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by equalsione 652 days ago
Just bear in mind that dictatorships tend to have broad (and arbitrary) definitions of "pre-dicatatorship ruling classes" that could include you, your loved ones, your friends, etc...
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bell-cot 652 days ago
True - but what dictatorship has tried to limited its purges to just the "pre-dicatatorship ruling classes"? Most of 'em go after broad groups of "harmless and useful, if only the dictatorship was rational" people, just for the evil LOL's.

Then there are all the folks who end up destitute/maimed/dead from the wars & famines & stuff...

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soco 652 days ago
Coming back to today's voters, they all seem to think they will end up in the "good" group. History says many of them will be so very wrong...
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bell-cot 652 days ago
All the more reason for our short-sighted narcissist ruling classes to discourage the teaching of history, eh?
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