Yes, hypocrisy is for neurotypicals. That’s why those people will be tattooed with - ah, damn, you got me
Only one way to find out
Maybe if I had a few years to reorganise myself, and that’s a big maybe. I’ve never much cared for money, power, and I’m empathetic to a fault, but being in different environments causes people to change.
The biggest challenge would be staying in touch with the population. You would need a good team of people that represent the interests of human existence and happiness. At that point it’s sounding closer to a democracy anyway.
From there, there’s obvious moves. Find the biggest sources of misery and damage, reform or just straight up tear it out and start again. You’d need to move moderately slow, moving quickly destabilizes people too much and that is often not worth the cost. Raise social safety nets, try to turn the system from working to survive into one where working to get nice shit.
I feel like I might bankrupt whichever system I’m put in charge of though. Economics was never my strong suit, and I probably would start ignoring economic realities in favour of human existence.
I would establish a socialist polity, then abdicate.
Cool you forgot to establish power checked democracy, now you have the soviets. Congrats :)
The benevolent, uncorrupt, good thing for dictators to do is to abdicate.
I don’t think I could cause I lack strategic thinking and would get easily outmaneuvered by some other faction
would I have to stay a dictator? because I’d be instilling a democracy ASAP
Dictator to reform not to rule
Absolutley. No more questions!
For a couple months, maybe. Anyone who says yes absolutely is someone who shouldn’t be trusted with power.
But I know I can be the best dictator ever! 😉
What’s that? You disagree? Sounds like I need to send some of my people to your house to educate you on what I’m doing until you can until you can understand that its for the greater good 🤗
(you may not refuse my mandatory education program, I’ll be watch you 👀)
-Sincerely,
Your best friend and dictator
🥰I’d last six hours before becoming Caligula
Yes. But I’d probably be killed by someone who will
Sure. Would I last long before getting killed or overthrown? No.
I would be completely stressed out, like people would wanna kill me and stuff for being a dictator, so I’d just renounce, run away and get a new identity (not sure how one “gets” a new identity though). Also, managing a country by myself? Too hard, what orders am I even meant to give?
It is inevitable that an opposition would form against you. You either let the movement continue to gain traction and risk unseating you or you use your power in a corrupt manner to silence them.
In this particular case, it depends what you define as corrupt. If you are truly working towards the betterment of everyone under your power (even those that you are fighting against), then what becomes justifiable to that end?
Anything. Lies and manipulation will always work on the masses.
Not if you preemptively make what would be an opposition ideology illegal when making the country’s constitution
I know I can cause I’d really rather not be a dictator. I take responsibility for EVERYONE all the fuckong time trying to care for that many and feeling the pain and guilt if I fail even one will fuck me up and I’d rather just not do it. Only in extreme times like rn would I even consider it but I’ll probably off my self when the reign ends cause I let some kid die because I didn’t get healthcare to them fast enough. I’m a softie.
No.
Not because I’m evil, but because I am empathetic and someone evil would absolutely figure out a way to use that to manipulate me.
