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How COOL can a leader be?

Cool enough to wear ray-bans.
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A leader can't be cool.
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Empire of Narnia
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Postby Empire of Narnia » Sun May 04, 2014 1:25 pm

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Eh, probably. But he was an asshole to Canada and a poor leader.

To summarize: screw Nixon, Trudeau was awesome.




You mean the guy who is privatising everything, cut off protection to our lakes, signed SOPA, is killing the whales, and is a puppet to big business? I don't know about you, but I think hes an asshole and the opposite of cool.

Is Stephen Harper popular in Canada?

Very popular.

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Postby Camelza » Sun May 04, 2014 1:36 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
Shie wrote:Is Stephen Harper popular in Canada?

Very popular.

Female-high-school-student-that-gets-around-a-lot kind of popular?

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Postby Shie » Sun May 04, 2014 1:38 pm

Lerodan Chinamerica wrote:
Shie wrote:That's not possible unless every dollar printed is taxed, 100% flat tax.

What do you mean? You still haven't explained why taking companies out of the hands of the state and putting them in the hands of the people is bad.

Because there's no point in people spending money when they already have everything they need.

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Postby Nesixar » Sun May 04, 2014 1:39 pm

Fidel Castro dodged dozens of CIA assassination attempts, including an attempt to put a chemical in his coffee that would make his iconic beard fall out (and make him less popular, I guess).

The man had the CIA so desperate that they settled on trying to assassinate his beard
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Postby Shie » Sun May 04, 2014 1:42 pm

Nesixar wrote:Fidel Castro dodged dozens of CIA assassination attempts, including an attempt to put a chemical in his coffee that would make his iconic beard fall out (and make him less popular, I guess).

The man had the CIA so desperate that they settled on trying to assassinate his beard

Castro is awesome!

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Postby The Re-Frisivisiaing » Sun May 04, 2014 1:43 pm

Camelza wrote:
Empire of Narnia wrote:Very popular.

Female-high-school-student-that-gets-around-a-lot kind of popular?

More along the lines of male-elementary-school-kid-who-runs-faster-than-everybody-else popular.
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Comrade Josip Broz Tito

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Camelza
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Postby Camelza » Sun May 04, 2014 1:58 pm

The Re-Frisivisiaing wrote:
Camelza wrote:Female-high-school-student-that-gets-around-a-lot kind of popular?

More along the lines of male-elementary-school-kid-who-runs-faster-than-everybody-else popular.

So, Canada is just a big elementary school with English and French classes?

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Postby Shnercropolis » Sun May 04, 2014 2:02 pm

The coolest leader in History?
No contest.
It's got to be Theodore Roosevelt.
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Postby Utceforp » Sun May 04, 2014 2:22 pm

Ashurbanipal, the badass-est king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

1: He was bilingual, able to read both Akkadian and Sumerian, which would have been much more of an accomplishment back then.

2: After his death, his empire fell apart eventually culminating in a restoration of the Babylonian Empire out of a revolt in Assyrian territory. Ashurbanipal was the only reason his empire endured, and without him it fell.

3: His favourite pastime was hunting lions.

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Not Pictured: Stuff you don't care about, because looking at this picture of Ashurbanipal strangling a lion to death while stabbing it in the chest while smiling is literally the only thing you will ever need to see in your life.


4: His conquests and the expansion of his empire was essentially because he wanted to have the ancient Mesopotamian equivalent of a book collection. The library of Ashurbanipal is the reason we have the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish. He was not just a lion-strangling, awesome beard-possessing, magnificent bastard conqueror, but also a scholar and one that contributed a lot to our understanding of his time and the time before it. In short, pretty badass.
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Postby The United Colonies of Earth » Sun May 04, 2014 2:29 pm

The Master Chief.
And Louis XVI. He was a craftsman!
Also, I'd like to learn more about Ivan Konev and Georgy Zhukov. Also Heinz Guderian. They were great strategists. Well at least Konev and Guderian...
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Postby Planeia » Sun May 04, 2014 2:34 pm

Shie wrote:
JFK's death was undeniably tragic, but it had the effect of cementing and amplifying his legacy because it was such an impactful way of dying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU83R7rpXQY

That's okay, it's not like graphic content warnings are useful anyway.
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Postby Baltenstein » Sun May 04, 2014 2:38 pm

Stannis "the Mannis" Baratheon, first of his name.
O'er the hills and o'er the main.
Through Flanders, Portugal and Spain.
King George commands and we obey.
Over the hills and far away.


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Postby Priory Academy USSR » Sun May 04, 2014 2:43 pm

Putin followed by Berlusconi.
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The Republic of Greenland
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Postby The Republic of Greenland » Sun May 04, 2014 2:45 pm

Obama is pretty cool, so was FDR, Lincoln, Churchill, Truman, Caesar, Wilhelm II, Teddy R. Garibaldi, Trotsky an Lenin etc
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Postby Papait » Sun May 04, 2014 2:45 pm

Saladin

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You know he allways cool
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Shie
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Postby Shie » Sun May 04, 2014 2:45 pm

Priory Academy USSR wrote:Putin followed by Berlusconi.

You like really manly leaders, don't you?

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Postby Utceforp » Sun May 04, 2014 2:46 pm

Papait wrote:Saladin

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You know he allways cool

Ashurbanipal's beard is better than Saladin's.
Signatures are so 2014.

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The Republic of Greenland
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Postby The Republic of Greenland » Sun May 04, 2014 2:47 pm

Oh, and this guy

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Postby Papait » Sun May 04, 2014 2:49 pm

Utceforp wrote:
Papait wrote:Saladin

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You know he allways cool

Ashurbanipal's beard is better than Saladin's.


its not just about the beard.
its about saladins whole personality (or at least as it is decribed in history)
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Postby Utceforp » Sun May 04, 2014 2:52 pm

Papait wrote:
Utceforp wrote:Ashurbanipal's beard is better than Saladin's.


its not just about the beard.
its about saladins whole personality (or at least as it is decribed in history)

Ashurbanipal had a pretty cool personality, in a nightmarish oh-god-why-would-you-do-that-you-monster kind of way. He made at least one defeated king live in a dog kennel, for example.
Signatures are so 2014.

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Postby The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Sun May 04, 2014 2:53 pm

Empire of Narnia wrote:
Shie wrote:Is Stephen Harper popular in Canada?

Very popular.


Then why do most canadians do not wish to see him run in 2015?

Why is the Canadian Action Plan just a big advertisement for the conservatives?

Why is the education plan slashed?

Where did our lake money go?

Why does he kill wails?

Why has the lack of inspectors in food, water, ect caused deaths via poisoning?

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Postby Papait » Sun May 04, 2014 2:58 pm

Utceforp wrote:
Papait wrote:
its not just about the beard.
its about saladins whole personality (or at least as it is decribed in history)

Ashurbanipal had a pretty cool personality, in a nightmarish oh-god-why-would-you-do-that-you-monster kind of way. He made at least one defeated king live in a dog kennel, for example.


thats not cool, mkay
thats just insane
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Negative: USA, Israel, India, Saudi Arabia, Abortion, Theocracy, Tenchnocracy, Nazism, Racism, IS

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Postby Tule » Sun May 04, 2014 3:16 pm

This guy:

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Formerly known as Bafuria.

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Postby Viritica » Sun May 04, 2014 3:47 pm

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Viritica wrote:He's jamming to the screams of the millions of people he killed.

Nah, it's Dr. Dre.

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