• matlag@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    The issue is not that we have deranged human beings. As societies, we can handle these cases.

    The issue is we keep promoting them: Minister in Israel, President in the US, billionaires, trillionaire, …

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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      7 hours ago

      Exactly. Every society has this strata of psychos who are constantly angling for power. A healthy society understands this and keeps them under control.

      But now and then, a society weakens, and these people gain power, and it’s always the same. In the 1930’s it was the Nazis, in the 2010s it was MAGA.

      It is important to keep these people crushed at all times, and not feel badly about it. These people do not deserve our empathy, or access to our rights, so they can abuse, manipulate, and violate them. We know where their “free speech” leads us, and we don’t have to tolerate it.

      A healthy society is not polite to political psychopaths.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      13 hours ago

      The issue is we keep promoting them: Minister in Israel, President in the US, billionaires, trillionaire, …

      i blame the not interested in politics assholes.