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Dictator Poll

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    #32
    rednik
    Registered Users Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭rednik


    Roy Keane


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    #33
    The_Thing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    Vlad The Impaler.


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    #34
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    Number of battles won by Italy under Mussolsolini's leadership? Lets be honest he was in it for the uniforms, same as Goering.

    Italy in modern history have been a disaster when it comes to war, their messing in Greece and Yugoslavia delayed Germany's Operation Barbarossa by 3 months which in the end proved fatal to it's success with the Russian winter closing in. The joke still goes today that Italian tanks have 3 reverse gears.

    Where he is fondly remembered is in his domestic policies, life in Italy did improve under him. For instance he dismantled the Sicilian Mafia, driving it over seas in the process


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    #35
    SimonLynch
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭SimonLynch


    Miss Twenty Major, my vote would go to Enver Hoxha, mad Albanian dictator.

    He liked bunkers and built mad little conrete bunkers, the chap who designed them was asked if they were fit for purpose and after replying yes was told to stand in the bunker whilst an Albanian tank showered it with shells, he lived.


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    #36
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Vincent Browne

    David McSavage


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    #37
    19543261
    Registered Users Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭19543261


    Glenn Greenwald


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    #38
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Ming!

    We'd all nicely stoned sitting beside our big turf-fuelled fires.


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    #39
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Tito.


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    #40
    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Don't put all your eggs in the one bastard


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    #41
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Morgan Freeman.
    People would hang on his every word.


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    #42
    ads20101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭ads20101


    Haven't we had Bertie already?


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    #43
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Italy in modern history have been a disaster when it comes to war, their messing in Greece and Yugoslavia delayed Germany's Operation Barbarossa by 3 months which in the end proved fatal to it's success with the Russian winter closing in. The joke still goes today that Italian tanks have 3 reverse gears.

    Where he is fondly remembered is in his domestic policies, life in Italy did improve under him. For instance he dismantled the Sicilian Mafia, driving it over seas in the process

    To be fair to the Italians, they fought well in the First World War.


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    #44
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    ads20101 wrote: »
    Haven't we had Bertie already?

    That's not good enough, we're looking for a real dictatorship, a one party state where we learn from the mistakes of history and maybe make it work for longer this time. A thousand year empire with me and my politburo making Ireland glorious.;)


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    #45
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Where he is fondly remembered is in his domestic policies, life in Italy did improve under him. For instance he dismantled the Sicilian Mafia, driving it over seas in the process

    I wouldn't say he succeeded in dismantling the Sicilian mafia, who were effectively a fifth column for the American invasion of the island. The Sicilian mafia were just as powerful after Il Duce as before, if not more so.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #46
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    I wouldn't say he succeeded in dismantling the Sicilian mafia, who were effectively a fifth column for the American invasion of the island. The Sicilian mafia were just as powerful after Il Duce as before, if not more so.

    They regained momentum in the time after his death, American gangsters like Lucky Luciano returned to the country in the aftermath. The surviving mobsters supported the invasion because they knew they could get their power and influence back both in Sicily and on the mainland.


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    #47
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Kony. He'll get all the kids into activities so they arent mugging people and drinking in the parks


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    #48
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users Posts: 14,336 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    De wife. She's had plenty of practice.


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    #49
    SmilingLurker
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭SmilingLurker


    Kim Jong-Un. Because he is the sexiest man alive. The official Chinese Daily believed this.

    The onion article


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    #50
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    SmilingLurker wrote: »
    Kim Jong-Un. Because he is the sexiest man alive. The official Chinese Daily believed this.

    The onion article

    His wife is smoking hot, I saw pictures of them online recently. Apparently she's a film star in N.K, whatever that means.


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    #51
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    Ming!

    We'd all nicely stoned sitting beside our big turf-fuelled fires.

    Some of us already are. It's tough going getting up to throw more turf on.


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    #52
    Yurt
    Registered Users Posts: 406 ✭✭Yurt


    Larry Murphy


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    #53
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Ghangis Khan


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    #54
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Michael O' Leary.


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    #55
    9959
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    RTE's late-night continuity announcer, lovely speaking voice.


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    #56
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Hugo Chavez.

    Is democratically elected.


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    #57
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Hitler was alright apart from the who killing people malarkey.


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    #58
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Thatcher.

    Shake some **** out of the system.


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    #59
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Seaneh wrote: »
    Is democratically elected.
    Lets not split hairs here. I'm sick of Inda and I want to trade him to Venezuela.


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    #60
    Conrach
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Conrach


    Since a dictator is a self-appointed leader I will go for Miriam O'Callaghan or Joe Duffy.


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    #61
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,069 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Benito Mussolini the founder of Fascio di Combattimento the original fascist party which Hitler found inspiration from.

    He is credited with developing Italy from a backward kip into a modern country, the draining of the Pointaine Marshes the building of the Autostrada etc. He didn't share Hitlers crazy anti semitism, he refused to open concentration camps and many Jews fled to Italy at that time. High ranking members of his party were also Jewish. He's more popular in Italy now than he ever was, and not just among Lazio supporters, polls indicate that Italians would consider returning to this form of rule.

    Italians however not to stereotype are emotional lunatics and often pine for the past.:pac:

    ummmmmm I take it you didn't hear about the concentration camps set up by the Italians in Slovak nations, taking part in "ethnic cleansing".. Just because he is popular in Italy at the moment doesn't wipe what he has done and is responsible for..

    ..and as for who I would want, can't go wrong with Fintan O'Toole.. or Socky the Sock Monster (what ever happened to him?)


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