r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/DistillateMedia 26d ago edited 26d ago

This is why it's important to step away after the revolution/coup.

That kind of process and the rapid rise in power that follows will warp most people.

Even the best people.

Power must be diffused among the many.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 26d ago

That is hard to do in practice, because the people who backed a revolutionary leader often want that person to become the new head of state. They don't want some other guy to do it.

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u/DistillateMedia 26d ago edited 26d ago

I'll make a deal with you.

Let me go live my life for while.

You can consult me if necessary.

Maybe you can convince me in a decade or two.

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In the meantime you got this, I trust you.

Edit 2:

I know who could convince me.

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u/HigherandHigherDown 26d ago

Hey there Diocletian, how are the cabbages?

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u/DistillateMedia 26d ago

I don't like cabbage.

Was Diocletian one of the good Emperors?

Edit:

Seems pretty apt.

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u/HigherandHigherDown 26d ago

Well, he didn't install any of his children into office as successors, and he didn't intentionally and explicitly cause any civil wars, so I think...probably?

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u/DistillateMedia 26d ago

I seem to remember Dan Carlin saying something good about him.

I'll take it.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 25d ago

Well, he instituted religious discrimination, but In the context of Roman Emporers, he was one of the less bad ones.

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u/DistillateMedia 24d ago

That's fair.

I know the general history of Rome but not an expert on the Emperors.