Great. Please refer to me as the god emperor omnissiah from now on. It'll be fine. Trust.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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I was really skeptical until you said trust, now I know I can trust you.
as you command god emperor omnissiah🧎
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It will definitely be different yes
That was my thought as well. Probably not better, but yeah, different I can do.
Good leaders don't seek power.
That’s what scares me.
Somebody’s gonna make me president because I want nothing to do with any of it.
as a dictator, you could install a cabinet of those who you deem competent enough to fill positions of importance.
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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.
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
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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
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.
No thanks. People don’t wield power, power wields people.
Once down the dark path you begin, forever will it dominate your destiny
This, you're not going to be successfully holding on to the position of dictator by directing available resources to what's best for the people.
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.
what happens if you give birth to a third kid?..
Nothing, because I'm too soft to even roleplay as a dictator...
I’m down:
- Single payer medical/dental/vision insurance
- Implement UBI
- Taxes based on a curve of net worth up to 100%
- Universal ranked choice voting
- Abolish my dictatorship
Might throw other things in there, but I think it’d be the shortest lived dictatorship in history.
i dont trust myself enough .. to have such control over so many peeps.
right now i may think "mhm yes mayb i could do it" but mayb i change with power.
i wouldnt trust any individual peep with that...
I would trust myself, choose me
I trust myself too. Choose me instead and I'll make sure the other person ends up in gulag.
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Funko pops are now illegal
You have my vote oh my mighty leader
It'll be different
Still bad, but different XD
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.
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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.
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It'll be a prime example of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Can't imagine I'd be able to keep the country running well for more than a year tbh
Not even after giving dictatorship to Maarten van Rossem?
I guess, but at that point it's not me making the decisions anymore
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.
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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!
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)
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