• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, the classic play in which you acquire unchecked power, exercise it to get rid of all your political rivals, then somehow use it to restore democracy. Occurs once in an anime about giant robots and psychic powers, and never in history.

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      3 months ago

      I agree no one is ever letting go of power unless they are explicitly required to do so.

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        3 months ago

        I agree no one is ever letting go of power unless they are explicitly required to do so.

        George Washington did that twice. But he was the anti-Trump.

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            3 months ago

            “Cincinnatus was an opponent of the rights of the plebeians (the common citizens) who fell into poverty because of his son Caeso Quinctius’s violent opposition to their desire for a written code of equally enforced laws”

            Hey, he had at least one thing in common with The Cheeto Man.

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      3 months ago

      The one thing we have going for us is that it’ll be a race against mortality to accomplish these things. And I don’t think his failson is likely to be installed as the next Great Leader. Usually the dictators start much younger.