• Lawnman23@piefed.social
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      9 hours ago

      He fundamentally doesn’t understand a lot of geopolitical and basic human norms unfortunately.

      Except for “might makes right” apparently… 😑

      • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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        And he doesn’t even know how to apply that properly. If you’re going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.

        • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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          He doesn’t have the heart to be a dictator. The guy likes the admiration too much and is scared of that going away, so he chickens out when a real dictator needs to get tough. By doing that he’s showing weakness to the real dictators, the equivalent of having a “kick me” sign stuck to his back.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      He doesn’t understand what a mafioso does, either. He saw a couple gangster movies but didn’t understand the subtext.