No, I don’t think I could.

The problem with dictators is that you put every action under the context of a single person’s perspective. Even if you go in with the best and most altruistic intention, no single person is able to tackle every issue from every angle, and you will inevitably end up committing an injustice by a simple lack of awareness.

Not to mention that many issues are of relative morality to different groups, so to one group you can be a savior but to another you will always be a despot. Whichever interpretation ends up as the definitive one depends on how willing the offended parties are to overthrow you.

A democratic system is not perfect and (depending on perspective) may not be as effectual at bringing out positive change as an altruistic dictator, but the concept of distributed responsibility/distributed blame reduces the likelihood of a coup/revolution (emphasis on reduces, not eliminates) as long as the political apparatus is seen to incorporate or acknowledge everyone’s perspectives in the decision making process.

Misspellings effect a terrible affect from pedants.

At this point I just accept the various spellings as common. I feel like I stick to one particular style but I honestly couldn’t tell you if certain words are UK English, US English, or specific to somewhere else.

As long as meaning is clear, I don’t think it matters which is used. Alternate vocabulary is probably more significant points of confusion (e.g. what is a biscuit to you?)

The man will either die before he experiences consequences for his actions, or he will die as a consequence of his actions. But agreed, I don’t think he will ever experience consequences before then.

Other than the general acceptance that all religions are unsubstantiated fraud.

All MAGA does is disagree.

Not the previous user, but I think humanity is something that everyone is endowed with at birth, and a narrow few people choose to surrender it through their actions.

Might be a PieFed thing, I’ve never seen it on Lemmy

The Executive branch is beholden to its rulings

Though made significantly less potent by one such ruling that makes the president immune to punishment for any crime committed as an “official act”.

Their rulings are effectively “No one but the president is able to do X, Y, Z” because the president can always just do something they know is illegal, wait months/years for the court to finally hear the case, get told to stop, and then basically just keep doing the same thing a different way until it gets challenged again, which becomes another months/years long process.

Instructions unclear, shot my hookup in the neck.

All good! It’s been a day for sure.

I figured, was just trying to be cheeky!

Sorry, I didn’t get to finish the article text.

Darth Vader was the title used by Anakin Skywalker, a former Jedi knight who is the father of Luke and Leia.

Not familiar with that series, but I looked up its wiki (even for a character I saw that had a stated death) and they thankfully seem to use “is” for everyone.

Not sure if it’s a series I’ll ever get around to looking at, but just in case, I didn’t linger on any pages long enough to have any memory of who anyone actually is.

Tangentially related but just want to voice one peeve: I really hate it when wikis for works of fiction update “is” to “was” if a character later dies in a story.

Sometimes I just need to remember things like where a character is from or how old they are, so I look them up but end up getting spoiled on the second or third word of the article just when it says (e.g.) “Darth Vader was…”

If I had technical know-how, I would make a “No tense spoilers” browser plugin that changes the tense of “was” to “is” on wiki pages.

This is incredible.

I was right to respect witches.

and wearing an armband identifying themselves as Nazis.

Isn’t that what the hats are for?

Nah fuck Oracle, too.

Definitely intentional.

Well, either that or it is a direct reference to Chaplin’s The Great Dictator based on the post title, the character of which is based on Adolf Hitler, with Chaplin himself being famous for having a toothbrush moustache like Hitler.

Russia, more like. There was a huge amount of Russian-sponsored disinfo found to be circulating during the Brexit referendum.

The main link between the US and Brexit is only that the US is currently following Russian masters as well.