Empellones
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How to become a dictator
Step 10: Stay Forever — or Until It Falls Apart
• Rule as long as you can.
• Blame all problems on enemies, foreign powers, or traitors.
• When things go wrong, double down. Never admit fault.
Step 10: Stay Forever — or Until It Falls Apart
• Rule as long as you can.
• Blame all problems on enemies, foreign powers, or traitors.
• When things go wrong, double down. Never admit fault.
April 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 10: Stay Forever — or Until It Falls Apart
• Rule as long as you can.
• Blame all problems on enemies, foreign powers, or traitors.
• When things go wrong, double down. Never admit fault.
Step 10: Stay Forever — or Until It Falls Apart
• Rule as long as you can.
• Blame all problems on enemies, foreign powers, or traitors.
• When things go wrong, double down. Never admit fault.
How to become a dictator
Step 9: Cultivate a Personality Cult
• Put your face on billboards and currency.
• Rewrite history books. Name airports and schools after yourself.
• Make loyalty to you equal to loyalty to the nation.
Step 9: Cultivate a Personality Cult
• Put your face on billboards and currency.
• Rewrite history books. Name airports and schools after yourself.
• Make loyalty to you equal to loyalty to the nation.
April 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 9: Cultivate a Personality Cult
• Put your face on billboards and currency.
• Rewrite history books. Name airports and schools after yourself.
• Make loyalty to you equal to loyalty to the nation.
Step 9: Cultivate a Personality Cult
• Put your face on billboards and currency.
• Rewrite history books. Name airports and schools after yourself.
• Make loyalty to you equal to loyalty to the nation.
How to become a dictator
Step 8: Hold Elections (Just for Show)
• Keep having elections to look legitimate — just make sure you always win.
• Control electoral commissions and voter rolls.
• Harass or ban real opposition from running.
Step 8: Hold Elections (Just for Show)
• Keep having elections to look legitimate — just make sure you always win.
• Control electoral commissions and voter rolls.
• Harass or ban real opposition from running.
April 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 8: Hold Elections (Just for Show)
• Keep having elections to look legitimate — just make sure you always win.
• Control electoral commissions and voter rolls.
• Harass or ban real opposition from running.
Step 8: Hold Elections (Just for Show)
• Keep having elections to look legitimate — just make sure you always win.
• Control electoral commissions and voter rolls.
• Harass or ban real opposition from running.
How to become a dictator
Step 7: Militarize Your Power
• Build loyalty within the military and police.
• Create a personal security force, answerable only to you.
• Use violence as a last resort — but make it clear you’re willing.
Step 7: Militarize Your Power
• Build loyalty within the military and police.
• Create a personal security force, answerable only to you.
• Use violence as a last resort — but make it clear you’re willing.
April 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 7: Militarize Your Power
• Build loyalty within the military and police.
• Create a personal security force, answerable only to you.
• Use violence as a last resort — but make it clear you’re willing.
Step 7: Militarize Your Power
• Build loyalty within the military and police.
• Create a personal security force, answerable only to you.
• Use violence as a last resort — but make it clear you’re willing.
How to become a dictator
Step 6: Use a Crisis to Gain Emergency Powers
• Declare a state of emergency (a war, a terrorist attack, a pandemic…).
• Expand executive powers “temporarily” — but never give them back.
• Arrest dissenters “for national security.”
Step 6: Use a Crisis to Gain Emergency Powers
• Declare a state of emergency (a war, a terrorist attack, a pandemic…).
• Expand executive powers “temporarily” — but never give them back.
• Arrest dissenters “for national security.”
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 6: Use a Crisis to Gain Emergency Powers
• Declare a state of emergency (a war, a terrorist attack, a pandemic…).
• Expand executive powers “temporarily” — but never give them back.
• Arrest dissenters “for national security.”
Step 6: Use a Crisis to Gain Emergency Powers
• Declare a state of emergency (a war, a terrorist attack, a pandemic…).
• Expand executive powers “temporarily” — but never give them back.
• Arrest dissenters “for national security.”
How to become a dictator
Step 5: Change the Rules
• Revise the constitution to remove term limits or expand presidential powers.
• Call a referendum if needed — and make sure it passes.
• Say it’s “the will of the people.”
Step 5: Change the Rules
• Revise the constitution to remove term limits or expand presidential powers.
• Call a referendum if needed — and make sure it passes.
• Say it’s “the will of the people.”
April 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 5: Change the Rules
• Revise the constitution to remove term limits or expand presidential powers.
• Call a referendum if needed — and make sure it passes.
• Say it’s “the will of the people.”
Step 5: Change the Rules
• Revise the constitution to remove term limits or expand presidential powers.
• Call a referendum if needed — and make sure it passes.
• Say it’s “the will of the people.”
How to become a dictator
Step 4: Crush the Opposition (Legally at First)
• Accuse political opponents of treason or corruption.
• Use legal systems to disqualify them or put them in jail.
• Intimidate activists, protesters, and independent organizations.
Step 4: Crush the Opposition (Legally at First)
• Accuse political opponents of treason or corruption.
• Use legal systems to disqualify them or put them in jail.
• Intimidate activists, protesters, and independent organizations.
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 4: Crush the Opposition (Legally at First)
• Accuse political opponents of treason or corruption.
• Use legal systems to disqualify them or put them in jail.
• Intimidate activists, protesters, and independent organizations.
Step 4: Crush the Opposition (Legally at First)
• Accuse political opponents of treason or corruption.
• Use legal systems to disqualify them or put them in jail.
• Intimidate activists, protesters, and independent organizations.
How to become a dictator
Step 3: Control the Narrative
• Take over or censor the media.
• Label journalists and critics as “enemies of the people.”
• Create propaganda channels to flood the public with your version of the truth.
Step 3: Control the Narrative
• Take over or censor the media.
• Label journalists and critics as “enemies of the people.”
• Create propaganda channels to flood the public with your version of the truth.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 3: Control the Narrative
• Take over or censor the media.
• Label journalists and critics as “enemies of the people.”
• Create propaganda channels to flood the public with your version of the truth.
Step 3: Control the Narrative
• Take over or censor the media.
• Label journalists and critics as “enemies of the people.”
• Create propaganda channels to flood the public with your version of the truth.
How to become a dictator
Step 2: Attack the Institutions
• Undermine the judiciary: accuse judges of being corrupt or “part of the old elite.”
• Pack the courts with loyalists.
• Weaken the parliament/congress by bypassing it with executive orders.
Step 2: Attack the Institutions
• Undermine the judiciary: accuse judges of being corrupt or “part of the old elite.”
• Pack the courts with loyalists.
• Weaken the parliament/congress by bypassing it with executive orders.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
How to become a dictator
Step 2: Attack the Institutions
• Undermine the judiciary: accuse judges of being corrupt or “part of the old elite.”
• Pack the courts with loyalists.
• Weaken the parliament/congress by bypassing it with executive orders.
Step 2: Attack the Institutions
• Undermine the judiciary: accuse judges of being corrupt or “part of the old elite.”
• Pack the courts with loyalists.
• Weaken the parliament/congress by bypassing it with executive orders.
Market manipulation at its finest. Is he immune to that too?
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Market manipulation at its finest. Is he immune to that too?
Both lawsuits (from April and June 2016) were dropped. That doesn’t automatically mean the allegations were false...
April 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Both lawsuits (from April and June 2016) were dropped. That doesn’t automatically mean the allegations were false...
That’s just an executive order away.
March 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
That’s just an executive order away.
What a clown. Is his boyfriend going to put a petrol engine in it?
March 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What a clown. Is his boyfriend going to put a petrol engine in it?