Who's your worst despot?

Frankx · 26-07-2020 11:36PM #1

Kim Jung UN

I'd kick the crap out of him if I caught him

sabat · 26-07-2020 11:37PM

He's a real jerk

Montage of Feck · 26-07-2020 11:39PM

George Bush, his actions have probably effected more lives for the worse than Kim has.

Man with broke phone · 26-07-2020 11:41PM

General Buttnaked.

Honestly YouTube him.

JohnnyFlash · 26-07-2020 11:42PM

Mao was some cünt.

Rodney Bathgate · 26-07-2020 11:44PM

I’d have a soft spot for “Uncle Joe” Stalin. Very misunderstood.

Frankx · 26-07-2020 11:45PM

I hated Saddam Hussein

When he was hanged all my anger went away

26-07-2020 11:48PM

sabat wrote: »

He's a real jerk

Made me immediately think of this:

corner of hells · 26-07-2020 11:49PM

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

I’d have a soft spot for “Uncle Joe” Stalin. Very misunderstood.

It was Beria that was the problem, Joe just couldn't keep him in line.

26-07-2020 11:50PM

Even by bodycount alone, Mao was the worst, but he was awful for all sorts of reasons.

The best was Tito, still the only figure capable of uniting Yugoslav nationalities.

corner of hells · 26-07-2020 11:54PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Even by bodycount alone, Mao was the worst, but he was awful for all sorts of reasons.

The best was Tito, still the only figure capable of uniting Yugoslav nationalities.

Did you know Mao didn't need Secret Police?
Everybody was so terrified, they'd just grass each other up for anything.

27-07-2020 12:04AM

Genghis Khan.

Vestiapx · 27-07-2020 12:13AM

Hitler was pretty bad I heard.

worded · 27-07-2020 12:32AM

Frankx wrote: »

I hated Saddam Hussein

When he was hanged all my anger went away

He was a bit of a b0lix
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saddam_Hussein%27s_Iraq

Church on Tuesday · 27-07-2020 12:35AM

Idi Amin.

Honorary mention goes to my former school principal.

worded · 27-07-2020 12:36AM

Vestiapx wrote: »

Hitler was pretty bad I heard.

The irish are very forgiving and everyone deserves a second chance

Yes he made a few errors of judgement but his troops moral was kept high a lot of the time with the best marching powder

Frankx · 27-07-2020 12:40AM

We have to look outside our own country for despots

De Valera doesn't really cut it

27-07-2020 12:47AM

Frankx wrote: »

We have to look outside our own country for despots

De Valera doesn't really cut it

A very frank assessment.

Who would you recruit as striker?

gogo · 27-07-2020 12:51AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Genghis Khan.

Genghis always offered surrender before war, he used to erect three tents.. white tent = a chance to surrender, if that don’t work, red tent = all men of fighting age would die, if that didn’t work then black tent = total and utter annihilation.
He was an incredible leader and people flocked to serve him, he was also fighting a regime from the Chinese that kept his people divided for centuries, The ‘divide and rule’ policy.
Yes he was merciless and millions were killed under his rule, but a small part has to admire his what he achieved, the romans were no different in there ruthlessness to conquer land under Julius Caesar, but there was always an option to surrender first which I feel sets them apart from other, well ... despots

Arghus · 27-07-2020 12:52AM

Pol Pot was insanely demented, even by the standards of these things.

Frankx · 27-07-2020 01:03AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A very frank assessment.

Who would you recruit as striker?

Mussolini for Italy

Churchill for the rest of the world

dd973 · 27-07-2020 01:08AM

Inchicore.

Oh...despot.

Polar101 · 27-07-2020 01:09AM

Depends on what the criteria is. If it's completely destroying your own country in the shortest possible time, then Pol Pot has to "win".

27-07-2020 01:11AM

corner of hells wrote: »

Did you know Mao didn't need Secret Police?
Everybody was so terrified, they'd just grass each other up for anything.

He turned oppression into a kind of fetish. I find it unbelievable that there are Maoists in existence today, although most of them bend over backwards to try and separate the theoretical from the historical case. It isn't very convincing.

I was taught a class in college by a Maoist, a man who has written at least two books full of deluded praise of Mao's prescriptions. Always found it odd that you'd get fired for being a Hitler sympathiser but can merrily spout the positive attributes of the worst mass murderer in human history.

Not to mention the fact that if he'd lived in Communist China, Mao would have ploughed him into the soil years ago.

s1ippy · 27-07-2020 01:18AM

Mao just murdered the right people. He was fair.

27-07-2020 01:19AM

Frankx wrote: »

We have to look outside our own country for despots

De Valera doesn't really cut it

Indeed, quite the opposite.

The historical case for the backlash against De Valera following the anti-clericalism of recent decades is very weak.

He was responsible for the 1937 constitution, with its focus on individual rights, democracy and the Rule of Law at a time when the rest of Europe was descending into totalitarianism, and placed more constraints on Government than almost any other country in Europe.