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A psyop, I'm gay and think this whole thing is insane, all I care about is equal treatment under the law. Give me my freedom of association, my property rights, and the same tax benefits as everyone else and I'm happy. The majority of gay people I know feel the same, the only one who doesn't is a diagnosed schizophrenic.

If you acknowledge that an oppressive majority can exist, and you read the definition as clearly as I did, why are you singling out "synonym: dictatorial" as opposed to "despotic and oppressive"?

Even "dictatorial" does not mean "dictator", see #1

Lol dude, you literally keep giving directory definitions that are referencing my point.

Like why is this turning into an english class. Are you for centralized authoritarianism?! Like one after another here defending it seems…kinda the fucking opposite to what id expect on nostr with bitcoiners…

Using quotes to falsely define a term like tyranny is the best way of getting me to break out dictionary definitions. No, I am not for centralized authoritarianism, which is precisely why I do not support democracy or any other form of government. You said that democracies categorically couldn't be tyrannical, and I argued that they absolutely can be; I would further argue that the current order of democracies is in fact tyrannical, and that this is basically inevitable. Is it worth going that far though? My arguments about the categorical requirements of tyranny appear to have disturbed you and now you are resorting to personal attacks.

So you do not support any form of government. But you are talking to me now, because you jumped to the add to defend the idea that a dictatorship is a better alternative to a democratic process. This is clear more about be right then it is about being correct. Which democratic country is ruling with tyranny right now?

All of them, take your pick. If you are using violence or coercion against peaceful people to get your way then that would be tyrannical, no political process of voting or delegates could dissolve this, it can only obscure it.

As far as the practical distinctions between something like a democracy and a monarchy, we can evaluate the game theory of incentives and power structures play out (How a dictatorship would be distinct from a monarchy seems blurry, I'm only going to address a monarchy to keep things simple).

In a monarchy the king has an incentive to preserve the wealth of the nation for their grandchildren, the future monarchs. In a system of elected representatives like we have, the incentive is to abuse the system as much as possible to maximize returns over a short term limit. There are several examples of kings that proved to rule better than democracies/republics have shown, the king of Norway is well respected to this day, Serbias monarchy is generally held in high regard too, the Brits love their monarchs but they have limited power to affect change at the political level. Contrasted with democracies, which always trend towards social programs, taxation, war, and destruction in due course, Greece, Rome, us.

Yeah, Saifedean Ammous talks about this. The time preference for there family blah blah.

The Kim family of North Korea is a monarchy….how is that working out for the citizens?

A monarchy in actual power is different from one in name only

Sure, and Hitler was democratically elected. Has the introduction of democratic elements made China a country more free than the time of dynasties?

Hitler wasn’t democratically elected. He was chancellor and used the legal system to take power as a dictator.

OK, fair enough. The US government is responsible for ~11 million dead civilians in the middle east, and we have continuously voted for it.

autocratization is an issue with slowly dismantling democracy in a country. The US government is corrupt for sure. Vote suppressions, removal of creditable journalism. Lack of transparency to citizens by the 2 dominant parties. US citizens are slowly loosing their democracy. A system of demoralizing the population has gone on to leave the average citizen detached from the hardships they as a “superpower” negatively applying to the world 🌎

There is also the iron law of oligarchy, even under a perfect democracy the distribution of social/political influence will not be equal. Someone will always curry more political favor with the public; saying someone who holds a majority of political favor couldn't be a tyrant, even under a democracy, doesn't seem to follow.