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@Crucial said in Add Fidel to the 2016 body count:
No love for Ghengis or Kublai Khan in this thread?
FFS, the point Nepia was making (which was totally misconstrued) was that dictators are dictators and are bad despite political leanings. The absurdity of doing body counts to try and prove that the political leanings of dictators makes them seemingly more efficient killing machines is some of the stupidest shit posted.
Theres a strong element too that dictators have traditionally used whatever political slant will get them power then tossed it out the window in terms of how they actually governed, Saddam, Hitler, Stalin etc all ran on very different agendas to get in but then all very much ran the same way once in.
You could pick 10 top dictarors & the actions once in are very close, its the paths that vary. A lot of it is trendiness too, up to the 40's nationalism, was trendy as fuck, from there on communism became trendy, then Islam, now nationalism is back around. Any reasonably competent dictator can figure out what to be to get power.
Castro ran as a pro election democrat at first & suddenly declared himself a communist right after the US embargos hit & the Russians promised him oil for sugar cane deals to save his revolution. He was definately strongly left leaning, but his poltics were basically for sale for whoever would keep him in power.
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@NTA said in Add Fidel to the 2016 body count:
@gollum said in Add Fidel to the 2016 body count:
his poltics were basically for sale for whoever would keep him in power.
I think I heard about someone like that recently ....
Obama?
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Appropriate that in 2016 a film called Deadpool came out.
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@jegga said in Add Fidel to the 2016 body count:
FFS, how is Yoko Ono is still alive?
A macrobiotic diet. She lives off dead beetles.
RIP 2017
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