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		nickff on Sept 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budg... Hobbes made the case that a totalitarian dictator was the least likely to perpetrate mass murder; according to his ideas, the democracies would be more violent.

adekok on Sept 30, 2016 [–]

Hobbes was wrong.

http://popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all...

No democratic country has killed millions of it's own citizens. Even Hitler waited until he changed the law to give himself dictatorial powers.

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