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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

the world is lead by assholes, on all sides.

This is an objectively true statement. Of course the world is lead by assholes.

We all know that power corrupts. Neuroscience has shown that getting power damages the brain's capacity for empathy.

You just can't lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You just can’t lead a nation without becoming capable of great evil.

Jimmy Carter seems like a decent person.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yup. One of the very few who had the capability and likely didn't use it.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Which of course led to him being single term because he wasn't ruthless enough for a voting public that would rather have a former actor run the country into the ground while paying loveable grandpa to hide the evil.

But that wasn't because he couldn't lead the country, just that the public loves to fall for confident blowhards that tell them what they want to hear.

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