[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

A benevolent dictatorship is obviously the most effective form of government, the problem is that any dictatorship can be used for good or evil and no matter how benevolent your queen or dictator or whatever you call her is, she's gonna die eventually and now you're rolling the dice. If you get someone less benevolent, system's a failure. If you get someone just as benevolent but less competent and they get deposed, system's a failure. And that's assuming that the system even survives succession rather than devolving into old-school feudalism or capitalist 'democracy' or ancap utopia or whatever in a power vacuum.

The only way to ensure a benevolent government remains long-term is by spreading the power out enough that the system can shrug off the deaths and retirement of individuals and keep going along some plan that exists beyond any one person

Okay, you say, so don't have a dictatorship of one benevolent queen but rather of a benevolent group acting in the best interests of the people. And this has the same pros and cons, but both blunted. It's good at what it does as long as the group remains truly benevolent, but any organization can decay and become corrupt and, in a sense, die just like our hypothetical good queen.

So if we just keep following the logic down, we end up at the idea that the group responsible for the wide-ranging decisions affecting everyone's lives should ideally be accountable to, more or less, everyone. If the ultimate goal is for the government to act in the best interests of the people, it follows that it is the people who should be the best judge of how well the government is working. If it stops doing its job properly, it is the people who notice. So it should be in the hands of the people to correct it.

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

Exactly. I'm getting a bit old to even tolerate hanging out with high schoolers but it's inevitable every now and again, and I assure you that at no point have I accidentally discussed anything sexual with them. It's so easy. For the most part they don't want to talk about that shit with your crusty old ass anyway, and the few who do just need a firm "no, that's entirely inappropriate"

It's so easy dude lmao

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

I really think it's mostly organic. I don't think they tell you to be corrupt, they just tell you to "be smart" and "pay attention to how we do it" and then they either fall in line with all their corrupt piggy buddies or get fired

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Every time I see an Alex, Sam, Jaime, or other ungendered name disgost

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Cocaine + the gym, incidentally, sounds like it probably would work pretty well. And also possibly kill you.

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

We really don't need to worry about "coming off like a trump supporter" because anyone here who thinks for half a second can tell there are no trump supporters here

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

Also going to the gym is a terrible and extraordinarily difficult way to try to lose weight. If you want to lose weight you really need to go to the source and eat less

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

I only speak for the silent masses

Utterly unfunny and proud

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Photoshop, probably

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Imagine getting so mad about a giant buttplug that you physically attack someone

I'm pretty sure the artist wins this round, "someone punched me in the face for erecting an 80ft tall buttplug" is a story you can't beat

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

Noodles? Woke.

Pay attention now - pasta? Not woke.

thurston

[-] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

This is why I fast. Can't be gay with no calories for gay activities

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