> a.democratic nation exists for the people who are the owners. change the people and you've already failed them always been, always be. simple as. > in fact owing to this tyranny is a friend of the base; for tyrants enjoy being flattered, but nobody would ever flatter them if he possessed a free spiritmen of character love their ruler, or at all events do not flatter him. and the base are useful for base business, for nail is driven out by nail, as the proverb goes.1 and it is a mark of a tyrant to dislike anyone that is proud or free-spirited; for the tyrant claims for himself alone the right to bear that character, and the man who meets his pride with pride and shows a free spirit robs tyranny of its superiority and position of mastery; tyrants therefore hate the proud as undermining their authority. and it is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and companions, feeling that citizens are hostile but strangers make no claim against him.2 these and similar habits are characteristic of tyrants and preservative of their office, but they lack no element of baseness. and broadly speaking, they are all included under three heads; for tyranny aims at three things, one to keep its subjects humble (for a humble-spirited man would not plot against anybody), second to have them continually distrust one another (for a tyranny is not destroyed until some men come to trust each other, owing to which tyrants also make war on the respectable, as detrimental [20] to their rule not only because of their refusal to submit to despotic rule, but also because they are faithful to one another and to the other citizens, and do not inform against one another nor against the others) the tyrant wants "diversity" because there can be no "unity" against his tyranny. americans didn't vote to be dismembered for team elon. fuck him, that autistic greedy cunt can go to hell.
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