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> the more they will accelerate down a path where there is no coming back from. Why do you say this? At practically every point in history where a government o
by squigz 2y ago
> the more they will accelerate down a path where there is no coming back from.
Why do you say this? At practically every point in history where a government or dictator goes too far, we've come back from it.
- wutwutwat 2y agoEveryone recovers from a sickness. Until they don't.
- shadowgovt 2y agoSure... As a different government. I assume parent is talking about the functional end of this iteration of the United States as a political entity.
- mcphage 2y ago> we've come back from it We as a species have come back from it, yes. But generally after millions of victims are killed, and what is left over is very different than what existed prior.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoThere are many points in history where a dictator made their country permanently worse. Argentina was once among the wealthiest democracies in the world, until a dictator seized power in 1930 - it took 53 years to restore democratic governance and their economy still isn't back on track.
- chneu 2y agoThis rings true for much of South America at one point or another. Lots of African nations. Several in SE Asia as well. Heck, just in the last few years we've seen several countries regress by a decade or more because of military coups or similar. Really, if you look at many countries that haven't been a world power, this has happened once or twice in recent memory.
- teddyh 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia, “in 1929, Argentina was wealthy by world standards, but the prosperity ended after 1929 with the worldwide Great Depression.” It was presumably the collapsing economy which caused the military coup, not the other way around. Do you have a better example? Or is that it?
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- kccoder 2y ago> At practically every point in history where a government or dictator goes too far, we've come back from it. Not everyone.
- decimalenough 2y agoIt can take a good long time though. It's Juche Year 114 in North Korea and the Kim dynasty remains firmly in control.
- WeylandYutani 2y agoEveryone except those who died in the camps.
- aetimmes 2y agoAnd under the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.