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0 pointskibwen1y ago0 comments

> So yes, there are good dictatorships. They're especially good at getting stuff done. There are also obviously bad dictatorships.

All dictatorships, by definition, are better at getting things done than organizations that require non-unilateral assent.

Instead, the difference between a good dictatorship and a bad dictatorship is that in a good dictatorship, dissidents are eliminated quietly or, if not quietly, then with enough spin that everyone considers their elimination to be a good thing.

In other words, what good dictatorships are good at is PR.

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XorNot1y ago

Also you can look at the history of the Nazis and it becomes apparent that they weren't good at much of anything except that: so successfully that "efficient Nazis" became a trope for decades after the war despite all the evidence lying around to the contrary.

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0 pointskibwen1y ago0 comments

> So yes, there are good dictatorships. They're especially good at getting stuff done. There are also obviously bad dictatorships.

All dictatorships, by definition, are better at getting things done than organizations that require non-unilateral assent.

In other words, what good dictatorships are good at is PR.

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XorNot1y ago

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