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[–] 62 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Great. Please refer to me as the god emperor omnissiah from now on. It'll be fine. Trust.

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    [–] 54 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Guys

    What? You mean it? I promise I won't do anything weird haha. All of my laws will be super normal and not involve any of my kinks haha. Y'all are so sweet 🥺. I am very normal and can be trusted with state power

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    [–] 44 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It will definitely be different yes

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    People talk about Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot like they are monsters, but the truth is, they were just regular humans, they had feelings, mothers, ambitions, anxieties. They were just normal men. To call them monsters ignores the full range of human capabilities.

    Now if if you want a truly monstrous dictator, and not one of these posers, vote for me.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Good leaders don't seek power.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    That’s what scares me.

    Somebody’s gonna make me president because I want nothing to do with any of it.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    first thing would be to roll out the Guillotine in front of anyone with a networth of more than 10 Million, and ask an Ultimatum: "Either your Money above 10 Million goes to the Community and Infrastructure or your Head." After it has been settled I would resign.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    i unironically feel like I would be a better leader than who's currently in charge. hell, a literal naked molerat would probably do a better job

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely fucking not unless you also make me omniscient so I know the best course of action.

    Otherwise my ass is making my mother in charge of education, tell her to find some people who can help us, and then try to let those people who are experts do shit.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Don't need to know the best course of action, delegating to experts and others who are more capable of getting the job done right is literally good leadership. Your first instincts are already better than some career politicians.

    Just thinking aloud now but I wonder if stochastic representation would prevent corruption... The average person means well and wants to do a good job. The rest are a loud minority.

    Low-discrepancy sampling of the population too. That just means any sample of the total population will closely resemble the total population. AKA accurate representation. No unlucky sampling.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    "if the sum of your possessions exceeds 100 M dollars/euros/whatever, your shall lose your civil rights, including the right to have your -shady- death investigated."

    You're welcome. Invest in schools and hospitals. You have one week.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I promise I'll be benevolent dictator

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No thanks. People don’t wield power, power wields people.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    FOSS on everyone. No large corporations. Almost everything produced locally. Cars only allowed in rural areas. Public transportation will be like this. No big cities, everyone will be spread into medium-sized ones. People will have houses, and every house will be obliged to have a tree in the front. People will only be allowed a max of two children, and we will have a degrowth economy where population itself will shrink slowly until the end of humanity.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    i dont trust myself enough .. to have such control over so many peeps.

    right now i may think "mhm yes mayb i could do it" but mayb i change with power.

    i wouldnt trust any individual peep with that...

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    [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    I’m down:

    • Single payer medical/dental/vision insurance
    • Implement UBI
    • Taxes based on a curve of net worth up to 100%
    • Universal ranked choice voting
    • Abolish my dictatorship

    Might throw other things in there, but I think it’d be the shortest lived dictatorship in history.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes! A Ferrari, a prostitute (male or female) and a psychologist for every citizen. Also, wine on tap in every home.

    You either get the joke or you don't.

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    It'll be different

    Still bad, but different XD

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Funko pops are now illegal

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

    I'd actually be a great leader because I know literally the only secret to good leadership (not great, but good): appoint people that are really really good at their jobs so you can do fuck all all day.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    But are YOU good at spotting talent? Or at the least do you know someone who is?

    This crucial first step (and it is only a first step) runs right up against the Principle-agent problem, and a major result of our inability to recognize talent generally leads to a Market for lemons.

    Dictatorships suffer immensely from these problems because the dictator is a national focal point for decisions. Every swindler and scammer in the country is running around trying to fool the dictator. Since the benefits of being on the dictator’s good side are sky-high and the costs of being on their bad side are severe, the incentives for honesty and transparency in communications are nonexistent. This is the source of dictatorship dysfunction.

    About the only thing dictators tend to be good at (if they survive) is navigating a complex web of sycophantic and untrustworthy relationships. There is a constant need for surveillance and purging of potential traitors which has the effect of inspiring fear and paranoia throughout the regime. This in turn feeds into the dictator’s own paranoia, which becomes a vicious cycle.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    🌸Flowers for everyone💐🌸

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It'll be a prime example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Can't imagine I'd be able to keep the country running well for more than a year tbh

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'd be assassinated VERY quickly by the rich and powerful.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    A friend of mine literally said that he'll be a great leader and should not be questioned after throwing out all sorts of silly ideas on how to improve our city. I told him he'll be worse than the current government and this is why democracy is still the best, because it does not rely on a single point of failure: which is one leader making bad decisions after bad decisions. A good autocrat is only one in a million.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    We need someone strong of character and values, experienced but able to change, willing but not eager to take up the mantle of leadership, someone who knows that their duty is not to build the future themselves, but to empower others to do so and bring together their successes in one coherent vision.
    What I'm saying is: Linus Torvalds for world governor!

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  • [+] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    I'll just use my dictatorship powers to replace it with liquid democracy!

    I bet you'll hate that!

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    I will simply make all the cool stuff legal and all the icky stuff illegal

    Now salute me (or don’t, I’m not your mom)

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Dick tater chip

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