On the other hand, Stalin and Hitler both had full heads of hair, as did Pol Pot. Chavez looks like he has a good amount of hair, too, likewise Saddam Hussein. Pinochet and Kim Jong-Il both looked like they were thinning towards the ends of their lives, but didn't apparently feel the need to do much about it. I can't find much evidence about Gadaffi one way or the other, other than a few shots that suggest he was at least not going bald at the front (and certainly not the sides).
So all in all, it looks like responding to male pattern baldness by shaving one's head does not correlate especially well with becoming a dictator.
But then again, correlation is not causation, and that goes both ways.
How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here?
Or is it just a generic list of people that Americans are told "are bad persons", because some are indeed dictators and others just stand in the way of the foreign exploitation of third world country and it's natural resources?
It's just uncomfortable for people to see their _elected_ leader demonized along with Hitler and mass murderers, especially if said leaders just concern themselves with their own, sovereign country, business.
Doubly so in a region where foreign invasion and intervention has started many dictatorships and cost many casualties.
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On the other hand, Stalin and Hitler both had full heads of hair, as did Pol Pot. Chavez looks like he has a good amount of hair, too, likewise Saddam Hussein. Pinochet and Kim Jong-Il both looked like they were thinning towards the ends of their lives, but didn't apparently feel the need to do much about it. I can't find much evidence about Gadaffi one way or the other, other than a few shots that suggest he was at least not going bald at the front (and certainly not the sides).
So all in all, it looks like responding to male pattern baldness by shaving one's head does not correlate especially well with becoming a dictator.
But then again, correlation is not causation, and that goes both ways.
I would think that Mao Zedong would be the most obvious balding dictator who didn't shave his head.
How exactly Chavez, an elected leader of a sovereign country, not a dictator or a mass murderer or anything, fits in the company of people mentioned here?
Or is it just a generic list of people that Americans are told "are bad persons", because some are indeed dictators and others just stand in the way of the foreign exploitation of third world country and it's natural resources?
I don't really know how to respond to this, but if any offence was caused then I apologise...
No hard feelings.
It's just uncomfortable for people to see their _elected_ leader demonized along with Hitler and mass murderers, especially if said leaders just concern themselves with their own, sovereign country, business.
Doubly so in a region where foreign invasion and intervention has started many dictatorships and cost many casualties.
It's not Chavez that did this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/guatemala-experimen...
Or this: http://www.alternet.org/world/us-funded-death-squads-el-salv...