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title: "CGPGrey's excellent presentation on power, both acquiring it and…"
date: 2019-12-11
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# CGPGrey's excellent presentation on power, both acquiring it and…

*December 11, 2019 · Facebook*

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CGPGrey\'s excellent presentation on power, both acquiring it and keeping it. Based on the book \"The Dictator\'s Handbook\" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith. This explains why pure libertarians don\'t win power often, or stay in power very long.\
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