Re:China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton
by 8note on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:36AM
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Dictators have broad powers -- the tenure is orthogonal. You could have a dictator who's in for a year
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Re:China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton
by webmaven on Sunday March 28, 2021 @02:25AM
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> Dictators have broad powers -- the tenure is orthogonal. You could have a dictator who's in for a year
Technically you're right, but typically the highest priority for a dictator is to extend their tenure, indefinitely if at all possible, by exercising those broad powers.
Making a foundational set of laws dictator-proof is actually a hard problem. It is kind of like designing a programming language that is deliberately Turing-incomplete. You're trying to make abusing the system impossible, without crippling the desired functionality.