Political Quiz: Test your knowledge!

[bucs90]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

 

[Madeline]

Well, I dunno who "NSPG" is, but all the rest are men.

 

[mudwhistle]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

They all have mustaches.

 

[Madeline]

My Google-Fu failed me. Who is NSPG?

 

[rightwinger]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

They all have mustaches.

QUOTE]

I never saw Mao or Pol Pot with a mustache

 

[mudwhistle]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

They all have mustaches.

QUOTE]

I never saw Mao or Pol Pot with a mustache

Guess I failed. You must have checked all of your posters in your livingroom of Castro, Chavez, Mao, Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, and Che and quickly discovered I was wrong.

So what do they all have in common?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

Well, with the exception of Marx and the mystery "NSPG", they were all authoritarian dictators.

 

[Modbert]

Which poster wanted the CIA to "convince" Obama to resign and wanted to nuke the Oil Spill? First one that gets it right gets a pos rep or a thanks if I can't rep you yet.

 

[Madeline]

Well, more'n one poster suggested using a nuke to seal the spill. I can't recall anyone suggesting that the CIA "take out" the president. Is it even legal to write such things?

I think I deserve a pos rep just for being a nice person, Modbert. When you make me work for it, it damages my self-esteem.

 

[Madeline]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

Well, with the exception of Marx and the mystery "NSPG", they were all authoritarian dictators.

Apparently Lenin does not qualify as a dictator.

Lenin is not a dictator. On November 8 , 1917, he was elected as the Chair of the Council of People's Commissars by the Russian Congress of Soviets. The Congress was at that time a multi-party entity (6 political parties). The Russian Congress of Soviets had power to elect and reelect. Lenin served one and a half term, total 6 years though the last 2 years he had limited influence due to his illness. Note, that American president F. Roosevelt, served 3 terms, or 12 years. Lenin was not a dictator, whose every word was obeyed. On the crucial question of signing an immediate peace treaty with Germany in 1917, Lenin was outvoted and remained in a minority until he eventually persuaded the party and Russian government to pull out of the war (in Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918).

WikiAnswers - How was Lenin a dictator

Che Guevara never reigned supreme in any nation, so he does not seem to qualify either.

Guevara, Che - (Ernesto Guevara)chā gāväˈrä, ārnĕsˈtō, 1928–67, Cuban revolutionary and political leader, b. Argentina. Trained as a physician at the Univ. of Buenos Aires, he took part (1952) in riots against the dictator Juan Perón in Argentina, joined agitators in Bolivia, and worked in a leper colony. In 1953 he went to Guatemala, joined the leftist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, and when Arbenz was overthrown (1954) fled to Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. Guevara became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which he proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader. As president of the national bank after the fall (Jan., 1959) of Fulgencio Batista he was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional ties with the United States and in directing the flow of trade to the Communist bloc. He served (1961–65) as minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an administrator, he left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolutionary activity in the Congo and other countries. In 1967, directing an ineffective guerrilla movement in Bolivia, he was wounded, captured, and executed by government troops. Guevara wrote Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Man and Socialism in Cuba (1967), Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968), and The African Dream (2001), a forthright account of the failed Congo rebellion.

See his diaries, ed. by R. Scheer (1968) and by D. James (1968); his speeches and writings, ed. by J. Gerassi (1968) and D. Deutschmann (1987); biography by J. L. Anderson (1997); D. James, Che Guevara (1969); M. Ebon, Che: The Making of a Legend (1969); L. J. González and G. A. Sánchez Salazar, The Great Rebel (tr. 1969); R. Harris, Death of a Revolutionary (1970); L. Sauvage, Che Guevara: The Failure of a Revolutionary (1974).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Karl Marx was an influential philosopher and social activist, but again, never reigned supreme in any nation. I don't see how he'd even begin to qualify as a dictator.

The list could be one of prominent communist philosophers, except then I don't think Pol Pot or Stalin belong on it...and who knows if the mysterious NSPG would fit, either.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

Well, with the exception of Marx and the mystery "NSPG", they were all authoritarian dictators.

Apparently Lenin does not qualify as a dictator.

Lenin is not a dictator. On November 8 , 1917, he was elected as the Chair of the Council of People's Commissars by the Russian Congress of Soviets. The Congress was at that time a multi-party entity (6 political parties). The Russian Congress of Soviets had power to elect and reelect. Lenin served one and a half term, total 6 years though the last 2 years he had limited influence due to his illness. Note, that American president F. Roosevelt, served 3 terms, or 12 years. Lenin was not a dictator, whose every word was obeyed. On the crucial question of signing an immediate peace treaty with Germany in 1917, Lenin was outvoted and remained in a minority until he eventually persuaded the party and Russian government to pull out of the war (in Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918).

WikiAnswers - How was Lenin a dictator

Che Guevara never reigned supreme in any nation, so he does not seem to qualify either.

Guevara, Che - (Ernesto Guevara)chā gāväˈrä, ārnĕsˈtō, 1928–67, Cuban revolutionary and political leader, b. Argentina. Trained as a physician at the Univ. of Buenos Aires, he took part (1952) in riots against the dictator Juan Perón in Argentina, joined agitators in Bolivia, and worked in a leper colony. In 1953 he went to Guatemala, joined the leftist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, and when Arbenz was overthrown (1954) fled to Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. Guevara became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which he proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader. As president of the national bank after the fall (Jan., 1959) of Fulgencio Batista he was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional ties with the United States and in directing the flow of trade to the Communist bloc. He served (1961–65) as minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an administrator, he left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolutionary activity in the Congo and other countries. In 1967, directing an ineffective guerrilla movement in Bolivia, he was wounded, captured, and executed by government troops. Guevara wrote Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Man and Socialism in Cuba (1967), Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968), and The African Dream (2001), a forthright account of the failed Congo rebellion.

See his diaries, ed. by R. Scheer (1968) and by D. James (1968); his speeches and writings, ed. by J. Gerassi (1968) and D. Deutschmann (1987); biography by J. L. Anderson (1997); D. James, Che Guevara (1969); M. Ebon, Che: The Making of a Legend (1969); L. J. González and G. A. Sánchez Salazar, The Great Rebel (tr. 1969); R. Harris, Death of a Revolutionary (1970); L. Sauvage, Che Guevara: The Failure of a Revolutionary (1974).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Karl Marx was an influential philosopher and social activist, but again, never reigned supreme in any nation. I don't see how he'd even begin to qualify as a dictator.

The list could be one of prominent communist philosophers, except then I don't think Pol Pot or Stalin belong on it...and who knows if the mysterious NSPG would fit, either.

I did leave Marx off my list the first time.

I guess "Cult of personality authoritarians" would be better.

 

[rightwinger]

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

They are all left handed except for NSPG....He did not have any hands due to a pencil sharpener accident

 

[Modbert]

All men! I say in order to prevent another one of their rising, we kill all mal-Oh wait.

 

[mudwhistle]

Which poster wanted the CIA to take out Obama and wanted to nuke the Oil Spill? First one that gets it right gets a pos rep or a thanks if I can't rep you yet.

I wonder if that poster is on Obama's assassination list.

 

[Madeline]

These days, Lady Gaga has a "cult of personality". Being persuasive to many hardly seems like a reason to make a grouping of people as diverse as Marx and Stalin.

 

[mudwhistle]

What traits/ideas do the following people have in common?

Stalin
Lenin
Che
Pol Pot
Castro
Chavez
Mao
Marx
NSPG

Well, with the exception of Marx and the mystery "NSPG", they were all authoritarian dictators.

Apparently Lenin does not qualify as a dictator.

Lenin is not a dictator. On November 8 , 1917, he was elected as the Chair of the Council of People's Commissars by the Russian Congress of Soviets. The Congress was at that time a multi-party entity (6 political parties). The Russian Congress of Soviets had power to elect and reelect. Lenin served one and a half term, total 6 years though the last 2 years he had limited influence due to his illness. Note, that American president F. Roosevelt, served 3 terms, or 12 years. Lenin was not a dictator, whose every word was obeyed. On the crucial question of signing an immediate peace treaty with Germany in 1917, Lenin was outvoted and remained in a minority until he eventually persuaded the party and Russian government to pull out of the war (in Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918).

WikiAnswers - How was Lenin a dictator

Che Guevara never reigned supreme in any nation, so he does not seem to qualify either.

Guevara, Che - (Ernesto Guevara)chā gāväˈrä, ārnĕsˈtō, 1928–67, Cuban revolutionary and political leader, b. Argentina. Trained as a physician at the Univ. of Buenos Aires, he took part (1952) in riots against the dictator Juan Perón in Argentina, joined agitators in Bolivia, and worked in a leper colony. In 1953 he went to Guatemala, joined the leftist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, and when Arbenz was overthrown (1954) fled to Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. Guevara became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which he proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader. As president of the national bank after the fall (Jan., 1959) of Fulgencio Batista he was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional ties with the United States and in directing the flow of trade to the Communist bloc. He served (1961–65) as minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an administrator, he left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolutionary activity in the Congo and other countries. In 1967, directing an ineffective guerrilla movement in Bolivia, he was wounded, captured, and executed by government troops. Guevara wrote Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Man and Socialism in Cuba (1967), Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968), and The African Dream (2001), a forthright account of the failed Congo rebellion.

See his diaries, ed. by R. Scheer (1968) and by D. James (1968); his speeches and writings, ed. by J. Gerassi (1968) and D. Deutschmann (1987); biography by J. L. Anderson (1997); D. James, Che Guevara (1969); M. Ebon, Che: The Making of a Legend (1969); L. J. González and G. A. Sánchez Salazar, The Great Rebel (tr. 1969); R. Harris, Death of a Revolutionary (1970); L. Sauvage, Che Guevara: The Failure of a Revolutionary (1974).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

Karl Marx was an influential philosopher and social activist, but again, never reigned supreme in any nation. I don't see how he'd even begin to qualify as a dictator.

The list could be one of prominent communist philosophers, except then I don't think Pol Pot or Stalin belong on it...and who knows if the mysterious NSPG would fit, either.

Then it goes back to they all have Johnsons.

 

[p kirkes]

National Security Planning Group?

 

[Madeline]

Ya, that's all my Google-Fu produced too.

 

[Modbert]

Well, more'n one poster suggested using a nuke to seal the spill. I can't recall anyone suggesting that the CIA "take out" the president. Is it even legal to write such things?

I think I deserve a pos rep just for being a nice person, Modbert. When you make me work for it, it damages my self-esteem.

You'll get a pos rep.

And of course, the answer is the OP, Bucs.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/consp...ake-obama-resign-before-nation-collapses.html

 

[RadiomanATL]

Which poster wanted the CIA to "convince" Obama to resign and wanted to nuke the Oil Spill? First one that gets it right gets a pos rep or a thanks if I can't rep you yet.

Gotta be bucs.