>Cleon, for example, roundly declares that a democracy is incapable of running an
empire.

Oof. Yet, here we are...

@sim

...and as predicted, democracy is doing a bad job of things.

@amerika Democracy can't decide whether it wants to be an empire or not, it doesn't seem to like the name and history attached to that... but it will still continue certain policies that an empire would like spreading the ideology it has all around the world and coercing nations into accepting this and resource extraction. Even the take over of companies and trades.

@sim

It seems like passive aggression to me. Democracy does not want to admit that it hungers for world takeover and yet, this is what it does.

@amerika @sim it's not democracy, it's the nature of power

any government is capable of seeking dominance if it has the power to do so, it's almost an organic process