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1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts) Tue Jun 11, 2013, 07:22 PM Jun 2013

Even far into the future, will the world see another Despot?

Let us say within the next 100 or 200 years, will the world see another despot the likes of Stalin, or Hitler? Not mere national despots like Idi Amin or Kim Jong-Il but someone with ambitions of empire building by foreign conquest?

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Even far into the future, will the world see another Despot? (Original Post) 1-Old-Man Jun 2013 OP

Colonel Green? AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #1

Or Lee Kuan perhaps....There can never be "too much Star Trek" Marengo Jun 2013 #4

khan noonien singh AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #5

Very good! Offworld, but this fellow might be a contender... Marengo Jun 2013 #6

Anton Karidian aka AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #7

In regard to your before-edit post, I was going to say... Marengo Jun 2013 #8

I removed him after AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #9

No, simply the faceless tyranny of transnational capital and the corporate state. limpyhobbler Jun 2013 #2

Ask some of the people on DU today. They see one named Obama. baldguy Jun 2013 #3

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

1. Colonel Green?

Reply to 1-Old-Man (Original post)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 07:28 PM

Jun 2013

Sorry... Too MUCH STAR TREK.

Marengo

(3,477 posts)

4. Or Lee Kuan perhaps....There can never be "too much Star Trek"

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 08:22 PM

Jun 2013

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

5. khan noonien singh

Reply to Marengo (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 08:23 PM

Jun 2013

Marengo

(3,477 posts)

6. Very good! Offworld, but this fellow might be a contender...

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 08:59 PM

Jun 2013

Recognize him?

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AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

7. Anton Karidian aka

Reply to Marengo (Reply #6)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 09:16 PM

Jun 2013

Kodos "the Executioner"

Yeah, that was a great episode.

Marengo

(3,477 posts)

8. In regard to your before-edit post, I was going to say...

Reply to AsahinaKimi (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 09:29 PM

Jun 2013

TOS Kahless looked a little frumpy for an emperor.

Of course, I wouldn't say that to his face

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)

9. I removed him after

Reply to Marengo (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 09:35 PM

Jun 2013

googling his history on wikipedia. He wasn't such a bad guy as they made him out to be, in the Kirk era episodes. Later on in the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, we seem him more as a father figure, one that even Worf speaks fondly of.

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)

2. No, simply the faceless tyranny of transnational capital and the corporate state.

Reply to 1-Old-Man (Original post)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 07:57 PM

Jun 2013

No single charismatic despot, but just as evil in its outcomes.

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

3. Ask some of the people on DU today. They see one named Obama.

Reply to 1-Old-Man (Original post)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 07:59 PM

Jun 2013

Just like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

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