Sadly, plenty of dictators that lived perfectly fine (mostly because they were smart and didn’t fuck with the world beyond their borders too much). Antonio Salazar comes to mind, Franco, Lukashenko is STILL in power.

Of course, many of these regimes were watered by oceans of blood and fear.

I’m still amazed that Marcos’ kid won.

I wonder if those guys still have Gaddafi’s Stinger missiles packed away somewhere.