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  • I don’t think I’m taking away his agency. I’ll even quote myself.

    I used to think that being a true believer was his worst quality and why things went so badly and it made me think being a true believer was the most dangerous quality you could have in a leader.

    His agency is defined by his religion, his religion is why he was so sure he was doing the right thing without any self-reflection on the human consequences of the millions of lives lost in Iraq. He was justifying it as a means to an end to win a Holy War. That’s pretty horrific.

    I do think he actually wanted to do good in the world, but yes, true believers of religion are often blinded to the suffering they’re making happen because they’re so sure that the suffering needs to happen for God to love them. That’s why I thought being a true believer was a dangerous quality in a leader, because they don’t have the capacity to self reflect on how horrific their decisions are due to the fact that in their mind the ends justify the means in the name of God. That’s still his own agency choosing to ignore the horrors he wrought because he believed it needed to happen in God’s name. Religion didn’t force that viewpoint upon him, there are plenty of pacifist religious people, it was a choice he made in the name of his religion.











  • The police are violent thugs everywhere, not just Republican cities and states.

    It’s because they have almost complete immunity from being prosecuted for wrongdoing and also, well, they are incredibly well armed and often use their monopoly on violence to threaten blue politicians.

    I grew up in a city where cops didn’t like their own chief of police because he wanted to drug test the force regularly after several got caught doing drugs on the job. The chiefs own force stalked him, harassed him, made violent threats against him and his family, until he was ran out of town. The police union sued him and said drug testing them violated their rights. The police union won in court. Those drug tests never happened.