Russian Special Military Operation in the Ukraine - Mark IV: The Partitioning of Discussion

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Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
If anything, I’d prefer the honest kind of “autocracy” (Russia isn’t an outright dictatorship, more of a hybrid model) that Russia represents, over the autocracy we have in the west.

You can vote in the west, but you can only vote for a very harrow band of politicians that all represents slightly different facets of the same bullshit. You have free speech, but only within unofficial limits.

Russia has Putin and United Russia. But at least I don’t doubt for a second that Putin and his party holds Russia and it’s people’s interests dear.

In the west, our rulers are much more obscure. It’s a shifting molasses of political, business and media elites who all agree on the same consensus. A ruling elite that sure as hell doesn’t care about its people.

I don't know, every cunt in the West seems to be doing it these days.
Why care about your country if it does fuck all for you?

Western elites long ago tore the contract between rulers and people to shreds. They care more about their globohomo agenda and their business interests than they care about us. The Ukraine invasion hammered that fact home.
 
Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
That's the thing, you're trading multiple frequent, smaller crises (shitty Czar who needs to be toppled or die), for one slow-burn mega crisis (globohomo infested 'democratic' institutions that need to be purged and razed to the ground following civil war) that happens less frequently but is more catastrophic. At least, that's my (somewhat simplistic) hypothesis.
 
This is why I believe it's imperative we direct all resources toward creating an AI that reconstructs the thoughts and behaviour of the greatest leader the world has ever had, Stalin, so that it can end history and guide us into a golden future for all (except nazis and other assorted evildoers).
 
Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
Democracy is not a real system of governance, it’s a mask for a completely unaccountable(more so than any “autocracy” in which the leaders are obvious) mercantile/bureaucratic ruling class. It actively works to weaken organic social bonds, religion, tradition, and other illiberal social institutions that it cannot directly control.
 
Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
The roman republic even had an "emergency dictatorship" built into the system for when shit hit the fan and it even worked fine as most dictators willingly gave away their powers once the crisis was over or if they couldn't fix it, because otherwise they where assassinated.
Well it worked fine until Ceasar but you know how that went
 
Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
Fuck, that hits so hard .... qq.
 
The roman republic even had an "emergency dictatorship" built into the system for when shit hit the fan and it even worked fine as most dictators willingly gave away their powers once the crisis was over or if they couldn't fix it, because otherwise they where assassinated.
Well it worked fine until Ceasar but you know how that went
Caesar was actually doing a great job as dictator. It was the corrupt senate that murdered him when it became obvious he was cleaning up Roman politics.
 
This is why I believe it's imperative we direct all resources toward creating an AI that reconstructs the thoughts and behaviour of the greatest leader the world has ever had, Stalin, so that it can end history and guide us into a golden future for all (except nazis and other assorted evildoers).

Oy vey, that's a waste of shekels. You can recreate it pretty easily. You go to the gulag, you go to the gulag, you are all going to the gulag!
 
The roman republic even had an "emergency dictatorship" built into the system for when shit hit the fan and it even worked fine as most dictators willingly gave away their powers once the crisis was over or if they couldn't fix it, because otherwise they where assassinated.
Well it worked fine until Ceasar but you know how that went
The Roman Republic was never democratic. The senatorial class were aristocrats who ran Rome entirely. The tribunate was a democratic institution but had virtually no real power until late in the Republic. The dictatorship was instituted to give more coherence to military command in times of crisis when the two consul system wasn't feasible.
 
Democracy is great because a lunatic cant fuck things up but once the rot sets in it actively filters out people that could fix it.
Even when a moral individual gets elected by mistake he doesn't have the power to change anything. Ironically you need a dictator to save democracy every couple of decades.
The best system would have an immortal who has full dictatorship powers but delegates the operation of the country to a democracy, only intervening when things start to get corrupted. Dictators and monarchs eventually grow old and die with their successors being hit or miss.

In the west, our rulers are much more obscure. It’s a shifting molasses of political, business and media elites who all agree on the same consensus. A ruling elite that sure as hell doesn’t care about its people
I wonder if it would work if we removed term limits, but changed things to be like the pilot industry where whenever you leave a position to something that isn't a promotion, you automatically get dropped to the lowest ranks in the government and have to slowly work your way up
 
The best system would have an immortal who has full dictatorship powers but delegates the operation of the country to a democracy, only intervening when things start to get corrupted. Dictators and monarchs eventually grow old and die with their successors being hit or miss.


I wonder if it would work if we removed term limits, but changed things to be like the pilot industry where whenever you leave a position to something that isn't a promotion, you automatically get dropped to the lowest ranks in the government and have to slowly work your way up
No term limits is part of the reason for the mess we’re in.

It not only creates the possibility of a parasitical class of permanent politicians, it actually encourages it.
 
Kings had a vested interest in keeping their societies functioning. Same for dicators, but for kings you could usually count on your family retaining power. You don't shit where you eat.

You could get a Nero, but overall there were incentives not to bungle it too badly.

With the current model, term limits are a double edged sword. Do consider that it means that you can promise everything, get rich without any thoughts on the future, and make a jolly good exit and hand the shit you made to the next guy.

I don't know how to fix it. Perhaps withold politicans salary, and make them do a list with their campaign promises. The more promises they fulfill, the more of their pay they get paid out when their term ends?
 
No term limits is part of the reason for the mess we’re in.

It not only creates the possibility of a parasitical class of permanent politicians, it actually encourages it.
Yeah fair, I was thinking about the presidential term limit and the corporate policy of treating positions like music chairs where you move on the moment things start to go wrong.
 
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