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Kaput@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hegar@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    Jimmy Carter seems like a decent person.

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There isn’t a single US president in living history without a litany of war crimes on their head.

      counterpunch.org/…/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-l…

      counterpunch.org/…/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-l…

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      • Hobo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If those are the worst examples you can come up with yhe man was basically a saint. What a bullshit hit piece. I am now dumber for having read it.

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      • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So he has blood on his hands for not getting involved and for getting involved when both sides are likely to commit atrocities.

        What a ridiculous bar to set.

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    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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