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It's a terrible thing to say this of a man, or someone who has died, but thank God. I mean, it might well by the end he was been pretty aged in his mind and wa
by casenmgreen 3y ago
It's a terrible thing to say this of a man, or someone who has died, but thank God.
I mean, it might well by the end he was been pretty aged in his mind and was being used or fooled or had lost the plot : his comments about Ukraine were staggering, appalling aberrations you never want to hear from someone with considerable public stature in any country.
- braymundo 3y agoI don’t feel bad at all. He should be judged by his words and actions. I’ll celebrate shamelessly when putin dies.
- subhumanssuck 3y ago[dead]
- ttyprintk 3y agoHis catchphrase, “sono stato frainteso,” gets to live on as an excuse for inaction and deceit. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/the-similarities-between-trump-and-berlusconi-are-much-deeper-than-you-think.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/04/the-similarities...
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- intellectronica 3y agoTo his credit it has to be said that he saved the Italian tax payer a lot of money on funeral costs by undergoing embalmment at his own expense while still alive.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoNah he's still gonna find a way to bilk the state even in death
- veave 3y ago[flagged]
- amrocha 3y agoHe was a prime minister. He owned the most successful soccer team in Italy. He owns several Italian TV channels. This isn't a dude over there with bad opinions. This is someone powerful who used their power to make the lives of a lot of people worse.
- quitit 3y agoIt's a horrible thought, but one that I share. Italy is in a better place to have such a destructive and negative influence removed. He revealed the flaw of the democratic process in that it relies on people who are inherently honest and not there merely to further their goals of power and influence. A negative force with significant power and influence can effectively become untouchable by law, since they can corrupt the processes which are used to control such behaviour, and use their media influence to whitewash their image. We saw time and time again a familiar pattern: Berlusconi convicted of a serious crime, only to be acquitted on appeal, then years-later further charges of witness tampering being brought raising questions of a corrupted appeals process.
- Gud 3y agoBut this is not the democratic process! "choosing" among candidates(as infrequently as every four years) that have already been prescreened by the elites is not democracy. It's an absurd system, I reject it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
- cente 3y agoIt's not terrible thing to say, he was a horrible person, only God knows how much damage he has done to our country and for how many years we will have to deal with them.
- trilbyglens 3y agoYa no fuck that guy. He was a complete scumbag. It's honestly just lucky that he wasn't in power during this modern age of authoritarianism.