• @retrospectology
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    294 months ago

    And I think the thing he doesn’t understand is that, if he ever actually achieves his goal of implementing a fascist totalitarian state, guys like him are the first to get liquidated by the regime. He thinks he’s going to be a duke or something, but he’ll be tossed aside like trash.

    • @[email protected]
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      184 months ago

      Yeah, totalitarian states aren’t really fun for anybody in the end. It just devolves into a paranoid scheme and murder web for survival.

          • @BeMoreCareful
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            14 months ago

            It be good to read about in a hundred years, it would not be fun to be anywhere near it occuring

      • @[email protected]
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        34 months ago

        It just devolves into a paranoid scheme and murder web for survival.

        This sums up a lot of the Rome docuseries episodes I’ve seen.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      64 months ago

      So much this. I’m sure he thinks he is some kind of student of history and playing nine dimensional chess, but this is the basic stuff - people like him almost always end up against the wall, killed by people much like him.