Doubtful. Putin for example has been in power for decades. Stalin ruled Russia with an iron fist for the rest of his natural life after rising to power. Unless they’re overthrown, that’s what dictators do. That’s the whole point of dictatorships, to make the leaders the new kings.

There’s nothing stopping that dude from suspending elections and just ruling indefinitely.

Okay, let me explain something to your dumb hypocritical ass before you make a fool out of yourself any further:

You’re clearly the only one being an asshole and a bully here.

You’re the one being the – how did you put it? “authoritarian we should try to avoid”, and you’re the one being a worthless hypocrite on top of it.

This is me talking to you via an alt account, an account I have because most people on Lemmy have at least 2 or 3 by virtue of federation.

You did nothing but take a cheap shot at some innocent dumb fuck who stuck their oar in because you wanted to hurt me and my feelings. And judging from the rest of your account activity, you very blatantly do the exact same thing you accuse me of doing, all the time, non-stop. And you have zero self-awareness at all.

So why would you even come here all offended at me in the first place, unless you yourself were just @FlyingSquid’s dumbass alt? I guess we’re all alts here, moron.

It’s okay though. You’re acting just like me and I’m here for it. 👏

Truth. Facts.

🎼 'Cause I’m proud to be an American 🎵🎶🇺🇲🦅

Lol someone’s mad they were wrong, and it ain’t me 😄 You can try to downplay the meaningful alternative I use all the time and am letting you know about if you want, it won’t change the fact that it’s there and it won’t take away the foolishness you pay for when you drop $120+ a month to pay for a phone you don’t really even own or control.

I can only lead you to water, I can’t and have no need to make you drink. You’ve got to deal with dehydration on your own. Ciao~

sigh Fine, let me go through my system specs. Give me a minute

Mine is a Moto G Power. Oh shit, that’s right, I forgot I upgraded a couple of years back. That’s why I bought it. :P Anyway, on these, you can pop the battery out the back; here’s a shitty Youtube video showing how. I can’t record myself popping out the back of mine for obvious reasons.

Anyway, you can buy these unlocked and the prices are not bad, in all honesty.

I really, REALLY don’t get why you all are stupid enough to sign onto contracts to put yourselves into debt for machines you don’t really own and can’t take apart and control yourselves. Like what do you do if the battery goes kaput? AND you wind up paying upwards of a thousand dollars for them when a Moto G Power like mine costs only $300 at most?

That is crazy. That is batshit fuck nuts.

It’s an off-brand, not Samsung, that’s why. I don’t even think about such things because the fundamental way I approach such things is different than anybody else. I don’t need brand name shit, I need shit that is functional and works, so it doesn’t matter what the name of the brand of phone is I use. All I have to know is that I can waltz into Best Buy, go to the unlocked phone section, and pick between two or three of them, and I’m straight.

Tell me why knowing the name of my off-brand phone would actually matter for anything

I meant Lemmygrad, but the admin came to the thread and said “fuck you, I want to boost my numbers up, the tankies are staying” so it doesn’t actually matter. 🤷