I was really skeptical until you said trust, now I know I can trust you.
What about Omni-chan?
"WHERE IS OMNI-CHAN?!?!?!" Euthanize me. Please.
as you command god emperor omnissiah🧎
I don't know...do I get a third lung?
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

Of course comrade! But why do we have to wear these shark costume- STEP COMRADE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
THE SHARK COSTUME STAYS ON OR I PUT YOU IN THE SOUP
It will definitely be different yes
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.

That’s what scares me.
Somebody’s gonna make me president because I want nothing to do with any of it.
That’s still too much work
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.
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
That’s not how prices have ever worked, even in command economies (where black markets rule).
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

on god
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.
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.
"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.
I promise I'll be benevolent dictator
Yes
Seems trustworthy enough, I shall be a loyal subject to almighty dictator DickFiasco. 🙇
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.

I would trust myself, choose me
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.
I’m down:
Might throw other things in there, but I think it’d be the shortest lived dictatorship in history.
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!
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.
i was promised a pony and a toothbrush
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.
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.
You only need to hire a person that actually is good at spotting talent.
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?
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.
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.
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.
That's pretty close to Project 2025 yo. But I guess that's what the meme implied.
Are you arguing the Trump White House has hired people that are competent at their jobs?
I'm voting for you now!
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.
I'd be assassinated VERY quickly by the rich and powerful.
Not is you go first against them.
You get the secondary ability of no one thinking to assassinate you, you can only die to angry mobs.
Awesome! I've been practicing that since I was 13, and let me tell ya, I'm very good at it.
Not even after giving dictatorship to Maarten van Rossem?
I'll just use my dictatorship powers to replace it with liquid democracy!
I bet you'll hate that!
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)
"Who's yuu? I'm Mii!"
So, we going to miniaturize every pony for every man, or not?
i mean, it wouldn't be a dictatorship for long tho, I'll just add a few things and give up my power.
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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