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It is fucking wild that there is such admiration for a dude who got a shitton of his fellow master-racers killed, then shothimself in the ruins of his capital because, as it turned out, he was an egotistical/magical-thinking shit leader bested by an admixture of non-master-racers.

There's McArthur, Eisenhower, Patton... have some fucking standards when selecting a role-model... they're even white woo-fucking-hoo.

Hm, maybe they just fancy the word 'autocrat' because they think 'automatic' as in: hey we use to have to vote and listen to boring af politics, but now the process is /automatic/ and super convenient!

What really must be understood, is that the militarism, neat costumes, and tyranny isn't to project strength, but to protect the persuasive ideolog in power from other persuasive ideologs in might-makes-right system: which is to say: abject lawlessness and violence. Even for those at the top or 'loyal' as is always the case, sooner or later. Often sooner because incompetence.