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   *|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 (crispius@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 01:41:05 JST *|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱

   The whole ‘BC One’ high-school drama would be hilarious if it weren’t BCers who are left footing the bill for this nonsense.

   “Because the party has two elected MLAs, they will get official party status in the legislature.

   That gives Brodie and Armstrong raises as party leader and house leader, respectively.

   All MLAs in British Columbia have a base salary of $119,532. As leader, Brodie will receive an additional $29,883 a year as party leader and Armstrong an additional $11,953.”

   #BCPoli

   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-political-party-b-c-1.7560822

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     Kinetix (kinetix@humanwords.cc)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 01:41:03 JST Kinetix

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     @Crispius@infosec.exchange Rather than numbers these days, I think it would be better to have a personality and knowledge test requirement so that psychopaths and those who want to lead based on ignorance are disqualified early on.

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     The threshold to hit official party status was lowered when the Green Party ended up holding the balance of power in B.C. the first time. Now that has come back to bite us. 🫤

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     @Crispius@infosec.exchange It's pretty maddening that we all of a sudden seem to be way behind on laws relating to people's ignorance, hate and shitty behaviour. The bar for forming an actual provincial party is way too low. The inability of municipal government to deal with actively destructive individuals is bizarre. Signs in government services offices, doctors offices and elsewhere telling people not to be abusive is bizarre.
     
     But those hatemongering chuds being allowed to suck at the provincial funding teat? Sickening.
     
     I do agree that it would be hilarious if it weren't so awful.

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     #Politics #History

     👉Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials👈

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     You are onto something here, Kinetix. This methodology had been used pretty successfully in ancient #China for hundreds of years:

     The fact that the Eastern #Zhou dynasty.in the 6th/5th century BC was enabled by #Confucius to distinguish "good" from "bad" people and even..

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     "The fact that the Eastern #Zhou dynasty of the 6th/5th century BC was enabled by #Confucius to distinguish "good"

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈

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     ...to implement this in 👉standardized, #psychological "aptitude tests"👈 certainly explains (among other things) why that dynasty was able to remain in power until the 3rd century BC.

     Perhaps the Eastern #Zhou realized so early on that 7% of the population had the predisposition of a #psychopath type #DarkTriad.1)

     It...

     1)
     https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112767351744675253

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...is very fair to assume that he percentage surely was even higher among the applicants, as power is more attractive for e. g. #narcicists, #sadists, and other #psychopaths than gold:

     https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-of-the-darkness/202310/why-do-psychopaths-crave-power

     There have also been more recent discussions on how to exclude them from power:

     https://theconversation.com/how-to-stop-psychopaths-and-narcissists-from-winning-positions-of-power-158183

     *ETA:*

     As I've just come to realize...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...when searching pertinent #psychology articles to corroborate my hypothesis, I've just learned that these authors have already done that work 🤭:

     "As the #psychologists #NiklasSteffens and #AlexanderHaslam put it,👉 “like moths to a flame, #narcissists may be drawn naturally to positions of #power and influence”👈.

     Or as...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...the #psychologist #RobertHare writes of 👉#psychopaths, they “are social predators and like all predators they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.👈

     The most evil #leaders of the 20th-century, such as #Stalin, #Hitler, #MaoZedong, #PolPot, #SaddamHussein and #ColonelGaddafi,...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...👉clearly had severe dark triad traits.👈 They didn’t become leaders because of their ability or intelligence, but simply because they👉 had a tremendous desire for power and were incredibly ruthless and cruel in their pursuit of it.👈

     👉Many present day #politicians appear to have #psychopathic and #narcissistic traits too.👈 It’s easy to spot such leaders,..

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     👉Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...because they are always authoritarian, following hardline policies. 👉They try to subvert democracy, to reduce the freedom of the press and clamp down on dissent. They are obsessed with national prestige, and often persecute minority groups. And they are always corrupt and lacking in moral principles...👈

     Like many #MentalHealth professionals,...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...the president’s niece, #MaryTrump – a clinical #psychologist – voiced her opinion that 👉#Trump suffers from a range of personality disorders. She suggested that his main issue was his severe #narcissism, but also that he “meets the criteria for #AntisocialPersonalityDisorder, which in its severe form is generally considered #sociopathy”...

     "The...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ... 👉essence of the problem is that callous, low-empathy people are drawn to power, whereas empathic and responsible people (who would make ideal leaders) don’t have a desire for dominance.

     *What can be done?*

     Like others who have studied the problem of “corporate psychopathy”,👉 the Australian, #psychologist #CliveBoddy...

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     👉Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...has suggested that companies should screen leadership candidates for #psychopathy.👈 In my view, we should do something similar in #politics..."

     And, as pointed out in the beginning, the #EasternZhou did do exactly this for centuries, based on principles developed by one of the greatest philosophers of mankind, #Confucius.

     IMO,...

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     👉Compulsory psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...these old tests should be translated and updated to present-day life. New research could be integrated in a second step or using peer groups to compare the outcomes.

     *Is it worth it?*

     Well, if just one of the aforementioned #Psychocrats like #Stalin, #Mao, or #Hitler could have been avoided, how different might the 20th century have turned out?--Tens...

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     👉Compulsory #psychologic testing for public officials👈
     *Like Moths to the Flame--The Rise of the #Pathocracy*

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     ...of millions of people and there progeny would have lived, making their, now lost forever, contributions to mankind. --7% #DarkTriads, you say? Well, yes, but using the #Confucian aptitude tests, most could have been filtered out, I'd reply. 😉

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     The last mentioned article is a #GoodRead:

     https://theconversation.com/how-to-stop-psychopaths-and-narcissists-from-winning-positions-of-power-158183

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     I have been looking at #DarkTriads for some years now (on and off.)
     They dominate most people's lives. It is so amazing, that even psychogists sometimes have not heard of them.

     If you start with my oldest linked article (a short one,) many things will fall into place.

     @Crispius

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     @HistoPol@mastodon.social @Crispius@infosec.exchange Reading! Thank you, I don't recall having read this before, probably a good time to do so even if I had tripped across it previously.