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According to the dictators handbook: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845
You should always pay your military.
Edit: if you are like me, then you will read this book and think HTF is Trump president when he is a complete idiot to these rules? Well, sadly, it all makes sense if Trump isn't the 'real' leader here..
The hardcover is already #1 Bestseller on Amazon on pre-orders alone. Guess that's one number one spot Trump won't be too proud of.
You can't directly help, but there are things you can do: Learn. Understand why this is happening and how to fight it. Then, teach.
The book "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Amazon link (non-affiliate)) completely changed how I process information about these kinds of things. It talks at length about protests in dictatorships, why they happen, and why they sometimes don't happen. How governments fight them. How and why our own governments sometimes help and sometimes don't.
I really, really highly recommend it.
this was in "Fire and Fury". From a NY Post write up:
“In pursuing a friend’s wife, he would try to persuade the wife that her husband was perhaps not what she thought,” author Michael Wolff quotes a Trump friend as saying.
Before he was president, Trump would have his secretary ask the friend to drop by his office, where he would subject him to “more or less constant sexual banter,” according to “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
With the wife listening in on speakerphone, Trump would say: “Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better f–k than your wife? Tell me about it.
“I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o’clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise.”
After leaving office, he led a dangerous expedition into the uncharted Amazon to find and map one of the sources of the Amazon river. It's an amazing story, and very well told: The River of Doubt.
It would be naive to assume he's actually killing drug dealers. I recommend The Dictator's Handbook before making any assumptions about why a dictator is allowing violence against a group.
https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845
For example, let's say an earthquake hits your country and affects 100,000 people on the verge of starvation. Let's say 50,000 support you and 50,000 don't. Guess who isn't getting a single dollar of relief regardless of how much money streams in from Western charities.
Trump has learned a lot from authoritarian, corrupt leaders throughout history. His playbook is literally from stuff like this https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845
> The U.K. has an armed ruling class and disarmed citizenry, which supports this. > > So... Like most of the world outside of the US?
I'm fairly certain that's not true. An armed citizenry raises the opportunity cost of establishing martial law, which is good for helping establish a government with more freedoms. Soldiers willing to shoot at and be shot by their neighbors cost more than soldiers who aren't willing to do that.
Yeah, this sounds an awful lot like "The jig is up, defend daddy" mode.
Bannon didn't even write this book, you know that, right?
Daddy fucking let a guy follow his team around for over a year and they all spilled the beans.
> This story is adapted from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, to be published by Henry Holt & Co. on January 9. Wolff, who chronicles the administration from Election Day to this past October, conducted conversations and interviews over a period of 18 months with the president, most members of his senior staff, and many people to whom they in turn spoke. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Wolff says, he was able to take up “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” — an idea encouraged by the president himself. Because no one was in a position to either officially approve or formally deny such access, Wolff became “more a constant interloper than an invited guest.” There were no ground rules placed on his access, and he was required to make no promises about how he would report on what he witnessed.
Irgendwo zuckte Barbara Streisand kurz zusammen
EDIT: Mwahahahaha! #1 Best Seller. Das ich das mal sagen würde: Gute Arbeit, Donald!
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>But but but libertarians tell me if there were no laws they would be double super honest! After all if the laws are already ineffective surely having none would be soooo much better...
No libertarians don't actually think that. They just think having a strong central government makes it easier for companies to do their bullshit, not harder. Just continuing to use the US as an example, as a dishonest corp you have to just bribe one central entity and they have vast powers to re-write laws to favor you and eliminate competition so you can do whatever you want. By contrast if you have a weak central government there isn't a strong entity to corrupt and you have a vast array of different groups to corrupt to get your unfettered access, such as the various independent organizations covering things like standards, ratings, reputation, credit, mediation, security, etc. And none of them have a monopoly they can be easily replaced by more reliable entities. Just as a real world example of what such groups look like see things such as UL (Electricity standards), ISO, ANSI, credit bureaus, etc.
Continuing with real world examples, with the EU parliament getting stronger every day, you can expect those consumer protections start to erode. It's much easier to bribe some MEPs than it is to bribe every legislature from every separate country in Europe. Article 13's just a preview of things to come. All countries naturally gravitate toward more government power and less freedom as seizing a nation's capital to remain in power as long as possible is the end goal of all politicians.
The only time that happens is when the military allows the people to storm the established regime - almost always because the established regime didn't give the military leaders enough money. Typical people cannot, have not, and will never destroy a standing state army.
Relevant CGP Grey video for clarity, but honestly the book Dictator's Handbook is much more thorough.
The Book he based that off of is called The Dictator's Handbook. Its his primary source, and is fantastic.
Been listening to it on my way to work over the last 3 weeks.
Read it, or be like me and listen to it.
Here's an Amazon link
And on Audible
Nu exista dictatura a omului ideal, pentru ca nu poti face nimic singur.
Citeste The Dictator's Handbook si uita-te la video-ul lui CGP Gri.
Rule 13: Russ wrote this book & is pretty legit. I’m incredibly curious to see what he is referring to here but I’ve long felt that all these deaths were related — https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064
That's bullshit. Read about the development of New York's freeway system under the guidance of Robert Moses in the last century, captured in Robert Caro's Power Broker. Every time Moses went back to the "We need to build more highways" well, it just made the problem of traffic worse, and it was never, *never* about making things better for the city, but to secure his legacy and keep his authority / power intact.
The solution -- better support and improvement for public transit -- is what the city needed, but Moses vision of the city and its needs -- more freeways -- was a product of his own narrow imagination, dated by decades by the time he really got going with freeways. It was something for rich folk.
He's also the one that sued to try and stop DJT's niece, Mary Trump, from publishing her book about DJT and the family, and how ridiculously awful human beings they all are.
Democracy is pretty terrible and broken. It also happens to be the only known form of government we know of that forces leaders to govern in the public interest.
Deficit spending isn’t suppose to be a critical tool, just increased spending that can also happen to be deficit spending iirc. Basically we shouldn’t be afraid to spend more during recessions as many nations have previously made the mistake of cutting spending back and trying to treat the government as a business when revenue went down.
Also the 3% isn’t arbitrary, essentially 3% of the GDP is suppose to allow the deficit to not out pace GDP growth during booms as the nineties and some of the 00’s exceeded that: https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth-of-the-united-states-since-1990/
Also, the punishment isn’t that arbitrary either, as the purpose of the punishment would be to take away the incentive of going into debt as politicians generally have one goal: to get reflected. Or to maximize: (marginal votes obtained /marginal campaign dollars spent). Enforcing the status quo is the reason they go into debt. They subsidize companies that are major employers because no one wants to be the reason why their voters are unemployed (due to factories moving out of the voting district) when the next election comes around: there’s a good video on this and I believe it pops up on YouTube if you google “political engineering, Boeing." Luckily, one of my favorite political science books goes into it and I would check it out: https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/1610391845
UPDATE
thanks to all this free publicity, the book is coming out TOMMOROW AT 9AM
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/949021828936237056
amazon already moved up the release date
https://smile.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Inside-Trump-White/dp/1250158060/
A little different than what OP said but I’d recommend reading The River Of Doubt. It’s really cool, if I’m remembering right, it’s in a way his suicide march
Candice Millard has a killer book about Roosevelt exploring an unmapped tributary of the Amazon after losing the 1912 election. It's fascinating stuff, highly recommended.
Theodore Roosevelt did a bit of river exploration himself. After failing to secure a third term, he co-commanded a scientific expedition which was the first to descend the Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt, renamed Rio Roosevelt), a major tributary in the Amazon rain forest.
Candice Millard wrote an excellent book about it called River of Doubt.
It really is stunning. That excerpt should be mandatory reading. I just pre-ordered the book on Amazon, something I haven't done in years.
Amazon has it tagged as a best seller: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
I see “This title will be released on January 5, 2018.” on the Amazon page My pre order says:
> We’ll ship your order as soon as possible > This usually happens when an item doesn’t have a release date, it’s pre-ordered, or it’s out of stock.
Anyone interested in reading a great true story about his should pick up The River of Doubt. It's a wonderful recounting about his expedition into the Amazon.