Post AoTYcv1aPBYT4bnMCu by claudius@darmstadt.social
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(DIR) Post #AoT9sCJHvGT2AnGPke by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-11-27T13:24:39Z
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No one who wants to be a leader should be allowed to be a leader.
(DIR) Post #AoTA6YxoUfhqUD4LTs by badambassador@social.vivaldi.net
2024-11-27T13:26:56Z
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@aral "to summarise the summary of the summary, people are a problem"
(DIR) Post #AoTAFM9LVNlDLnekca by daaain@fosstodon.org
2024-11-27T13:28:47Z
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@aral I was just thinking about posting why does humanity let men with fragile egos mess things up over and over throughout history...
(DIR) Post #AoTBe36hXgNNU6l2Ei by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2024-11-27T13:42:26Z
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@aral Public office should be like jury duty, you get pulled in the lottery, you have to govern for a term. Set up the powers of office so they are constrained by the (experienced) staff.
(DIR) Post #AoTCsYLwGflwOrMfyq by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
2024-11-27T13:58:16Z
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@aral My suggestion is that we choose candidates similarly to how we choose juries. First, you take a lottery from all eligible citizens, maybe 150 to begin with, eliminate all the obviously terrible ones (the guy with the history of working with organised crime, for example, or the one who thinks climate change is related to daylight savings). Whittle it down to, say, 10 then make them campaign. Instead of tearing their opponents down, they'd be trying to explain why their opponents are better.
(DIR) Post #AoTDfVctC5fu8JdZGS by impermanen_@zirk.us
2024-11-27T14:06:59Z
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@aral The Zapatistas have a wonderful expression for this: “mandar obediciendo”.“The main motivational trait that the community seeks in the leader is the ‘sacrifice’, which is understood by the bankilal concept (older brother), a person who must take care of the younger brothers. What the Zapatistas say can be confirmed: in the indigenous communities the leaders command by obeying the community they represent.”https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1665-80272020000100097
(DIR) Post #AoTEPjk52kM1EZ2mNE by D_cence@mastodon.top
2024-11-27T14:15:29Z
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@aral @Azlac (we don't need any, at all)
(DIR) Post #AoTEhzS9MyctAlMRaS by jehb@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T14:18:39Z
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@aral Everyone should have to be a leader at some point. Maybe they'd get better at distinguishing *having* actual leadership skills versus just wanting to be in charge.
(DIR) Post #AoTFKQOfdomPk33oVU by ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-11-27T14:25:28Z
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@aral That's very Prachetty . And true.
(DIR) Post #AoTNzHumsgpowR4xBQ by matiu_bidule@mamot.fr
2024-11-27T16:02:41Z
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@aral like in the Dino Buzzati novel https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Le%C3%A7on_de_1980Week after week, every Tuesday at midnight, the great and the good of the world die a strange death. We quickly notice that each time it's ‘the most powerful man in the world at the time’ who dies.We then see a determination to become less and less powerful, to lose all wars by giving the advantage to the opponent, to govern collegially, leading to total harmony in the world.
(DIR) Post #AoTW5lg5w2FAcXo7Xc by gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk
2024-11-27T17:33:27Z
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@aral The only catch is Catch 22
(DIR) Post #AoTX0fuc2q8HFDjWym by Lyle@cville.online
2024-11-27T17:43:52Z
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@aral People with powerful personal reasons to act against the public interest strike me as especially poor leaders
(DIR) Post #AoTX4MTEGpIQ6bgOae by tadbithuman@mastodon.social
2024-11-27T17:43:36Z
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@aral The grifters will learn to pretend not to want that better than others.
(DIR) Post #AoTYcv1aPBYT4bnMCu by claudius@darmstadt.social
2024-11-27T18:01:50Z
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@aral https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZYI-xE_H1I#t=252 (Time-Code 4:12)
(DIR) Post #AoUtPiDZ0AcDmhtwBs by herissonrose@mastodon.social
2024-11-28T09:29:36Z
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@@aral "It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.. anyone capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams The fact this was about a selfish, lazy, egotistical populist, is a bit on the nose. (Describes MANY modern leaders, not just That One). The weaponisation of celebrity-as-power, like many jokes and satire in these books, is uncomfortably prescient.