Message from @Weaboo Kempeitai

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2019-10-28 00:39:45 UTC  

Yes, that can be said for leaders in general. Maybe he wasn't so smart after all? Perhaps he should've gotten some good advisors.

I hear Stalin got some economic advisors who he never listened to. Kim il Sung got some economic nerds to manage his personal finances, now he's dead, they manage NK's foreign investments.

2019-10-28 00:39:53 UTC  

I dunno who that might be

2019-10-28 00:39:55 UTC  

could be me

2019-10-28 00:40:05 UTC  

You're rarely see this shit with absolute monarchs, that's the thing.

2019-10-28 00:40:10 UTC  

Why is that?

2019-10-28 00:40:12 UTC  

in which case, I'm not really, I've studied China but have kinda glossed over the CCP history

2019-10-28 00:40:28 UTC  

if peterson hates communism so much why did he name his daughter after gorbuchev

2019-10-28 00:40:49 UTC  

Maybe because Monarchs ruled over more decentralised, fuedal societies?

2019-10-28 00:40:59 UTC  

because Gorbachev ended the USSR maybe?

2019-10-28 00:41:08 UTC  

but JBP was actually a Socialist back in the day

2019-10-28 00:41:12 UTC  

a Progressive

2019-10-28 00:41:15 UTC  

Mikhaila is 27, so she was born in 1992.

2019-10-28 00:41:19 UTC  

Communism fell in 1989

2019-10-28 00:41:19 UTC  

the NDP in Canada

2019-10-28 00:41:23 UTC  

New Democratic Party

2019-10-28 00:41:26 UTC  

She was named after Gorby

2019-10-28 00:41:33 UTC  

guaranteed

2019-10-28 00:41:54 UTC  

Mao was really smart

2019-10-28 00:41:54 UTC  

@fuguer Fell in 1991, but by 1990, the USSR were already planning a transition to a market economy.

2019-10-28 00:41:57 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/634367565304561675/638175590725320732/M_Peterson_Shekels.jpg

2019-10-28 00:41:59 UTC  

absolute monarchs didn't rule over more decentralized feudal societies

2019-10-28 00:42:01 UTC  

but being a super genius only takes you so far

2019-10-28 00:42:08 UTC  

there is a distinction between an absolute and a feudal monarch

2019-10-28 00:42:13 UTC  

despite claims, Hitler was actually very laissez faire

2019-10-28 00:42:13 UTC  

yeah i think the late 80s was the berlin wall and the start of the fall

2019-10-28 00:42:18 UTC  

it was obviously on its way out

2019-10-28 00:42:22 UTC  

i was in middle school then

2019-10-28 00:42:23 UTC  

he had an entire government apparatus which he allowed to function

2019-10-28 00:42:28 UTC  

You knows what I mean.

2019-10-28 00:42:29 UTC  

that's why we have the term 'Absolute Monarch' to distinguish

2019-10-28 00:42:38 UTC  

Goebbels, Goering etc

2019-10-28 00:42:50 UTC  

they were all in charge in their respective areas

2019-10-28 00:42:56 UTC  

I thought absolute monarch was opposed to a constitutional monarch.

2019-10-28 00:43:00 UTC  

yes

2019-10-28 00:43:06 UTC  

both come out of the feudal system

2019-10-28 00:43:20 UTC  

the aristocracy naturally lost power

2019-10-28 00:43:29 UTC  

@Blake4014 Tomorrow belongs to all of us my king

2019-10-28 00:43:38 UTC  

in a constitutional system, that power vacuum was filled by merchant power

2019-10-28 00:43:55 UTC  

Okay, so why didn't shit like this happen under absolute monarchy? Why do Communist dictators run things into the ground, while monarchical dynasties last for centuries?