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		amarant 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No, it's not a battleship I kinda hate that we're apparently selecting for "best cult leader" now. Surely this wasn't what the Greeks intended when they invented democracy.

adastra22 7 days ago [–]

No one intended it, but this failure mode is covered quite extensively in Plato’s Republic.

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