• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

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      5 days ago

      Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

      Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

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        Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.