If it’s illegal get the law enforcement involved.

Mob justice is not a good idea.

Is there any example that shows it would work in practice?

Why would they not just be a democracy if people would choose to keep them in power regardless?

There was a few millennia where kings, chieftans, emperors and the likes were more common than not before we had media. So I’d argue it’s easier to be autocrat without media.

If I buy steel for $1000 and pay 10% tariff the total cost is $1100

If I make a car out of the steel and sell it I don’t pay any tariff. But I’ll charge $100 more because my steel cost was higher. (If someone abroad buys it their government may force them to pay a tariff, but I don’t see that directly).

If I buy an engine I’ll pay the engine tariff, they don’t care if it’s made of aluminium, steel, wood or whatever. The custom officer will look at it and say that it is an engine and therefore it will be subject to engine tariffs.

It’s always the total price of the thing you pay a tariff on. If you buy a car you pay the car tariff. If you disassemble the car and ship the parts in a box the customs official may decide it’s “car parts” and you pay the tariff on “car parts” which may be higher or lower.

A minority of the population benefits from an autocracy.

And/or they will be seen as traitors to whatever comes to power after the autocrat.

They don’t need them.

Stop selling spare parts and they will soon be useless.

They are incredibly maintenance intense even in peace time. In wartime even more so because even minor combat damage adds up.

Iran bought 79 F-14 in 1974. Revolution and arms embargo 1979. In 1984 they had 15 airworthy planes kept in shape by taking parts from other F-14s.

They have since got some spare parts from hostage deals and the black market. Probably reverse engineering too so they have about 40 of them flyable. But the 5 first year has 80% of the fleet grounded should say something about it.

They could assassinate you on foreign soil, and they have (Khashoggi comes to mind, any others I should be aware of?)

But how common is it unless you’re a major regime critic?

I bet it would take me 15 minutes to teach you to put 80% of shots on a dinner plate target at 100m with my 50 year old hunting rifle I got for free of an old man who moved to the city.

Classical bows require strength to use. They have no sights either so you have to go by feel. Modern compound bows are easier to shoot but the arrow still drops much more than a bullet, so shooting at longer ranges is harder.

Smaller caliber guns can be suppressed to be fairly quiet. A bow will be quieter but not by an order of magnitude.

The advantage of a bow is that it’s easier to find somewhere to practice because even the most reckless shot the arrow does not travel as far before it drops to the ground. You can also reuse your arrows.

It’s probably better to buy it along the way.

Yes inflation will make honey more expensive over the coming 50 years or so. But it will make everything else more expensive too.

I’ll keep my money on a savings account instead.

In a way they answered your question.

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We don’t recognize birthright citizenship. You’ll have to fill in the paperwork like everyone else.

Could also split them into two factions that have a little war between each other with your town as a battlefield.

I like to do a fun exercise every time I read something like this.

Swap the word for who you are accusing with some other group. If this make the statement distasteful then the statement is distasteful in it’s orginal form.

The Left like to blame men, the right like to blame immigrants so for example: “it’s a shame immigrants love to commit murder”.

Why is it okay to say men love to murder but not immigrants?

I’m not a regular at the doctor’s office yet. Last year I came 10 minutes early and the doctor was on time.

What happens if a human is deliberately trying to fail the Turing test? Are we better at pretending to be machines than they are pretending to be human?

Was there not a passage about how he washed feet or something?

It’s against my morals to use another persons mental anguish for my own amusement, but if she annoys me for years even after I’ve brought it up with Susan from HR I would eventually do that.

Hannah, because in a few months she won’t be just engaged so she will turn less annoying.

Also Wallace. I generally don’t mind old people. Maybe I’m getting old myself but stay off my lawn!

It’s only chaotic evil if you use it as such.

Could work as a televangelist for constipated people.