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Which dictatorship is the worst
Spanish Inquisition 27%  27%  [ 3 ]
Communism 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
Nazism 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
Islamic World 36%  36%  [ 4 ]
USA+Europe 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 11

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29 Sep 2011, 11:57 pm

Abgal64 wrote:
In my opinion, Lenin, Khrushchev and Gorbachev were in many ways more upstanding than their contemporary US presidents: No Jim Crow or lynching under Lenin,

Look up "war communism" sometime.


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30 Sep 2011, 12:09 am

The most scary dictatorships right now are the Islamic ones, for the simple reason that the Spanish Inquisition was several hundred years ago and everyone associated with that is long dead.

The Communists at least have some sanity and won't start shooting off Nuclear missiles thinking they get 72 slave girls whom are virgins to be their eternal sex slaves for killing infidels.

The Nazis don't even have control of any government currently, and people recognize that they are a group of mental cases.


The US isn't even a dictatorship.



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30 Sep 2011, 12:37 am

Abgal64 wrote:
No Jim Crow or lynching under Lenin


The Red Terror?


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30 Sep 2011, 1:40 am

Inuyasha wrote:
The most scary dictatorships right now are the Islamic ones, for the simple reason that the Spanish Inquisition was several hundred years ago and everyone associated with that is long dead.


I meant an imaginary scenario of you living at the time of Spanish Inquizition versus other imaginary scenarios of you living at the respective time periods of other dictatorships. Which would be scarrier?

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The Nazis don't even have control of any government currently, and people recognize that they are a group of mental cases.


I was referring to Nazi Germany during World War 2.



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30 Sep 2011, 1:53 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Is there a way to scrape a poll and thread and start all over?


Okay I made new poll which asks the same thing BUT spells out what I mean by each item: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt175963.html



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30 Sep 2011, 8:25 am

OP, do you want this topic locked so that people only post in your new thread?


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30 Sep 2011, 11:10 am

hyperlexian wrote:
OP, do you want this topic locked so that people only post in your new thread?


Yeah go ahead and close it.