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Everybody wants a benevolent dictator to take care of things for them until they are victims of power abuse for an edge case they didn't predict yet was inevita

• pessimizer 2y ago
  It doesn't even have to be an edge case. Many people support horrible things seemingly under the assumption that the government that changes control every 4-12 years will never change again. Maybe it's rational on some level; if you manage to give the people you prefer limitless power while they rule, maybe they'll become powerful enough to end elections. edit: of course Moraes did the same for Bolsonaro as for Lula. Some people's ideologies rest mainly on their hatred of the general population, not a preference for the rule of any particular party.
  • brigadier132 2y ago
    It's not rational, most people are not rational.
• blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
  Exactly. I am seeing a trend of people shriek about censorship free social media or censorship free LLMs or whatever else. Initially it made me think they are just so conditioned to be controlled and ‘guided’ by an authoritarian power that they can’t help but call for reduced individual freedoms. But actually I think it is simply that they are personally aligned with the current ‘benevolent dictatorships’ because they see it as giving their tribe power. But if they were victims of the abuse - meaning the people they seek to control/censor/suppress - they would absolutely not hold this view.