• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    that’s the way. not ironically or sarcasm. leaders aren’t our allies, they are intrinsically antagonistic to the public.

    we must elect who we will fight against. then keep the pressure on them.

    might elaborate later. can’t write an essay rn.

      • Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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        9 hours ago

        Oh jesus christ.

        Cant yall motherfuckers chill out?

        I get it. You would love to live in a utopia where nobody ever, ever, ever, tries to grasp for power. So would I.

        But… come on. Reality is a sonofabitch. And maybe you should try and live in it every now and again.

        At no point will we ever experience someone not trying to grasp at the roots of power.

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          9 hours ago

          Yeah, but we could live in a society where those people grasping for power just for the sake of power would be shunned and cast out. Cause that’s how it used to be according to historian and philosopher Rutger Bregman. Admittedly, that’s been some long time ago, but still.

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          9 hours ago

          Dad was always taken aback by people who lust for “power”. LOL, he was mad at people who designed parking lots to herd us around!

          But I get it. A leader has to have some bit of narcissism to say, “I can do this. I’m smart and capable enough to take the reigns.” Comes with the job.