Is dictatorship itself a crime against humanity?
5864 sats \ 23 comments \ @mallardshead 5 Oct 2023 meta
I can't find a war in the last 100 years that didn't involve a dictator. I can't find a refugee crisis that didn't involve one either. I can't even find a hyperinflation event that didn't involve one if we account for any post-war hyperinflation (Japan, Yugoslavia, Weimar, Zimbabwe, Hungary, etc) caused by a dictator of some sort.
These people seem out of place and they're costing the world immense resources just to account for them and their decision-making. No surprise of course, but what does a world without them look like? And will any make it past 2050?
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560 sats \ 1 reply \ @2bithits 5 Oct 2023
Try Singapore
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
Singapore is a city-state with a landmass significantly smaller than NYC. Over 30% of its population is foreigners, and its tax haven status and survival is dependent on the US (and to a lesser degree UK) security order. Hard to include this tiny island as more than an exception.
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450 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bitman 5 Oct 2023
Empires severely mess up loads of countries - but history books always give them an easy ride. No mention of dictators. Move along, nothing to see here.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
It's interesting because we've never lived in a world without them, going back to our oldest story on record The Epic of Gilgamesh. From 1975-2000 alone half the world's dictators were ousted, including Spain and Portugal. I don't think there will be any of note by 2050.
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35 sats \ 5 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 5 Oct 2023
democracy certainly is -- will any make it past 2050?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
That seems to be growing over the last 100 years. More than half the world's dictators have been ousted in the same time period. You getting targeted by those anti-western troll farms again?
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DeltaClimbs 5 Oct 2023
Sounds like you are part of this anti-West troll farm... it's particularly funny in light of the fact that I have developed bleeding edge weaponry to defend against the CCP, which is even worse than democracy. The West is being attacked on a number of fronts, and defenders of tyranny will never be on the side of America.
Idk if you've heard, but there's a thing called BITCOIN now.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
Sounds like you have a reading comprehension problem in addition to a love of fallacy. And decentralized money, it ain't solving all the world's problems.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DeltaClimbs 5 Oct 2023
Enjoy sucking fiat's dicks, statist cuck
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
Well, until bitcoin no longer has a quote price, we'll all be doing that, marginally or otherwise.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 5 Oct 2023
Dictators always end up committing crimes
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @kristapsk 5 Oct 2023
Without dictatorship in the past there would likely be no Republic of China (Taiwan) and South Korea as independent countries nowadays.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
How is that a sound argument kristapsk?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @tom335 5 Oct 2023
Certainly is, but it's just one aspect of crimes, I guess. The evil starts with one people, and gains traction by hidden itself around ideas "for a greater good", this is how criminals (state) convince other idiots. Lately, the state name the worst of them as the main ruler. I mean, even Stalin had its enemies, so it's power is not absolute in any way. Where there's a dictator, there's even worse people behind.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 5 Oct 2023
what does a world without them look like?
It's full of people that know what their autograph and signature is capable of and know the definition of each word above it.
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75 sats \ 0 replies \ @tenderscore 5 Oct 2023
a world w/out them is more efficient because there's more certainty. eliminating the Russian one probably eliminates half the rest.
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75 sats \ 0 replies \ @rosivalnonato 5 Oct 2023
Yes, dictatorship is considered a crime against humanity, as it violates human rights and restricts citizens' freedom and political participation.
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bitman 5 Oct 2023
Plus to some larger countries, there's usefulness in supporting a dictator in another land.
He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch
Cordell Hull speaking to FDR about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza
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10 sats \ 3 replies \ @wingalt 5 Oct 2023
This seems to be the usual playbook played by the west to control the developing nations (see the recent work of Alex Gladstein). Dictators are supported directly (e.g., Pinochet, Saudi Arabia, Zelenskyy) or indirectly through IMF and world bank funding, allowing them to pillage their countries and if they don't play ball (e.g., Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi) they get wiped out while the more cooperative and bloody ones stay in charge
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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @mallardshead OP 5 Oct 2023
Zelenskyy isn't a dictator. Ukraine presidents serve 5-years with a 2-term limit. Comparing that to the divine right of a single family that's been in power for a century (Saudi Arabia) or a guy who served for nearly 30-years (Pinochet) and tortured and murdered his own people is a false equivalence and popular twitter talking point the anti-west troll farms gave us.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 5 Oct 2023
Very true. Good catch!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 5 Oct 2023
True, but we can't confine it to just one point of the compass. Nor just confine it to governments - but multinationals through the ages too.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adexmakai4211 8 Oct 2023
Exactly 💯💯 it's. That's why government is against Bitcoin idea of decentralization.
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