• @Maggoty
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    14 days ago

    Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 days ago

      Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

      Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

      • @Maggoty
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        24 days ago

        Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          24 days ago

          Nah your good, thought it was comical I realized we were commenting about to different posts back and forth on 2 separate accounts haha

          • @Maggoty
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            24 days ago

            Oh that happens so often I don’t even really look anymore.