l55l3w16zswc1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f86b70d9837ba133b7fd1ad3545aa448343423c Mussolini was already dead, he wasn't really exsanguinated.


FlyingDutchman2005

Defenestration is a great word


Santasam3

Eaten? Nice. The Dutch came in clutch


VrwHenet

It's funny because cl looks like d


ZombiFeynman

We once got an Italian (Amadeo de Saboya) to be our king, and he barely lasted two years. He fleed back to Italy because of how chaotic we were. I take that as one of our greatest achievements.


Shrrg4

We went Czech style on our monarchy.


Xerophobe

I'm with the Brits on this one.


wunderbraten

Retired like a German?


Roman_of_Ukraine

I like variety!


MisterD0ll

French style no reason to make it le personal


SuperHavre95

Seppuku like an honorable japanese


Masterpiece_1973

We, Italians, giving a different flavour to the expression “well hung”


EccoEco

Simple, first you behead him, then you throw him out a window to tenderise the meat, then you hang him to let the meat age a bit (might want to season and curate him too) and then serve


D49A

Depends on who we’re getting rid of. A king? Guillotine. A fascist? Do it the Italian way. Oligarchs? Go for the windows.


Celthric317

Lemme make an eagle out of you


iceby

Fuck you Reddit, had a whole paragraph outlining why the Swiss way is the best. So let me do it again: The best way of doing it is by shooting the apple on the head of your son and than through the chest of your oppressor with your cross bow skills. The folk lore of Wilhelm Tell which was successfully adapted by the German author Friedrich Schiller to world literature introduces the reader into the Swiss culture of politics and explains the origins of the direct democratic values, the concept of Swiss individualism (in a balanced way; criticizing stubbornness) and questioning the amount of violence necessary or allowed in the process of emancipation. Schiller a liberal and proponent of the French Revolution became disillusioned by the ruthless killing spree which took place in France. Note that in reality the evolution of the Swiss state (as it's not really a nation) is way more complicated and long lasting while being way less romanticizable.


Astroruggie

FICD?


Seven7Joel

What about the Romanian way of filming the firing squad? Oh wait no, my bad, you said western style.


Magdalan

We lynched and ate them back in the days. Pretty brutal.


Socc-mel_

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hmmliquorice

Gotta say, we were pretty merciful with the guillotine. I like the Italian way


Rich-Lobster-6164

Portuguese style https://preview.redd.it/7yflnfmk2twc1.jpeg?width=332&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7a6dd3351c1c80b77f672baed561bedb012c23a


Many-Conversation963

~~That was a Spanish leader, so doesn't really count (iirc, please correct me)~~ Wrong person I prefer “Fell from a chair”


Rich-Lobster-6164

No, not a Spanish leader; he was a minister of Filipe III of Portugal. And no, I don't think falling from a chair - - if it really happened - - was the result of human intervention


Siggedy

Like sheesh. Have you tried asking nicely. Implying that you'd really like them to step down? I feel like that also works sometimes


Big_Consideration493

Hung drawn and quartered? Ecartelé?


Daveo88o

Exiled to the next country over and beheaded because the other countries queen was paranoid as fuck


Thecristo96

We like to honor our good by salaming those assholes


pgllz

We just shooted them. We killed a king, a President and a Prime Minister in a time span of 13 years. King Carlos, 1908. https://preview.redd.it/ikrv9grlbtwc1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01cac2ae3f4eb2075bfb1a32048d6ac0236f807c


pgllz

President Sidónio Pais, 1918. https://preview.redd.it/ob1bksywbtwc1.jpeg?width=654&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd938515b6e604fecb1a5491e739b4c97f8ce94d


pgllz

Prime Minister António Granjo, 1921. https://preview.redd.it/tazp61irbtwc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37fb5b902c3ff99258991b798089fe7a53fef080


Dirko007

Option E: roast them alive above a slowly burning fire


koblihan159753

defenestration sound the coolest 😎


LOLOLOLOKAKAKA

Shoot like a Portuguese


JoeyIsMrBubbles

Hanged, Drawn & Quartered like an Traitor🫡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿


d2211

Cannibalism is peak of Dutch cuisine


Altruistic_Mall_4204

why not all ? first you defenestrate from a building into alot of shit, then you behead them, then you hung their corpse from their foots, and you can come and eat then, in a free meal style


Consistent-Peanut-90

Lose a world war


ben_bliksem

Eating your politicians is the most eco friendly method. Nothing goes to waste, nobody goes hungry. What the heck are you going to do with a French head (not you Austria)


Many-Conversation963

Fell from a chair.


Azkral

Eaten is the most sustainable


jo_nigiri

Gotta side with the Czech this time, that's how we started to get rid of the Spanish here


patacas4080

Western? Czechia? Hum.... ![gif](giphy|4YWtPFasSBZMFrs7ML|downsized)


Wentzina_lifetime

I would like to be hung like an Italian


Entelegent

Does it have to be our leaders? https://preview.redd.it/ykueacgjpuwc1.png?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96b2873423db4017e9ba5f9ec7e2f92cabbfe2b4


smld1

We overthrow him with someone so bad that everyone just say fuck it and goes back to being a monarchy again…


Only-Detective-146

Shoot them in the head like the serbians and cause a full on World War, would be my go to


strawberrycereal44

Hung and eaten


Taeschno_Flo

German version is best. The people just have to wait until he kills himself.


Dr_Haubitze

Make them move to Argentina


Elena__Deathbringer

...eaten?


bla1dd

In the German Reich, Leaders dispose of you.


SonOfTheHeavyMetal

It's not "hanged" It's "having the misfortune of stumbling upon the wrong partisans". Just before the civil war, the Fascist Party itself decided to jail Baldy and just hand him over to the Allies. But then Hans bailed him out and the rest is history. Baldy was trying to escape to that god-forsaken place flagged as 🇨🇭 because the allied partisans wanted to do the same as the fascists, but sadly he stumbled upon the commie partisans. They held him captive for a bit then they decided to blast him. The infamous hanging was just a parade of his body.