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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAwesome monologue from Sascha Cohen's "The Dictator":
If you haven't seen yet it's extremely funny but this part from General Alwadeen really nails it:
Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.
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Awesome monologue from Sascha Cohen's "The Dictator": (Original Post)
Initech
Aug 2012
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HappyMe
(20,277 posts)2. We saw The Dictator on Saturday night.
I almost fell off of the couch I was laughing so hard at that.
Initech
(100,068 posts)4. I was laughing my ass off at the bar scene.
"What's your name?????"
"My name is Maximumoccupancy 120persons."
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)5. Ladees Woshroom
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)3. K&R. "It's funny 'cuz it's true."