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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:00PM (#46478888)
> Especially in multi-ethnic states, most cohesive national identities are forged through extremely popular singular leaders.

And before you know it you have a genocide on your hands.

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ethbr1 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:23PM (#46479176)
Sometimes, but it can go the other way too.

Napoleon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Mazzini, Otto von Bismarck, Mustafa Atatürk, Gamal Nasser

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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by jacquesm on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:39PM (#46479354)
A whole bunch of those are not the counterexamples you think they are.
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Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen by ethbr1 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:08PM (#46479656)
Want to point out which / why?
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