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rampartc

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6. the "best" dictators have been freedom fighters or maybe generals

Reply to Darwins_Retriever (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 23, 2022, 08:53 PM

Dec 2022

all have been popular with the people but hated by the "elite."

caesar, for example was killed by the senators of rome.

i'd like to think i'd oppose any kind of dictator, monarch, or oligarch but who knows?

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