# If you were an insane dictator which would you be?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 22, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447 "2003-04-22T23:38:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/21 "2003-04-23T07:40:38Z")

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Bummer… Hitler.

I was hoping for Kim-Jong Il, or as Letterman says it “Men Ta Li Il.”

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**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/22 "2003-04-23T13:06:48Z")

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This whole thing is just too modern. I want to be Caligula. But I got stuck being Stalin, how boring.

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**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/23 "2003-04-23T13:38:28Z")

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Stalin here, too. I was kinda hoping for a banana republic dictator.

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**Author:** ![Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@Lapin\_de\_poussiere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lapin_de_poussiere)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/24 "2003-04-23T13:43:18Z")

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Oh hell. I got Stalin, too.

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**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/25 "2003-04-23T14:42:54Z")

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I am Hitler-esque, apparently.

Yuck.

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**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/26 "2003-04-23T14:56:38Z")

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Hitler here as well. I can’t even figure out why. I chose the Sharks.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/27 "2003-04-23T15:24:12Z")

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I’m Stalin—wonder what my Trotskyite grandfather would have thought?

. . . I was kinda hoping for “Bloody Mary” Tudor . . .

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**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/28 "2003-04-23T16:39:05Z")

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The screen flickered oddly, then said I was Bippy the Beardless.  
Hmmmmmmmmnnnn

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**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/29 "2003-04-23T16:58:01Z")

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It said I was Stalin. Personally, I’d consider myself more of a Castro, but, hey, whatever works.

You know, we need more female insane dictators…any volunteers?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/30 "2003-04-23T17:16:23Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Derleth \*  
> \*\*Goddamned. I’m Hitler, too.
> 
> If I were Jewish, I’d platz. \*\*

I _am_ Jewish, and it still says I’m Hitler. Let the platzing commence!

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/31 "2003-04-23T18:52:35Z")

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AHHHHHHH Comrade Stalin. You bastard. Everyone in the world hates you. 27 % from 3112 test takers had this profile!

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**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/32 "2003-04-23T19:00:51Z")

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Another Hitler…and we’re up to 38% now…so we got that going for us…

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-an-insane-dictator-which-would-you-be/170447/33 "2003-04-24T07:01:09Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by betenoir \*  
> I’m a combination of every evil person who ever lived and a sick sick individual.  
> \*\*

Join the club.

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