World Leaders Survivor Redux - Organisation Thread

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It's no more intrusive than the immunity system the last time this was done. I like the idea anyway, it forces long-term targeters to go after someone else, and the implications could be interesting.

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Yushchenko losing is notable as he was in the final 10 last time.

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Yeah, I was halfway tempted to vote for Morales just to save the San Marino guy, but figured that's not worth giving the right a victory. But there are plenty of joke countries in that bracket that deserve to fall long before San Marino, a Freedom Country if there ever was one.

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Another embarassing round for the forum. Sigh.

What's so embarrassing about eliminating Harper and Douglas?

I'm bewildered that I even have to argue about this. CANADA? The only way one can argue that Canada is not one of the best countries in the world is if one is a radical right-winger. I will just post one example: Bayar of Mongolia. Do you seriously, really, really consider him a better leader than Harper? I find that hard to believe of anyone.

Was it the radical right-wingers who voted against Harper? Is Canada so great because of Harper?

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You also took out the right person. Goodbye fascist country.

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Dominican Republic has been democratic since at least the 70s. I still think going after Fernandez was kind of dumb though, because while he's not notable and I know nothing about him, his country is a bit less of a joke than those other Caribbean countries that don't even have populations with six digits, and there's still plenty of such leaders around. At least his country is something other than a joke tax haven.

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Dominican Republic has been democratic since at least the 70s. I still think going after Fernandez was kind of dumb though, because while he's not notable and I know nothing about him, his country is a bit less of a joke than those other Caribbean countries that don't even have populations with six digits, and there's still plenty of such leaders around. At least his country is something other than a joke tax haven.

As opposed to Canada, right?

There's basically three groups for most people:

1-People you actively dislike and want remove.
2-People who you don't actively like or dislike, but aren't really worth keeping around due to being from boring and/or joke countries.
3-People you actively like and would like to remain.

Fernandez and the others I'm referring to fall into group 2 for most people. Harper, for his voters and me, was group 1.

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Anyone who's no longer in office should be swapped, but just then.

I also don't mind the odd rounds, though I agree, none of that for the final 20.

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The ninth round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group Four:


Omar Bongo, Gabon: 8 votes

He died yesterday.

Wasn't he the world's longest-serving head of state besides monarchies after Castro stepped down? Who's the current record holder?

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Can Ernest give us an update on total votes of leaders? Morales has no doubt dethroned Chavez as the top vote-getter by now.

I wonder who it was last time. Schroeder?

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Singh ain't winning. He won last time, so people will vote against him at some point just because they don't want the same person to win twice.

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HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!

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...and so a true literal Freedom Fighter bites the dust.

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Dammit, there goes my favorite of the remaining leaders. I'm now for Sigursdardottir.

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Ugh, I saw that after my vote and then deleted my post in reflex. Hope that's not penalized.