As usual, we hit empty areas https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/984997554164125696

I just really hope this doesn't become an annual event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-SbtSoqG0I

You should have all listen to me when I said Democracy had failed

right. because an autocratic government is so much better

it's not like that shit fell flat on its face in WWI and hasn't stopped being BTFO'd since

>Implying the medievals were like that lmao

what was the 30 years war?

the people in medieval times also didn't have to deal with nuclear weapons

A war between catholics and prots which later devolved into a war of succession

The founding fathers didn't have AR-15 as well but I that is irrelevant

it's not really irrelevant. AR-15s don't give you the ability to eliminate life on the planet

the system of monarchies was probably the best system for its time.

but times change

Democracy isn't the opposite of autocracy, it's often the path to it

Times have changed for the worse

what makes you say that?

The divorce rates, the boom and bust cycle, moral relativism, high time preference

And if I remember there is a country that has a mix of democracy and monarchism to this day

Liechtenstein

yeah. it's called a constitutional monarchy

autocrats tend not to like constitutions

Kings had laws before them, they were still subject to it

examples?

perhaps to a higher entity like the church, or to a more powerful kingdom, but not to their own people

@Valet the Clown and all those things you mentioned are a product of post-modernism, not necessarily democracy.

culture is up stream of politics, my dude.

@Dinosorcerer The salic law

ah. yes, the defining negative trait of monarchies

succession

proof positive that you can only reliably count on autocrats to provide for two things: their own status and the status of their children

also Frankish succession worked much differently than the way we think of it today and led to extended infighting amongst a king's sons whenever he died