Thiel is on the spectrum, and was bullied for it. But because he was privileged, it couldn't have been his fault, all the peasants are just stupid. Tolkien was his escape.

Hitler was treated like a prince by his mother, and lost his mind when he was rejected from art school. By the Jews, of course... The Jew part was sarcasm...

Himmler was a D&D nerd who tried to create his own Viking Religion, beheaded subjects to cast a spell where the heads were supposed to speak prophecy, spent a ton of Deutschmarks looking for The Holy Grail, Mjolnir, Gungnir, etc. Magical thinking. Delusional.

Musk pays people to make him look like a "L33t G@m3r" to impress edgelord teenage boys.

Trump wants a military parade to try to impress Putin, Xi, Kim, etc., because he thinks they're badass, and wants them to think he is.

All of this is narcissism. Which is a psychological defense mechanism against a massive inferiority complex developed in early childhood, due to neglect, abuse, or both.

These people have the emotional maturity of pre-pubescent children. And always will, Which makes them very dangerous, due to having virtually unlimited wealth.

Imagine a child under 10 years old with the wealth and authority to do anything they wanted to you. That's what we're dealing with.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (11 children)

And putin was a nobody who started as a useless agent in then soviet part of Germany, then carried a bag after a city's major and only then, with connections, he was put in power by oligarchs with none of them believing he'd be anything but a doll, until his goblin ego led him to rob, poison or throw out everyone he disliked.

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