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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Like an updated Machiavellianism based on the latest research, it explains why democracies and autocracies are similar and only differ in coalition sizes.
The basic idea being that government leaders function to steal from the majority to enrich the coalition that keeps them in office.
Democracies have larger coalitions wheras autocracies have smaller ones. Generally the longer a group of people stay in power the more they tend towards an autocracy.

Governments also attempt to maximize the number of interchangeables, or people who are lower down the command chain, to make it easy to fire them and switch them for someone else if they don't do as they are told.

The coalition usually consists of some of the people closest to the leaders, and to an extent includes the police and the military.

If a leader fails to pay their coalition they are typically overthrown.

Definitely worth archiving for future generations as a warning to why big government is always abusive.

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Against the backdrop of Trudeau's Chinada, I give you:

Bitcoin is NOT Democratic. Part 2:
"How Democracy Failed Us"
@bitcoinmagazine

"DEMOCRACY IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM THE WORLD HAS EVER ENCOUNTERED"

bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bi

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I hope you enjoyed my memory trip.
I will end this trip with this piece of garbage called "The 3D game maker", which uses an underlying DarkBasic engine and it's literal trash. I actually had this.

You could make games with it... if making games for you meant clicking a few buttons and have the engine generate a level with the objects and parameters you selected. You would obviously get bored of this in 30 minutes.

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"Should I learn JavaScript or Python?"

submitted by siddharthroy12

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antifa are #ACAB until they're not. I guess this means the left are the real Nazis right?
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