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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:32 AM
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Poll question: Hey, If we're going to have a Dictatorship, can we at least have a SMART DICTATOR?
Personally, I think we may be too far down the slippery slope toward dictatorship to stop the avalanche, what with have the country being too stupid to figure out from a HUBBLE picture that NO, the earth is NOT 6000 years old and God didn't plant fossils just to fuck with our heads.

But hey, Julius Caesar wasn't a BAD leader, he just made too many enemies and they hadn't invented the Praetorian Guard yet.

So who's YOUR choice? Some of these guys might actually work out well if they didn't have to kiss everyone's ass just to stay in office. Note there are NO Republicans on the list. They've already proved they can't handle the job in my opinion.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:37 AM
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1. OK, I'll stroke my OWN ego. n/t
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:40 AM
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2. need a: "I will never, ever, ever support any dictator" option
because that's the only answer I can provide to that question.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:42 AM
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3. I don't support one either.
Maybe this should be a "Lounge" thingy. I'm just getting really bored with politics and the decline of western civilization in general and found this thought entertaining.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:51 AM
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11. in that case, I'll vote for you...
better to have a dictator who doesn't want to be one. :+
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:51 AM
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10. wrong post reply
Edited on Tue Jun-12-07 10:52 AM by ixion
sorry...
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 07:50 AM
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4. My god, I got 2 votes??
I didn't REALLY want the job; the jacket with the target on it clashes with the rest of my wardrobe.
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Rydz777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 07:51 AM
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5. If you hire someone, who will get you in the most trouble?
(1)smart and energetic?
(2)dumb and energetic?
(3)smart and lazy?
(4)dumb and lazy?
If we are required to have a dictator, I think I would prefer dumb and lazy. On the other hand, a smart and energetic Democrat would be nice.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 07:55 AM
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7. Do you think the concept of the "Benevolent Dictator" can be valid?
I think there's a remote possibility, but who does the Benevolent Dictator hand the reins over to? I figure eventually you end up with the USSR, and while I'm a Socialist, I don't think THEY were.
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Rydz777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 08:04 AM
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8. I'm not very deep into Roman history, but I think Marcus
Aurelius was in effect a benevolent dictator. He was succeeded by his son Commodus who was a monster. Hiring dictators is a tricky business, but on the other hand, a good one might presumably get some good things done - but it's always what comes next.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:10 AM
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9. Yep. What comes next is always the issue.
Without some check on power, the dictator's kid usually gets the job next.

And if we turn it over to the machines, eventually we get "The Matrix."

Maybe we are SUPPOSED to self-destruct? It seems rather evolutionarily correct, so to speak. That way, the next species comes along and fills our niche.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 07:52 AM
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6. If we are going to go this route I like Biden
But I'm not keen on going this route.

Martin Sheen would be a good choice too, come to think of it.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:53 AM
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12. I can't believe anyone would ask this even in jest.
Edited on Tue Jun-12-07 10:53 AM by RestoreGore
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:57 AM
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13. Why not?
We've had every flavor of MIHOP/LIHOP/DIHOP, Tinfoil hats issued left and right and here I've dealt with something The Pig Bush has actually HINTED AT.

Gee, what's the prob?
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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 11:10 AM
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17. taking it so nonchalantly
If that was your intention. If you meant this as joke my apologies. Hard to tell sometimes here.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 10:58 AM
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14. Shoot, I've even got more votes than the others at the moment.
If this becomes a national trend, you better watch your ass!


KIDDING! KIDDING!
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 11:00 AM
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15. ME.
I expect some unfavorability ratings when enslave 99% of the human race to build my giant pyramid, but I expect to win you all back when I inact my Ice-Cream-For-Everybody policy.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 11:08 AM
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16. No, we don't deserve a smart dictator
Given our recent history and our unwillingness to remove this stain we deserve the stupidest, cruelest, petty, tinhorn, most evil dictator ever to disgrace the face of the earth, if nothing else to set an example to the rest of the world not to go lax and unattentive to what's going on around them.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 11:12 AM
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18. Thought we already HAD him.
Can't WAIT until the Co-Empresses Babs and Jenna are crowned in a couple of decades. That should be real hoot.
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 11:45 AM
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19. I'll take who's behind door #52
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 12:35 PM
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20. I'M STILL AHEAD!!!
Do I win yet? And to think I almost didn't add my name to the list!
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