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Poor, poor Vili.

MageOfChaos wrote: ?I noticed you ignored the bulk of the list of monsters I named, as was far more convenient for you.?

Vili Clay's first inaccurate statement: ?Compare to Hitler - the rest are irrelevant.?


Yes, Iosef Stalin, 25 million dead of all races, though he too had his own pogroms. Idi Amin, allegedly cannibalized his own people and put together a rather impressive body count. Pol Pot, roughly half of Cambodia's population dead and some of the most brutal repression ever seen on this planet. Mao Tse-Tung, had a fondness for little girls and was responsible for between 20 and 43 million dead, not counting the nightmares of the Cultural Revolution and other various and sundry bad ideas and instances of outright oppression. Kim Jong-Il I'll grant you because he inherited a lot of the damage, though he's very much a looming threat and is dangerously unstable as an individual. Pinochet, again, I'd put him lower on the list of nightmares. As far as my top 5 most evil people of all time, for one, it's difficult to narrow it down to just five, and for another, it's difficult to assign a rank to them. Frankly, at the top, it's difficult for me to tell which was the most evil, though Hitler was the most iconic of the evil men mentioned. Look through the blood-stained pages of history, ignore your ideology, and look at the facts. However, if it is wisdom you seek, read ?The Second Coming? by William Butler Yeats.


MageOfChaos wrote: ?... the source of Adolf Hitler's diseased personality was not in the United States of America; it was his upbringing in Austria and Germany ...?

Vili Clay's second inaccurate statement: ?But the main source of his power was the US (and less UK)?

No, the main source of his power was his military and his charisma. While he gained power by force, the most that could be said of the US and UK's involvement in his acquisition of power was that they failed to act, and they continued on this course of inaction until it was almost too late. Still, in this case, inaction was more than terrible enough, though it wasn't nearly as responsible as you would have others believe.


MageOfChaos wrote: ?... As for the rest of your post, I wonder if you really think black helicopters are spying on you just over the horizon, and I wonder how you like your aluminum foil-lined hat. I would think it would be a bit hot, since it would largely reflect heat. Also, it's summer in the northern hemisphere, and a particularly nasty one at that, at least in large stretches of the United States.?

Vili Clay's bizarre, other-worldly Translation: ?MageOfChaos has no facts and arguments against me and that?s the reason he believes his is right.

?Dream on, MageOfChaos.?


No. The actual translation is thus: I know better than to try to argue with the clinically insane, but sometimes, I can't help myself. This is such an instance.


MageOfChaos wrote: ?... I would express the point of OSS, but others have already done so, and frankly, not only do you not get it, you display your ignorance in a spectacularly flagrant manner.?

Vili Clay's bizarre, other-worldly Translation: ?MageOfChaos did not get instructions what to write and MageOfChaos cannot think on his own.?

No, again, the actual translation is thus: I was tired and didn't feel like wasting any more time on you yesterday, and at any rate, I felt it better to defer to those capable of expressing similar opinions far more eloquently. As always, you strike out, or to use terms with which you may be more familiar, you've earned a red card.

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