Netflix has a new series called "How to Become a Tyrant." Based on the first 2 seconds of the preview (as far as I got) it looks unbearable. Yet, I am intensely curious. If any of you are brave enough/sufficiently reckless with your mental health, I'd love to hear what bullshit is being streamed into millions of homes.

There has to be opportunities for spectacular dunks. Please entertain me.

  • Hewaoijsdb [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah I read it. I liked it a lot when I read it, but that was when I was a lib. To it's credit, it has more of a materialist analysis than some other liberal political theories. But other than that, it is staunchly anticommunist, even going so far as to handwave away Cuba's low infant morality rate as something the Castro regime did for more control or something. And of course, the book doesn't really look into class and class interests, and how that factors into why different countries have different political systems.