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[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Wow, they REALLY oppress the poors, even more than we do! So cool! I wish our poors didn't have any rights!" - Other Greek Aristocrats, Probably

[โ€“] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It would seem that both people with very little agency over their own lives and people with unfettered access to multiple types of agency (money, power, influence) love the idea of a society of "strong-men".

For the first group it's an escapist "utopian" fantasy to them and for the second it's a high-risk high-reward strategy to make their numbers go up.