It doesn’t even matter. Isn’t the shocking part that this exchange confirms the rumours that Putin has dirt on Trump, which makes him a security liability.

So this is why you supported Trump (by not voting against him)? Wouldn’t it still be so much better than what you have now?

I don’t know. It seems they only start joking about it afterwards.

It’s crazy that the Republicans are like the one far right party in most European countries and Democrats are like all other parties combined.

Then the direct votes will be bought…

Dying from infections, cancer, accidents etc is also human nature.

sounds of civil war in the distance

If we assume IQ is a proper representation of intelligence than sure they do.

Only if there still will be elections when he dies…

Actually this always was a point against democracy

I mean 50% of the population literally is less intelligent than the average.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Heraclitus (ca. 500 BC)

The references alone are longer than my whole phd thesis

Sounds like the modern equivalent of burning books to me.

There are almost no people who see themselves as evil (except some really fucked up lunatics like serial killers). Everyone normally wants to be and do good. Where does all the evil then come from?

Sometimes people do evil things because of ignorance. They just didn’t know/ thought of the consequences of their actions.

Often people do evil things for their own or their close one’s advantage like corruption.

But most of the time people do really evil things because of projection. The pressure from “outside” (mainly during childhood development) to be good can be so forcefully and rigorously that people can’t accept parts of their own self which they then project onto others. Thus invoking evil actions against these others to protect themselves from them, in extreme cases this can go until dehumanising others “allowing” all the great atrocities we know from human history.

Not voting is equal to voting for the winner.

Kings die as well, but they have sons and so does Trump.

Actually not that uncommon with world leaders

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3873339.stm

The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. / This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. / In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch. / C.G. Jung, 1934

The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch.

C.G. Jung, 1934