• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Hard to compare the actions of a pedophile and the Russian asset he pardoned before. But yeah, one might look worse to the public. Not like he needs to care about what the public thinks anymore.

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        3 days ago

        Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

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          3 days ago

          Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

          Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

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            Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.