the compotent ones rarely came along

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My personal favorite is

a competent king is crowned

he strengthens the country

the people revere his name

the aristocracy hate him and roll back all his reforms once he’s dead

the country becomes irrelevant for several decades

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Aristocrats really can’t help it. They HAVE to pick up the villain ball and be so cartoonishly evil they end up shooting themselves in the foot, reducing their wealth significantly because of the country becoming irrelevant, or just straight up dying.

We should be thankful evil people are extremely fucking stupid. Like, we all thought All For One was just an overexaggeration of the attitude of the regular anime villain, but no, extremely rich people are just like that IRL.

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Unfortunately most good people are stupid too

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I don’t think most good people will go out of their way to do stuff that is actively detrimental to their goals for the sake of self-satisfaction 90% of the time.

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I guess not much has changed since then. Only that crowning is electing and aristocracy is rich people.

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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania had several good leaders in a row.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had a stream of absolute, selfish idiots, nobility included, for most of the time it existed. Reading it’s history is an exercise in frustration.

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Sounds a bit like the US nowadays

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Reminds me of the fall of the Roman Empire

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