Group Two - World Leaders Survivor - STAGE ONE COMPLETE

[GMantis]

Joseph Kabila

[Antonio the Sixth]

Still Erdogan.

[Hash]

Prince Hans-Adam II

[minionofmidas]

Hans Adam

[dead0man]

What's the deal with Hans Adam.  The wiki on him doesn't seem THAT bad.  A power hungry dick maybe, but he's not killing monks or anything.

I notice this list has fewer really bad guys than the other lists (and it's not like the guy I voted for is in the running for Hitler 2 or anything).

[Hatman 🍁]

Rasmussen

[Gustaf]

Rasmussen

Huh?

[Hash]

Rasmussen

Huh?

He's a bad pollster.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Kabila

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

First time I voted in this topic, I wrote Cambodia, but I mixed with Laos.

So, this time, Laos: Choumaly Sayasone

[Nhoj]

 Vladimir Voronin

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Faure Gnassingbé

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Kabila

[Sbane]

Kabila

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Kabila

[Purple State]

Kabila

[minionofmidas]

Anyway, I vote for Kabila again. The Democratic Republic of the Congo isn't exactly thriving and I believe he and his dad must take some of the responsibility for that.

Well, it's probably better right now than at any other time since the coup against Lumumba (not that that was a hard), if not since Henry Stanley came. And yes, Kabila jr must take some of the responsibility for that.

[Platypus]

Round 2

Albania   Sali Berisha
Andorra   Juame Bartumeu
Bahamas, The   Hubert Ingraham
Barbados   David Thompson
Bosnia and Herzegovina   Nikola Spiric
Cambodia   Hun Sen
Cape Verde   Pedro Pires
China, Rep of   Ma Ying-jeou
Congo (Kinshasa)   Joseph Kabila -eliminated round two
Cyprus   Dimitris Christofias
Denmark   Lars Lokke Rasmussen
Dominican Republic   Leonel Fernandez
Estonia   Andrus Ansip
Finland   Tarja Halonen
Germany   Angela Merkel
Honduras   Manuel Zelaya
India   Manmohan Singh
Indonesia   Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Kenya   Mwai Kibaki
Kosovo   Hashim Thaci
Laos   Choummaly Sayasone
Liechtenstein   Prince Hans-Adam II
Mauritania   Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
Moldova   Vladimir Voronin
New Zealand   John Key
Nicaragua   Daniel Ortega
Pakistan   Asif Ali Zardari -eliminated round one
Papua New Guinea   Michael Somare
Poland   Donald Tusk
Saint Kitts and Nevis   Denzil Douglas
Sao Tome and Principe   Fradique de Menezes
Sierra Leone   Ernest Bai Koroma
Slovenia   Borut Pahor
Somalia   Sharif Ahmed
Spain    Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Togo   Faure Gnassingbe
Turkey   Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Uganda   Yoweri Museveni
United States   Barack Obama

Vote for the leader you want to eliminate. Most votes=eliminated. Voting will last for 24 hours.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Erdogan

Nobody wanting to follow me ?

[Gustaf]

Anyway, I vote for Kabila again. The Democratic Republic of the Congo isn't exactly thriving and I believe he and his dad must take some of the responsibility for that.

Well, it's probably better right now than at any other time since the coup against Lumumba (not that that was a hard), if not since Henry Stanley came. And yes, Kabila jr must take some of the responsibility for that.

Sure, Congo has been a hell-hole for several periods. My point was not in comparison to previous incarnations of Congo but to other countries in the world. I believe it tends to rank very close to the bottom on most lists of things that are good for a society. And from what I've seen and heard of Kabila, not the greatest leader (though granted, not the worse either).

Besides, not to be colonialist, but wasn't there a somewhat decent period after the Belgians stopped being utter monsters to the blacks and uptill war broke out after WWII? I get that it probably wasn't paradise to the non-whites there, but I have the impression that it was all-right if you compare it to other places in Africa and so on. But I will grant that I haven't studied its history in-depth.

If your point is that King Leopold of Belgium back in the day out-ranks a lot of present-day dictators in horribleness, yeah, I agree. I did boycott the "Congo Museum" when I was in Brussels as a protest against their treatment of the people there.

[GMantis]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

[Gustaf]

Why Erdogan of all people? He's at least democratically elected and a leader of a half-decent country. There are plenty of dictators still on the list, though I'm having trouble making up my mind which one to vote for...

[GMantis]

Why Erdogan of all people? He's at least democratically elected and a leader of a half-decent country. There are plenty of dictators still on the list, though I'm having trouble making up my mind which one to vote for...

The one good thing about Turkey was that it was a secular country. Erdogan is trying is very hard to destroy exactly this thing.

[minionofmidas]

Besides, not to be colonialist, but wasn't there a somewhat decent period after the Belgians stopped being utter monsters to the blacks and uptill war broke out after WWII? I get that it probably wasn't paradise to the non-whites there, but I have the impression that it was all-right if you compare it to other places in Africa and so on. But I will grant that I haven't studied its history in-depth.

Not sure about that, actually. May be true. Not really my point, anyhow - I just threw "Stanley" in as an afterthought.

Yes, Congo is poor and lawless. Sure. If you want to protest that, boycott mobile phones (whose mass breakthrough wouldn't have been possible without the late 90s and early 2000s warfare there. And is what fuelled, and paid for, that war.) Don't vote off an ex-dictator who brought the first free, and more or less fair, elections ever to the place.
At least half the people on here belonged off before him.

[/end rant]

There's a "leader" in Somalia? News to me. Off he goes!

[Gustaf]

Besides, not to be colonialist, but wasn't there a somewhat decent period after the Belgians stopped being utter monsters to the blacks and uptill war broke out after WWII? I get that it probably wasn't paradise to the non-whites there, but I have the impression that it was all-right if you compare it to other places in Africa and so on. But I will grant that I haven't studied its history in-depth.

Not sure about that, actually. May be true. Not really my point, anyhow - I just threw "Stanley" in as an afterthought.

Yes, Congo is poor and lawless. Sure. If you want to protest that, boycott mobile phones (whose mass breakthrough wouldn't have been possible without the late 90s and early 2000s warfare there. And is what fuelled, and paid for, that war.) Don't vote off an ex-dictator who brought the first free, and more or less fair, elections ever to the place.
At least half the people on here belonged off before him.

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There's a "leader" in Somalia? News to me. Off he goes!

I've never bought a cell-phone in my life.