• intrepid@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The world would have been a better place if somebody had made a better decision 101 years ago.

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      1 year ago

      Whilst I would love to think that all that it would have taken for the World to be a much better place since the later part of the XX century was but one coitus interruptus, I’m almost certain that in the US there was and always has been a long line of sociopaths willint to advise the for the deaths of millions of others for personal upside maximization whilst calling it just realpolitik, any of which would’ve taken the place of this one has his daddy chosen to pull out at the last minute.

      Had Kissinger raised to be the consiglieri of power in, say, Canada, he would’ve had quite a different impact in the World.