Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20170617134530/@comment-7091122-20170619155648

VeXJL wrote:

No way dictators harm anyone, you say? Let's look at some famous dictators, and the things they have done...


 * Adolf Hitler - dictator of Nazi Germany
 * Invaded innocent countries
 * Believed Germans were a "master race"
 * Created the Holocaust
 * From the holocaust alone, a massive number of people died. Estimates go as low as 4,900,000-6,000,000 to as high as 11,000,000-17,000,000.
 * Saddam Hussein - dictator of Iraq
 * Killed approximately 79,800-204,800 people, based on numerous events
 * The 1988 Al-Anfal campaign killed 50,000-100,000 Kurdish people
 * 25,000-100,000 civilians and rebels were killed during the suppression of the 1991 uprisings
 * 4,000 prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison were reportedly executed in a particularly large 1984 purge
 * About 800 execitions from other years
 * This isn't even including the war; that would add 800,000-1,000,000 on its own
 * Kim Jong-un - dictator of North Korea
 * Censors his people
 * Still uses slavery, including child slavery
 * Repeatedly threatens others into doing what he wants
 * Turned his country into a laughing stock online through his horrendous leadership tactics
 * Has murdered 5 officials
 * Has executed over 300 people on his own since coming to power
 * Bendito Mussolini - dictator of Italy
 * Killed ~430,000 people
 * Killed ~400,000 during WWII
 * Killed ~30,000 during the invasion of Ethiopia

Dictators are not harmless. They have, can, and will do horrible things like these, and history has shown us so. To say that dictators are harmless, is to spit in the face of the millions of people who died because of dictators.