They could do a time jump.

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It really isn’t for her own good.

If your vet told you it was OK to cut her hair unnecessarily you need to find a new vet.

Wow, a literal whataboutism.

The absolute best case scenario is a Francisco Franco. Absolute best case.

And yes, it’s an inherent part of human nature. The more consolidated power is within an organization, the more vulnerable it is to abuse. Dictatorships are on one end of the spectrum, direct democracies on the other.

Have you ever heard a parent say “eat your food, there are starving children in China”? The children were starving in China because Mao decided that sparrows were eating too much of the grain harvest and launched a pest eradication campaign. With nobody in a position of authority with the ability to stop the campaign (or even question the wisdom of it) and sparrows were killed en masse.

Sparrows eat grain but they also eat insects. With the sparrows gone the bugs got out of control and sparked a famine. It was the worst man-made disaster in human history. As many as 55 million people died because a dictator tried to do a good thing and was able to act without restriction or oversight.

One bad decision - even if made with the best intentions - can end in disaster. That’s why checks and balances matter. Do they slow things down? Yes. But the chart-topping governmental fuck ups are all put there by totalitarians.

You’re seeing where he starts. There are plenty of examples of where he ends.

Results? If you want to talk results let’s talk about millions upon millions of dead Jews, political prisoners, and homosexuals.

That’s just one bad example, right? How about the millions that starved because of bad management in a single party regime, I’ve got two of those to pick from.

Read a fucking book and try not to choose Mein Kampf.

Ah, yes the old “enlightened despot” routine.

Europe tried it. Ended up with guillotines and the Great War. After that they tried it again but without the royalty branding and we got World War Two.

But thanks to your comment now I see that my history books indoctrinated me. My belief that the enlightened despot of Germany that pulled their economy out of the Great Depression, built up a modern infrastructure, and was a champion of animal rights was a bad guy is clearly just propaganda influencing me. I should get redpilled and cheer for people’s power over their own government being taken away.

God Lemmy has the biggest whack jobs on the Internet.

My friend you implied that LGBT people getting thrown off of buildings was equivalent to states banning abortion, that’s why I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills…

Yes.

That and the whole WMD thing shortly thereafter led to some sweeping changes to how the US handles intelligence.

African or European?

No problem!

I’ve participated in the unemployment tallying in the US. That’s not how that works.

The only thing that I can possibly imagine you’re alluding to is discouraged workers, who are people without jobs who stopped looking. They drop off because it’s really hard to hire people who won’t apply for any job, which is important to know about when you’re trying to determine the number of people available to fill job vacancies.

Not sure why you got down voted for asking an honest question.

There was a single influential painting from the 1800’s depicting three Romans doing the gesture. This lodged in the minds of some people in the early 20th century as the way ancient Romans saluted despite the fact that there wasn’t any historical evidence for this, just a painting portraying it.

The situation was a bit like the whole “people eat X number of spiders in their sleep” thing where an innocent falsehood spread like wildfire and was accepted as fact. The idea that Romans saluted that way is still floating around and would probably be more prevalent if the Nazis hadn’t adopted the gesture.

But America bad! If America has airbags then airbags bad, too.

I’m starting to think it’s just people being as edgy and contrarian as possible.