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So does Musk, and Trump, and Bernie, and AOC, and basically everyone who is a "personality" in today's America. ...which is probably accurate. I remember read
by nostrademons 2y ago
So does Musk, and Trump, and Bernie, and AOC, and basically everyone who is a "personality" in today's America.
...which is probably accurate. I remember reading a r/AskHistorians question on why Robespierre was unable to maintain control of the Committee for Public Safety, and the answer was basically that in revolutionary France, everybody who stuck their neck out got it cut off. Within 10 years of the revolution's start, basically all of its leaders were dead. In times of crises, people with big egos volunteer to fix it, but the crises cannot be fixed, and then those egos become the scapegoats who are executed to salve the public's cries for blood.
- ks2048 2y agoI don't think Bernie fits here. You can disagree with him, but he basically makes political / policy comments (the same ones he's made for decades too. AOC falls a bit into the twitter-feud commentary, but Musk and Trump are on another level of embarrassing, lie-filled, garbage (also at all hours of the night, I think which tells you something too)
- nostrademons 2y agoYou know who he is when I mention him by first name. That is what makes him a target, irrespective of the quality of his ideas or whether he's a decent person.