Who was the most benevolent dictator?

No.

Based Tito

Probably some Roman one

Who is that semen demon?

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Tito or Cyrus

How was Aurelius not a dictator?

Just because he defied Stalin doesn't make him a good person, he was a brutal communist dictator.

The answer is clearly not any dictator backed by the US.

How about anyone that doesn't put the interests of his country first? Why are the ones backed by a specific country the bad ones?

Sorry.

I'll put a trigger warning next time.

>Is dictator a buzzword now? None of those people are except Castro.
what? dictator just means sole ruler with ultimate authority in their realm. George wasn't, of course, but augustus and aurelius were prime examples

The ones we put in charge of South Korea and West Germany were breddy gud.

Not American.
And that was not an argument.

Peisistratus

Not really.

Tito created the most ethical and successful socialist state due to his tolerance of market dynamics and disinterest in Marxist-Leninist authoritarianism.

He should have been more tolerant of political dissent, and more open to a free press, but his paranoia was completely justified, given that the West distrusted him for being too socialist and that the Eastern Bloc distrusted him for being too libertarian.

What do you mean? How did Yugoslavian economy differ from USSR's for instance?

Leto II Atriedes.

Secher Nbiw

>the most ethical and successful socialist state

where did I put my Voltaire?

Antoninus Pious and Aurelius.
Antoninus, judging by what Aurelius and other wrote was probably more virtuous than Aurelius. By the Stoic definition (that both would assume), from the little we know, Antoninus was likely even the better philosopher of the two.

Louis IX nowadays is very underrated due to anti-religious feelings in the West, but he was about on the same level as those two. Unfortunately, his successors were not as great as he was.

>dictator just means sole ruler with ultimate authority in their realm
No it doesn't you idiot

Cincinnatus

This. Dude was the very model of a Roman citizen

Gave up total power twice to go live on a farm.

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Josip Broz Tito by a very, very wide margin.

Lee-Kuan Yu was pretty great, though I guess not technically a dictator

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This and Tito, easily.

Cincinnatus, objectively. This is not even up for debate.

Gaddafi was pretty cool to be honest, I wonder if his regime was better than what the Libyan king's would have been.

based Muammar

rip bro

libya is kill

It was actually run by the workers

Instead of state bureaucracy handling everything, much of the power was held by labor unions which had some bargaining power against the central government

Too bad G-daddy ended up going nuts and hiring a bunch of qt3.14s to be his bodyguards instead of having an actual elite stormtrooper corps to protect him from the lynch mob.

youtube.com/watch?v=4hAzBTgKUh8
We did nothing with Gaddafi ;)
He dindu nuffin

You either die young and handsome
Or as an old lesbian

listen to this guy

My parents both grew up in socialist yugoslavia. They didn't even consider themselves true communists, and they weren't. My mother likes to reiterate how they really had no political freedoms, but they had all the personal ones. She's old fashioned though, pretty sure gays and shit didn't have the greatest time.

In any case, Tito was widely adored and even loved by some of the populace. Did he have a political stranglehold over the country? Yes. Was he entirely just and benevolent? Of course not. But he was able to bring together several extremely similar and related peoples/cultures together that had been violently split many times in the past, strengthen all of the southern slavs into a significant world entity and nurse their economy, AND showed up both the americans and the russians with his resolute neutrality right on the eve of the Cold War. The Balkan fallout in the 90s is absolutely testament to the way he was able to keep things together.

Yugoslavia was a great country led by a smart and competent man. I would rather resurrect him and give him all power than continue to watch this absolute fucking disgrace of a political circus run by inbred aristocratic motherfucking weasely pieces of shit

That bullshit that tore the balkans apart is exactly what is going on with /pol/ etc these days. A spoiled, uneasy populace is striking out at their own mediocrity with race-based elitism. And the worst part isn't even the hysterical people, it's the motherfucking political snakes that will take advantage of it to profit like never before (not talking about trump)

sorry this turned into /pol/, I really did not want that but oh well. Tito was based af.

you have to have existed to have been benevolent

Cyrus the great invented human rights and is the most likely inspiration for the Judaeo christian idea of god. I'd say he fits the bill.

Cincinnatus.

>Tfw you just want to grow your fucking olives and your dipshit Senate needs you to go to war

Pedro I of Brazil was a nice guy with good ideas but no desire to rule. Kind of a shame.

Cincinnatus most certainly existed.

His UA is bullshit. But Brazilwood camps are op as fuark

>eliminates political opposition when they've outlived their usefulness
>cooperates with the British to remove the commies in his party that helped him get to power once the 1959 elections were done
>insults and threatens voters during elections to the point of threatenng with the military
>sues rival politicians and dissenters
>writes out individual freedoms from Constitution
>arrests Catholics for being Catholics
>arrests JWs for not wanting to serve in the Armed Forces
>leaves behind a despotic party that continues what he did, they've even gone on to teenagers in recent times
>some of his best friends are despots, actually, most of them were African despots

He counts as one.

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Lee Kuan Yew

no one can compete with General Franco

he had female guards as a protection from islamists because they believe if they are killed by women there'd be no heaven for them

Tito ruined the Yugoslav economy by taking out loans that he could never repay. He only looks good because the loans only had to be repayed after he died. That, and he did nothing to elevate the poorer regions to the same level as Slavonia, Zagreb, and Slovenia. Fuck Tito, and anyone who defends him.

Is the word 'Dictator' a pejorative all over the world or just in the cucked Western world because of 'le hitler and Nazis'?

Good for t*rks, bad for the worst.

Fidel Castro.

I'm not even trolling the commies, he was truly benevolent enough to do a plebiscite asking if the people still wanted him, gave ample freedom for political movements and parties to act on it and respected the results when they answered "No".

Syngman Rhee was a war criminal and a brutal dictator

He had peaceful relations with all nations.

He wasn't just good he was great a true example of benevolent dictator.

He's probably a salty greekboo or something.

Park Chung Hee

pay denbts Stephanopoulos

My name is Papadulousousousousous, get it right

>t*rks
epic meme

Paul Kagame

Park Chung-hee. Most based leader on this planet.

>CRTL+F
>Lee Kuan Yew
>1 result
Veeky Forums I am dissapoint.

Ramesses II

>inspiration for the Judaeo christian idea of god
That is stretching the truth very far indeed. Yahweh was compounded from many sources in the make centuries before Cyrus, from Amenhotep's monotheism onwards.

Jesus Christ

Julius Caesar

Who is that in the OP pic?

Marcus Aurelius

Literally exactly what dictator means. The first "dictators" were those who "dictate" policy for the Romans during times of crisis, overriding the senate.
Dictator is just someone who has ultimate authority over the country/kingdom/empire etc

Gustav III of Sweden.

When he saw how corrupt his parliament was, he overthrew them and became a despot. He introduced freedom of the press before it was cool. Abolished torture and capital punishment. Funded the arts out of his own personal wealth.

When he was shot in the spine during an uprising, he stayed alive just long enough to quell the rebellion, then forgave everyone involved, because he was a badass.

This.

It's actually a shinto buddhist priest from a hentai show where old men rape young girls in exchange for fame.

Well I was not expecting that answer.

>beloved by the populace
Half the people here hate him.
>nurse their economy
He left a massive foreign debt which was one of the reasons yugoslavia split.

And maybe if he turned it into a confedaracy or tried to do anything about the tensions in the federation it would still exist today.
Also, why is it always foreigners that suck Tito's cock?

Gadaffi
Saddam
al-Assad
>inb4 muh genocide
Nothing wrong with killing terrorists

NTG, but inspirational for the modern variant of said Christian god and egalitarianism in general, at the very least. Yahweh wasn't particularly concerned about human rights in his youth.

Granted, neither were any of the gods Cyrus worshipped - nor any of the era in general, save maybe some minor Egyptian ones. All the more reason to give the guy brownie points though.

Dictator has always been a buzzword, Augustus was literally the ultimate marker of the latest possible point at which the Roman Republic became a dictatorial Empire, Aurelius literally inspired the word dictator, and George Washington is the only president of the US to not have any popular vote to elect him.

I really don't understand why some of you faggots praise Saddam so much. The fact that Iraq might be worse off after his regime doesn't make him a benevolent dictator. Iraq had a relatively bright future until he came in.

Pinochet

I'll take the bait...

Gadaffi, yes. Hell yes, really.

Saddam was kinda average for dictators of his region, but certainly Iraq was far better off with him than without him. Do have to give him some credit for keeping that powder keg under control.

Al-Assad... No... I mean, I get that the civil war he's facing isn't exactly grass roots, and he has every right to power - but when you stay in power, even though it means the exodus of more than half your population, the title of "good ruler" is forever out of reach. He could have easily quelled the whole issue by putting in a puppet and/or closing shop for the Russians.

Because Gaddafi, Saddam, and al-Assad are legit world-class heroes pal. Watch your step.

Al-Assad is saving his country from foreign invasion just like Ian Smith was saving Rhodesia from Mugabe. He's doing the best he can to stop IS and save the nation from the even worse "National Coalition".

Heroes to whom? /pol/acks? I'd like to think you're just joking with me.

He came in the 70's, when we put him in, and Iraq was going nowhere but up, until 1991. Really, it was in many ways, the leading country in the region.

I mean, it wasn't pleasant living under him, and he was by no means benevolent, but he was damned effective. He just shouldn't have taken us at our word that we'd let him take care of the long standing Kuwait problem.

You don't save your nation by destroying it.

He dun fucked up. There were a dozen better ways to nip that in the bud without a civil war, even if most of them would have required that he be a tad less greedy for power.

/Pol/ doesn't know shit about history. It's a fucking containment board for a reason.

>Really, it was in many ways, the leading country in the region.
Though a lot of the credit (as well as the blame) goes to the US, for supporting Iraq through the entire cold war as a spoil for a more Ruski leaning Iran. I doubt he would have done nearly so well without that support (the Kurds probably woulda overthrown him, for starters.)

Why do people hate him again?