Why do Dictators all acts the same?

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Azza ☠ 1 Sep @ 11:11am

Do they like really have a "How to be a Dictator for Dummies" book or something?

Dictators first of all all claim that they're not a dictator, but also that people want a dictator.

Trump quote: "We don’t need him! Freedom! Freedom! He’s a dictator! He’s a dictator!"
Trump quote: "A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator"
Trump quote: "I'm not a dictator. I don't like (a) dictator"
Trump quote: "won't be a dictator, except for day one"
Trump quote: "I heard the people would like a dictator"
Trump quote: "If that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator. But I’m not a dictator, I just know how to stop crime."

All Dictators start hanging up large portrait posters of themselves around public areas. Such as Trumps on the U.S. Department of Agriculture building. Given it does have US President Abraham Lincoln too, but that was for the department's 163rd birthday and only up for a few months. American history.

Dictators roll out mobilized ground forces with troops and tanks on display. They have to display their power. Having a heavy military presence.

Dictators love getting lavish gifts and personal luxuries, even at the expense of the citizens.

Dictators will all claim the elections are rigged and then rigged them.

Dictators will proclaim states of emergency, even if there isn't any.

Dictators will repression all other political opponents and the media.

Dictators will not abide by their own rules of law. Bending and twisting exists rules to suit themselves.

Dictators will get others to perform the most stupid and useless tasks for them, will to backstab at a moments notice. Yet there seems to be a cult following them anyways.

Given Trump is more of an Authoritarianism, than actual Dictator... they all seem to copy one another.

Do they all just copy off each other's action, ironically knowing where it leads anyways?

Do they all have the so-called "Dark Triad" of Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, that like controls their actions, so they are helpless against it?

Do they not even know themselves or following some set rule book and guidelines? Perhaps others actually set them up?

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Sixtyfivekills 1 Sep @ 11:13am

Well, you know how the saying goes.

You can't say Dictator without "Dic"

1 Day 🤣 1 Sep @ 11:14am

it wouldn't be monday a day ending in y without the trump crying thread

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:
Well, you know how the saying goes.

You can't say Dictator without "Dic"

or tator :D

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Thegamingnerd4525 1 Sep @ 11:29am

Originally posted by Prinny:
it wouldn't be monday a day ending in y without the trump crying thread

Well as one particular orange cat once said

Azza ☠ 1 Sep @ 11:30am

Well it's quite interesting if you check history.

They seem to reflect each others as such and share the same ideas/concepts?

They also separate groups.

Azza ☠ 1 Sep @ 11:40am

Originally posted by Prinny:
it wouldn't be monday a day ending in y without the trump crying thread
Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:
Well, you know how the saying goes.

You can't say Dictator without "Dic"
or tator :D

You could always just use Putin of Russia, Viktor Orban of Hungary, or Kim Jong Un or North Korea instead of Trump, if it really upsets you so much?

However, Trump met up with both Putin and Viktor Orban, leading me to believe he's a wannabee copycat of those two?

Viktor Orban was even suggested to give Trump guidelines of how to help him create the American Autocracy (along side a step-by-step guide book from The Heritage Foundation - Project 2025).

Those are just today's standard Dictators, still just copying...

You could go way back till Julius Ceasar (Roman), Adolf Hilter (Germany), Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), and Mao Zedong (China), etc. All similar behaviours too. It's like they learn off one another and it's handed down as a guidebook for the next?

This leads me to believe there's a "How to be a Dictator for Dummies" book out there, another team behind them, or they go out of their way to ask each other. Most of them however seem clueless about basic history too.

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salamander 1 Sep @ 11:41am

Originally posted by Sixtyfivekills:
Well, you know how the saying goes.

You can't say Dictator without "Dic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7CkLVacTI&ab_channel=Rodney

1 Day 🤣 1 Sep @ 12:54pm

Originally posted by Azza ☠:
Originally posted by Prinny:
it wouldn't be monday a day ending in y without the trump crying thread

or tator :D

You could always just use Putin of Russia, Viktor Orban of Hungary, or Kim Jong Un or North Korea instead of Trump, if it really upsets you so much?

However, Trump met up with both Putin and Viktor Orban, leading me to believe he's a wannabee copycat of those two?

Viktor Orban was even suggested to give Trump guidelines of how to help him create the American Autocracy (along side a step-by-step guide book from The Heritage Foundation - Project 2025).

Those are just today's standard Dictators, still just copying...

You could go way back till Julius Ceasar (Roman), Adolf Hilter (Germany), Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), and Mao Zedong (China), etc. All similar behaviours too. It's like they learn off one another and it's handed down as a guidebook for the next?

This leads me to believe there's a "How to be a Dictator for Dummies" book out there, another team behind them, or they go out of their way to ask each other. Most of them however seem clueless about basic history too.

would trump be more to your liking if he kicked and screamed about putin like you guys do?
mean girls mentality is for highschool not adulthood bro

ガストセフィロス (...) 1 Sep @ 1:08pm

Little red book of dictator secrets... it's passed about quite often...

Diogenes the Cynic 1 Sep @ 1:18pm

I like your spirit, but you're making us look bad OP. Not in like a PR way but in a way that makes you seem like a bad faith actor from the right spouting off what you perceive to be left leaning rhetoric, doing it poorly on purpose to discredit those arguments.

Specifically you make a lot of large generalizations and absolute claims without providing evidence. While I don't particularly disagree with your sentiment, I do wholeheartedly disagree with the manner in which you've chosen to express it, which is ragebait at best, intentional bad faith acting at worst, either way, you are doing little to help or further a conversation.

Big&Black 1 Sep @ 1:34pm

Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic:
I like your spirit, but you're making us look bad OP. .

Are you concerned about the public image of this here forum or just being a cynic

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Diogenes the Cynic 1 Sep @ 1:39pm

Originally posted by Big&Black:
Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic:
I like your spirit, but you're making us look bad OP. .

Are you concerned about the public image of this here forum or just being a cynic

Being a cynic. I think I cleared that up with the statement, "not in PR way" but it's cool.

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PaulKrawitz 1 Sep @ 1:41pm

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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1 Day 🤣 1 Sep @ 1:42pm

Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic:
Originally posted by Big&Black:

Are you concerned about the public image of this here forum or just being a cynic

Being a cynic. I think I cleared that up with the statement, "not in PR way" but it's cool.

BEHOLD
A MAN

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Azza ☠ 1 Sep @ 1:43pm

Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic:
I like your spirit, but you're making us look bad OP. Not in like a PR way but in a way that makes you seem like a bad faith actor from the right spouting off what you perceive to be left leaning rhetoric, doing it poorly on purpose to discredit those arguments.

Specifically you make a lot of large generalizations and absolute claims without providing evidence. While I don't particularly disagree with your sentiment, I do wholeheartedly disagree with the manner in which you've chosen to express it, which is ragebait at best, intentional bad faith acting at worst, either way, you are doing little to help or further a conversation.

I can go into details, if desired?

I was rather hoping this topic would just be more general about what all dictatorships have in common and if there's an actual pattern between them all?

Like you can find a pattern between everyone with Narcissistic Traits, doing similar stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob5NENZdkj8

People could tell me if I'm looking into it too deep as well? Perhaps there are different types of dictatorships, acting in different ways?

Were they shaped or created?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is05kO06B-g

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