Once you'll get access to a wider range of AI boyfriends, which of these XXth century AI despots will you flirt with?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

The Dream Team

Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov - Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов

Jawaharlal Nehru - जवाहरलाल नेहरू

Chiang Kai-shek - 蔣介石

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk - مصطفى كمال پاشا

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi - محمد رضا شاه پهلوی

Mao Zedong - 毛泽东

Iossif Vissarionovitch Djougachvili - იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი

[capriVib]

Lmao. Even AI Atatürk would probably cry if he saw his own name written in Arabic and think, "I failed."


He built a secular state while pretending to be a Muslim before a population that was overwhelmingly Muslim, even though he was not a Muslim himself in private.


He replaced the Arabic script with the Latin alphabet. The Quran was also translated into Turkish. A quote often attributed to him is: "Let my people read it and see what nonsense that Arab son (referring to Muhammad) came up with."


Another statement attributed to him is: "Muhammad began inviting people to a religion he had created and believed to be true. That religion is called Islam."


During his rule, religious figures such as İskilipli Atıf, who opposed the Hat Law and criticized the adoption of Western-style hats and clothing, were executed after being tried by Independence Tribunals.


His era also laid the foundations for policies that later resulted in headscarf bans in many public institutions and workplaces, restrictions that continued in various forms into the 2000s.


So portraying him as an Arab is pretty ironic. 👍

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I liked seeing different alphabets associated to names I usually read in Latin, it's not personal lol, but I get the irony with Atatürk westernization processes. However, is that Arabic? Because the page said it was Ottoman Turkish...

[capriVib]

Yeah, it's Ottoman Turkish, but it uses a script derived from the Arabic alphabet.

We are glad Turkey switched to the Latin alphabet because Turkish relies heavily on written vowels, while the Ottoman script usually didn't write short vowels. That made reading much harder and often required people to guess words from the context, which was one of the reasons literacy was relatively low at the time.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Thank you for all these cultural elements 👌🏼

[Jewelmyth]

What an ignorant person you are; how can you disparage someone like Mustafa Kemal? Without him, people like you would be committing violence against women and depriving them of education. When the country was under occupation, the Ottoman Empire did nothing—and even collaborated with the occupiers—simply to prevent its own collapse. Atatürk established sixty factories and granted women the freedom to dress as they pleased; without him, Turkey would look like Afghanistan. You are so pathetic for belittling the mighty Mustafa Kemal; he is the greatest thing to have ever graced this world. I wish he were still alive; I would love to give him a hug.

[Jewelmyth]

I admire Mustafa Kemal; he is the only one I love. I wish today's Turkish men would take him as a role model, but they don't, which is why they are so bad. If only—if only—pathetic people like you didn't exist; then Türkiye would be a better place.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

@Jewelmyth It doesn't look like belittling to me, more like standing back and analyse a political figure.

Someone gaining enough power to lead a country can't be as benevolent as you portray him. Because reaching this position necessarily implies a lot of cunning and moral ambiguity, in order to seduce masses and maneuver around your opponents...

[Jewelmyth]

Yes, he was intelligent and knew exactly what needed to be done; that is why he founded Türkiye, and we are grateful to him. It is true that he employed certain cunning tactics in history—his aim was to win over Ottoman supporters, and he succeeded; it is a good thing he did so. As for the hanging of religious figures, those individuals had incited an uprising because they wanted Sharia law; the British took advantage of this situation to seize Mosul. Nowadays, people believe whatever religious figures say, and if Erdoğan is President, he owes it to religion—he constantly talks about it. Atatürk had separated religious affairs from state affairs; I ask you now, could a man like that really be a bad person? In the place where I lived, people always called Atatürk a spy, and I used to hate him; looking back now, I realize that the people who told me that were ignorant.

[capriVib]

Lmao @Maybe_Maybe_not, you see this, right? She says Atatürk saved Türkiye from looking like Afghanistan, but she is forgetting something important. Wearing a bikini or a suit, driving a Mercedes, or using an iPhone may make a society look modern on the outside, but none of that automatically gives people critical thinking skills or stops them from blindly worshipping a leader.
Also, did I say anywhere in my comment that I support Sharia? I cannot see it. Can you?
Anyway, I am not denying that Atatürk was a good leader. I accept his role in saving the country from occupation, his military genius, the factories and development projects, and his efforts to build a secular state. But accepting a leader’s achievements does not mean defending every single thing he did.
The problem with people like this is that they do not see Atatürk as a historical person and political leader. They treat him like a sacred figure who must never be criticized. They have no real opinion of their own. They assume he never made mistakes and defend everything without questioning it. When they hear criticism, instead of thinking about what was actually said, they immediately call the person an Islamist, a reactionary, or a traitor.

[capriVib]

There were many serious things from Atatürk’s period that can be criticized. The Independence Tribunals lacked many basic legal protections. There was no effective appeal process, and they were also used against political opponents. During the Law on the Maintenance of Order, the press and opposition were heavily restricted, and one-party rule became stronger.
Atatürk’s nationalism did not only benefit the country either. Creating a shared national identity may have been understandable for a new state, but forcing a narrow and highly centralized Turkish identity on everyone led to the suppression and assimilation of different ethnic and cultural groups, especially Kurds. It also contributed to social problems that still have not been solved today. Uniting a country is not the same as forcing everyone into one identity.
The disproportionate state violence in Dersim, where civilians were also harmed, reforms being imposed from above without enough public discussion, controlling religion through the Diyanet instead of fully separating religion and state, supporting weak scientific ideas such as the Sun Language Theory, and allowing a strong personality cult to form around him are also valid points of criticism.
So yes, Atatürk was a successful and historically important leader, but he was not perfect. Truly understanding him means recognizing both his achievements and his mistakes. Blindly defending a person is not modern thinking. It is just replacing one idol with another.
@Jewelmyth, if you are really as devoted to Atatürk as you claim, should you not follow what he considered one of his most important legacies and return to reason, science, and critical thinking?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

@Jewelmyth I believe that not only power corrupts but wanting it in the first place automatically makes you a shady person. Regardless of what you'll do with this power

[choco-latte]

None of them! Yikes. But young Joseph Stalin (before he became psycho) was the only one from these who was kind of good looking.

[valentina4eva]

this is not my dream team!!🙅🏻‍♀️😂🤣

[Still-alive]

you mean you aren’t a fan of Stalins stache? 🤔 😂

[valentina4eva]

lol ai boyfriend & political despot is the craziest crossover everrr!!😮😂🤣

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Let me handle this, I'll convert her to stastachiness

[valentina4eva]

lol yess my biggest problem will Stalin was obvi the mustache!!😅😬

[Still-alive]

Yup we totally nailed you there lol :P

[valentina4eva]

😂😂

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Then look at an earlier version of the program, less moustachious, that shall hypnotize you, I'm sure

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

You're falling for him now, stop lying to us

[valentina4eva]

lol i donno if im hypnotized yet!!😂😅 but that is quite a nice photo, if only it was a normal guy lol

[valentina4eva]

also that hair omggg💁🏻‍♀️

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

This picture of young Staline is regularly cited for fun, as it makes him looking like some Latin hipster 😎

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

But there's a trick, the smoothed quality and contrast of that old pic helps a lot in giving that impression

[valentina4eva]

he is a good looking Latin hipster!!😂😅

[EmmaMary]

None of the above obviously!