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minus-squarePissed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·1 month agoI didn’t get that from the article. It is definitely fucked up that they lied but it didn’t seem like they were doing it for sadistic reasons.
minus-squarecrandlecan@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoSadism is not the same as psychopathy.
minus-squarePissed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·1 month agoSo you think all the leaders of the USSR and DDR had impaired empathy and were egotists with who showed no remorse?
minus-squarecrandlecan@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·1 month agoPretty much, yes. How else would they get on top in such a restrictive dictatorship? don’t be naive
minus-squarePissed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoLol. You do know that France and UK didn’t want Germany to reunify right. Where their leaders psycho as well? https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/27/2/4/131515/Britain-s-Opposition-to-German-Reunification-1989?redirectedFrom=fulltext Edit: What’s your opinion on Merz BTW?
minus-squarePissed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoNo I’m just asking whether they were psychopaths as well? Or if you’re just an anti communist.
minus-squareRiverRock@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoIn the interest of preserving your delusions of moral superiority, you guys have turned the concept of whatboutism into a magic “get out of comparative analysis free” button
Psychopaths
I didn’t get that from the article. It is definitely fucked up that they lied but it didn’t seem like they were doing it for sadistic reasons.
Sadism is not the same as psychopathy.
So you think all the leaders of the USSR and DDR had impaired empathy and were egotists with who showed no remorse?
Pretty much, yes. How else would they get on top in such a restrictive dictatorship? don’t be naive
Lol. You do know that France and UK didn’t want Germany to reunify right. Where their leaders psycho as well?
https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article-abstract/27/2/4/131515/Britain-s-Opposition-to-German-Reunification-1989?redirectedFrom=fulltext Edit: What’s your opinion on Merz BTW?
bUt WUtt aBuT tHeM 🫨
No I’m just asking whether they were psychopaths as well? Or if you’re just an anti communist.
In the interest of preserving your delusions of moral superiority, you guys have turned the concept of whatboutism into a magic “get out of comparative analysis free” button