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[Aqizzar]

The transitional Libyan government has been doing "the hard part" since the fall of Tripoli, and aside from loyalist-guerrillas, they seem to be having no problem at all with it.  Building a country does take a while, but there's been no hint of strongmen yet.  NATO and the US have been watching the council like hawks, and were very adamant on that provision that nobody currently in the leadership will be eligible as candidates come the first elections.

Spoiler: I don't know why I do this to myself. (click to show/hide)

[ed boy]

Because a singer that's been dead for two years takes priority over the dictator that has finally been toppled.

He's not a dictator who's finally been toppled. He's a dictator who was toppled a long time ago.

[Bouchart]

I always feel a little bad when a James Bond villain dies.

Oh well.  We still have Putin.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Gaddafi wasn't a James Bond villain. He had the crazy, sure, but not enough ingenuity. You know, like the kind that keeps you from being ousted from power after a massive civil war and getting shot by people who probably used to be soldiers of his.

Putin has got the Anti-Bond suave going on, but he isn't quite crazy enough. Putin's obviously no saint, but he seems to be very aware of his public status as a hero to a good deal of Russians, and wants to keep that image alive for as long as possible.

[Aqizzar]

I dunno, Qaddafi did stay in power for 42 years, with armories full of golden guns and stolen superweapons, a bodyguard of "virgin" women from around the world as beautiful as they were deadly (presumably on both counts), and license to live in a giant tent when visiting the UN.  That's pretty good supervillain cred in my book.

Fare thee well, crazy prince.  May your names by many and legacies few.

[Jackrabbit]

Wait, he had a golden gun? I know I haven't been following this at all and this has probably been said a dozen times but holy shit. May flights of mooks sing thee to thy rest, O Scaramanga-expy.

[Bdthemag]

I swear, Qaddafi seems more like a James Bond Villian than a dictator.

[Aqizzar]

As a matter of fact, he had a golden pistol on him when he was caught and killed.  As is the way of Libyan rebels, they all called dibs on the gun, hats, and uniforms, so they could pretend to be their hated foe and make faces at cameras.

Nobody can say these guys don't know how to rebel with style.

[GlyphGryph]

He had several, actually.




No guarantee of which were actually his though, but blinged out guns are a staple of dictators (and drug dealers) the world over. His don't seem particularly out of the ordinary, I suppose... That last one at least seems questionable.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's probably not all that hard to gold-plate a gun.

That first one is intricate as hell though, it would be art if it wasn't so tacky.

[GlyphGryph]

From what I understand, they aren't gold-plated. They actually have solid gold components.

[Bouchart]

A brutal dictator, but at least he had style.  He probably could've lived a good life just being a goofball celebrity like so many in the West.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

>implying that Gaddafi wasn't a goofball celebrity

[Cthulhu]

He had several, actually.




No guarantee of which were actually his though, but blinged out guns are a staple of dictators (and drug dealers) the world over. His don't seem particularly out of the ordinary, I suppose... That last one at least seems questionable.

They don't?  That first one is fucking pimp.

Also, I find it hard to believe a gun could have solid gold components, at least not the actual working components.  Gold is too soft to withstand that kind of stress.

[SalmonGod]

Also, I find it hard to believe a gun could have solid gold components, at least not the actual working components.  Gold is too soft to withstand that kind of stress.

Besides making the thing way too heavy to be practical.  I would think so, anyway.