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   George Snorewell (doesntexist@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 12:06:07 JST George Snorewell

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   Dictators don't represent competence. Rather, they embody the more primitive aspects of the human amygdala, and their appeal has nothing to do with actual intelligence or competence.

   In short, Trump is America's *perfect* dictator: stupid, cruel, arbitrary, reactive, and easily manipulated -- a boon to our enemies and devastating to us and our allies.

   Just like every dictator before him.

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     George Snorewell (doesntexist@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 12:06:08 JST George Snorewell

     1/6 One of the biggest threats Trump represents is the idea that he can't be a dictator because he's too dumb.

     Dictators are terrible leaders. It's why they need to be dictatorial. They're also often quite mediocre, even poor, at almost everything.

     What they have in spades in overconfidence and cruelty, often combined with stupidity. Hitler was astonishingly dumb, particularly in military matters (some generals referred to him as "that corporal," but he had the power to execute them).

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