ITT: benevolent dictators

>>2923616
Sulla

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>>2923616
if you southerners didn't chimp out we would have went with Lincoln's original plan en masse and shipped all the slaves to Liberia

>>2923616
I don't think you understand what the word dictator means.

>>2923676
He kinda fits with the classic Roman definition of it.

withholding liberties in the case of national crisis (country breaking apart seems crisis enough).

>>2923637
>if you didn't read the rest of that sente

Abradolf Lincler

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>>2923638
as much as I like Mussolini (the way he cultivated a public persona was brilliant, and his Italy was among the closest we ever got to 'real fascism'), he was not benevolent - the Blackshirts, and later the state, actively used and glorified violence as a means of consolidating power and silencing dissent

>>2923676
Marcus Aurelius … man head and shoulders among all men of his time,
excellent civic leader, warrior, figurehead and philosopher.

should read: head and shoulders "above" all men….

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>>2923616
Tfw cant chew gum

>>2923920
>city states don't w-
>multiculturalism do-...but you can't force different ethnic groups to live in the same neigh-
>corporal punishment is unj-
>YOU CAN'T MAKE BEING SEEN NAKED THROUGH YOUR WINDOW THE SAME CRIME AS PUBLIC NU-

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>>2923616

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>>2923616
>>2923618
>>2923637
>>2923751

Three words

Sic Semper Tyrannis

>>2924055

slavery seems pretty tyrannical desu ne