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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by ericd on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:12PM (#16477366)
When you have a great king, it's among the best forms of government. The problem is that that great king's successor is probably not also great, and under a bad ruler, it's among the worst forms of government, and that bad king can last for your entire lifetime.

It's never spectacularly efficient, but the US' form of democracy is meant to be much lower variance. I think it's a good tradeoff.

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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by liberte82 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:24PM (#16477504)
> When you have a great king, it's among the best forms of government.

citation needed

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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @04:37PM (#16478179)
Singapore, as kevin_thibedeaux said.
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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by ericd on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:29PM (#16477558)
What kind of citation would you put there?
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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by aoner on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:09PM (#16478981)
King of Bhutan?
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