• XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    My point wasn’t that single people can’t be bad, or do bad things, but ultimately to perform terrible acts at scale it requires buy-in from other people. Without support, whether it be through fear, coercion, or otherwise, it’s nothing more than intrusive thoughts.

    Hitler was a bad dude but it took a concerted effort by who knows how many people in order to make the sick stuff that happened a reality.

    All the names he listed were indeed bad dudes, but I feel saying Kissinger stands out because he had the support of the government while the others just killed millions by themselves is not a fair assessment of what transpired.