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  • I didn‘t kill „everybody“. I killed the king, his family and his guards and maybe his ministers or generals

    Not how civil wars work unfortunately

    No, I am a member of one of many militias

    Which makes you a part of the military power of the new rule. So yeah.

    Yes. Thats how war works.

    Yes. That’s my point actually.

    Exactly

    Ok, but that’s worse. You do get how that’s worse, right?


  • When you killed everyone in a coup, you are by definition a new military. You might prefer less authoritarian system now, but all your friends who are running around with rifles trying to do a coup are in it for power, it’s just how the selection process goes, for everyone bright eyed idealist who will immediately relinquish his absolute authority that he just won by fighting a civil war, there will be 10 people who fought in civil war to get this absolute authority.
    We know that, because actually I deceived you earlier, it’s not 19th century now, and we already saw how that happened. And also, both technologies and situations are different now





  • Militaristic might be not technically correct, it was more of a police state than a military state, after the WWII Stalin put a lot of effort to make sure that military will remain a tool and not have agency on itself. All the police-adjacent organisations though were so powerful that they didn’t have to be militaristic to exert all the power.
    Everything else is absolutely correct though, complete, absolute power was in the hand of an unelected individual and the people he empowererd, as much as power was concentrated. So as much as authocracy and dictatorship could overlap, USSR was an embodiment of that.











  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.mlLET'S GOOOOOOO
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    11 months ago

    I hope you do, because no good peer-reviewed studies ever produced the results you are talking about. I urge you to show me which ones you are talking about.
    And you should learn to look closer. Maybe get more that a couple of words out of headline, you know, how scientificly minded people are suppose to be.