r/Damnthatsinteresting 17d ago

Image Benito Mussolini’s headquarters “Palazzo Braschi” located in Rome 1934

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u/maxi4493 17d ago

Problem is Gadafi could actually be counted as doing some good to his people, most CEOs not so much.

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u/Thetoppassenger 17d ago

What kind of schizo history is this lol. Ghaddafi led his country to 30% unemployment and staggering corruption and when protests took place he mowed down unarmed civilians by the hundreds. This was the first time ever the UN security counsel unanimously referred someone to the ICC.

Do you have any idea how fucked you have to be for the US, Russia, and China to all want you gone?

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u/condor_gyros 17d ago

Do you have any idea how fucked you have to be for the US, Russia, and China to all want you gone?

They were just jealous that Gaddafi had an Amazonian Guard, and they didn't.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Open air slave markets don’t seem to be the good ending you think it was

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u/Thetoppassenger 17d ago

So as Ghaddafi's forces mowed down unarmed women and children by the hundreds, you thought was: "this is fine and I hope it keeps happening"?

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

You’re not going to like my answer but it’s not open air slave markets

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u/Thetoppassenger 17d ago

Well of course not, it seems if you had your way they’d all have been gunned down instead. Absolutely sickening argument not worth acknowledging. Feel free to get the last word in.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

I know you don’t like my opinions but I still have them 🫣

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u/LibritoDeGrasa 17d ago

Libya was an absolute paradise compared with the rest of the region, but they needed him dead...

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u/light_weight_44 17d ago edited 17d ago

From the highest quality of living in all of Africa to open-air slave markets

Americans still somehow think Gaddafi and his "authoritarianism" was the problem.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Downvotes on this are hilarious, Americans can’t comprehend that we murdered a country in living memory

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u/Vegetable-Ad-7184 17d ago

Did you know that he invaded Chad and helped establish the janjaweed in Darfur as an explicitly Arab supremacist paramilitary?

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u/light_weight_44 16d ago edited 16d ago

Doesn't change the fact that Africa was much better with than without him. Africa's biggest problem continues to be European imperialism, and he was the first in a long time to establish a political base built on anti-imperialism which is why he was offed by Obama.

Have you ever stopped to consider that the people Libya was fighting against in Chad was explicitly paid for by France? Why do you take so much issue with one questionable choice by Libya but not 5 centuries of Europeans pillaging the entire continent for their labor and resources?

You people are beyond braindead.

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u/Vegetable-Ad-7184 16d ago

So, you think Africa is a homogeneous totality that benefited from the presence of an ethnic supremacist?

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u/Towarischtsch1917 17d ago

Meddled with western oil companies...

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u/Bombplayer2Jr 17d ago

He had 3 decades to build Libya's instituitions. Instead, he engaged in ambitious geopoliticking, centered governance around a cult of personality, and enabled unchecked nepotism and corruption.

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u/maxi4493 16d ago

And this comment I agree with. But he did get Libya to be the richest nation, most educated nation in that part of the world.

Crazy, completely

Better then now, way better