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> Do people keep forgetting they’re dealing with an authoritarian dictatorship? > ANYTHING is on the table, nothing should come as a surprise. That does not f
by ketzu 5y ago
> Do people keep forgetting they’re dealing with an authoritarian dictatorship?
> ANYTHING is on the table, nothing should come as a surprise.
That does not follow from the first part. People and politics can, at large, still be predictable independent of the political organization.
- pksebben 5y agoI would argue that any single individual is perfectly capable of being unpredictable, so any form of authoritarianism would derive that unpredictability. This is, fwig, the instability that a republic is meant to fix.