Captain Morgan and Lane Gingersnap are back for Day Two of the Great Dictator Dickoff Competition, and we're down to the final eight. Today we have a special guest in studio on retainer, Adolf Hitler.
00:00:07.000You can still place your bets on the remaining eight at DraftDictators.com.
00:00:10.000Of course, the official bookkeeper of dictator competitions.
00:00:14.000We are going to get to our final eight bracket, narrow it down to four, two, and declare the winner of the greatest or worst, depending on how you look at it, hopefully worst, dictator of all time.
00:00:23.000Let's get to day two of the Great Dictator Dick Off.
00:00:26.000So with me today, before we get to the brackets, we have of course, Lane Gingersnap, head researcher
00:01:34.000You'll notice that I'm going to have to write myself up because I'm wearing my Jewish garb here, but I wanted to make myself loud and proud today because Herr Scheisskopf, I think, is going to be back today.
00:01:47.000You know, there's a lot of antagonism in the office.
00:01:55.000So, uh, to bring... And of course you know that we had to eliminate from the brackets, because let's just be really clear, Tool Man, of course, would be unfair to include him.
00:04:30.000Well, yeah, I know you... I don't... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, No, he wasn't technically Catholic.
00:05:15.000But you could also say that about the Viet Cong with Pol Pot, kind of created the atmosphere of Pol Pot, but we don't have any Viet Cong here.
00:05:41.000Of course, all the references are available at lottowithcredit.com.
00:05:43.000This was inspired by the fact that a lot of young people, they know about the Führer, but they don't know about the rest of these dictators.
00:08:55.000And this is kind of one of the famous clips, if you haven't seen this of Saddam Hussein, he did this sitting there smoking a cigar while purging Iraq of his political opponents.
00:10:35.000Was it like a 16 versus a one seed or what?
00:10:37.000Well I think we just kind of, again we're narrowing it down to the final four, but you know you saw Saddam smoking a cigar and then of course you have Fidel Castro, he liked his cigars, but Pol Pot didn't just execute intellectuals, Pol Pot executed people who wore glasses.
00:11:14.000Okay, because we know who's going to be moving on, so, since he will not be moving on, and one thing I will say, though, Fidel Castro, we're going to connect these final four to issues that may apply today, you know, that you may be seeing kind of permeating culture today because the ideologies never die, right?
00:11:30.000These people die, but the ideologies live on.
00:11:32.000I mean, you can even look at the results with Joseph Stalin.
00:11:36.000I mean, he was kind of, right, he kind of was a contemporary of Trotsky.
00:11:40.000But we do notice communism existing there, but the ideas, for example, of Fidel Castro, let's not be mistaken here.
00:11:47.000You had Michael Moore say that Cuba had better healthcare than the United States in the 2000s, right, where he went there, and he doesn't show you the fact that it's basically a Blazin' Saddles fake town, and the people who actually need healthcare can't get it, but a few people in the hospitals, that they kind of keep as show hospitals for the United States.
00:12:05.000Fidel Castro ruled his people through what? Through fear.
00:13:25.000And I would even say that Che Guevara, worse than Castro, obviously wasn't an official dictator, but what he wanted for Cuba, what he wanted to see in the modern world, is as evil as any dictator here.
00:13:43.000Without the, some would call it, charm.
00:13:46.000And I know, I know that's hard to believe, but if you can believe it, Che Guevara was less charming than Adolf Hitler, despite Tom Morello putting him on a t-shirt.
00:13:57.000Baseball fan, Fidel Castro, fast fact.
00:13:59.000Here he is in 2010 at a Venezuela vs. Cuba game with Hugo Chavez and I'm surpri-
00:16:17.000I remember I actually was no longer welcome at a show at a network where I worked because the day that Kim Jong-il died and they showed all of the people crying, I said something to the effect of, I think the entire nation deserves a Razzie, and if you're going to force people to lie on camera, get a nation that can act.
00:17:55.000Here are the transpiring events after he died, and see if you side with 2011 Stephen, who thought the entire nation deserved a Razzie, because I thought, at the time, and still do, that it was funny.
00:18:12.000You know when one cries like that, I bet there's a cultural difference.
00:21:18.000You know, I'm really glad we put him on retainer because without, of course, Hitler bad, but without him on retainer for these installments, I don't think any of this works.
00:23:15.000So, Mao, we're going to go through this here, and obviously we did the... it kind of got away from us in yesterday's installment, because there's a lot of information on all these dictators, and I do think that you should be familiar with all of them, because understanding history, of course, is one of the Most effective ways to avoid repeating it, which is why we tear down statues now and erase books and rewrite them.
00:23:33.000I don't know if you know this, the United States, you can actually see it through our whole bracket, not the first place to instate slavery and still goes on.
00:23:42.000Over 40 million slaves across the world today because the spirit of fascism, communism, collectivism, dictators, still lives on.
00:23:50.000So, hey, if you want to do some good in the world, educate yourself.
00:23:52.000There's still some good that you can do.
00:24:00.000It's a good way to raise your economy.
00:24:02.000I'm just saying, if you want to feel for the plight of people, you could look at Africa, literally anywhere in the middle of the country, and see Christians getting slaughtered by the thousands, or the wrong sect of Muslims being... You're getting Hitler too excited.
00:24:23.000If you were aliens to land on planet Earth today, and you were to look at it on a 3D, you would say, oh, let's go to Africa and let's pick their brains.
00:27:05.000On March 2, 1969, a group of Chinese troops ambushed Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island, resulting in heavy losses on both sides.
00:27:14.000While both sides have blamed each other for the start of the conflict, a consensus has emerged that the border crisis was a premeditated act of aggression orchestrated by the Chinese.
00:27:24.000Interesting fact about that conflict is...
00:27:30.000The Chinese soldiers, with the Russians, to try and, you know, get them mad, they would moon them.
00:27:35.000To which the Russian soldiers would laugh, and they would taunt the Chinese soldiers simply with portraits of Mao.
00:28:34.000If they show you a picture, I'll beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee What?
00:31:51.000You'll hear about this a lot, and you'll hear about this and you'll talk about it on the left, certainly on college campuses.
00:31:56.000But they don't tell you what the Cultural Revolution was, and it's the foundation for a lot of modern leftist ideology, including what you learn in school.
00:32:04.000This is why, actually, we do have a clip.
00:32:06.000Anita Dunn, who was in the Obama administration, I can't remember her exact relation, we'll have it there in a lower third, has been a huge part of the DNC for a while.
00:32:16.000And here she is saying that when looking for inspiration, she turns to great leaders in the past and she mentions, and then you go, wait, was that Mao?
00:32:46.000When they ask Donald Trump, for example, and this is the problem, there's no accountability for the left in a lot of ways. And you'll notice this trend
00:32:53.000with these dictators. Pretty much all of them lean left. And even those who would maybe be
00:32:57.000considered more right-wing, it's really just because they were enemies of communists at that point in
00:33:00.000time. They certainly weren't for limited government and a more free and armed citizenry. What you
00:33:06.000see here is a lack of accountability No one can ask Anita Dunn, they can ask President Donald Trump, hey, will you condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis?
00:35:47.000It was certainly based on similar identity politics.
00:35:51.000Now, of course, in a place like, you know, Mao's China, it was much more monolithic as far as the race of people.
00:35:56.000So they separated people through identity politics, largely through ideas or, you know, class structure.
00:36:02.000Or, for example, if you had proclivities in certain professions, which is kind of ironic because the government pretty much dictated your profession.
00:36:09.000And then I was like, by the way, that job you're doing, yeah, you shouldn't be doing that.
00:36:12.000So we see that today with these struggle sessions on campus, whether it's apologizing for your whiteness, apologizing for your male privilege.
00:36:18.000Matter of fact, I think Netflix, not a big fan, of course, because of cuties, they actually had a show three-body problem where they recreated one of these Mao-era struggle sessions.
00:38:17.000It is so apples to apples to what is going on in a lot of our universities now that it's, I don't know how you could watch that and not just be terrified of what we're getting at.
00:38:26.000Well, the answer that, I've watched a little bit of that, but the answer that he gave was like science has given us neither proof of God or proof that tells us that God doesn't exist.
00:38:37.000It was a very scientific answer saying, hey, I don't have anything, science can't address this issue.
00:38:41.000And even then, like you saw his daughter, that's his daughter in the crowd, and his wife on the stage that had betrayed him because they had forced her to.
00:38:47.000And her reaction, she knew that was a death sentence.
00:38:49.000And I was like, that's, like, you didn't even take a position.
00:39:21.000And by the way, even if you say you're not religious, even if you say that you don't believe in God, something is your God.
00:39:26.000Everybody serves a master in some capacity.
00:39:28.000Today, in the United States, a lot of people serve themselves as God.
00:39:30.000They simply craft an altar and they turn themselves into an idol.
00:39:34.000However, in these governments, the state had to be the God.
00:39:38.000And you see this too with Mao, and it goes to Kim Jong-il, actually his father, and of course Kim Jong-un, where they encourage Children, they encourage sons, daughters to report their parents if they are not on board.
00:39:50.000And that's very similar in a cultural way to, okay, boomer.
00:39:54.000People will say it, by the way, even if you're like, well, hold on a second.
00:40:17.000Specifically at this point in time, in history, where China is really the greatest threat at this point to global stability, should they choose to act up, right?
00:40:27.000It really comes down to, does China want to come into the 21st century and start perhaps recognizing human rights?
00:40:34.000But when you take into account that Mao's legacy still lives on, in a lot of ways, for example, a lot of older Chinese citizens still have a positive view of Mao.
00:40:43.000day. That's an undercurrent in the culture at large there.
00:41:42.000Because that's where Mao's mausoleum is.
00:41:46.000So there used to be this dumb 600-year-old gate at Tiananmen Square, but the Communists tore it down in 1954, and when Mao died in 1976, they thought it would be a great place to put his tomb.
00:41:58.000Under the watchful eye of dozens of heavily armed army personnel, people from all around China come to pay their respects to the great helmsman.
00:42:06.000The mausoleum opens at 8 in the morning and closes at 4.
00:42:09.000But so many people come to see the mummified Mao, they have to cut the line off at 12, or else the people at the end of the line wouldn't make it before closing time.
00:42:18.000And something that you see with a lot of these dictators, to me it's kind of funny.
00:42:22.000Like we talked about with Kim Jong Il, he had 11 holes in one in his first... Shot of negative 38, is that what it was?
00:42:38.000So you think they're a deity where it's like, hey, they're just like me, only infinitely superior.
00:42:43.000They always love to show you how good they are at things.
00:42:46.000And you'll notice, particularly with this region of the world, these dictators, you'll notice there's kind of a through line here, whether it's Mao, whether it's Pol Pot, whether it's Kim Jong Il, they show you how athletic they are.
00:42:58.000You know, and marry a black man to be found, of course.
00:43:00.000But here is Mao showing people his swimming prowess because he wanted to impress them.
00:43:06.000them and this is just something that these narcissists, narcissistic sociopaths do.
00:46:33.000You do have, you had feelings, unfortunately, only for a select group of people, where if you look at Stalin, he didn't even have feelings for his own people.
00:46:39.000It was about creating this utopia, this idea, right?
00:46:42.000The idea is the only thing that matters in human life.
00:46:46.000Is sort of inconsequential in achieving that idea.
00:46:48.000That's the difference between a sociopath who has no empathy and a psychopath who has a very, very warped view of reality.
00:46:54.000And I think that if you look a lot at a lot of these dictators, you're dealing with sociopathic tendencies.
00:48:06.000milestone. 25 confirmed downed enemies in a single day, surpassing his previous daily best of 23.
00:48:13.000Wow. Those are good numbers. Pretty good numbers if you can get them.
00:48:17.000Yeah. You'd go high in the draft. Yes, he would. It's hot pick. Let's, he had a lot of sons.
00:48:24.000Stalin, you know, he was, if nothing else, he was potent.
00:48:27.000But something that I do think is important that you see with Stalin, and you'll see, again, how does it connect to today, really preyed on envy, right?
00:48:35.000That's why it's always kind of funny to me where they say, you know, capitalism, where they'll say that free enterprise is about greed, right?
00:48:43.000I don't understand, and someone can explain to me, and you can comment, why it's considered greed to want to keep what it is that you have earned.
00:48:55.000I don't understand why that is greedy, but to the left and to people like Stalin, to people like Mao, to people like Anita Dunn, Barack Obama, whether it's former Vice President Biden, they don't view it as greedy in wanting to take from your fellow citizen what you haven't earned.
00:49:10.000Either way, let's just say there's a pie.
00:49:14.000If you say that, you know what, I've earned these five pieces of pie, that's greedy.
00:49:19.000If you say, I want those five pieces of pie, even though I've done nothing for those five pieces of pie, for some reason that's inherently altruistic.
00:49:26.000And this is a brilliant trick that you see with these dictators, what they pull, is they tell you that, no, you're actually virtuous in playing on your greed.
00:50:04.000Well, and it seems kind of weird, like Stalin, I don't think was the natural
00:50:07.000successor for a while, but then he was kind of put in place, almost seen as kind
00:50:10.000of somebody you wouldn't think would be the natural successor, and then came to
00:50:13.000power. It seems like that's kind of the format. Like you end up with some kind of
00:50:19.000You don't want to put a strongman next to you in second command because they'll just take over and take you out, basically.
00:50:23.000So you pick somebody who you can control and then you end up picking some of the worst possible people that are weak men that have to absolutely exert all of their power that they possibly can and kill a ton of people to make sure that their weakness is never discovered, right?
00:50:36.000So I look at that, I look at Russia today and I see that perpetuated through to today.
00:50:40.000So I'm saying, I know these guys are pretty equally matched with Stalin and Mao, but Stalin because of what he's carried forward into Russian culture today?
00:50:49.000I think probably still, he probably has my vote.
00:50:52.000I know we're not there yet, but I'm just saying, like, it's, you're still feeling the effects of Stalin in a very major way in Russia today.
00:51:19.000In school you never learn a thing about Mao.
00:51:21.000That's why Anita Duncan come out and say look to Mao and no one says wait wait what?
00:51:24.000If she said Stalin at least a few people would have some questions.
00:51:26.000Well the trick that they can pull and here's where I'll slightly disagree is that there
00:51:29.000is certain elements of Stalinism that are inherently baked into the Russian system in
00:51:34.000the psyche or whatever but the CCP is a direct continuation of what Mao started.
00:51:39.000That was the only other kind of counterbalancing.
00:51:41.000And right now China's kind of tricked the world into saying look at this 20 you can compare China and Russia and China looks miles ahead of it in many ways that it is.
00:51:50.000And so you can look at China and kind of say well look at the economic development look at the people they've raised out of poverty and it's all bullshit but at least you can kind of make that facade.
00:51:58.000When the system that undergirds it right now Xi is a direct return and he envies what Mao did so much he wants to be Mao so I think there's Mao's legacy is very, very strong today.
00:52:10.000I think Mao is certainly most alive and well of these dictators today.
00:52:15.000He died off and he's had a real comeback with Xi Jinping's regime.
00:52:20.000I don't disagree there, but I think we're dealing with more of the legacy of Stalin today with Russia than we are with Mao in China.
00:52:25.000So I agree that Mao obviously is still very alive and well in their policy today, but I feel like China is the greater threat.
00:52:33.000Overall, but I feel like this, the, the, the kind of the, like you said, they fooled people into thinking that, okay, we've gone to the kind of this a little bit more open system where people can go out and actually make a living and pull people out of poverty.
00:52:44.000And we have all these great cities and technology and great things going on.
00:52:47.000I feel like you can negotiate with that better than you can negotiate with the system that we have in Russia right now.
00:55:30.000Well, maybe you should have listened to von Pallas and your other commanders who knew what they were doing while you, a lowly corporal, mustered tens of thousands of your men to their deaths.
00:55:52.000In your people's best interest that he'd not succeed.
00:55:54.000Alright, we're going on down now to, uh, well I guess we gotta- is it to Pol Pot or to Po- I think I lost Pol- where is Pol Pot in here, uh?
00:57:18.000And this Pol Pot is the heavy favorite to win just because you know he I think was a scale was it six and a half Hitlers yesterday as far as a percentage of population.
00:57:26.000People don't realize how many people were executed by Pol Pot and by the way in a really short period of time.
00:57:32.000Right Junior Snap that's what we talked about that really is surprising.
00:58:50.000I was in Phnom Penh in the capital city in Cambodia and you're looking at people old enough to have been around when this stuff went down.
00:58:57.000And you're at the high school in town where they would take and imprison people.
00:59:00.000And they had the famous picture, I think it was on the cover of maybe like Time Magazine, where it's a woman sitting straight up like this.
00:59:05.000Well, it's because they had a metal rod that she was sitting on for her butt to go on either side of it.
00:59:10.000and a point on the back of her head and then they had guards around so you saw a second angle from
00:59:14.000that picture and it like they took people to that high school to then kill them. It was just a giant
00:59:21.000place of death within the midst of that city and people that were still dealing with that are alive.
00:59:26.000And this brings us you know we can bring this to modern issues we'll talk about some of the
00:59:30.000history as far as the wars he was involved with. I think a big reason I mean you guys can comment
00:59:34.000if you disagree a big reason is because yeah it goes back to the 70s that they
00:59:36.000A lot of people like to think, hey, let's take the good from collectivism, from communism, from these ideas.
00:59:42.000And we're at the point now, it's 2024, we're past human nature.
00:59:46.000I mean, come on, we're not going to have genocide to that degree today.
00:59:50.000We can have socialism without all of the baggage.
00:59:52.000Because people may not know this, Noam Chomsky actually downplayed what Mao did.
00:59:56.000He talked about what was going on in Cambodia and saying that there was a lot of good.
00:59:59.000Of course, he tried to walk it back and say that he was taken out of context, but we'll provide the link here.
01:00:03.000I encourage you to go check out this reading.
01:00:05.000One of the most respected intellectuals in intelligentsia.
01:00:08.000Noam Chomsky, if you read it, seems pretty cut and dry, relatively pro-Pol Pot.
01:00:14.000To me, any pro-Pol Pot is kind of a red flag.
01:00:52.000A lot of our academics were pro-Pol Pot.
01:00:55.000A lot of our academics were trying to justify the actions really in the, you know, sort of this wake of Vietnam, and I wouldn't want to draw attention to it, so I really, if nothing else, Mao, but certainly Pol Pot, is one that you should spend a little bit more time with the research that we are providing for you.
01:01:13.000It's an incredible, to me it's just a fascinating character study of the human condition, and one that really has been swept under the rug.
01:01:20.000Did you learn about Pol Pot in school?
01:01:23.000Or if you're in school, like many of you, are you learning about Pol Pot?
01:01:28.000I'd be willing to bet that the answer is no.
01:01:30.000No, and again, it's just another example of where the government comes in and says, this is what we'll do, right?
01:01:34.000I just told you he wanted to become an agricultural powerhouse.
01:01:38.000They couldn't get enough rice to feed the people planting the rice.
01:01:44.000Much less export stuff and become some kind of a powerhouse, economically speaking.
01:01:48.000It's the government coming in and saying, hey, we're going to do this thing this way.
01:01:59.000And that wouldn't be that bad of a problem if everybody voted for it and not having tens of millions of people die or a significant percentage of your population.
01:02:34.000This is where people talk about the rise of populism.
01:02:35.000Well, that can mean different things in different areas and depending on the country by its very nature, by definition.
01:02:40.000When you're talking about communism, socialism, The problem is, if someone is inept, let alone if someone is a sadist, if someone is evil, once you centralize that power, there's no mitigating it.
01:02:53.000At least with free enterprise, the idea is that people either rise and fall based on the quality or the need of their product, their goods, their services, or commodities.
01:03:03.000It's a safeguard against the human condition of corruption, of evil, of selfish motivation.
01:03:08.000However, we do find ourselves at a point in society today, and nearly all of these people, by the way, in these five, let's call it five to ten companies, would tell you that they would be more influenced by leftist ideology than of course, for example, Adam Smith.
01:03:22.000You have only a handful of companies now that are in charge of the vast, I would say huge swaths, I don't know if it's the vast majority, I don't want to misspeak, of our economy.
01:03:30.000When you're talking about Alphabet, Google, you're talking about Meta, Facebook, Instagram, you're talking about a few key media companies, whether it's, you're talking about Comcast, was it ABC, ABC Disney, NBC Universal, Viacom, I believe it's Turner Comcast, News Corp, and then you really have, okay, a few big tech companies, we mentioned Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Hey, think about that.
01:03:56.000All of these people now are controlling so much of what you can see, what you can learn, what you hear.
01:04:02.000I mean, SEO, search engine optimization, is not a thing anymore.
01:04:06.000They determine what it is that you see and what you read.
01:04:08.000So it's not lost on me that Capitalism in modern America, because of the leftist ideology and because of the fact that we've picked winners and losers with our government, and just look at what we do here with the Federal Reserve for crying out loud, this is not a free market economy.
01:04:21.000And we are going to face some of the same ills unless there's some kind of a course correction, just because when you centralize that much power, you cannot point me to an example where it's ended well.
01:06:48.000We talked about it yesterday, but a guy who really is effectively an atheist who tells them, like, I'm going to go into a meeting, close the door, goes in with, like, chicken bones and a skull candle.
01:06:57.000He goes in and, you know, he's just, like, eating a TV dinner.
01:10:04.000Just, let's go to the, here's a clip of, I don't even know what it is, it's just a clip of Papa Doc, I just need a second.
01:10:09.000For this little man's believed to have executed 2,000 Haitians, and has certainly driven 30,000 into exile, and the rest into terrified silence.
01:10:18.000All Haiti lives under the threat of his tauntaun, his bagmen, his executioners.
01:10:23.000To provoke these overarmed bully boys is to invite a beating or death.
01:10:28.000For each nationalized hoodlum is armed, each licensed to kill.
01:10:33.000A missing Haitian would be unimportant and unnoticed, but a foreigner's arrest or death can be ordered only by the President.
01:10:40.000That man with the rifle looks like Idris Elba.
01:10:43.000Those are, like, the best-looking Haitian dudes of all time!
01:11:04.000Well, it's one of the few things where some people, like, Haitian-Americans would be better off in Haiti as far as those threads compared to, like, the purple suit store.
01:11:12.000So, Papa Doc had only four children, which surprises me.
01:15:04.000I just wonder if people, if you were to look at this, you would, if you didn't have the names, one would assume Mao is Pol Pot and Pol Pot is Mao.
01:16:53.000Mao still kind of tried to at least put on this veneer of, no, no, we actually know what we're doing and there's a reason that we're purging these people while keeping these as far as intellectuals.
01:18:56.000People did starve, but the majority of people that died in China were people that starved because of the Communist policy, not because of a gun to the back of the head.
01:19:05.000I mean, I guess I would take your point and say, yeah, that's right.
01:19:07.000He was only there for really a few short years.
01:19:10.000But that, again, brings us back to such a huge percentage of the population, and it shows you how dangerous an ideology can be like that, where, in really, I mean, in less than half a decade, talking about, was it 30 plus percent of the population?
01:20:14.000I think the sheer brutality and if we're going, and again, that counterfactual, if you put Pol Pot in China with that power, what could he have done?
01:20:35.000I was going to go Pol Pot, and then you put me on the Mao track, and now you're back to Pol Pot, so I feel as though you're disloyal.
01:20:41.000No, but he made a good point about the number of people that he straight up just had killed, as opposed to making bad decisions that lead to their death, which is still really bad.
01:20:50.000But if you're going after the person who is the worst dictator in history, it's probably not going to be the person who just made bad decisions.
01:20:57.000It's the person who killed most of their population with a bullet.
01:20:59.000Let's narrow this down, and I don't like what he's doing when I can't see him.
01:22:57.000Yeah, I will say, since we have, obviously, the ultimate comparison, because Mao, Pol Pot, we all know, of course, doesn't even hold a candle to Adolf Hitler.
01:23:06.000Even though they killed far, far, far more people than Adolf Hitler, and just as evil as of an ideology but of course Hitler's the worst the worst
01:23:13.000you should learn about Hitler all the time and you know these are kind of afterthoughts. Hitler
01:23:17.000is a dick though. Yeah no absolutely just terrible and no one and you know everyone else fells in
01:23:21.000comparison we've all we've covered that.
01:23:22.000Agreed yeah yeah. However that's separate from the respect for the office and since we do have
01:23:28.000Adolf here I think that uh he'd probably be closer to this in determining this is the tiebreaker all
01:26:05.000For example, we've talked about Change My Mind.
01:26:06.000The reason that Change My Mind started was because so many kids would say, yeah, our professors don't talk about any of this.
01:26:13.000They don't present any of these counter arguments to whatever it is.
01:26:15.000It could have been the Second Amendment, could have been the First Amendment, could have been immigration policy.
01:26:18.000And this has been a long time coming because we have so many chats, if you guys are on Mug Club, we take them regularly from people saying, I don't, I realize all I know about is Hitler.
01:26:27.000I don't know enough about these other dictators.
01:26:29.000And this would be one of those instances where it's something that we do with every program.
01:26:33.000And I hope that more shows follow suit.
01:26:36.000We make all of our sources, our references publicly available, but that bibliography here for these two installments.
01:26:42.000Probably the most important that we can provide because I really do hope that you take some time.
01:26:50.000You'd probably be left with a couple thousand pages, but peruse it, learn about it, and be armed with this information moving forward so that, hey, if you need to, you can educate your professors or people in your circle who bring up Hitler and often compare people who are conservative to Hitler.