• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Correction: Powerful people win civil wars. You just know that pricks like Johnson won’t be out there fighting; they’ll stay in their comfortable mansions separated from the chaos by first-rate security details.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      Politicians hide themselves away

      they only started the war

      Why should they go out to fight?

      They leave that role to the poor

      (For those who don’t know: “War Pigs”, by Black Sabbath)

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      One thing about people without empathy is that they actually literally don’t care about people who aren’t them, dying. It’s even worse when they are also believers in zero-sum theory, since then they also think they are better off when more people die.

      It’s not that they haven’t thought about how many people will die, they are actually looking forward to it, it’s the point.

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      Maybe, people get dragged through the streets in civil wars. Nobody is safe during a civil war, as much as you would like to think.