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nisegamilast Thursday at 12:48 PM1 replyview on HN

There's societal memory of monarchies and kings that held a lot of power that still impacts things to this day, sometimes unconsciously and sometimes consciously.


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psd1last Thursday at 1:14 PM

The NSA is an American body, and Trump is the subject of a personality cult far in excess of any European monarch. Authoritarianism is a personality trait independent of political structures.