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> it apparently required killing his adoptive son too

This is the wrong lesson! Killing Caesar wasn’t a solution. Hell, Caesar might have been the only one who could have fixed the system.

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I saw a speech from Gaddafi that he was going to gradually reform Libya.. It is an often repeated lie that institutions are going to magically transform themselves to no longer be shaped by being suck ups to dictators as soon as a dictator wills it.

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