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[–] [email protected] 72 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The way his daughter speaks of him makes me think he’s a psychopath. He is emotionless and dead inside, he’s a broken human.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

absolute power (& wealth) corrupts absolutely

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

Wealth cannot be detangled from power, so yeah, this is dead on.

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires, we cannot have both

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Incorrect. Those that are corrupt desires and seek absolute power & wealth more than an normal person. We have a few people in history who did had absolute power & wealth and uses it to great benefit for his people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Who in history had absolute wealth and or power and used it to great benefit for their people?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd like to know too, I strongly suggest this is a delusion. Although the saying is a cliché, it's a remarkably correct statement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Considering nearly every single one of their comments is about China and they said “his people” I think I have an idea that confirms that you’d be correct

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

But he doesn't even wield absolute power. The bit he does hold seems to have been enough.