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Pol Pot was a nutjob

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    #32
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    completedit wrote: »
    Imagine finding yourself in such a society. I'm scared of a future where some ruling technocrat is allowed to enginner their own social experiment on some unsuspecting population. I'm very worried by the glorification and power of the CEO's at businesses like Amazon and Tesla.

    Or some lunatic like that guy proposing immunization of the masses.

    Immunization is ok, I'm immunised for a lot of things.
    But when I hear about a monster who lost his credibility when android took over and decides that there's another way to hold sway on the masses and stamp his name on a fcking vaccine.

    He tried to get into our souls and lives through artificial WINDOWS...now the monster want's to plant his idea into the masses... so no matter what happens he'll be with us until the day we kick the bucket...

    That's another version of a psychopath


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    #33
    JohnnyFlash
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    nthclare wrote: »
    Or some lunatic like that guy proposing immunization of the masses.

    Immunization is ok, I'm immunised for a lot of things.
    But when I hear about a monster who lost his credibility when android took over and decides that there's another way to hold sway on the masses and stamp his name on a fcking vaccine.

    He tried to get into our souls and lives through artificial WINDOWS...now the monster want's to plant his idea into the masses... so no matter what happens he'll be with us until the day we kick the bucket...

    That's another version of a psychopath

    What in the name of jaysus are you on about?


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    #34
    [Deleted User]
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysus are you on about?

    Too much cough medicine there for sure.


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    #35
    storker
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    Central Services wrote: »
    Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Father Dick Byrne Fintan Stack...
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Rare to encounter "least" and "Hitler" in the same sentence.


    "At least Hitler wouldn't be playing jungle music at three in the morning!"



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    #36
    Flavour Diaper
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysus are you on about?

    Mandatory vaccinations. Elon Musk's toupee. Microchip implants. Bill Gates' tongue going in and out of your butthole. Do you like that Johnny you creep?


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    #37
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What in the name of jaysus are you on about?

    I don't understand what you mean ?

    I never mentioned Jesus's name, I know you're trying to undermine me by suggesting I'm spouting rubbish.

    Look up metaphors in a dictionary and maybe you'll understand what I'm saying.

    You can also try a little harder to open your mind because from where I'm posting you're so narrow minded that both your ears are touching off each other....

    Nice try and like the rest of your mate's I'll give you a sarcastic like too...

    Johnny Flash... those responses you post now and again are sh1T


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    #38
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
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    nthclare wrote: »
    That's what happens when there's a far left wing loony left in charge, slavery and death...

    An atheistic communist idealology, zero empathy and compassion for humanity.
    Our way or the highway, a bit like the far left of today, getting rid of religion that includes Christianity, Buddhism and anything else for that matter and promoting the new world order in their perverse ways...

    The strange thing is that the far left are afraid to say anything negative about the one religion that hates them and threats minority's, gays and women like **** the most...

    You can draw your own conclusions to that.

    Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the US. This consisted of various forms of direct and indirect support.

    It took an invasion by Socialist Vietnam to remove them from power. One of the few occasions in history of a justified military action that saved millions of lives.


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    #39
    nthclare
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    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the US. This consisted of various forms of direct and indirect support.

    It took an invasion by Socialist Vietnam to remove them from power. One of the few occasions in history of a justified military action that saved millions of lives.

    Thanks for that information I really appreciate it, I must look more into that.
    I like to be corrected and hear different view's and it sounds like a really was quite a sh1t storm .


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    #40
    KungPao
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    Does Mr Pot have any funny gifs? I know Adolf has some, and Idi has probably my favourite gif of all.


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
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    Pol Pot was a monster, but so were the Khmer Rouge. The worst thing is that he didn't have to face any retribution for his actions. Such a beautiful but sad country.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    nthclare wrote: »
    Thanks for that information I really appreciate it, I must look more into that.
    I like to be corrected and hear different view's and it sounds like a really was quite a sh1t storm .

    They killed all of the educated people. Doctors were killed, people who could speak French were killed, people with GLASSES were killed. They wanted the country to go back in time to become a farm state.

    There is a movie on it by Angelina Jolie. Pretty sad stuff. She is actually treated like a god over there for the amount she has invested in the country, there is a temple there which is known as the Tomb Raider temple. Ta Prohm. There is a big ass white tree at it.


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    #43
    MadYaker
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    He really was. I never knew much about the Khmer Rouge but I watched a documentary a few days ago and it was bloody nuts. They were much crazier than the nazis or Stalin.


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    #44
    sabat
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    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the US. This consisted of various forms of direct and indirect support.

    It took an invasion by Socialist Vietnam to remove them from power. One of the few occasions in history of a justified military action that saved millions of lives.

    They also received training from the SAS/British army under Thatcher's government.


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    They had killing fields all over the country too. If you ever get to travel to South East Asia I'd wholeheartedly recommend Cambodia, its an amazing country.


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    #46
    Witchie
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    I was in Cambodia a number of years ago. Still a desperately sad and poor country. The killing fields and the school where thousands were tortured and shot are frightening places to visit.

    It’s sickening that Pol Pot was allowed live out his days in relative peace. An absolute monster. Dictatorships breed monsters.

    I was there just over a year ago and it broke my heart. The baby tree ended me. Crying now thinking about it. What really got me is that sh!t not too dissimilar is happening still in Syria.

    Man's inhumanity to man is a shocking thing to behold.
    The day I was there, one of the survivors of the school torture centre was signing books and chatting to people. I couldn't go up to him. I could only stand and watch. I was just paralyzed by it all and felt nothing I could say or do would be adequate.

    The sandals I wore still have some of the mud from there caked on them. I can't wear them or clean them or throw them out. They just horrify me.

    Dramatic, I know. It's just that all this happened in the early years of my lifetime. It's just too real.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    They had killing fields all over the country too. If you ever get to travel to South East Asia I'd wholeheartedly recommend Cambodia, its an amazing country.

    I only made it to Phomn Phen for a few days but am going back when can travel again.


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    #47
    ILoveYourVibes
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    I've learnt a lot from this thread.


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    #48
    retalivity
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    Witchie wrote: »
    I was there just over a year ago and it broke my heart. The baby tree ended me. Crying now thinking about it. What really got me is that sh!t not too dissimilar is happening still in Syria.

    Man's inhumanity to man is a shocking thing to behold.
    The day I was there, one of the survivors of the school torture centre was signing books and chatting to people. I couldn't go up to him. I could only stand and watch. I was just paralyzed by it all and felt nothing I could say or do would be adequate.

    The sandals I wore still have some of the mud from there caked on them. I can't wear them or clean them or throw them out. They just horrify me.

    Dramatic, I know. It's just that all this happened in the early years of my lifetime. It's just too real.

    I only made it to Phomn Phen for a few days but am going back when can travel again.

    I was there a few years years ago, it is grisly as hell. One of the few places in the world i've been where I was really struck by the horror of what went on.
    A lot of the lads who were involved in it are still free an some are involved in the current dictatorship


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    #49
    Feisar
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    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the US. This consisted of various forms of direct and indirect support.

    It took an invasion by Socialist Vietnam to remove them from power. One of the few occasions in history of a justified military action that saved millions of lives.

    I only found out the other day (Netflix documentary) that the US supplied Ho Chi Minh with arms.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Tom Mann Centuria
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    There's a pattern, and always has been, of usually Western countries, mainly, but not exclusively the US and the UK picking a side in conflicts and making things considerably worse for the people of those countries. Cambodia, Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya..............

    Poxy proxy wars for their own benefit which go to sh*t, and they sidle out with whatever they can loot.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #51
    Portmanteau
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    I've only read about the regime - it would chill your blood. I would be no good if I visited a camp.

    It's one of the things that really angers me about the crowd who say the current restrictions are "like a dictatorship" - they are beyond clueless.

    And Bill Gates demonstrated that he wasn't a nice guy for sure, but he's really not in any way comparable.


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    #52
    biko
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    Zaph wrote: »
    Jaysus, give it a rest. Why is it that every bloody thread that's started these days somebody inevitably chimes in with "that's the problem with the far left/far right". It's got absolutely nothing to do with whether he was left or right wing, the guy was a fcuking nutjob who nearly destroyed his own country. What he thought and did goes way beyond politics.

    Can't wait to see this reply to the next Hitler thread.


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    #53
    Zebra3
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    nthclare wrote: »
    That's what happens when there's a far left wing loony left in charge, slavery and death...

    An atheistic communist idealology, zero empathy and compassion for humanity.
    Our way or the highway, a bit like the far left of today, getting rid of religion that includes Christianity, Buddhism and anything else for that matter and promoting the new world order in their perverse ways...

    The strange thing is that the far left are afraid to say anything negative about the one religion that hates them and threats minority's, gays and women like **** the most...

    You can draw your own conclusions to that.

    Wait until you hear what the right-wing European Christian nutjobs did when they arrived in the Americas.....


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    #54
    Wanderer78
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    completedit wrote:
    Completely and utterly shocked by the level of depravity that man can inflict on its fellow brothers and sisters. Least Hitler cared about the German peopl, Pot just wanted to orchestrate a sick social experiment.


    So Hitler was the good guy, fcuking hell!


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    biko
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    I wonder if North Korea is our time's Cambodia?
    If boards existed in the 1970's would boardsies have gushed over Pol Pot like they do Kim Jong-un?


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    JohnnyFlash
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    biko wrote: »
    I wonder if North Korea is our time's Cambodia?
    If boards existed in the 1970's would boardsies have gushed over Pol Pot like they do Kim Jong-un?

    Do they?


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    ohnonotgmail
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Do they?

    there mut be a whole secret section of boards where they post because i've never seen anybody do that either.


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    #58
    JohnnyFlash
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    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    There's a pattern, and always has been, of usually Western countries, mainly, but not exclusively the US and the UK picking a side in conflicts and making things considerably worse for the people of those countries. Cambodia, Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya..............

    Poxy proxy wars for their own benefit which go to sh*t, and they sidle out with whatever they can loot.

    Agreed, but that doesn’t negate what Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge stood for. Marxist Leninists who wanted to fast track their way to communist utopia by resetting everything back to an Agrarian society and having a class conscious society bring about communism.

    They had very many followers and admirers in Europe during the honeymoon period after coming to power. The Workers Party and the Communist Party of Ireland both sent messages of congratulations to Pol Pot on coming to power.


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    Portmanteau
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    So Hitler was the good guy, fcuking hell!
    I doubt they meant he was the good guy. Noticing a difference in ideology does not mean being ok with everything else.


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    1o059k7ewrqj3n
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    Feisar wrote: »
    I only found out the other day (Netflix documentary) that the US supplied Ho Chi Minh with arms.

    Was that the documentary on the Vietnam war by Ken Burns? I think I’ve seen it. Yeah I think during WW2 the Americans gave them support but then stopped and let the French resume colonial control when the Japanese had been defeated.


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    the purple tin
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    Steyr 556 wrote: »
    Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were backed by the US. This consisted of various forms of direct and indirect support.

    It took an invasion by Socialist Vietnam to remove them from power. One of the few occasions in history of a justified military action that saved millions of lives.
    Yes, that odious little toad Kissinger loved Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
    I'll crack open a cold one when that creep finally kicks the bucket.


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