!neolibs according to our magazine GRRM and James Caldwell provide some advice on real life governance. Here's the article in question.
Daemon's tactics differ only in degree from those of Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, who has rounded up tens of thousands of suspected gangsters, locked them up indefinitely and shared a video on social media of them stacked like semi-naked Lego bricks in overcrowded jails. Both leaders want to look tough on crime; neither fusses about due process.
!latinx Nayib Bukele is just like Daemon Targaryen 
The second season also has echoes of modern America. King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) is a narcissist with improbable hair who knows nothing about governance and says whatever he thinks will please the audience in front of him. When grown-up officials offer sage advice, he grimaces with boredom. When devious courtiers want to sway him, they flatter his preposterous ego.
OMG AEGON II IS JUST LIKE DRUMPF 
Aegon II is incredibly based by the way but Blackcels keep popping up propaganda for Girlboss Traenyra.
The characters in "Shogun" are often cruel, too, but they follow a code. They respect the law—indeed, much of their plotting depends on the assumption that their opponents will not openly flout it. Good luck trying that with Mr Putin.
I dislike Putin but media comparisons are always so cringe. Plus for all the talk about honor, the characters in Shogun are very backstabby so to speak.
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I love first worlders hand wringing about Bukele
Like El Salvador is fricking Switzerland or some shit, it's is a shithole even by shithole standards, putting anyone with a gang related tattoo behind bars is going to work out correctly 99.9% of the time
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Yeah, lock up dudes trying to put bread on the table because they did it the wrong way, that'll end the cycle of violence + poverty + corruption and make it no longer a shithole.
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Lmao
!anticommunists I hate the "people do crime cause they're poor" mentality libs have as it is a slap on the face of most humble folks who are hard working people and whom will refuse to partake in stealing as it's against their values.
Even worse when you consider that most victims of gang violence are from working class backgrounds. Gang criminals are scum.
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I love the "if I hate something that makes it wrong" mentality r-slurs have, because it's very funny. Said "mentality" is literally true in shitholes, that's in large part what makes them shitholes. Also, gangs are part of the economy in such places, providing illegal goods and services as well as substituting for the failing state. Glossing their work as "stealing" is just another dimension of r-sluration, so good job.
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Bleeding heart liberals celebrate criminals while forgetting about their victims.
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I am all for punishing the victims too
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I'm just a straight up thrill seeking kleptomaniac and can only get an erection when I have to fight store security to escape
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Isn't south east Asia poor as shit with super low crime rates? Hard not to
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Locking them up is just the first step, then you kill them
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You are r-slurred
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The mass incarceration was neat, but now he's trying to do price controls. We need to drone strike Bukulele today.
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