• Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    The more I learn, the more I realize that a lot of political leaders who do horrible do what they do for a reason, with some exceptions. This isn’t an endorsement of their actions or their reasons, but Putin, Netanyahu, and (kinda) Biden/Obama/Bush all have reasons for what they do. The rare exceptions are the super corrupt ones. Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Orban, Trump, the office of US president generally, Scott Morrison, etc.

    In other words it’s not so much good vs. evil as corruption vs integrity.

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        12 hours ago

        Netanyahu is super corrupt, but in his position as leader of Israel he does things for a reason. The Israeli people have a persecution complex due to … history, and so many want an ethnostate. On top of that Israel like America has made a lot of enemies, through their various war crimes, so the threats to Israel’s national security are real.

        None of this is an endorsement of Israel’s past, present, or future. There are better ways to survive and they seem be going out of their way to cross lines that I wouldn’t even if it’d kill me. There seems to be some “religious zionism” mixed in with their efforts to build an ethnostate that makes sure they needlessly commit every war crime in the book. Furthermore Israel’s reckless actions and it’s impunity have been fomenting antisemitism around the world (from the right, this isn’t meant to equivocate pro-Palestine activistism with antisemitism).

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        2 days ago

        Corrupt people are always evil, but evil people are not always corrupt. That said the evil people with integrity are usually just racist so maybe my entire assessment is wrong.

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          evil people with integrity are usually just racist

          lmao spot on. You can have integrity and shitty principles (evil) or integrity and good principles (good), so I don’t really see it as corruption vs. integrity.