• crackajack
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    7 months ago

    “People make fun short people and will never be seen as a leader.”

    Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin is 5’5" and earned him fame and infamy and still worshipped by idiots to this day. I have seen in Reddit reasoned as to why De Santis puts on high heels is because people are shallow and don’t take kindly to short folks. Well, i think it’s not true and so long you have what i call “force of personality”, the short height will be offset. I don’t mean to make Stalin the shining model of humanity, but I’m sure he charmed and manipulated his way to the top regardless of his stature.

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      7 months ago

      Stalin was about average height for the time he grew up in. Especially as a prole.

      When people discuss this topic, everyone always seems to forget the sudden rush of nutritious additives and overall larger yields that humanity was able to incorporate into its diet starting around the atomic age.

      There was a massive growth spike because of this. People who were taller than 170-175cm were very rare prior.

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      It’s funny when short people try to hide it, like DeSantis. It isn’t funny that he’s short. It’s funny that he (and his constituents probably) are so obsessed with not being short that he has those stupid looking heals. As far as I’m aware, Stalin wasn’t worried about his height. Also, I think Napoleon I was (or at least our common meme of him is).