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> despite widespread accusations and suspicions of corruption, nepotism, and even drug trafficking, he is our ally... and hence not a dictator Being a dictator

> despite widespread accusations and suspicions of corruption, nepotism, and even drug trafficking, he is our ally... and hence not a dictator Being a dictator means [1] to have absolute power. There are dictators that are friendly with the west and others that are not so much. Use of the term is orthogonal to whether or not a given country is an ally (other than that word choice can have ramifications) Montenegro is regarded by a number of rankings [2] as being a hybrid regime, i.e. somewhere in between authoritarian and democratic. The results of the 2020 election [3] match that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime#Measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime#Measurement [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Montenegrin_parliamentary_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Montenegrin_parliamentary...

kelnos 4y ago
The point that the parent was making was that "dictator" has a very negative connotation, and the cynical take is that if the West likes you, they wouldn't call you something negative, even when that's what you are. So he's wink "not a dictator" wink.
- ganbatekudasai 4y ago
  Right, but the point of the comment you answered to, is that this cynical take does not work if Montenegro does not actually happen to be a dictatorship, friendly to the west or not. Note that I have absolutely no idea whether Montenegro is or isn't a dictatorship, but the intention of all commenters here was clear.
lo_zamoyski 4y ago
ChatGPT? Is that you?
- ChainOfFools 4y ago
  Just because text has a rather Brainy Smurf tone to it does not necessarily mean it was generated by ChadGPT
- SECProto 4y ago
  Haha glad my calling out of nonsense is apparently indistinguishable from a large language model. Does chatgpt do citations like that?
  - d3nj4l 4y ago
    Bing's chat is like that.

kelnos 4y ago

The point that the parent was making was that "dictator" has a very negative connotation, and the cynical take is that if the West likes you, they wouldn't call you something negative, even when that's what you are. So he's wink "not a dictator" wink.

ganbatekudasai 4y ago
Right, but the point of the comment you answered to, is that this cynical take does not work if Montenegro does not actually happen to be a dictatorship, friendly to the west or not. Note that I have absolutely no idea whether Montenegro is or isn't a dictatorship, but the intention of all commenters here was clear.

lo_zamoyski 4y ago

ChatGPT? Is that you?

ChainOfFools 4y ago
Just because text has a rather Brainy Smurf tone to it does not necessarily mean it was generated by ChadGPT
SECProto 4y ago
Haha glad my calling out of nonsense is apparently indistinguishable from a large language model. Does chatgpt do citations like that?
- d3nj4l 4y ago
  Bing's chat is like that.