04-23-2017, 08:21 PM
When "President" falls short of one's pretensions, and only "Emperor" will do...
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Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
...Emperor Hirohito and Reza Shah Pahlavi snubbed this coronation.
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Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
...Emperor Hirohito and Reza Shah Pahlavi snubbed this coronation.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.