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		adventured 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strik... There's no such thing as a sovereign dictatorship, that's a contradiction in terms.

p10jkle 13 days ago [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign

> The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or head of state to head of municipal government or head of a chivalric order. As a result, the word sovereignty has more recently also come to mean independence or autonomy.

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