Your favorite dictator and why?

Kermit.de.frog · 01-10-2017 01:49AM #1

I vote Chairman Mao!

Former Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the worlds biggest Communist party, and in my view, the best.

Oh I was going to set up a poll, oh well. If a mod could list out some dictators past and present for a poll that'd be great.

Rumpy Pumpy · 01-10-2017 01:57AM

Mao was a big-shot socialist despot. Has a chain of low-end Chinese restaurants named after him. Pol Pot was a purest though. He really loved the works of Marx and Engels.

Mongfinder General · 01-10-2017 02:17AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I vote Chairman Mao!

Former Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the worlds biggest Communist party, and in my view, the best.

Oh I was going to set up a poll, oh well. If a mod could list out some dictators past and present for a poll that'd be great.

The Chinese. A great bunch of lads.

Your Face · 01-10-2017 02:20AM

The SJWs

seenitall · 01-10-2017 02:35AM

Well, OP, "favourite" is surely not the word to use here, but for the sake of contributing, I will pretend that you said "most interesting" instead.

It's the Haitian one, Papa Doc Duvalier. Not only was his son known as Baby Doc, but his murderous, depraved militia/death squads had their MO and imagery rooted deeply in voodoo, usually going about their delightful business with quite unpleasant-looking masks on their faces. They had a cool-sounding name, as well: Tonton Macoute.

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2017 02:38AM

Gaius Julius Caesar or Abraham Lincoln.

Caesar marched on Rome, Lincoln the top hat.

begbysback · 01-10-2017 02:39AM

Maggie Thatcher - the great Iron Lady

Why - cause she was tough

PARlance · 01-10-2017 02:40AM

Augusto Pinochet or Benito Mussolini.
With great names like that, they were destined to dictate.

Arghus · 01-10-2017 02:42AM

Miss Piggy.

begbysback · 01-10-2017 02:43AM

Honourable mention to Alex fergusen

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2017 02:44AM

Arghus wrote: »

Miss Piggy.

Herr Merkel does not like this nickname

Your Face · 01-10-2017 02:45AM

The thing about dictators is they are an easily identified figurehead of a hateful and murderous regimes.

I always thought that entities (empires, countries, companies etc) tend to be ignored as they don't have a obvious symbol or single person to blame for their transgressions.

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2017 02:56AM

Evil Morty is gonna be one helluva dictator.

Fathom · 01-10-2017 02:57AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Your favorite dictator and why?

Donald Trump (wanna be dictator). Why? His tweets. Whenever he opens mouth. Great comedy material. For Seth Meyers. Alec Baldwin. Stephen Colbert. Noah Trevor. And Saturday Night Live.

Permabear · 01-10-2017 02:58AM

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tonycascarino · 01-10-2017 03:01AM

Donald Trump because he gets all the liberals, militant lefties and SJW's all hot under the collar. Build that wall! Build that wall!

Pac1Man · 01-10-2017 03:21AM

Definitely Rosa 'Nah' Parks.

There once was a young dictator called Parks,
Who's bite was much worse than her bark.
She sat on a bus, caused a great deal of fuss,
So the white men took flight like a lark.

Kermit.de.frog · 01-10-2017 03:25AM

What about Kim Jung Un? Nepotism though.

Junkyard Tom · 01-10-2017 03:26AM

Josip Broz Tito.

Josip Broz Tito after surviving assassination attempts wrote to Stalin: "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle ... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."

wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito-v-Split

Riddle101 · 01-10-2017 04:19AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Josip Broz Tito.

Josip Broz Tito after surviving assassination attempts wrote to Stalin: "Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle ... If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second."

wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito-v-Split

That would be my choice. I did a history project on him years ago in school. Interesting guy.

Kermit.de.frog · 01-10-2017 04:37AM

What Hitler did right:

Autobahns (almost 4,000 kms completed before WW2!)
Blitzkrieg (not entirely his but gets credit for being in charge)
V2 Rocket (not his gig, but still he was in charge, same principles apply to space rockets today)
Restoring German dignity and strength before WW2 (yes, he did that despite what happened next)

What Hitler did wrong:

Everything else

pickarooney · 01-10-2017 06:06AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I vote Chairman Mao!

Former Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the worlds biggest Communist party, and in my view, the best.

Oh I was going to set up a poll, oh well. If a mod could list out some dictators past and present for a poll that'd be great.

A poll with one option, presumably?

prinzeugen · 01-10-2017 06:08AM

I think some folks need to do a wee google of what a dictator is before posting!!

01-10-2017 06:43AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What Hitler did right:

Autobahns (almost 4,000 kms completed before WW2!)
Blitzkrieg (not entirely his but gets credit for being in charge)
V2 Rocket (not his gig, but still he was in charge, same principles apply to space rockets today)
Restoring German dignity and strength before WW2 (yes, he did that despite what happened next)

What Hitler did wrong:

Everything else

I thought his paintings were okay, if he'd priced them at, say €75-€100, I'd have been tempted...

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Jim Bob Scratcher · 01-10-2017 06:47AM

Kim Jung Mun Un Don Son

The_Valeyard · 01-10-2017 07:36AM

Khan Noonien Singh

RobbingBandit · 01-10-2017 07:38AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What Hitler did right:

Autobahns (almost 4,000 kms completed before WW2!)
Blitzkrieg (not entirely his but gets credit for being in charge)
V2 Rocket (not his gig, but still he was in charge, same principles apply to space rockets today)
Restoring German dignity and strength before WW2 (yes, he did that despite what happened next)

What Hitler did wrong:

Everything else

I did Nazi that coming.

Mister Vain · 01-10-2017 07:52AM

Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, played brilliantly by Forrest Whittaker in the film The Last King Of Scotland.

SafeSurfer · 01-10-2017 08:43AM

Always had a soft spot for Gadaffi. I believe he was royally f*cked over by the French, British and Americans. Even after paying billions in compensation to Lockerbie victims families and giving up his WMD.

A UN sanctioned no fly zone was illegally used to bomb his supporters.

His brutal killing without trial and the reaction to it by Hilary Clinton makes her look unfit to lead the worlds most powerful democracy.
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budgie412 · 01-10-2017 08:48AM

The benevolent General Krull.

All hail Krull and his glorious new regime.

arayess · 01-10-2017 09:21AM

saddam hussein

he achieved so much despite his lowly birth
A truly heroic rise to power despite being exiled initially to egypt.

Used Iraqs oil wealth to bring Iraq onto a par with the 1st world
provided helath care and education for all iraqis
Did you know that in the 1980s Iraqs state education was ranked higher by the UN than the USA? And baghdad had a highly rated university.

He was very secular and a strong proponent of women's rights - he would admonish men who beat their wives.
Under him women had full access to education - actually the head of his chemical weapons development for a while was a woman.
STEM for women? how about that?

Really built Iraq - pre sanctions(of course) and is a hero to many of us from the region as he demonstrated power arabs could have without the religious sh1te that is prevalent in the region.

He had his downsides though
he didn't like when people tried to kill him it made him go on a rampage killing many
He got into bed with the usa and was led into attacking Iran which was ultimately his downfall.
For the sake of his people, he should have taken asylum in russia and ran off with his wealth and ended sanctions but that's soley a humanitarian view , they are other factors when he rightly stayed
he had a blind spot to those close to him - they behaved badly and in a way he didn't approve of but ultimately he didn't punish his family.

But what a guy and a hero to many despite the one sided crap you read in the media in Europe and the US.

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