I almost wouldn't care if Russia took over the USA at this point
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That’s an old quote but makes a lot of sense. If you go to another country you are expected to assimilate
And if you get conquered, you should also assimilate.
No, it you get conquered, you should carefully plan a revolution to either take your land back from the conquerors, or become a fucking legend.
Well if you are conquered it’s either that or death.
Stop slathering to be a slave to a different master over the current one.
The point is to stop being a slave.
*"It is under monarchy that intelligence stands its best chance against its ever present and irreconcilable foe, stupidity." -Arthur Schopenhauer
You want a system that has been proven repeatedly to not work. Democracy is the victory of the stupid over the reasonable.
Yes, that's what I think of when I think of the Hapsburg Dynasty: unflinching competence. /s
Stop it.
Monarchism, hereditary rule, and aristocracy do not prevent stupidity. They don't even really prevent mob rule.
That's right. They don't.
But democracy guarantees it.
So does monarchism, aristocracy, and hereditary rule.
There is a reason the children of very wealthy people blow it all: their lack of strife generates the stupidity that their successful parents rebuffed. The aristocracy is one of the most stupid institutions you could have politically. That's why the elites become out of touch in the first place.
Monarchism doesn't help.
Voting, more than 'Democracy', has a chance of working when managed properly.
You can kill a crummy unaccountable monarch.
Dealing with crummy unaccountable voters always involves massacres.
You mean when it's an oligarchy.
The second we started expanding the franchise, we ceased being an oligarchy, and we were damned from that point on.
Why are you telling us to kill voters instead of the monarch-equivalent, the president.
What happens to all the muh real king muh usurper people then. Even if they didn't vote it's not like they just disappear.
I'm telling you what happens.
We'll end just like Athens did.
You really can't, and it's not that easy. You're guaranteeing a horrific Civil War every few years were swaths of your population are killed unseating yet another ignorant monarch, who will continue to not properly protect the country. Your solution to defeat a tyrant... is with more tyrants. This is what has always happened as an established monarchy breaks down. Warring factions start vying for power to seize control, and everyone is left worse off from the instability.
You want stability, so your solution to poor leadership is violent instability by the mob. It doesn't work.
No, that's not any better, it might even be worse as the aristocracy tends to be even worse than the monarch. I mean having Republican voting systems rather than Direct Democracy / "Representative" voting systems.
Ha ha ha. You actually think we're not an oligarchy right now!
You've got that backwards.
We've got the mob now.
Do you know why the German military failed so many times to kill Hitler?
Because not a single one of them was willing to die to do it.
John Wilkes Booth... was willing to die.
When Schopenhauer wrote that, the only modern "dictator" had been Napoleon, and he fashioned himself a monarch.
If Schopenhauer been born a century later he would have used a different word.
The point is that democracy is a distributed system in which it is absolutely impossible to liberate the system from stupidity. With a single leader, there is the possibility that they aren't stupid (and if they are, it's a simple enough matter to get rid of them). You can't get rid of an entire people, although when government is dysfunctional enough for long enough, the people will try to anyway in an orgy of blood. Without fail.
Because history has a bias towards the noteworthy bad.
Indeed. I second this notion.
Point of Order. Putin is objectively better than Biden or his handlers. It's not bootlicking to state the facts.
Putin's better than Biden because he is coherent.
Better than his handlers? I don't think so.
Better in what respect? More competent, more moral, better for his own country?
Better in his ability to process and react to information by being coherent.
Putin is also better than a plant in this respect.
Not sure that is in the works.
You don't wait for that to happen. You do it yourself.
It's just fuckin' embarrassing that Russia is more proud of their culture than America.
AMERICA.
Literally the best thing to ever happen to the World, and we cannot get half our citizens to be proud and defend her or greater Western culture.
A good chunk of our citizens aren't American.
Eh... right now you're the worst thing to happen to the world, poisoning the rest of the world with wokeness.
Yet it's illegal to question the holocaust in Russia..... Jews win again
Retard alert!
So you think it should be illegal to question something obviously fake?
It shouldn't be illegal to deny the Holocaust, but you certainly are a brain-dead moron.
As if I needed more confirmation that you are indeed a brain-dead moron.
The fact that the US is "better" is a product of the past, not of the present. Right now, America is in the process of destroying everything that made it great, ensuring that it will be overtaken by China.
It'd be more legitimate.
RUSSIANS BETTER THAN BIDEN......Russians better than DEMOCRATS!
But their architecture needs help. It's like that place is scientifically designed to be depressing to look at.
It is. It's called Brutalism,. and was part of the attempt to demoralize their population to prevent an overthrow of the Soviet regime.
Didn't Biden cancel Trump's executive order to have more beautiful architecture ?
Yes he did. And that comes as no surprise either, since Soviet Brutalism was made into the default style for government buildings within about six months after Obama took office.
As a side note, I've heard that Hitler ordered the design of towns to be beautiful, open, and with green spaces ....
He was a failed architect/art student before WW1.
Yes, he was a hipster.
He was only good at drawing buildings; this was too limited for any fine arts school, never mind the one considered the most desirable to be at in Europe at the time ... and it never occurred to him to look to a commercial arts course/drafting when he got rejected from there.
He was also too good to wash dishes, which is why he was so poor and washed out of Vienna and wound up working out of a men's homeless shelter in Munich. WW1 saved his ass from poverty and starvation.
But at the very least, he understood that nice buildings, and green spaces, and not crowding people in cheek by jowl was important to the human psyche.
(And people who are so into opera were just as rare then as they are now. Popular music existed then, too.)
It also harmonizes well with subpar industrial production. The party can provide beauty instead of concrete cancer.
It's the Nazbol Vortex.
And yet Putin let his "son" (with ambition to be the "dad's" successor as the big guy) Ramzan install his version of Sharia.
And then there's the so called jewish autonomous oblast...
Putin is still going to backstab us with china deals.
Yes! Better Russian Cousins than any sort of AfriKKKan, cursed by God as Cain and Ham.
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Glowie meme, because while he is no doubt better for his own country than most Western leaders, Vlad is allowing his client Kadyrov to impose Sharia law on Chechnya, burying women alive and putting homosexuals into concentration camps.
Uhh why would I give a fuck about some ragheads and homos?
It directly contradicts your image.
Maybe the women are thots?
And I'm supposed to care about the homos?
Wow, there are a whole lot of morons here today.
And people wonder how he's managed to brainwash the Russian populace. Maybe it's because he's just doing what they want?