Message from @flyingfoxel
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think it borked it;s self yesterday noone fixed it
Jeez.
You guys moving to VC?
Yes I am
The music Bots been broken for a while
I just wanted to listen to music.
How do we fix it?
I have no idea what's wrong with it, and fixing it isn't up to me.
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To me? My internet is shit.
Robots constantly.
@Fulcrum010 I’m on VC
What did ya wanna talk about, @flyingfoxel?
I'm not going there
Have fun
@Fulcrum010 Join us
Nah
Give em a chance at least.
Nah
Fuck them
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Power doesn’t corrupt. Rather, power inevitably attracts the corrupted.```
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@flyingfoxel, the *"do you support freedom of association and an alt-right private community?"* one?
If you instate a benevolent dictator, you risk having him replaced by an evil dictator, and there's no fixing after that.
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na i think i may have tied a question to you, you didn't ask
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@DanielKO who said that it's fucking gold
That's a commentary about Mesquita's book, "The Dictator's Handbook."
It makes the argument that leaders act the way they do, because the system in place pushes them to act in a certain way, otherwise they get "replaced."
It's a really good book, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictator%27s_Handbook
There's another book by the same name, different author, that's more of a satire.
Yeah, same with any political system. Kissing a baby on the head and all.
He makes the point that all governments, or even corporations, run on the same basic rules.
Yeah, why not have a vanguard of the communists to guide the proletariat ?
The point of the book is identifying precisely what are the rules, how they work out in practice, so you can then steer the government into something that benefits the population, and not the ruler.
The key for a tyrannical leader is to have a small pool of supporters that are easily replaceable. So they can't easily unite against you.
They themselves, want their own pool of supporters small and easily replaceable, so they can get removed if they risk taking your place. And so on.
As that pool grows, it gets harder to please them individually, so you need focus on pleasing their supporters. If it propagates down to the whole population, you end up with a government that has to satisfy the people.
