• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    You know, the thing that always seemed really scary about the OG Nazis is that they were competent, intelligent, put-together people that were just fucking evil. Then you look at the US Nazis and the fucking bozo density is off the charts, but they seem to be succeeding anyway.

    Three possibilities come to mind:

    • These bozos are going to find out, hard and soon.
    • The OG Nazis were actually bozos too.
    • Competence and intelligence doesn’t actually matter in running a fascist regime
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        12 days ago

        Is it also a case of survivorship bias? Like, I am not super versed in Nazi history, but… There are famous “smart” Nazis like Goebbels and Himmler and Speer - are they only well known because a) they slowly emerged as influential and/or b) it became clear years later that they were the ones behind the wheel?

        'Cause I do think that trump and musk are dumb as bricks, but I don’t think Steve Bannon is, and there are probably others like him…

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          🤔 💭

          What got President Musk & his sidekick elected, or rather what made their campaign successful?

          Low IQ but high emotional intelligence or like sociopathic intelligence?

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            Turns out when you’re born with a silver spoon in hand and are a dumb sociopath, you win in life instead of living in prison.