Netflix has a new series called "How to Become a Tyrant." Based on the first 2 seconds of the preview (as far as I got) it looks unbearable. Yet, I am intensely curious. If any of you are brave enough/sufficiently reckless with your mental health, I'd love to hear what bullshit is being streamed into millions of homes.
There has to be opportunities for spectacular dunks. Please entertain me.
These documentaries always cover the same handful of people. Stalin and hitler are probably the most overly talked about leaders in the 20th century when there are many others who get ignored.
They could cover king leopold, Rios Mont, trujillo, sukarno, pinochet, stroessner, and so many more. Even Franco and Salazar don’t get nearly enough coverage, same with Hirohito.
Also love how they conveniently ignore Turkmenistan, which is basically US backed North Korea.
I'm excited to learn about there "strongmen" and their "cults of personality" "buying weapons while their people starve." :citations-needed:
“strongmen” and their “cults of personality” “buying weapons while their people starve.”
PMC: "this is immoral, we need to use our arts and culture skills to agitate for military action"
actual workers: "yeah I get that, the gangs in my hometown are the same way"
Don't watch it, you just contribute to the algorithm recommending it to more libs.
Maybe, but watching this might be good when you're taking a break from reading Capital.
Of course not. It's the top five "Tyrants" as defined by AskReddit. It's Hitler, Stalin, Amin, Gaddafi, and the Kim family.
https://hexbear.net/post/125146
Had a thread about this shit earlier: surprise, surprise, it's bad, folks.
Just a hitlist of the US empire with the possible exception of Amin because nobody cares about poor African countries, just the ones with oil deposits.
Tangent but did anyone read the Dictators Handbook. I heard of it from a cgpgrey video but this the same guy who based a video on Guns germs and steel so ...
Yeah I read it. I liked it a lot when I read it, but that was when I was a lib. To it's credit, it has more of a materialist analysis than some other liberal political theories. But other than that, it is staunchly anticommunist, even going so far as to handwave away Cuba's low infant morality rate as something the Castro regime did for more control or something. And of course, the book doesn't really look into class and class interests, and how that factors into why different countries have different political systems.
When you get right down to it, the algorithms are a lot like the monsters of Cthulhu mythos. They live just outside of human grasp, they guide our actions to their own intent, and trying to understand how they think is a gateway to madness.
