[ExI] why not stalin?

[John Clark]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> We have seen the current POTUS compared to King George III, to Hitler,
> to Mussolini, but never Stalin.  Why not Stalin?*
>

*Because Stalin had a very different personality than the current POTUS.
Stalin could be incredibly cruel and he murdered millions but, unusual for
a dictator, he very seldom raised his voice and nobody thought he was a
great orator or had much charisma. And it's very easy to figure out what
Donald is thinking, assuming he's thinking of anything at all which is
rare, but it was almost impossible to figure out what Stalin was thinking,
Winston Churchill said he was "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma". *

*However the biggest difference between Stalin and Donald was that Stalin
was cunning and very very smart, but Donald is as dumb (notice the "b") as
a sack of bricks. The best historical analog to Donald Trump would be
Benito Mussolini, he too was a pompous incompetent nincompoop. *


*John K Clark*
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