BadJojo 61 points 10 months ago

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

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saigot 44 points 10 months ago

I was really skeptical until you said trust, now I know I can trust you.

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itsmistermoon 20 points 10 months ago

What about Omni-chan?

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FerretyFever0 5 points 10 months ago

"WHERE IS OMNI-CHAN?!?!?!" Euthanize me. Please.

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UnGlasierteGurke 9 points 10 months ago

as you command god emperor omnissiah🧎

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Rusty 3 points 10 months ago

My friend Horus wanted to visit you.

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WorldsDumbestMan 1 point 10 months ago

I don't know...do I get a third lung?

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sharkfucker420 53 points 10 months ago

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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UnGlasierteGurke 58 points 10 months ago

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SARGE 11 points 10 months ago
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Neptr 8 points 10 months ago

And dolls are cute :3

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WorldsDumbestMan 4 points 10 months ago

Of course comrade! But why do we have to wear these shark costume- STEP COMRADE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

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sharkfucker420 4 points 10 months ago

THE SHARK COSTUME STAYS ON OR I PUT YOU IN THE SOUP

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gustofwind 44 points 10 months ago

It will definitely be different yes

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EpeeGnome 16 points 10 months ago

That was my thought as well. Probably not better, but yeah, different I can do.

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Agent641 31 points 10 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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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 30 points 10 months ago

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DmMacniel 16 points 10 months ago

Good leaders don't seek power.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 7 points 10 months ago

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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DmMacniel 7 points 10 months ago

as a dictator, you could install a cabinet of those who you deem competent enough to fill positions of importance.

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 4 points 10 months ago

That’s still too much work

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Juice 3 points 10 months ago

Boooo

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DmMacniel 1 point 10 months ago

gone

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DmMacniel 25 points 10 months ago

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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Phil_in_here 10 points 10 months ago

How much is a $25 million mansion worth if you can either die or give it away? Sounds like it's only worth $9 million

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Ziglin 2 points 10 months ago

Selling it 12 million should be a no brainer then, right?

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DmMacniel 2 points 10 months ago

no no, the appraisals are fixed once I'm in office.

but yeah good loophole you found there.

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chonglibloodsport 2 points 10 months ago

That’s not how prices have ever worked, even in command economies (where black markets rule).

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DmMacniel 2 points 10 months ago

Do you want the guillotine!?

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QuinnyCoded 24 points 10 months ago

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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UnGlasierteGurke 24 points 10 months ago

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QuinnyCoded 1 point 10 months ago

on god

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RebekahWSD 22 points 10 months ago

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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Leesi 10 points 10 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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BaraCoded 21 points 10 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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DickFiasco 18 points 10 months ago

I promise I'll be benevolent dictator

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Ziglin 5 points 10 months ago

For life?

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DickFiasco 4 points 10 months ago

Yes

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hungryphrog 4 points 10 months ago

Seems trustworthy enough, I shall be a loyal subject to almighty dictator DickFiasco. 🙇

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morto 15 points 10 months ago

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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froufox 6 points 10 months ago

what happens if you give birth to a third kid?..

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UnGlasierteGurke 13 points 10 months ago

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morto 12 points 10 months ago

Nothing, because I'm too soft to even roleplay as a dictator...

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kibiz0r 15 points 10 months ago

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

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chicken 5 points 10 months ago

This, you're not going to be successfully holding on to the position of dictator by directing available resources to what's best for the people.

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Aljernon 5 points 10 months ago

Once down the dark path you begin, forever will it dominate your destiny

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Smorty 14 points 10 months ago

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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Axolotl_cpp 14 points 10 months ago

I would trust myself, choose me

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lath 11 points 10 months ago

I trust myself too. Choose me instead and I'll make sure the other person ends up in gulag.

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binarytobis 3 points 10 months ago

It’s true absolute power corrupts absolutely, I wouldn’t be immune either.

But if we’re talking a 4 year term of dictator, I’m so mad at all the right people, it would probably take four years for me to work through all of that. Even being selfish I wouldn’t get around to the corruption in time, too busy mulching the rich and getting kids school lunches to spite boomers.

Now if I was pushed into a second term, people would start to regret.

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KairuByte 13 points 10 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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brown567 11 points 10 months ago

It'll be different

Still bad, but different XD

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anton 10 points 10 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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spirinolas 10 points 10 months ago

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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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 10 months ago

i was promised a pony and a toothbrush

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krooklochurm 10 points 10 months ago

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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chonglibloodsport 14 points 10 months ago

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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krooklochurm 1 point 10 months ago

You only need to hire a person that actually is good at spotting talent.

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chonglibloodsport 2 points 10 months ago

How are you gonna do that?

Edit: also, how do you keep your talent spotter loyal to you when everyone they hire will be loyal to them, not you?

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krooklochurm 1 point 10 months ago

Ask around, then trial and error.

Who fucking cares? I'm doing as little as possible all day. As long as things are getting done well in a timely manner I couldn't care less.

I'm here to do fuck all and make money for it, and the best way to do that sustainably is for things to work well.

When you empower the people under you to do their jobs well then you're not an impediment to their goals.

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Venus_Ziegenfalle 4 points 10 months ago

Also no closed door meetings, no side hustles, no conflicts of interest. And regular audits just to be safe. If you want to work for the public your business is of public interest.

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krooklochurm 0 points 10 months ago

All those things sound like a lot of work that I don't want to do.

As a good leader (not great, but good. Top 30% at least), I will hire people. I will fire those who need to be fired. I will hire replacements.

That is it. If any of my underlings require more than a howdy doo every once in a while they are too high maintenance.

Anything that detracts from my doing nothing as much as possible will be replaced.

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Venus_Ziegenfalle 1 point 10 months ago

That's pretty close to Project 2025 yo. But I guess that's what the meme implied.

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krooklochurm 1 point 10 months ago

Are you arguing the Trump White House has hired people that are competent at their jobs?

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kiara 9 points 10 months ago

🌸Flowers for everyone💐🌸

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87Six 3 points 10 months ago

flower farmers wondering who tf will pay for the flowers in the background

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WorldsDumbestMan 2 points 10 months ago

I'm voting for you now!

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TankovayaDiviziya 9 points 10 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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samus12345 9 points 10 months ago

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

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bufalo1973 5 points 10 months ago

Not is you go first against them.

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WorldsDumbestMan 1 point 10 months ago

You get the secondary ability of no one thinking to assassinate you, you can only die to angry mobs.

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder 9 points 10 months ago
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joyjoy 10 points 10 months ago

So only please yourself

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wizardbeard 2 points 10 months ago

Awesome! I've been practicing that since I was 13, and let me tell ya, I'm very good at it.

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joyjoy 4 points 10 months ago

Practice every day

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gerryflap 8 points 10 months ago

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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bestelbus22 2 points 9 months ago

Not even after giving dictatorship to Maarten van Rossem?

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gerryflap 1 point 9 months ago

I guess, but at that point it's not me making the decisions anymore

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UnixSlvt42 7 points 10 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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germanatlas 6 points 10 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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Juice 6 points 10 months ago

Dick tater chip

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TigerAce 4 points 10 months ago

Actually it has always been my goal to become world dictator, so it's funny you say that :)

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WorldsDumbestMan 4 points 10 months ago

"Who's yuu? I'm Mii!"

So, we going to miniaturize every pony for every man, or not?

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korendian 4 points 10 months ago
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SkaveRat 2 points 10 months ago

You're perfect then. Congrats, you got the job

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Ziglin 3 points 10 months ago

I would be willing to try it but honestly I'm too gullible to figure out who would actually do a good job at planning the next democratic government to succeed me.

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Una 3 points 10 months ago

If I become dictator, everyone is getting toxoplasmosis (so everyone can become more attractive than they are)

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x0x7 3 points 10 months ago

I'd do fine. Honestly, you'd all be a lot better off than with the current lot.

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birdwing 3 points 10 months ago

Affordable housing for everyone, queer accomodations (including transition, sport centres), federated and decentralised worker-owned co-ops being fostered, etc..

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 2 points 10 months ago

i mean, it wouldn't be a dictatorship for long tho, I'll just add a few things and give up my power.

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magic_smoke 2 points 10 months ago

On one hand not using it to limit the death penalty to billionaires and powerful politicians, to end the war on drugs, to bring ubi and universal healthcare is a loss. To give that up seems immoral.

Also to take the power seems immoral.

Not sure there's a good answer for a good person here.

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Asidonhopo 2 points 10 months ago

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Bazell 2 points 10 months ago

Nah, it will be even worse.

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