• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And I think the thing he doesn’t understand is that, if he ever actually achieves his goal of implementing a fascist totalitarian state, guys like him are the first to get liquidated by the regime. He thinks he’s going to be a duke or something, but he’ll be tossed aside like trash.

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      Yeah, totalitarian states aren’t really fun for anybody in the end. It just devolves into a paranoid scheme and murder web for survival.

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        5 months ago

        Ohhh I love a nice paranoid scheme and murder web. Something to look forward to

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        It just devolves into a paranoid scheme and murder web for survival.

        This sums up a lot of the Rome docuseries episodes I’ve seen.

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      So much this. I’m sure he thinks he is some kind of student of history and playing nine dimensional chess, but this is the basic stuff - people like him almost always end up against the wall, killed by people much like him.